Newsletter #3 March, 2017 WELCOMING OUR FRIENDS FROM HOLLAND!

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1 Newsletter #3 March, 2017 WELCOMING OUR FRIENDS FROM HOLLAND! The beginning of spring was a very special time in the life at the Inspiration Centre. We re so happy to welcome our friends from Holland. Our friendship proves that there are no accidental meetings on God s calendar. So, on March 19 our Dutch friends, Jaap de Mooij, Astrid Harink, Wim de Mooij took part in Daisy Party that was held in the Inspiration Centre. We also visited church in Shepetivka and have met a lot of leaders from the summer camps. On March 21 we visited some kids who were in summer camps. Mostly all of them are from non-christian families and their parents don t allow them to come to our church even they have that desire. We re glad that parents don t mind if we visit kids at their homes. I wish you could see the eyes of kids who hugged their leaders and hold for few minutes tears were beginning to blur their vision. The leaders were touched and began to cry. These are the tears of joy and reunion! What a great joy was to have Astrid with us for two more weeks! She was a big help at the Inspiration Centre and she was challenged to teach English at the English Club! Oh, kids are still asking about her. We wish to have native speakers here to help us with English Club, it s much more productive! These two weeks flew so fast I wish we could stop such moments and hold them for a while. We are so grateful to our Dutch friends who have brought so much love to those neglected kids and we could do summer camps three years in a roll in a beautiful part of Ukraine, Transcarpathia. Thanks to that camp we could reach the kids and parents from Orthodox families and bring the Living Water into their hearts!

2 GYPSY MINISTRY On March 12, 2017 we had our first meeting with gypsies at the Inspiration Centre. It s such a blessing to see so many Roma people gathered in one place with one purpose. I m glad that we can help them, inspire them and preach the Gospel to them. Let me thank all volunteers who come and join as at different projects done in that ministry, is commenting Oleksandr Ognivchuk Our desire and our prayers are to meet that gypsies in heaven! They are neglected whenever they go but God is teaching us to love them with His unconditional love. The field is so big and we are praying for Christian Roma missionary who can devote his life and help us to win that hearts for His Kingdom! We have one very good tradition here! Would you like to know it? I can tell you but I wish you could experience it once in your heart! Our tradition is to visit gypsy families in their shabby homes every Tuesday. God has blessed us to visit five families in March. Gypsies are talking about our home visits and now we receive the invitations from them. What is more? They get angry if we can t manage to visit them. Every meeting is gone in different ways but it is always with a cup of tea, some cookies in family atmosphere. Everyone can ask the question and share their troubles; ask for advice. We have Bible Study Club every Wednesday at 5 pm in the Centre and there are people who are eager to read the Bible. Our goal is to bring the Gospel to that nation. More gypsies can t read, so we do it together with them. They love to sing, so it takes much time. But they are so gifted and talented. I hope God will bless our ministry with a missionary to gypsies. said Oleh Stanislavov

3 Birthday is very special holiday in every people s heart. Everyone is waiting on big cakes, balloons, lot of gifts, etc. Everyone but not orphans! A lot of kids don t even know the date of their birthday CHILDREN MINISTRY On March 2, 2017 the team of the IC went to Berezdiv orphanage and greet every child who was born during winter season. We came there with an interesting program, entertainment and balloons (kids love it). There is no proper English word to describe their impressions and thankful hearts! But the question on one boy broke my heart He asked, Why did God give me life but He didn t give meparents? Daisy Party for teen girls who participated in our summer camps! We organize such meeting once a year as far as we want to keep in touch with camp participants! It s very important for us to continue our ministry after the camp! This year we invited the team from World of Life Mission and they have done wonderful teaching based on MASKS (Bible story The Woman at the Well). We also made a craft prepared by Anna Stoliar from Little Lambs Ministry in Ukraine. Every girl took it as a wonderful souvenir and reminder to her about our talk! Little Lambs Ministry is committed to providing the opportunity for orphans and abandoned children in Ukraine to accept Christ, to grow in their faith, and become self-sufficient, contributing members of society. We need people who would like to spend two weeks in an orphanage with the orphans. We will be working hand in hand with our local Ukrainian brothers and sisters as this is a real team effort. Summer Camps are scheduled: May 29 - June 12 June 5 - June 19 Come & Join Us!

4 CLUBS AT THE INSPIRATION CENTRE English Club isn t only English classes but it is something more! It s learning English in interesting way watching movies, reading books and discussing them, organizing musical and different events where Club members can speak English. Today we have 66 members of the Club (37 kids and 29 older people). There are kids who pay for the membership and we can use that money on the implementation of our mission! There are 60% of members who get free membership, - orphans, kids from large families, kids from rural communities, gypsies, refugees, kids whose parents were on the war in Eastern Ukraine. The biggest blessing is to hear inspiring responses from the members of the Club and their parents! I get inspired to see when they start to talk English at the age of 35! I m convinced that if a child knows English today, he will get better work and payment! My big dream is to have English Camp in summer! But I need native speakers to do that project! If you are willing to come, contact me, please! I ll be so happy to have team from the USA and do something great in Ukraine! shared by Nina Ognivchuk This month we ve started WooDecor Club where kids have the opportunity to make some wooden crafts, toys, wonderful decorations, etc. This Club is focused on orphans, gypsies and street kids at their age Kids enjoy a lot working in that Club! They call me or send messages in social media and ask to come earlier, so they can have more time here! Kids can make their parents happy also by making some gifts for them! The main goals of the WooDecor Club are: To have friendly relationship with orphans and gypsies; To spend time together at the Centre instead of hanging out in the streets; To teach them to love work and earn money honestly; To spread the Gospel while having time at the Club. Every Club starts with a prayer and we see how God is blessing us answering our prayers! I love to watch when a child is saying the first prayer in his life! I m sure the heaven is rejoicing! - said Roma Martynov If you have any ideas, advice or vision for the Inspiration Centre, please, share it with us! Contact Information: Nina Ohnivchuk Skype: ninaohnivhcuk ninessa@ukr.net Cell-phone (Viber, We Chat): THANK YOU FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE AND PRAYING FOR US!

5 WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS! Our thanks: Praise God for volunteers who join and help us; Praise God for donors who support our ministry with their money, time, own strength; Praise God for open Roma houses; Praise God for the ministry of the IC in March and His care of the building. Prayer Requests: 1. Let God guide our Clubs: English Club, WooDecor, Gloria, Mothers Week-End; 2. Pray for the start of Bible school for kids; 3. Pray for Bible Club for older gypsies held every Wednesday at 5 pm. It ll be the first Roma church in own town; 4. Pray for a missionary who can serve the gypsies; 5. Pray for orphanage ministry; 6. Pray for Anna Pustovit as she teaches basic Bible principles in one school; 7. Pray for Sunday School for kids in Horodysche village and Youth Ministry in Shepetivka, Mykhaliuchka; Bilikrynychchia; 8. Pray for papers to be done correctly to get humanitarian support from De Ruyter (Holland). There is furniture, cloth, shoes for our ministry; 9. Pray for missionaries from TN who will come on April 25 and we ll serve God together; 10. Pray for the Playground Project. Praise God for kids from Bethel Baptist Church who support that idea and started to raise money; 11. We see a big need in a van and purchase of the second floor. Let God will be done! Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you (Mat. 7:7)