TERNOPOL IBS SEMINAR

Eugene (right) is teaching... pastor George (left) is translating...

Dear Partners!

ICM Russia Crew just returned from a trip from a city of Ternopol, Ukraine! The traveling time was 8 hours on the train in a very stuffy compartment! Olga and I  have been there before... and know how good it is to come back home!

The missions trip went very well! The journey took a team of  two men to Ternopol, Ukraine to do an Inductive Bible Study Seminar with our host Pastor George Markey, of Calvary Chapel Ternopol. Eugene and Igor did Level 1 and Level 2 seminars so that people who want to serve the Lord and minister to people could learn how to lead a Bible Studies in their homes and teach through the Word in their churches. ICM Russia team had an enthusiastic group of mostly committed Christian workers at the seminar from a couple of churches in Ternopol. They were very responsive to the teaching, especially to the message that the church today needs to hear the Truth of God's Word. The enemy has invaded many churches with lies. Truth sets people free, lies lead to bondage.

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The group that decided they want Level 2 was composed of mostly lay workers and a few pastors.  It kept Eugene and Igor busy training and equipping them to prepare their sermons and outlines for their Bible Studies! The weather was cold but praise God for His strength each day.  Pastor George did a wonderful job of organizing everything. He participated in starting Calvary Churches in Ukraine from his early childhood and the Lord is using him, his assistants and their families in a wonderful way!  In Ternopol we had a good group of black students and Christian workers who caught the Inductive Bible study concept. 

Thanks for praying for this trip!  We greatly appreciate all the prayers! The country of Ukraine is filled with corruption which has also invaded the church. Pray the Ukrainian Church will teach the truth of God's Word! Thanks again and blessings to you all!

In His Joy,

Igor and Olga

SUDA ORPHANAGE CHRISTMAS

This is our vision to visit our children in the nearby orphanages on Christmas Day, January 7th and celebrate Jesus Birthday with them!  We do this evangelistic project under the umbrella of Light of Hope Childrens' Center. This year a team of both Light of Hope Childrens' Center workers and people from the Light of Hope Church went to the orphanage in the nearby town of Suda. The guys did a skit about how every New Year brings changes in our lives, and how those changes are brought by miracle of Christ’s birth.

We have been going to this orphanage and the children have been listening to the story of Jesus’ birth for several years. We always offer kids the opportunity to give Jesus a birthday gift.  When kids say: We are so sorry but we didn't get a gift for Jesus, - we then encourage them to give their hearts to Jesus as a very dear Christmas gift! This project is a great opportunity to point kids to the birth of Christ. Some of them received Jesus in to their hearts. And for that, we praise the Lord! Only by the Grace of God they are what they are today and His grace to them was not without effect! Every year they are filled with joy and excitement to remember this miracle and to spend time in fellowship with us. After our Christmas skit we spent time playing games with the kids and handed out  Christmas presents. The time was fun and filled with laughter!!!

We are thankful to the Lord for the privilege of sharing a little piece of our hearts with these kids as we bring them the Good News and love of Jesus Christ. We are blessed to be able to take part in the lives of these kids.

Olga and I would like to say a big Thank You to all our supporters for making it possible for us to minister to these kids through your prayer and support. Please join us in prayer for the souls and hears of these children abandoned to the care of the state. The Lord desperately desires that every one of these kids would come to a saving knowledge of Christ; that is what we hope to give these kids.

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NINA'S NEW BED & MATTRESS

Sister Nina waiting for the bed to be fixed...

Pastor Yuri fixing the bed...

Nina with her father and her step-mother sitting on the new bed...

IGOR, THANKS FOR YOUR GIFT!

Beloved Kingdom Givers,

Yesterday Olga and I received a thank you letter from Nina, a handicapped sister in the Lord from the church in Kirilov, Russia! She became paralyzed from her waist down at the age of 25. We came to visit our sister before we left for the States. The minute we entered Nina's abode the Lord spoke to us about giving Nina a new bed and a comfy mattress. We handed Pastor Yuri $400 to go to Moscow IKEA store to buy a new bed and a very comfortable mattress for her.

Nina sent us a thank you letter through Pastor Yuri and in turn, Olga and I would like to thank you, our dear friends and partners for enabling us to do good and bless less fortunate people around us! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for the love-gift you sent our way in February!

Dear Igor and Olga,

My family and I so appreciate your generous gift! There are dozens of ways you could put the money to good use but you decided to buy me a new bed.  I cannot put it in words how blessed I  am to receive a wonderful gift of love from you. My father and my step-mother are not Christians and they were shocked by God's love. Thank you so much for shining it through you and helping make my handicapped life more comfortable!

May my God richly bless you and keep you as you travel and spread the Word! I am praying for you with no ceasing! Can't wait to see you!

Yours in Jesus,

Nina

P.M. WITH JESUS

There’s a proverb that I love, it says: “Pay attention to small beginnings because they just might get big.”

My friend, as you work your job this week, please pay attention to details because you never know where it can take you. Please don’t get discouraged, keep dreaming of the Lord… keep working the dream with the Lord…

What an amazing thing that the life that we are living today, that sometimes seems so ordinary, could be very extraordinary! And the whole world is sitting there and watching it all happen. From the bottom of my heart I would like to wish you to keep living your finest life! Now, listen to God carefully and meditate on His words:

Psalm 37:4,5 " Delight yourself in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass."

KIDS IN ANISIMOVO

"I beseech you, therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your BODIES a living sacrifice... which is your reasonable service."

It was so much fun to present my fat body a living sacrifice!!!

They are still stomping all over my body... and it feeels goooood!

RUSSIA, THANKS 4 YOUR GIFTS!

Dearest Friends and Supporters!

