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Whilst none of us can manage to be involved in every part of church life, its still nice to know whats is going on. We hope that this area of the site will help to keep us all up to speed so that we can pray effectively for the ministries and be encouraged by the testimony of others.

News from Crimea








Church Name: Jesus is Lord

Church Leaders: Vladimir Bilyk

Church target community: Orphanages, homeless people and elderly people in Simferopol











What has been done in the last 2 months to fulfil the vision of the church?

  • Personal evangelism in the families of church members
  • material and physical assistance to the elderly and lonely church members and unbelievers
  • feeding the homeless every Sunday
  • Bible study group
  • The development of relationships with the 'My Family' association
  • Participation in a evangelistic project - during the event about 1500 young people had a chance to hear the gospel

Areas of growth within the church:
  • One cell group added
  • An increasing amount of potential members of the church

Total number in the church community
  • 19; 13 Adults, 4 youth, 2 children

What are the plans/ hopes for the next 2 months?
  • Cells to multiply
  • Start a second Bible study group
  • bring people to the Lord through developing relationships with the 'My Family' association
  • that personal evangelism will bear fruits

How can Kings best support, assist and pray for this church?

Pray for:
  • the church to become a real family
  • The ministry of the church to have the power of the Holy Spirit behind it so that the gospel can be preached with signs and wonders
  • that leaders and ministers can be raised up in the church
Support/ assist:
  • The short term mission team coming to visit in May can help the church build relationships with the 'My Family' Association

What are you currently doing to meet the needs of the local community?
  • Ministry to the homeless: the church is feeding and preaching the gospel to the homeless
  • Visiting the sick people at tuberculosis dispensary
  • Ministry to the orphans through collaboration with the 'My Family' Association

What are you praying for and hoping for, for the local community in the next 2 months?

'We trust God that as a result of what we are doing (in accordance with his will) the amount of saved people will grow and the Lord will make them part of the church'.


How can Kings best support, assist and pray for the local community?
  • pray for preventing a spilt in the Ukraine, the eradication of the corruption, for the planting of the new churches and development of existing churches
  • pray for those in power of the Ukraine so that their attitudes towards people may change in accordance with God's intention

Personal questions to Vladimir Bilk:

What has God been teaching and speaking to you about in the last 2 months?  
  • God said that the church is to invite unsaved people to the meetings and go into this world and be a light to those who perish, so that they may see our Lord, through us
  • God spoke to me about my responsibility for the people I knew before my repentance: I am to go to them and begin to have contact with them

How has the things God is doing in your life, affecting you as a leader?
  • I've started to develop relationships with my unsaved friends and to urge the church to do the same. We decided to have weekly visits to our unsaved friends, building and developing communication with them, praying for their needs, studying the Word of God and form new cells in due course

How can Kings best support, assist and pray for you personally?
  • Pray for my family, my wife Irina, my children; Denis - 3years old and Nastia - 2 years old, who we adopted in January 2010.
  • Pray that God would give me wisdom in pastoral ministry to minister the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit and for the development of an increasingly close relationship with God.






Posted - 19th April 2010