God's ways are unpredictable and God is always at work!

 Our first phase of the project WhoAmI is over. As the result of this project we were able to share the Gospel in the personal conversations with 115 students. About a half of them met with us personally at least three times for coaching meetings, attended our weekly meetings and went to Lviv. So we ended up taking 74 people on the trip with us. This is a big breakthrough comparing to other years in Odessa movement.

We are glad that God is allowing us to search and find ways of long term influence on students. We're trying not to meet just once but to have a second and third contact, build closer relationships because Gospel isn't just what they hear once from us but it is our life and there should be more opportunities for non Christians to see our works, our priorities, our behavior.

During the game (lots of excitment)

Selling balloons with "Odessa air" in Lviv

The first day of our trip students played Quest game in Lviv. It was called IDENTIFICATION. During the game they tried to identify who Christ really was. Next morning we had a discussion group: how the personality of Christ changed this world and how He can change the life of every person, every student.

Sharing about the life of Jesus

During the trip I was surprised to see how unpredictable God's ways are. He is always at work in the life of every single person trying to lead this person to Himself through different life circumstances.

 In Lviv Nikita decided to follow Christ. Got introduced him to Christians long time ago in his home city and some seeds of the Gospel were planted. When he came to Odessa he met us and it was a final point for him to understand that God is calling him.

Luda's mom is a Christian and she even remembers going to Sunday school when she was a kid. But she never understood the meaning of the Gospel. When she came to Odessa her spiritual life was on the back row. When she met us she realized that God is giving her a second chance and she wants to go back to Him and start close relationship with Him. 

God has His perfect timing for everything. Don't get discouraged if some of your closest ones are not completely there yet with God. Or maybe you shared your faith with someone and you don't see any fruit. God is always at work in the lives of those people. Somebody planted, somebody watered, somebody will reap but God is the one who makes the seed grow!

Right now we have several new discussion groups launched. We offer students to go deeper and get to know more about Christianity.

Girls from my discussion group (Luda, Tanya and Ksusha)

Please pray for all new students to continue growing in what they need to know about Christianity to make their step toward God. 

Also pray for new Christians, may they grow spiritually and share their faith with others.

Please pray for health of staff on my team. Katya has problems with headaches that are caused by problems with neck and blood vessels. Dima, my team leader, was in the hospital with his gallbladder removed.