Dear ministry partners, friends and family,
This post was written by Nelly who works at our Light of Hope Shelter in Cherepovets. She is a very kind person, loves the Lord dearly, and constantly preaches the Gospel to the lost! She sets our hearts on fire as she shares about the work in Cherepovets! As you may remember, at the Shelter we are committed to building God's Kingdom through three main values we cultivate in our ministry: (1) win the lost, (2) give Jesus to the street kids and their parents, (3) care for the poor and needy. Happy readings and thank you for your monthly support, both spiritually and financially you are sending to us!
In Him,
Igor and Olga Prokopyev, ICM of Russia Directors
MINISTRY TO THE STREET CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS
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| NELLY DOING A LESSON... |
Dear and beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord, shalom to you! So sorry we are scattered all around the world and we have no chance to see you all in person, but from the bottom of our hearts, we would like to express our appriciation for your massive support you have been sending to Light of Hope Shelter through ICM of Russia, Igor and Olga Prokopyev.
I thank the Lord for such a great loving family! You bless our hearts in abundance! For that, we thank you! With great joy, I would like to share my heart and what has been happening here in Cherepovets at Light of Hope Shelter for the last couple of months!
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| NELLY PLAYING OUTSIDE... |
Presently, Tanya, Olga, Abner, and myself are ministering to muslim families that came to Cherepovets recently hoping they can find jobs and provide for their children. In this economy it is very very hard to find a job and on top of that, families from Uzbekistan, Takzhikistan can hardly speak Russian. Their children sometimes can speak better Russian than the parents do.
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| TANYA DOING CRAFTS... |
Therefore, the kids ended up in the streets begging and doing plastic bottle and can recycling. We found kids hungry and thirsty and begging for money in the city streets. We invite the children to the Shelter where we blessed them with bath, food, and clothes. They fell in love with us and the facility and started coming to the apartment every day. We served them with great joy developing close friendships.
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| THE GIRLS LOVE TANYA A LOT |
And as a result of that, God keeps us busy serving the kids and their parents, some of them came over to check on us. We were obidient and allowed Jesus to shine His light through us and win some muslim hearts. For that, we praise the Lord!
All our meetings, classes, services are held in the apartment that Pastor Lewis and JVC of Northern Ireland bought for us for that cause. Thank you guys! You have a big heart for missions! God loves that!!!!! Presently more than 40 kids get help in the Shelter!
Kids come and we hold Bible studies, classes, lessons for them. Some parents participate in our programs today. We are so blessed to watch God working in their hearts. It is amazing to see how some kids just started to attend gatherings and from the start they had a desire to actively participate in Bible studies, classes and lessons. We have so much fun with the children who are hungry to learn about Jesus and matters of life.
During this last year the Lord blessed us with a new crew member, her name is Tanya, she is this one faithful sister from our Light of Hope Church in Cherepovets. A couple of years ago Abner baptized her in water and 6 month later Tanya told us about her strong desire to be involved in our work. We decided to wait on the Lord and let Tanya grow in Christ and develop personal friendship with the Lord.
Today Igor and Olga and Olga Petrushova and all of us are very happy to see Tanya being involved with the Shelter! Igor and Olga were able to raise some money for Tanya; monthly she gets a little bit to support her family. For all of us, it is a huge miracle! Tanya had been trying to find a job for a while and was hurting financially for months. After she got involed with us, God provided for her with some funds to live on, she also takes side jobs on a weekly basis. We thank Jesus with no ceasing for taking good care of us!!!
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| READY FOR A BIBLE STUDY? |
Our brother Abner and his wife Ira have been effectively laboring for the Kingdom leading Light of Hope Church of Cherepovets and doing Bible studies with street children at the Shelter.
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| WE ARE READY FOR A BIBLE STUDY!!!! |
Abner and Ira have been involved with ICM training seminars and Light of Hope Shelter work from the very begining! The Lord recently blessed them with a bigger apartment, they just moved in a few weeks ago.
We are so blessed to see the hand of God upon each and everyone of us in the ministry! Thank you again for your prayerful and financial support!
Love,
Nelly Borisova
The Spirit of God has been ministering to many seminar participants in a very personal way! For that we praise the Lord! At the end of the sessions some youth came up to me praising Jesus for Intensive Care Ministries; some guys shared that this was their first time they studied the Bible this way and were able see the beauty and power of the Word! This one girl said she realized how rich the Bible is and that she was fed on a good food! Praise the Lord!!!! 
Pastors of the congregation shared with me that our seminar is like a remodeling seminar. It helps people of God to understand how they can effectively start and finish their life remodel. They also mentioned that IBS workshop helps the youth to save months and possibly years of their modern Christian books research process. Olga and I praise the Lord for ICM and the vision to go to the ends of the Earth to equip and train believers, leaders, and pastors enriching them with the Word of God so that they might stand firm and overcome the attacks of the enemy and Muslims who try hard to distort the message of Christ. Jesus said: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father but through Me." Jesus Christ is the Lord!
Mickey Elise, the pastor of the youth congregation inspired me to stay here a bit longer and teach a couple more Mondays trying to cover the topic on how to formulate the inductive questions so that home Bible study leaders can learn how to effectively lead their home groups. Olga and I didn't expect that but we will go ahead and cover Level 2 of the workshop as much as possible. Some of the youth felt sorry they missed some sessions because they needed to work extra hours. Nowadays, along with many challenges the youth is facing here in the States, they have to work harder to be able to pay the rent and monthly bills. The prices are going up in America. People here are spending much of their monthly income to pay the housing and bills. 
