End of Week 3

Mark Babich, Elijah Primachenko

Each new week seems to always bring something new. Especially with the surprises that we have from just knowing about our teachers. This week, our teacher was Olga Yarosh from New Beginnings in Portland, Oregon. If you want a link to the churches website, it is right here. She taught us about motivational gifts, counselling and parasites that ruin Christian lives across the globe. Here is a link with a video of one of the counselling simulation that were given as real life situations by our students in the class. We not only learned about personalities and people, but how to interact with certain groups to effectively counsel them with minimal problems. We also went to many places this week, such as downtown to see the scenery with our youth. We also hod our first Evangelism group where we went out to the mall and asked people if we could pray for them. We saw so many people touched by God and seen so much joy come into people as we ourselves were uplifted by God's mercy and grace coming on the people we prayed for. We wish and continue to forward to Evangelize in the streets, homeless shelters, senior homes, and in prisons. We miss all you guys so much and as much as we want to come back, we have a calling from God to be here and preach his word.

Here is a few pictures of this week from various students here at the school.

 At downtown                                           Our Ukrainian boys sing there national anthem

 Picture day of the choir                                      playing volleyball after the pictures

Our Ukrainian boy came in with style                  Downtown with the picture of the students

 May you continue to pray for us. God bless.

End of Week 2

Mark Babich, Elijah Primachenko

With this week, we have done so many things that were knew. This week, we had a new instructor named Leo Frank. He is from Germany, that knows Russian and Ukraine very well. we sang songs and prayed before each class period and studied Bibliology as our subject from this instructor. It was very fun and interesting to not only have a German teacher that made us translate him to English and back to Russian, but to he made us sing in German. We would sing for you in this blog post but you wouldn't hear it. So here is the link. The song starts at 47:30. We also many stories and testimonies told during the lessons. We also had our first student lead service on Thursday. Prayer and worship for the first 30 mins followed by the word and testimonies that people had. during the week. Most testimonies were from the Street Evangelism and Homeless Shelters Ministry that happened on Monday. All of it was inspiring and uplifting to hear them and learn that God is working in everyone here in this body of Christ. I pray that God will continue to bless us with wisdom, and power in to continue to be lights in this world. Especially to guild us in to God's path continually with each new day. We also Thank you guys for praying for us because with out you guys, we would not be here serving God and learning so much that we would have never dreamed to have learn in a lifetime of searching God. We will also pray for you guys to stay strong with the lord and to always feel close to God with each new day that comes to you guys. May God bless all of our supporters financially  spiritually, physically, mentally, and emotionally and all other aspects of life that is not listed here. When we come back to Oregon, we definitely will having something to show, not just to the youth but, to that whole church of our experience here in Jacksonville Florida.

Here is a few pictures of this week from various students here at the school.

 Bonfire at youth service                                          Birthday party at the guys dorm.

Someone was preparing for the test on Monday.

 May you continue to pray for us. God bless.

Our First Week in School

Mark Babich, Elijah Primachenko

We reviewed over our first topic of Missionary school. Apologetic, the study of rational explanation of the Christian Faith. We learned that this topic was always in the Bible, and that we as Christians don't address this topic seriously. "(15) Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it. But do this in a gentle and respectful way. Keep your conscience clear. (16)Then if people speak against you, they will be ashamed when they see what a good life you live because you belong to Christ." -NLT-1 Peter 3:15-16. As we went through class with our instructor, Victor Dzhubak, we learned not just about this subject and reoccurring questions that many people ask today, but also about the people we learn with in school. Someone knows this persons brother, went to their church, cousins through marriage, or even learning that they come from the same state. We went into such philosophical debates in class that even the instructor just ended them. He did mention that we were his most lively class that he has ever instructed whether it was in his house or at a seminar of some sort. If you want a rundown of what we do every day at school, the link is right here between 2:10:23 and 2:19:24. If you think that is a jam packed, imagine what it means to learn through that for the next 5 months and debate whether it is worth coming here. All I can say is that if we didn't come here, then we would not know what is God's will in our lives. Thank God that we have Gods strength and not our own. "(8) God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. (9)Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it." -NLT- Ephesians 2:8-9. 

 May you continue to pray for us. God bless

At Our Arrival

Mark Babich, Elijah Primachenko

Here, we have arrived to Jacksonville, Florida. Even before we got here, Elijah and I were put into problems that were placed before us to even go do the lords will in our lives. We not only arrived at our destination 6 hours late, but we also do not have our luggage. It started at the airport when we came on our first plane that was headed toward Houston Texas. From there, we had an hour to jump on our next plane to Jacksonville. The first plane apparently ran into some AC problems and needed to get gas also at the same time while everyone was on the plane. It took them 2 hours to get the plane off the ground with those setbacks. When we landed, we were given a new ticket for a plane, because we missed our plane, and $5 to pay for food for the both of us. We went toward the customer service of United Airlines and by God’s blessing; we got new flights for American Airlines that went to Dallas Texas then to Jacksonville Florida. When we got to Florida, we found out that our luggage was not put onto the flight that we came on. We spent about an hour trying to file a claim for our luggage. We then went out to get picked up by some people from SMBS. We were dropped off at the house that we were staying at. We were both skeptical about the house we were at because the house is too good to be true. We not only got a house to live in, but they gave us our own closet, bed and bathroom. We then go to know our hosts and even had a chance to hear about what to expect tomorrow about our luggage. It turns out, if we stayed just 20minutes more, we would of gotten our luggage without a problem. Now, the day is over and we got the chance to thank God for keeping us in your prayers and right before God.

 May you guys continue to pray for us. God bless

Before We Leave

Mark Babich, Elijah Primachenko

We would like to say a few words before we leave to those that we are in there prayers and our sponsors.

We can not thank you enough for your generous support in finances, love and prayer. We might only see hard work and God's miracles in our lives and yours. We not only will accept your prayers and blessings but we will keep you in our prayers and bless you continually. May God continue to work in your lives as he has now in ours. This might just be school, but it is a door or opportunities ahead of us to minister and show God in people's lives. We only ask you to continue to pray for God's wisdom upon us and for his protection and guidance. 

May God bless all those that support us as we go out and preach the Gospel.