A real revival started!
28 mei, 2009
It’s early in the morning. There are 50 boys and girls standing at the river bank. They are between 10 and 15 years old and are patiently waiting to be baptized in water, the same way as “Jesus was baptized in the Jordan river”.
They want to enter into covenant with the Lord. To dedicate their lives to God. To live for Him and with Him. They grow quiet, speechless, with hearts filled with reverence - something uncommon for their age and ethnos. This is the new generation of the Gypsy church in Filipovtzi.
At the beginning of this year a couple of new boys and girls started coming to the services in this Gypsy neighborhood. Shortly after that ten more youths joined the group. Later another ten …and another ten… In the last two months more than eighty young people accepted Christ and full of faith joined the church.
A real revival started!
” Ja, Ik houd van Hem! “
29 januari, 2009
Deze kinderen maken zich niet druk over stijgende prijzen voor eten en drinken. Zij hebben hun eigen crisis!
Zij voeren elke dag de strijd om te overleven en ze hebben geen mogelijkheden om hieraan te ontkomen.
Ze wonen in de ghetto’s in Bulgarije.
Ze hebben nooit nieuwe kleren, maar zijn afhankelijk van kleren, die via hulporganisaties komen. Veel van deze kinderen hebben nog nooit het evangelie gehoord! Ze weten niets over Jezus, die toch veel van hen houdt! Wie zal hun dit vertellen!
De Stichting “Verlichting voor Bulgarije” en de zendings organisatie “Mission Possible” doen hun uiterste best om juist deze kinderen te bereiken. En daarom worden de gaarkeukens in de armenwijken gebruikt om hen de blijde boodschap te brengen. Hun ouders kunnen heel moeilijk werk vinden, deels omdat ze analfabeten zjn. De armoede is vaak de oorzaak, dat kinderen leren te stelen of te bedelen.
“ Can You Help My Son? ”
1 oktober, 2008
Once again, our Moscow and Yaroslavl ministry leader Gennady Dolbin and I were driving to the farm and rehab center in Yaroslavl.
As always, we were discussing how to work more effectively. We were happy for the progress that had been made, yet apprehensive about the things that were not moving forward.
Gennady’s phone rang, interrupting our talk. “My son is a drug user. Can you help?” I heard a mother share her pain. Gennady’s calm, deep voice encouraged the troubled mother, as many others before: “Come on Friday. Everything will be OK.” After a few more kind words from Gennady the call ended with the mother amazed that rehabilitation at our center was free of charge.
Summer 2008
1 september, 2008
The warm summer days are already gone and the first days of autumn are the time for making the balance for the past season.
This summer was a time of abundant spiritual harvest for Mission Possible’s team. We are thankful that God gave us strength and sent us friends to help us in HIS HARVEST. With the following lines we would like to share the blessings that we went through, and give thanks to the One, Who gave us seeds to sow, and then made them grow; Who blessed us with friends to collect the harvest together.