“Christ in you, the hope of glory, whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ; whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.”
This verse was from the book of Colossians that we studied during our Speak Out’18 was inspiring our students and staff to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus and to invite students in discipleship process, growing in perfection in Christ themselves and helping others grow.
Speak Outs are truly amazing projects. They help us reach such goals as:
1. Provide a training base for our volunteers, they study the Scripture together, learn about the basis of building spiritual movements in their campuses and practice they faith in action through working with those who don’t know the Lord yet.
2. Giving around 100 students a chance to hear the Gospel through learning English with native speakers. I personally met three students who were campers last year and this year they were volunteering, translating, sharing their testimonies and showing an example what God can do in a life a person in just one year.
These students came to know the Lord after SpeakOut 17
3. Impacting the city on many levels: give hundreds of people a chance to hear the Gospel through personal conversation, work with families of soldiers that fight on the East and needy families, visiting orphanages, arranging soccer tournaments, partnering with local media and youth leaders, spreading the word about our work for students. We tried to be careful with what we say about Christianity when we were speaking with local newspaper reporters but we managed to tell them that we believe that we can influence our country and changes are possible if God changes the hearts of students from the inside out.  |
| At the local newspaper office |
I also witnessed a miracle at Speak Out. We had an evangelism time using the photo test. Darina came up to me and asked if she can learn this method because she’s already a Christian and loves sharing her faith. About two minutes later one lady came up to the photos and was looking at them cautiously. We asked her if she wanted to go through the test but she made it clear that she couldn’t hear nor speak. At that very moment Darina started using sign language saying that she can translate our conversation. Many years ago when she was a teenager she took courses of sign language at church. So there we were, three of us talking in Russian and in sign language talking about the love of God. Ludmila (that lady’s name) knew very little about Jesus. She was meant to hear about Lord’s love and forgiveness that night. There are no coincidences with God, it was His Perfect plan and His perfect timing.
Here are some numbers that we give the Lord thanks for:
800 people heard the Gospel, 9 people wanted to accept Jesus, 60 kids were visited in the orphanage, 10 teams participated in the soccer tournament, 130 families were visited and given food packages, 112 people agreed to meet personally for the second time to hear more about God.
We created a unique place that we called HubPalatka where people could come, have coffee and hang out and talk. Out students and staff loved this place and it was always full of people.
We are grateful that God is giving us so much freedom now to impact our country while we still can. We worked hard and we trust Him to multiply what we have done and grow all the seeds that were planted.
And here is the final video of Speak out 2018, enjoy=)
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