What a beautiful day!

Suuuuuper excited! We have such a wonderful blessing! These 3 beautiful young ladies have been baptized few days ago! We are sooo happy for Stella, Lena and Zhenya they have desire follow Jesus! Can be a better blessing, when young souls want to praise Jesus in their lives and live a Christian life?! How awesome! 

(For those, who don`t know yet, Lena and Zhenya accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour recently.)

We had sermon, singing on the river. It was wonderful time! It was such a blessing when unbelievers could hear the Gospel as well!

Then young people have been baptized :)

This is a very special event in our church! So, we congratulated young ladies with flowers...

 ...and the pictures with Bible verses.

Pictures, pictures, pictures... everyone wanted make pictures for a memory :)

Zhenya and her neighbours. It was such a blessing to see them also!

Our growing babies :)

Andrew loves water! He was so screaming, when Olga took him away! Ha ha!

After Baptism we had tea and fellowship at church. It was so sweet time! Look at adorable Diana! I just love those chubby cheeks!!! ♥

A gang, who always make you busy! Aren`t not they cute?! ;)

God provided just a perfect weather and such beautiful day!We rejoice and so happy our local Baptist church is growing! To God be the glory!

What a GREAT day!

Oh, my!What an AMAZING and GREAT day we had today!!!! Do you know why? Because 2 young fellows, our young brothers in Christ, Sasha and Vadim have been baptized!Praise God!!!!!

We had a second baptizing this summer!What a great joy!

God miraculously blessed with such a beautiful and sunny weather! We did not feel autumn today but summer weather. Such a blessing!

The water is cold already but our young brothers were pretty excited to be baptized! They both could not wait this special day and were soooo happy!

On the picture, all 4 young men are former orphans. From the right to the left. The first and 4th young guy are friends of Sasha and Vadim.

We are so so happy for Sasha and Vadim that these young guys accepted Jesus Christ and want follow Him and to be true Christians! What an awesome blessing! Can be something better when the young people want follow Jesus?!

Look, what your wonderful and generous support is DOING, sweet Friends!!!

BOM supports young adults after they leave orphanages. An one of trade schools we visit regularly with Biblical teaching and fellowship. This February we had an incredible meeting with young people, where 6 young adults asked Jesus saved them. One of these young souls was Sasha, who graduated the trade school this year and joined our Bible Baptist Church! (He is on the last picture and at another in black jacket with red sweater). How AWESOME!

And who would have thought it would happen so quickly?It's such absolutely unexpected great blessing for us!

Your kindness, gentle care and tender love not only saved precious baby Elijah from baby house but has led his father to Christ, who was baptized today!

Vadim is very happy to be a Christian father, leads his family and follow Jesus Christ.How AMAZING!

Beautiful young ladies, Marina and Oksana who graduated orphanage this year and  joined to church as well.

 Aren't they adorable these little men? :)

One big beautiful family ♥

We are overjoyed and thrilled what the Lord is doing!  THANK YOU! Thank you so much for your beautiful love, what leads orphans to Jesus Christ!

Arrived to Ukraine to be baptized?

 Have you ever had to be a witness? Have you ever seen it? Have you ever heard, when American or from other country born-again Christian came in another country to be baptized? Well. It happened with us and in our local baptist church in Ukraine at first time. :)

We had not many baptized souls this year, only two. Yana, a precious and very sweet young lady, who is a Christian and wanted to obey of God`s commandment, to be baptized. "The like figure whereunto [even] baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ." (1Peter 3:21)KJV

She is a treasure, who was abandoned by parents in early childhood, spent all her life in baby house and orphanages. Today she is child of God and she has a Heavenly Father, who loves her so much!Yana was so happy and  thrilled at this special day of her life.We are SO happy for her!!!Praise God for this wonderful blessing!!!!

And other very special blessing for us. Andrew, who supports BOM, came here from USA for 6 weeks and wished to be baptised in Ukraine. What?! When brother Misha, our pastor announced it, everyone was pleasantly surprised. Everyone could not believed for a some time. :) But we were so happy and it blown away our mind.Wow!

