A small candle was burning dimly in the living room. Someone walked past and blew it out. It didn’t take much, just a light breath and the flame was extinguished. Then they walked away. What surprised me was the thin straight trail of smoke that lifted from the wick. Then it completely dissipated. I thought, […]
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Sometimes the fresh flowing water in our lives cannot be seen by others. It may seem to the outside world our water is stagnant. They can’t see the fresh flowing water unless they look a little further downstream.
GOD’S SPECIAL FAVOR AND BLESSINGS or Gra
As a kid my mother was constantly taking us to church – Sunday morning, Sunday night, and prayer meetings on Wednesday night. There were always lessons from the scriptures. And I wanted to know what they meant and how they applied to me. David of Old Testament fame was my hero. I loved the stories […]
UKRAINE 2024 March 15, 2024
MY PAST REVISITED The church that was planted and registered in St Petersburg, Russia has some very enterprising ways to conduct outreach. Caution must be exercised as such activity is very restricted. Recent pictures show some distributing literature. Periodically and with regularity they have musicians come to conduct concerts inviting the public to join them […]
UKRAINE 2024
SOMETHING IN COMMON! Last fall, after I returned from the Ukraine, my son told me he had some colleagues from Ukraine that he wanted me to meet. He said the family lives in California but will be in Texas in the middle of September. Initially I was excited about meeting them, but as time drew […]
COMPREHENSIVE REPORT ON UKRAINE 2023 – I
by KEVIN PLASTER November 8, 2023 PURPOSE MAIN — EVANGELISM SECONDARY — STRENGTHEN AND ENCOURAGE THOSE IN COUTRY DOING MINISTRY PREPARATIONS A. 10,000 TRACTS 10,000 tracts were prepared, tracts we used in Russia, translated from Russian into Ukrainian, in order to do evangelism in Ukraine. The name of the tract is “Are you an intelligent […]
UKRAINE 2023 – September 1, 2023
HEROES (these made my trip to Ukraine possible) BASIC FACTS (about my trip to Ukraine) ***DATE: June 7- August 11, 2023 ***RENTED A CAR – drove 5000 miles (8000 kilometers) in country. ***UKRANIAN TRACTS – 10,000 was not enough – We continued sowing seeds using other evangelistic material. (Frank Grabanski traveled with me most of the […]
UKRAINE 2023
(To download a pdf file click here) MONDAY, JULY 10, 2023 — DESTINATION KIEV KIEV What a great experience. “HAVE A GREAT DAY!” We spent our time in the central district passing out tracts. Every time someone took one of the tracts I would tell them to have a great day. Sometimes I reminded them […]
DESTINATION BEREHOVE, UKRAINE — JULY 17,
We left Kiev and head to our destination of Berehove. We had an early lunch with the Hansens in Zhitomer. They are about two hours from Kiev and directly on our route. So grateful for the work they are doing there. VODAFON On the way to Berehove, before we got to the town of Rivne […]
THE RENTED CAR
This was such a blessing to me while in Ukraine. However, there were a few drawbacks. On the second day I was stopped for going too fast. I really didn’t see the sign that the speed limit had dropped but that didn’t change things. The policeman expected me to have an International Driving Permit. I […]