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Prayer Letter: June 2018

Dear Praying Friends and Family,

Thank you for praying for us this past month. We appreciate the prayers and support of the saints. We hope that you all are well, in health, and serving our Lord Jesus Christ in the place He wants you.

We are preparing for vacation Bible school again, and are praying that everything goes well during those three days. We have been passing out invitations personally, and hanging them up on telephone poles and billboards. A few parents asked some details about the camp, so we pray that local kids will come out. We’ll be active in the weeks leading up to the camp, continuing to hang flyers and giving them to people in this area. There are close to 10,000 people living within a 10-minute drive of the church, so that is a potential for many children to hear the Gospel. Pray for us in our preparation and for the children in this area to get saved. Pray for a baptism service that we will have on the 14th, that it would be a blessing to our people.

Be in prayer for our Bible institute week from July 23rd-28th. As I mentioned in the winter, our Bible institute consists of classes from morning until evening Monday and Tuesday, with street preaching and evangelizing afterward, and then church services Wednesday-Friday after classes. Saturday, we plan to have classes in the morning, and the rest of the day dedicated to witnessing on the street. We are looking forward to having Pastor Bevans Welder from Bible Believer’s Baptist Church in Corpus Christi, TX with us. He’ll be teaching on the church and ministry, and preaching during the services. He’s a blessing in his teaching and preaching, and his subjects will be much needed for us and the national preachers and friends who come for institute.

As it happens, the last day of institute falls on a particular holiday in Ukraine- the baptism of the Kyivan Rus. Supposedly, the disciple Andrew went into Greek colonies in southern Ukraine preaching Christ and eventually north to Kyiv. Although many were said to have accepted Christ, Ukraine was controlled by various pagan Slavic, Gothic, and Hun tribes. In the 980’s, Kyiv was the capital of a Viking-controlled kingdom that directed trade from Scandinavia through the rivers of the Baltics and Ukraine to Byzantium, the center of the Orthodox world. A king called Vladimir the Great commanded the citizens of Kyiv to be baptized in the Dnepr River and accept Orthodoxy. With the Mongol invasion and political shifts, Orthodoxy spread into Russia, where it is the dominant religion in all of Russia and Eastern Europe. This year will mark 1,030 years that the people of Ukraine have been in spiritual bondage to a church that teaches prayers for the dead, baptism as sanctification for sins, and holiness of religious icons. We’re happy to be spiritually free in Jesus Christ, and be able to preach salvation through faith in His shed sinless blood. Pray for Ukrainians to be saved and to know the freedom that salvation gives, not through a church system and creed, but through simple faith and God’s grace.

Again, thank you for your prayers for us. We ask that you continue, and hope and pray that you have a good month.

Until His return, David and Naomi Lohman


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