This young guy had no possibility to do it in his country. Our pastor Misha was happy to baptize him. :)

God miraculously blessed this special day for all of us. He blessed with a nice and sunshine weather, as we have rainy days here during several weeks already.So, we had a wonderful church ministry near beautiful river.

Everyone enjoyed and especially these two in white clothes.

Then congratulated them with flowers

Don't they look happy? I love their beautiful smiles!

Then everyone wanted make pictures with baptized souls.

Stella`s family

Kozak family and others....

Yesterday Andrew went home. It was so hard to say goodbye to him... Everybody hardly kept tears. We had sooooo many blessed days visiting orphans, lonely souls and beautiful places of Ukraine. We enjoyed fellowship and had lots of fun. God amazingly blessed his presence in Ukraine!Spent time with this young guy was awesome!

Andrew said, when he visited last summer he was a guest and a new friend, now he feels like a close friend and that we all (with church)are family to him. It was hard to hear in prayer when he prayed, "God please, help me come back my home in Ukraine". But. He is gonna come back in the end of this year, in winter!Yay! If the Lord will allow, we will meet in 6 months again! Yes, his heart is here, in fairytale country as he says :) So excited of his coming again.

We all love how he looks in Ukrainian traditional vyshyvanka :) 

By the way many people ask about poppies. These are wild poppies in the field. We have lots of fields like this one. No one planted them :) God is a great gardener.The best we found is here, where I blogged before.

If you still hesitate or come to Ukraine...and spend time with members of BOM visiting orphans and lonely souls, graduating orphans, beautiful places of Ukraine. You are welcome! You never will be the same and come back home with another heart. Yes, it is absolutely safe now to be in center and west of Ukraine, despite terrible war we have now, except east of Ukraine. At least for today... Just let us know and we will be just happy to help you! :)

THANK YOU Jesus for ALL blessings! You are SO good as always!!!! ♥

They said: "YES"!

We are soooo excited and thrilled! Our hearts sing praise and glory to our Lord Jesus Christ! The heavens are singing and rejoicing.

Family Kozak, Olga and Sasha said: "YES" to the Lord! They expressed their desire to be baptized and follow the Lord! Praise God!!! 

It was a very emotional moment and a day in the life of this lovely family and for whole our church. What a great joy and awesome blessing!

"The like figure whereunto [even] baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ."

(1Peter 3:21) KJV 

Please, continue to pray for this sweet family, for their needs and spiritual growth. They are such a great blessing for all of us!Thank you!

Love this precious family :)

My love to all!

Joyful day!

What a joyful day we had yesterday!!!We were thrilled and sooooo happy, were rejoiced and excited!

Thank you so much for prayers for health of brother Misha, our pastor.He is not healthy completely but he feels much better.So, he is able to continue to serve our Heavenly Father.

Well.We had baptism in our church!God blessed abundantly and we had wonderful weather and so much joy to see souls, who wish follow God`s commandment and to live for Him.

 The beauty of God's creation

 We are so happy for our precious souls Valya and Vova.

 We rejoice for Sergey(in white t-shirt).

 After the sermon of the God's word, singing of psalms and manual to those, who was going to be baptized,

 ...they could do it, answered to God, having testified their love and desire to follow the Lord Jesus.Praise the Lord!!!

For us BOM is special blessing to see those souls, which were in orphanages, are left their parents, lonely and suffer, which we visited and shared the love of our Lord Jesus and not just in orphanages. Just serve to orphans. Today they together with us also joined our Church. What a wonderful blessing!

 On the picture from the left to the right is Sergey, Valya, Vova and Kolya(he is not orphan).

...and sweet orphaned girl Nadya(she was not baptised).

 We are so thrilled for our new members of our church family!It`s such big blessing for us!!! Our hearts are full of joy and delight!Our Lord Jesus is AWESOME!!!!

We pray for the salvation other our beloved teenagers, who visit church ministries, and do not visit, who hear the Gospel and know how to be saved.Whom we love dearly and would love they became part of church of Christ. Please, will you pray with us? Thanks!!!

Love to all!