SERVING JESUS AT U-TURN FOR CHRIST REHAB CENTER

CHRIS LEADING US IN PRAISE AND WORSHIP

SPIRIT OF WORSHIP FELL ON US...

FREEDOM IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF WORSHIP...

IGOR DECLARING THE WORD OF THE LORD

YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH...

... AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE...

GOD IS MIGHTY TO SAVE YOU FROM ADDICTION

IGOR PRAYING FOR THE BOYS...

GRACE OF GOD LED US TO REPENTANCE...

CHANGE ME, O LORD!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU!

As Thanksgiving approaches for all our friends and partners, Olga and I are grateful for the great things God is doing in Russia in the area of ministerial training! And we are honored to play a role in God's plan for this part of the world!

However, it is only with the prayers and gifts from friends like you that we are able to train the current and next generation of pastors and church leaders in Russia and the former Soviet Union.

In His joy,

Igor and Olga Prokopyev

PISMO BEACH TRIP IN PICTURES

BEAUTIFUL HOUSE OF THE LORD

PASTOR PAUL INTRODUCING PASTOR IGOR

PAUL, JR LEADING US IN WORSHIP

STRONG PRESENCE OF GOD IN THE ROOM

SPEAKING THE BLESSING INTO PEOPLES LIVES...

YES LORD WE RECEIVE THE BLESSING...

DECLARING THE WORD OF THE LORD...

ENJOYING GOD'S WORD...

ENJOYING GOD'S PRESENCE...

PROCLAIMING GOD'S TRUTH....

FEEDING ON THE BREAD OF LIFE...

PRAYING BLESSINGS ONTO PEOPLES' LIVES IS FUN!

JUST BEING PRAYED FOR...

JUST FINISHED PRAYING OVER OUR PRECIOUS BROTHER...

SERVING JESUS AND HIS PEOPLE IN PISMO BEACH, CA

Greetings in the Name of the Lord!

Olga and I just returned to Pollock Pines from our missions trip to Pismo Beach, Central Coast! It went real well, praise God! Olga and I were blessed to see some 90 believers gathering for praise and worship and teaching of the Word! I had a terrific time teaching inductively out of Gospel of Luke! Olga and I spent some time in prayer with people who came up to us at the end of the service. We found the congregation to be a very alive church. Pastor Paul asked us to come back in January. Olga and I would come to this church in a heart beat because the fellowship with the saints in that church was very fruitful! One night Pastor Paul invited his friends to come over for dinner and fellowship and we had a ball with the group! We prayed, ate and God led us into a discussion that really blessed our hearts! After church some people came over to the house we stayed at, we had a wonderful time of fellowship and getting to know each other. We met a lot of cool people there! It was a fruitful time with this church! What struck me the most is that they have the same New Testament church concept that we have. Yes, we did have much in common! Unity of God always excites me! Thanks for praying for Olga and I!  God has again answered your prayers.  He is so good to us and always has been!

SERVING RUSSIAN ORPHANS IN SUDA AND KRIVETS

breath-taking message...

Olga doing a craft with the kids...

Abner doing a Bible study...

Like I informed you in our earlier comminications, on Saturday the November 12th our ministry team visited the orphanages in Suda and Krievets. "It was a tremendous time with the kids!", - Nelly said to us as we were fellowshipping with her over Skype the other day! Olga and I are so blessed to see how Olga, the manager of Light of Hope Ministries, Nelly, Abner, Nate and others got the vision, caught the fire and run today with the vision God has given Olga and I in 1995. You might remember our story when the Lord spoke to us to go out and reach the unchurched! We prayed and fasted for God's leading and direction and He spoke to us from the book of James and sent us to the orphans to celebrate their birthdays! In the past we would come on special days and holidays but today the team makes monthly trips to these orphanages and we see the fruit from doing so! Coming regularly has caused many of the kids to become more responsive and warm towards us. They long for the affection that we give them and we do believe that what we are saying is becoming interesting to several of them. There are a few kids that don’t participate, but we continue to love them and to pray that the Lord would open their hearts to the Gospel! Please keep on praying about  and supporting our orphanage ministry!

kids working hard doing the craft...