Olga and I just got a Thank You letter from Pastor Moses from Uganda! It is a beautiful letter where he thanks Russian believers for the love-gift we were able to send to Uganda through Pastor Dan.



In turn, I would like to thank all our supporters for staying focused and committed to ICM Russia vision! You guys rock! Olga and I love you all a LOT!

Dear Russian Family,

Please receive a few pictures of the aid we gave to children using the love we received from you. I want to say thank you to the church in Russia for standing with us, your love has reached the heart of Africa. Though we received that gift in October 2010, we decided to wait till when kids are starting school and purchase clothes for them.



The school year started last week and Yesterday Feb 13th we hosted 370 kids at Ziri Commuinty Church where they received at least a piece of garment each. I told them before handing out the clothes that the purchase was made possible by the love of the Russian people, you could see that they even didn't know what Russia is! Anyway, on behalf of the church here I want to thank you for extending your helping hand. May the Lord bless you richly.

Pastor Moses Ouni

TERNOPOL, UKRAINE

Dear ICM Russia Partners and Friends,

Greetings to you in the Name of the Lord! I am writing to let you know that Olga and I are sending the team to hold training seminars in Ukraine! They are off to Ternopol this coming Sunday afternoon, Feb. 20th. Please keep us and ICM Russia Crew ( Eugene and Igor) in your prayers. We'll be doing IBS seminars (Leve1 and Level2) from Feb. 21-28.

Please pray for a fruitful time of teaching and that the participants will get catch the concept. Pray for safety and good health. Thanks so very much!

In His joy,
Igor and Olga Prokopyev

CELEBRATING KIDS' BIRTHDAYS

There are some people who take their birthdays as yet another day and there are orphans who don't have much in their lives, therefore we at ICM Russia do all we can to encourage them to get extremely excited and look forward to celebrate their birthdays with us in a very special way! Hope you will enjoy some pictures from Orphanage #1 we visited before we came to the States this year!



We try to be creative as we go visit our kids on their birthdays! We usually start with the Word to let them that birthday is a special day that the Lord has made so that we might celebrate and be glad in it! We encourage the kids to enjoy each and every activity during the day because it is their day! We encourage them pray, sing, dance, have a special party! Each year they invite us as their family to celebrate with them. Long time ago the Lord gave us the vision to come and throw birthday parties for orphans and street children where friends come with gifts and there are loads of games played! Gifts still remain the important aspect of birthdays.



Dear partners and friends, thank you so very much for your love gifts you sent us so that we might be able to channel the blessings to less fortunate people in Cherepovets! Please keep on praying and supporting ICM Russia in 2011. We need your prayers and support! May the Lord richly bless you! God's grace is sufficient for you and us to continue in the ministry together!

TRIPS TO NEVADA & CALIFORNIA

ICM pastor Victor Eliezaroff teamed up with Olga and I to travel and do some ministry in Northern California and Nevada recently. It was Vic's first time in the States. When he arrived to the hermitage in Pollock Pines, after we picked him up at the airport he said to us, "The minute I arrived in New York! I felt so blessed by the Lord! America is a great country and a good soil to invest into!"

Olga and I agreed by saying to him, "It is time for us, as Russian missionaries to say Thank you, America for facilitating the revival God brought about in Russia in early 90's. And all we need to do to thank our brothers and sisters in the States is to pray for America and send missionaries to the States so that they might come alongside the American believers and do ministry work together. You have to know this: a lot of American missionaries, a great number of them are gone to India, Africa, Beliz, Israel, South America, the Philippines etc, etc. They are not there in the States anymore to help people get right with Jesus. They are busy preaching the Gospel in other countries, praise the Lord!



After a very short but fruitful ministry visit, Vic and Olga and I are reflecting on what God had done in us and through us while in the States. Although we kept Victor on his toes with ministry and trips, he never seemed to tire of serving, he was getting tired of trips we took in the country but he never seemed to tire of serving people. For that, we praise God! This trip to the States just made him hungry for more time here! Now he feels called by the Lord to send youth from his church to the States on short-term missions trips so that they might give of themselves and get this Jesus culture "bug" and bring this phenomena to Russia. Victor mentioned once that the "bug" will help the immune system of the Russian church to become strong and healthy.



At the moment Victor and the church are praying for further guidance and confirmation from the Lord on when and where at this point. The Lord has brought about our friendship in a very miraculous way, and we are excited to see what plans Jesus might have in us working together on this project. Please be praying for this man of God and his church in Severodvinsk, Russia.



Thank you, our dearest friends and partners for all your prayerful and financial support! We truly appreciate all you are doing for Olga and I and for ICM Russia! We love you dearly!

AMERICA: MISSION FIELD?

"Therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into His harvest..."

Olga and I strongly believe that the United States is the most overlooked mission field. We pray that God brings revival back to this land through a bold mission work and declaring of the Word of God! The Lord doesn't hate the sinner. He wants him/her into the Kingdom! Our message in America is not one of condemnation but a means of escape to a righteous life that can only be found through following Jesus Christ.

P.M. WITH JESUS...

PRAISE THE LORD IN HIS SANCTUARY!


LET EVERYTHING THAT HAS BREATH PRAISE THE LORD!


PRAISE HIM ALL YOU, PEOPLE OF THE LORD! FOR HE IS WORTHY!


PRAISE HIM WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AND FLUTES!


RAISE YOUR VOICE AND PRAISE THE LORD!


PRAISE HIM ACCORDING TO HIS EXCELLENT GREATNESS!


PRAISE THE LORD WITH THE SOUND OF THE PIANO!


PRAISE HIM FOR HIS MIGHTY ACTS!


WORSHIP THE LORD! HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!


PRAISE HIM WITH YOUR FRIENDSHIPS!




PRAISE HIM WITH LOUD CYMBALS, WITH CLASHING CYMBALS!