This month, we especially want to focus on the safety of our children and our schools and tell you how you can make a difference in protecting the schools in your community and help you teach school children everywhere how to protect themselves. We have some very clear instructions from the Bible as to how Christians can prevail over the turmoil and darkness of this world affecting our lives and those of our loved ones.
We are sure you have noticed the world we are living in today to be quite a different place than it was a mere 50 years ago. How did our world and life as we knew it change so quickly? Of course, with the advancement of technology we passed from the Industrial Revolution to the Information Age which has altered the base of our economy and greatly influenced our society, but these changes are also a sign of the times in which we live.
What kind of emotions and thoughts do you encounter when you see news headlines? Every day we become aware of alarming information, scandals, turmoil, disaster, tragedy, and heartbreak in immense proportion. This continual barrage of ‘bad news’ can often make us feel helpless, trapped, disappointed and afraid. You may even currently be facing an alarming situation. It seems disaster and heartbreak to be commonplace for many. But we have ‘good news’ for you today!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year reads the sign on the storefront window, but why is Christmas the most wonderful time of the year??? These words mean something different depending upon who is reading them. To a child it’s the anticipation of Christmas morning, the tree laden with gifts. A mom may sigh, “Ugh!” with the very thought of all the pressures of the holidays while Dad may only see dollar signs.
As decades of our lives pass and our journey through life meanders we also transition from season to season. And so it is for us at this time. Our journey has taken us half way around the world to experience 13 wonderful years in Russia! These years were filled with exciting adventures with God, a season in which we stretched to give our all to complete our God-given assignment. Today, we approach a new season and we want to share our hearts and ask for your prayers as we endeavor to take up and complete our new assignment.
While planning and building our website, we thought of you, our friends and partners. Of course, we wanted our site to be informational and include all the latest photos and news about us and what we are up to, but more than that; we wanted our website to include resources that would help to strengthen your Christian life. Today we wanted to give you a little tour around our website and hope that we can whet your appetite to visit the site and see for yourself.
To be born again a person must call on the name of the Lord, but how can they do that if they do not know who the Lord is? How can they believe on someone they do not even know? Well, God has the solution to this problem; send a preacher to testify about Jesus and salvation. This can be any born again Christian sharing about Jesus and God’s wonderful plan of salvation. Of course, this is all well and good, but what if the sinner is not acquainted with the preacher?
This month we want to share our thoughts with you about the prayer of faith. We understand most of you have prayed the prayer of faith for years and probably understand well how the prayer of faith works, but let’s look at this powerful prayer again today and believe the Holy Spirit will teach us something more and make our faith-filled prayers even more effective. Of course, it’s important to understand we need to pray in agreement with the will of God.
The congregation at Moscow Good News Church is nearing the end of our annual twenty-one day time of fasting and prayer. As always, this is a time a great reflection, great expectations and a lot of prayers ascending to the Father God. Have you ever wondered why God requires us to lift our voices and ask of Him and inquire of Him? Why would an all-powerful God need our prayers? Doesn’t Jesus, the Head of the Church, have the authority on earth to do WHATEVER He wants to do?
We hope you had the opportunity to celebrate Christmas surrounded by your family and friends and enjoyed every single moment together! What a year 2016 has been—all around the world! We faced many new challenges in 2016, especially in regard to processing our annual Work Permit/VISA. It was a long drawn out situation this year, requiring us to wait four months to return to Russia! Mid-October we finalized the documents to return and about six weeks later we extended our VISA until September, 2017.
