My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." (2Cor.12:9)

At the beginning of this semester we realized the truth of these words of the Scripture as never before. We really felt our weakness. Instead of 8 active members of our team only 3 can participate in the ministry.  Each one of us has experienced emotional difficulties and fatigue.

But God has poured out His grace, supported and strengthened... Praise Him for the answer to the prayers of the laborers. We now have about 12 dedicated students who are potential leaders helping us in every way in building spiritual movements.

Earlier this year, we held a training conference on "Movements everywhere." We would like to add an emphasis to our ministry which is to motivate and help local churches to initiate a movement of evangelism and discipleship in their communities. God has blessed us with a "symbolic number" of students participating in this conference. There were 12! We pray and hope that God makes ​​a breakthrough in the spiritual revival of the youth of Odessa through these students. We want every non-believer to know at least one true follower of Christ.

Pray that the youth in the churches accepts the challenge to go to non-believers and work with them on permanent basis.

Giving out the planners

As usual, we began active ministry with the distribution of gifts for freshmen - diaries, which we ourselves develop and paste it there are many interesting and useful information, including the testimony of God. These diaries help us get to know new students and then invite them to our events. In two weeks we have distributed about 2,000 diaries in 4 major high schools in Odessa. 

Stella

We have a student, Stella, who graduated from the Odessa State Economic University this year and began working at the Odessa automobile industry college as an accountant. But despite that she wants to continue to be active and participate in the Campus ministry. God has put the desire into her heart to start a spiritual movement in this college. She went and negotiated with the director of the college so that we could distribute diaries to students. As a result, Dima was able to advertise our future events at their line up and we distributed diaries to all the freshmen. Stella will try to continue to build relationships with students and start a discussion club there. We thank God for the students who are the examples of spiritual leadership.

Dima speaks at the line up.
In the foreground - the director of college.

Please pray for:
  - the students who received diaries to come to our events (quest, paintball, discussion clubs, personal communication);
  - an evangelistic trip to Crimea at the end of October so that we could take 40 non-believers with us;
  - God’s blessings on Stella and wisdom for her in the ministry with her students from college.