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July 1, 2001 Dear Prayer Partners, Moldova is a European country, a republic of the former
USSR. The annual per capita income in this country the present year is
185 US Dollars. It means that more than 45% of people here receive less than 15
US Dollars per month (the data is taken from The Statistics Department
of Moldova). Practically all of the local Deaf families refer to this
part of the population. They are unemployed and are aimed at survival.
Those rare Deaf who have jobs, which are mostly illegal, constantly
change them.
Their
income
is only spent on food of low quality, and their health problems are
accumulating. Drug-addiction, alcoholism and work for the local
Mafia are typical; depression and despair prevail. In such a situation we have received a special rich blessing
- Deaf youth evangelization camp! It
will be the first Deaf evangelization summer camp in our country. The
leaders will be Deaf and Hearing Christians from Ukraine and Moldova. It
will take place from July 9 to July 18, 2001. The
Moldovan Deaf Christians who will be working at this camp and I ask
visitors of this web page to praise God for this special blessing and to
pray that: ü
God
will open the hearts of the youth at the camp to accept Christ as their
Savior; ü
He
will encourage our Deaf leaders in using their spiritual gifts; ü
there
will be full understanding, God’s peace, wisdom and Jesus’ love
among all the involved camp leaders having different approaches to the
Deaf, because it is God’s will for them to cooperate in this camp; There are Deaf Christians in
Moldova who preach, teach the Bible, prepare dramas and evangelize
without any financial support. The country is poor, and local Hearing
churches are not able to support them financially. We are looking for
people or organizations that are interested in financing at least some
of them. They are not starving, as the Lord is always with them, they
are really happy in their service and are deeply grateful to God for
everything, but they are able to do much more for other Moldovan Deaf if
they are financed. Last, but not least: we are facing a serious threat
that the country will return to atheistic values. Please, pray for preserving the possibility to share the Word
of God in spite of the Communist Party’s power. Thank you very much for your
prayers! May God bless you! Victoria
Doroshenko
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| Please stop all you are doing right now, and pray for the needs in this country. Pray for God to provide everything they need and pray for His guidance, wisdom and protection over these missionaries. Pray that the people here will understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, and have an opportunity to say "Yes" to Him, and be saved. |
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