The topic this time was Jonah and obedience to the Lord. The kids watched a cartoon of Jonah and the big fish, and then Abner did a Bible study and a short discussion of the story from the Bible encouraging the kids to be obedient to the Lord and His word. The team had prepared a craft for the kids. We cut out and colored fish and wrote 1 John 5:3 “For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,” on the back. We pray that this verse and the story of Jonah would plant seeds in their hearts and that they would land on good soil. We believe that these seeds will one day produce the fruit of repentance and new life.

The ministry team plans to continue to go to the orphanages every month. The next trip will be for the New Year and Christmas celebration. Please pray that the Lord would now be preparing their hearts to hear the Gospel message and that the team would be filled with the Spirit as they tell them of the love of Jesus. We thank you even today for praying and sending support our way so that we could buy Christmas gifts for the kids. Olga and I know that Light of Hope Church of Cherepovets and Light of Hope Fellowship of Anisimovo will be participating in Christmas evangelistic event spiritually and financially! We need your help too as we are getting ready for all these events! Thank you all for taking interest in all we do in our ministry! Olga and I and all the guys appreciate your involvment with ICM and Light of Hope Ministries!

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SERVING JESUS AND HIS PEOPLE IN IZHEVSK, RUSSIA

Alex and Nate came back to Cherepovets all excited and blessed by the time they spent with the church in Izhevsk, Russia teaching an IBS seminar from Oct. 29th to Nov. 4th. The seminar was held at a seminary at the Works of Faith Church. On Sunday Alex preached about Cain and Abel at their three services, and Nate introduced himself at each of the services. It went really well.

The guys had five morning and evening sessions from Monday through Friday. The beginning of the seminar is always a mixture of confusion and excitement. The first assignment leads them through Mark 2, the healing of the paralytic and gets them digging into the word finding things they have never seen before. This gets the participants excited. However, it usually takes a while for them to get the hang of outlining and charting on their own. Most of them are not used to digging for themselves or thinking about the scriptures on their own. By the time they got done with the second assignment they were getting it. By the end of the seminar the students were tired, but they caught the idea and many expressed their intentions to continue using this method to study the scriptures at home.

Alex and Nate were most encouraged by a message Alex received on Vkontakte (the Russian Facebook) the week after the seminar. A woman wrote to thank Alex because before the seminar her husband did not take an active role as spiritual leader of their family and didn’t read the Bible claiming it was uninteresting and not understandable. However, after our seminar he was encouraged to study the word and has been gathering his family to study the Bible. This is a great example of how giving people this study method can change the lives of Christians, setting on fire those that were previous in a lukewarm stupor... (click on READ MORE)

INDUCTIVE BIBLE STUDY TRAINING IN IZHEVSK, RUSSIA

Dear Friends and Family!

Olga and I are so very much excited to let you know that the Izhevsk IBS training went just fabulous! Thank you for your prayerful and financial support you sent to us this month!!!! ICM of Russia Crew just got back home from the missions trip to Izhevsk safe and sound! We praise the Lord for all Jesus has done in the guys' lives and through them during that trip. Nate and Alex were sent to the Izhevsk Works of Faith (Church of God) to bless the Body of Christ with this life-changing course! First time Pastor Alexander invited us to come to his church a couple years ago and just loved the course! This year he contacted us and invited ICM of Russia ministry team again. 

Nate emailed me saying that they are working hard on our newsletter for this web page. The guys have a lot on their plates! The Crew will go to the orphanage on Saturday to administer God's Word to the orphans! Abner and Nelly, Nate and everybody are so very excited that to this day the doors are opened for us to come in to the orphanages that are run by the state and do Christian services there! Please pray for ICM of Russia and Light of Hope Ministries as the Lord leads!