{"id":3473,"date":"2022-01-31T13:30:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2022-01-31T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T18:30:54","slug":"stas-karpenko-ufa-bible-ministries-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/?p=3473","title":{"rendered":"Stas Karpenko\/Ufa Bible Ministries Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy Spirit opens and enlightens the Scriptures to us. When I was reading the Bible very first time in my life after my salvation, I found some places in the God\u2019s Word to be more enlighten than the rest. I found two verses that especially touched my heart. It was from Phil. 3:13-14 \u201cBrethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. I remember that day well, that when I reached Philippians, I prayed and told God that I would like to serve Him like this. At that time, I wasn\u2019t clearly understanding what world missions are or who are missionaries but I had it playing again and again in my heart. It was just a heart full of gratitude to the Lord for what He had done to find me in this world. And, desire in return to commit my life to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>ESL, Omicron and Men\u2019s Club<br \/>The omicron has finally reached our areas. That means that we won\u2019t be able to start our classess as planned. As of now, a two week delay is projected. In reality it may resume later. Please pray for preseverance of seed of the gospel in the hearts of our students.<br \/>Well, we may not do public classes but we can do unpublic! We planned to hold two \u201cextra\u201d meetings of our Men\u2019s club. Those of you who follow our letters probably learned that it has become \u201ceveryone\u2019s club\u201d. \u201cMen\u2019s club\u201d is now just a name and everyone is invited. Pray for creativity, boldness and opportunities to share the gospel, for hearts that are softened and willing to accept Christ as their personal Saviour.<\/p>\n<p>Final Thoughts<br \/>We have a pressing need to pay for our webhosting services this month. It\u2019s a $280 pay and we humbly bring it to the Lord who provides.<br \/>We can\u2019t express how thankful we are for your help interceding for us, and for your love, support, and encouragement to our ministry and family. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>You can make tax deductible contribution to Ufa Bible Ministries which is recognized by the IRS as a 501c3 non-profit entity. Make checks payable to:<br \/>Ufa Bible Ministries<br \/>PO BOX 1761, Columbia, SC 29202<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy Spirit opens and enlightens the Scriptures to us. When I was reading the Bible very first time in my life after my salvation, I found some places in the God\u2019s Word to be more enlighten than the rest. I found two verses that especially touched my heart. It was from Phil. 3:13-14 \u201cBrethren, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/?p=3473\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FGTq-U1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3474,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions\/3474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmcimissions.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}