Saturday evening I had the privilege and blessing of joining my Ukrainian friends for their first worship service for their new church. My friend Oleksii, I spelled it Alexey in previous posts, is the pastor. It has been a long and difficult journey for Oleksii and his family and to see his passion and heart to reach others with the love of Jesus has been a blessing.

It was also a blessing to see my friend, who is a worship leader and received a donated guitar, lead worship along with Oleksii’s daughter.

Oleksii asked me to share with the church. I felt led to share about a church born of hardship and how the church in Philippi was born out of hardship and that their new church is also a church born out of hardship.

This afternoon Oleksii and I will meet with the missions pastor from my church. Oleksii will also attend the District Conference for my denomination, Evangelical Free Church of America, next week.
It has been such a encouragement for me to be a part of this new church born out of hardship.
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