Voice of Ukraine

From Lyuda Betina ( Day 348): Dear brothers and sisters, We had a good day yesterday. The day was cold but there was electricity in the church during our worship and we felt warm. Our music groups comes early and start rehearsing the songs for the worship. When Sergey and I come they are already there and it’s so nice to open the door of the church and to be welcomed by the sounds of familiar hymns.

They sing more and more hymns in Ukrainian, though some we still perform in Russian. They began to sing a lot of new hymns. Our musicians, Svetlana and Ivan, besides playing other instruments play the organ. Yesterday Ivan had a day off from his service and he could be in the church.

Our elder Valeriy preached on the parable of the rich man and Lasarus. It’s good that new people and refugees who are new in the church could hear about two types of eternity people can have, about repentance and the time when it’s too late to repent, about God’s justice.

I am glad that Sergey ( the man who has cancer) and his wife Svetlana come to the church. We talked to them after the worship, they do better emotionally. I hope they will rely more and more upon God and go with Him through this difficult period in their life.

I also talked to Oksana, the woman I met last Sunday. She was not very talkative yesterday, just answered my questions. I told her that I was praying for her during the week. She didn’t come to the Bible study that we invited her to come. I hope she will come this week, because she needs the fellowship of a small group.

We have more children in our Sunday school. There were very few children when the war started but now we are glad to welcome refugee kids who come regularly and some kids from the community.

Our youth group stayed after the worship and played some board games in the fellowship room. They always bring the spirit of joy and good humor with them no matter what.

We hope your worship was good yesterday, too. We wish you a good week. God bless you!
In Christ,
Lyuda