NOW IS THE TIME FOR ACTION IN UKRAINE
May 8th, 2012http://noelrt.com/
A SPECIAL REPORT
We started our work in Ukraine by just preaching to a couple of churches. We never knew what God had in store for us to do.
Just this year in the middle of extreme cold weather the temperatures were -30 degrees Celsius (about -10 Fahrenheit) and ice was everywhere God sent us to the town of Glukhiv in Eastern Ukraine.
Pastor Vitaliy had requested Pastor Nickolai (in the picture) to come and preach for the communion service.
It is about a 20 hour train ride from where pastor Nikolai lives to Glukhiv. The trains were cold. He arrived and on the way God told him to pray for power because the next day he was to heal someone. He had never been involved in a miraculous healing. He went to the service and after the communion service ended a lady stood up and said that God had told her to come to be healed by pastor Nickolai. She came forward for healing. Pastor Nickolai prayed for her. Next day she called Pastor Vitaliy and said, she was healed by God. Later we received a report, that Pastor Vitaliy’s father was healed from stage 4 cancer by our prayer of faith. We were ecstatic that God was working as in the days of the Acts of the Apostles.
We were involved a few weeks later in 2 week series of meetings at this same church (see the picture). I (Richard) preached 3 times, Nikolai preached the other times. We did no advertising of any kind. It was only by word of mouth. People wanted to come from as far away as 40 miles. God brought people from all walks of life. As the meetings progressed, more miracles occurred. Even more people came because of the witness of the Holy Spirit in miracles. There was even a lady who had did not know the Bible before. She is now attending. It was unsafe to walk any distance because of the ice. Yet, the people came with the assistance of a small bus owned by Pastor Vitaliy. Sometimes the evening start times were adjusted because of the ice, but no meetings were cancelled.
After the meetings, pastor Nickolai received a skype call from his 19 year old daughter Anya in Odessa. She was worried. The doctors told her she had a large cyst on her ovary and prescribed expensive medicine which she could not afford. First her father prayed with her in skype, later we prayed for her and when she went back to the doctor for a test the doctor did another ultrasound exam. It took longer than the first one. She put the machine away and told Anya to put her clothes on. Anya asked what was found on the exam. The doctor said, “I don’t understand it. There is no cyst, not even a mark.” Anya called her father in great joy at God’s blessing.
During the meetings they prayed for a young person who was almost totally deaf for years. A few days later her hearing started being restored.
Pastor Vitaliy thanked us the night after the last meeting for “teaching them how to be led by the Holy Spirit”. He and his wife Oksana (picture on the right) were simply ecstatic in Jesus.
Our ministry is involved in helping Pastor Nickolai as he is leading out directly in Ukraine.
When pastor Nickolai returned home delighted at what God was doing he told us, “I have finally found what I have been searching and longing for. God is speaking to me and using me for His Glory.”
Since the meetings in Glukhiv, we have been getting requests from all over Ukraine to come and minister. Currently we have requests for meetings in cities of Harkhiv, Sevastopol, Kiev, Ternopil, small towns like Kolomiya, Zabolotov, Kosov and several other cities. All these are groups of Sabbath keepers with no general leadership and who want to receive the power and direction of the Holy Spirit in their lives.
Just recently pastor Nickolai met with several groups in the town of Kolomyia near where he lives in Chernovitsi. We are overwhelmed with the desire of these people to learn the way of God more completely.
The key to our work is that we are following the Bible. We are not teaching some clever or worldly wise ideas. We are teaching and demonstrating the power of the Word of God. We are teaching how to be led by the Holy Spirit. God is testifying by miracles and signs.







