MISSION TO CRIMEA 2003

BATTLEFIELD MINISTRIES

MISSION TO CRIMEA 2003

LINDA PRESLEY @ THE BLACK SEA

From: yuri and olga sabinin

Date: Monday, September 22, 2003 22:39:30

To: presley@pe.net

Subject: prayer

Dear Phil and Linda,

Sorry that we did not write you for a long time.We are

still trying to catch up with the rhythm of life and

do not always succeed in this.Thank you for your care

and sensitiveness to the Spirit.We have had several

chances to prove them.We are really going through some

tough times.Sometimes we wonder where everything is

gone in the church.We are in a valley and what is

worse is that we have almost forgotten how it

feels.The Lord told us that we are going through a

time of pruning(John 15) and disciplining (Hebrews 12)

and we really see much restoration and purification in

our lives but sometimes we really wonder what is going

on.We still do not have all the answers so we are to

do what we have to and let there be whatever.We

believe we missed God`s timing in some aspects in the

church so now it is time to start building as we can

not close our eyes and hope that it will happen

somehow by itself.We need to change some fundamental

things in our approach to the ministry.Last week we

dismissed a leader in one of the city district as we

left her in dung like a fruitless fig tree in Jesus

parable for a year and a half but there was no

change.Then we visited the cell group and it is in a

bad shape.We believe that the Lord has given us this

distant district where there are about 30.000 people

living but one has to be radical there.So we are to

start it from the very beginning.The atmosphere in the

church is quite religious now and the change is to

start from the leadership as some leaders has stopped

in their movement further.Of course, it is difficult

to do any evangelism in such atmosphere.So we are

trying to trust the Lord and not ourselves and believe

that everything will work for good to those who love

Him.On the other hand we see a lot of examples in the

Scripture that it is possible to miss God`s plan for

somebody`s life if not being serious about His

grace.We will appreciate your prayers and your rhema

words if you get any and you can share this

information with anybody you consider useful.

With love,

Yuri and Olga

Andrew, Disciple of Jesus Preached Here

On July 17, 2003 a team of 13 Christians departed to Simferoplol, Crimea on a compassionate care mission to the orphans, elderly and teens of the Ukraine who had no hope...now they have that hope is in Christ.

Linda Presley praying for a "Grandmother"

The Orphans of Simferopol

: yuri and olga sabinin

Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:33 AM

To: JANICE LOWTHER

Subject: Re: WESTERN UNION TRANSFER

Dear Janice,
Thank you for the funds you sent.I received it
yesterday.No we have an idea to use it in the skin
disease hospital for daily food.The situation is that
the kids do not have dinner there and when our girls
would bring some food for them, they would try to hide
it till evening because they become hungry.And they
are not permitted to have food in their rooms.They
have a bakery just across the road and the money you
send will enable us to buy each of them a roll and a
cup of tea for supper.We will try to make sure that
nobody would steal this food as it is a major problem
in this country.
                                                 Yours
in Christ,

                   Yuri

125 friendships were made and 25+ brothers and sisters were seen entering into God's family in Odessa, Ukrainian.

God still uses broken vessels like you and me to share the gospel with people as he did on one particular day when I wasn't feeling in the mood, nor feeling prepared or prayed up enough. That very day when I shared the gospel with my 2 students, they both received Christ when I got to the end of the 4 laws diagram. How incredible that God uses people that don't feel prepared!

Please pray for Sergey, Yegor, and Denny, my three students who came to Christ this summer. Pray that they would get involved in the church and in seeking after God through regularly reading their Bibles and praying.

Also you can pray for Vitaley, and Ruslan- two of my New Age students, and pray for Saaid who's muslim to be open to the gospel. Slavick is another one of my students who is very close to making a decision for Christ.

Thank you so very much for your sacrifical giving and prayers on behalf of the Ukrainian people and on behalf of my Christian walk being strenghthened.

"We shrink from sacrifice if we are base and selfish. We are drawn toward it if, and just so far as we are noble. It is at once so difficult and so satisfying! So radically opposed to our innate selfishness, and so inseperately connected with our highest sympathies and noblest impluses!...It is interwoven with the highest theory and practice of Christian ethics. We must therefore in our religious study and meditations give this theme of sacrifice more than ordinary attention. We must it; we must question it; we must wrestle with it until the gloom of its darkness changes into the radiance of its brighter aspects, and it gives us a blessing as its shadows flee away." Comments on John 12:23-28 by A.M. Hills

With love- Brent King (619) 563-0384

If you feel led by the Lord to support the Church of Crimea and or the Orphans please contact Linda Presley via email: lcpres97@aol.com