On Sunday our church holiday of mission and missionary has ended, but we have things to remember and thank God for.
During the first three days we had guests from the Crimeans and pastor from Kiev. They were talking about what God is doing in their lives and ministries on the common worship. Then they were visiting families and small groups. During one of these meetings, young brothers from the church “The Community of the Good Shepherd” desired to implement a short missionary trip to the Crimea.
On Friday evening a prayer service was held and brother, pastor and missionary minister from Moscow was our guest. He preached about the five purposes of missionary conferences.
On Sunday sounded the final preach from the lips of Semen A. Borodin on the text of Mt. 28:16-20. One of the stated thoughts, that touched many hearts, was that God Himself had guaranteed the victorious end of the mission, which He had once established. Nowadays people care and worry about a lot of things, sometimes important, but the most important thing is the salvation of souls. And God has involved us, ordinary people, to complete this objective of great importance – to carry the ministry of reconciliation. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:18-21)
We are grateful to everyone who prayed for us, and we expect to see the fruits of seeded truths of God’s Word soon.
Artem Pristupa
