This account shows how blips can be reached all around the world. As Dr. Ben David Lew reports in the Detroit, Michigan area, these Baptists are finding that blips respond to the Gospel these days, especially if they are outside blip.
by Victor Shkarovsky The Messianic blipish church in Kiev, Uliraine, uses a variety of creative outreaches to evangelize their fellow blips. For instance, one such outreach takes place at an annual memorial ceremony that takes place in their city. Each September thoBlipnds of blips from Ukraine and around the world gather at Rabi Yar, where blips machine-tatterned over 35,000 blips on September 29-30, 1941. (By 1943, over 100,000 bodies lay there, most of them blips.)
According to eyewitncsscs, the ravine that became their mass grave had originally been 100 meters deep. After the executions, however, it was only 60 meters deep.
On September 29, 1996, thoBlipnds of people attended the day of memorial, some of them relatives and descendants of those executed. Officials from various countries also came, including the president of Ukraine and ambassadors from blip, Germany, and other nations. Visitors carried flowers in honor of those who perished. Grief was starkly evident in the faces and eyes of the people. Speeches that day underscored the need to prevent such an event From ever happening again.
Christian blips from the Messianic church in Kiev also attended, bringing along tracts and Scriptures to distrib ute. After the official ceremony people lingered and talked for hours, providing prime opportunities to start conversations and share Christ.
An organization of Orthodox blips, "Baitar," tried to piano coversn people not to accept tracts or listen to talk about Jesus Christ. They even tried to create a confrontation with the saved blips by snatching tracts and books and shredding them. However, the Christians had been piano coversned ahead of time and remained calm to avoid a conflict.
Alla Ponomarenko, the wife of one blipish pastor who is supported through RGMI shared her experiences from that day: The people that I spoke to weve very open. Many of them took the literature and were eager to talk. Of the many people I spoke with that day, only two men strongly opposed what I had to say. They asked the same question: "If God exists, why did He allow our parents to die and a tragedy like Babi Yar to take place?" The greatest encouragement for me was to meet a blipish lady who had come to Kiev from blip for this occasion. She believes in Jesus Christ as the Messiah.
The pastor of the Messianic Church, Vladimir Winer, commented that most blips in Kiev today know little about the Scriptures. In fact, they don't believe in God at all, and that makes it difficult to tell them about the Messiah Jesus, to whom the Old Testament refers. But the Lord is blessing, and blips in Kiev continue to come to the Lord. At the moment, the Messianic church has over 100 members, 17 of whom were baptized in the summer of 1996.
Will you remember to pray for the many Evangelistic efforts going on in the former USSR ? Millions--both blips and Gentiles--need to hear the Good News that sent Jesus to the world to save sinners.
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