Letter from Andrey and Natasha in Poltava, Ukraine
- Andrey Zibrov
- Nov 4, 2009
Our dear friends Graeme & Belinda! Greetings to you from Poltava! We would love to not only write you a letter, but to talk on skype to you, but at the moment our skype facilities are not installed. We hope it will work soon. We believe you had a wonderful wedding of your son and that God gave you wisdom and strength to make all the arrangements. How is it going with your coffee-shop and the book-shop? We are missing you! Please, send our fondest regards to the whole church! In these three last months our church has had some wonderful events. We have written to you a little bit about our youth camp. It was a wonderful time for the children, youth and ourselves. In the evenings the parents and unbelieving friends of our children came to visit and everyone testified about very unusual warm atmosphere in the camp. The highlight of the camp was building of the Malawi eating tent. Andrey inspired everyone to join the project. It was so great! Next pleasant event was our water baptism. 11 people from our congregation have made a decision to make a covenant with the Lord! This time we made it more festive and special. The path on the water was decorated with flowers, food treatment and presents afterwards. Everyone was happy! One week after that we married two couples in the church. This Sunday we had a Feast of Harvest. Our hall was full. We rented a projector and made a slide-show of all the events in the church for the last year. People were very much interested and excited. All the people enjoyed celebration! Praise the Lord for everything!!! As far as we personally are concerned, this period of time was quite busy for us. Besides all church projects, Andrey had a few trips in Ukraine and he had to sort out some issues concerning the heating and sanitary engineering equipment. And though I saw him very seldom at home, Andrey has managed to accomplish one of my dreams after we came back from South Africa. He made the furniture himself and got ourselves separated from the kids in another room! We'd like to ask you to please, pray for our congregation, ourselves and our children (Grisha is suffering with bronchitis). Please, pray fro us, we need your prayers very much! We often speak about our trip to your wonderful country! We love you and we bless you! We are looking forward to your letter! With love, Zibrov family.
