Friday Night Bible Study

On this past Friday Night Bible Study we studied about the Inspiration of the Bible - basing it around the reasons why we believe the Bible is God's Word. Looking at reasons from: history, archaeology, the Bible itself and fulfillment of prophecy. It went awesome! At the beginning we asked them what they thought of the Bible. They were very open - none of them thought it was God's Word (only a few thought it possible that part of it could be). They began to question us about various things about the Bible and other religious wise books. We got through the Bible study and as we did we could tell that they were getting more calm and open. In the end we challenged them to read the Bible and decide for themselves - 7 people out of 8 took the Bibles! Lots of open questions from 8 people who don't believe that the Bible is God's Word. After we prayed most stayed on for about 45 minutes and asked a lot of tough questions. Please pray for these people :) and for us as they continue to ask hard questions.

Evangelistic Program - Amazing Facts

An Evangelistic program is currently up and running in Kharkiv. There are a couple of different sites and one of them is the English school where we are volunteering at at the moment each day at 12pm. It is called Amazing Facts. Please keep this in your prayers. It will be going until the end of June.

Nelya

Nelya is a girl in her 20s from Russia who has recently moved to Kiev, Ukraine. She has been coming to the Friday night programs at one of our branch schools and although she doesn't say much - except for when what we say contadicts her own faith - Islam. A few Friday nights ago I (Monique) was able to have a chat with her after Friday night (which is unusual as she hasn't ever talked to anyone before). She opened up about her family, her friends (back in Russia who she misses terribly) and eventually her faith. We were able to have a great conversation about the similarities and differences between Islam and the SDA faith. She was quite surprised when I told her that as SDAs we do not look on images of the cross and other prophets as being sacred (as her Islam faith also believe that images -idols- can not save you and should be avioded. We also talked about the similarities and differences of our belief that Jesus is coming soon; About the ligitimacy of the Holy Bible (that it is God's Word, which she doesn't believe as she believes the Koran has overtaken the Bible when people began to change facts and words in it.

We have since left Kiev and are now serving in Kharkiv for two months. So because of this will not be able to see Nelya again at Friday nights. I ask that you will all pray for this awesome young lady - that she will be open to the Truth and will one day have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.