Caleb and Christina Suko, serving Jesus in Ukraine. View this email in your browser

ncerned about a breed of Christianity that knows much about how to

help you improve your marriage, or succeed at work, or propel you to

greater fulfillment in life but knows little or nothing of damning effects

of our sin nature, the blackness of our fallen hearts, or our utter

helplessness and inability to do anything truly good without Jesus!

This past Sunday I continued my "Gospel Basics" sermon series with

the sermon "What Is New Life"  I hope you can take some time to listen

or watch the sermon. 

New life and new hope to children and mothers!

This past week our trainers conducted evangelism training at the pro-

life women's center "Choose Life" in Odessa, Ukraine. This center

helps expecting mom's choose life by not aborting their babies. The

center is staffed by members of local churches who are able to help

the mothers by educating them and by sharing with them the Good

News of Jesus Christ.

The staff uses The Story of Hope as a way to share the Gospel with

their clients, most of whom have never heard the Gospel before.

Below is note we received about one of women who started attending

classes at the center. 

"Masha (name changed to protect privacy) came to our pregnancy

care center in Odessa, Ukraine when she was pregnant with her 4th

child and considering abortion. She did not feel like she and her

husband could financially handle adding another child to their family.

Praise the Lord after visiting with one of our counselors she chose to

continue her pregnancy and now has a beautiful little girl. In order to

receive needed clothing, diapers, and food products, we offer our

clients a study program. The first course we offered her was a course

on parenting. By the time she completed that course, she and her

counselor had several discussions about God and her relationship

with him, and she was interested enough in spiritual things that she

agreed to begin studying the Story of Hope with her counselor. They

slowly worked their way through the stories. Prior to this, Masha had

very little exposure to the Bible and many of the stories were

completely new to her. When they came to the Bridge to Life at the

end, her counselor began asking her directly if she believed these

truths. At each point on the "bridge" she affirmed her belief. When they

reached the last page and read through the statement of faith there,

she said "that is exactly what I have been feeling I just didn't know

how to put it all into words". At the prompting of her counselor, she

then prayed a prayer of repentance and acceptance of Christ's death

on her behalf. She has now started the Way to Joy study. At the first

lesson, which reviews the Story of Hope, her counselor asked her how

she knew that her sins were forgiven and that she had been accepted

into God's family. She responded that it was because of her

acceptance of Christ's sacrifice for her. We had the joy of seeing her

choose life for her precious little girl, and then to make the choice to

accept God's gift of eternal life for herself! Praise the Lord!"

Reformation Remembrance

This weekend I will be taking part in a Reformation conference at

Taylor Creek Church in Maple Valley, WA. If you're near we invite you

to join us, you can find the information here.  

If you can't join us please pray for me as I prepare to speak on

Saturday! I'll try to post the video/audio later.

Prayer1. Praise God for the successful training in Odessa and pray for the

continued work in the Gospel of the Women's Center there.

2. Pray for the Reformation conference coming up.

3. Our daughter Noelle is being baptized on Oct 15th! Please pray that

God would give her a true and strong faith in Jesus!

4. Pray for Church leaders conference coming up on Oct 21st in

Ukraine on "Purity" with James Cecy. 

5. Pray for our daughter Naomi and her fiance Jorge as they prepare to

marry on Oct 21st.

6. Continue to pray for peace in Eastern Ukraine.

Thank you so much for your prayers, we appreciate them and need

them!

Serving Jesus together!

Caleb and Christina

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