Sparks Ministry

A few years ago, I started to get a women’s ministry going at Salomensky Presbyterian Reformed Church (SPRC).  I distributed and collected questionnaires to see what they wanted and structured a few different types of meetings for the women in the church.  I also started to meet weekly with the sister of one of our members.  In meeting with her, I used a Bible study curriculum that had been very meaningful for my mom – The Person of Jesus.  This is basically a study in the book of John, but it comes at things from a slightly different perspective that makes it very interesting.

Anyway, my meetings with that girl fizzled out after about 4 or 5.  The women’s ministry activities had varying degrees of what I would consider “success”, but things didn’t really take off like I had hoped. The Person of Jesus study guide/notebook went onto my shelf.

At a Country Team meeting a year or so later, one of our missionaries in Odessa, Ukraine, mentioned that she was looking for something to use for a new Bible study that she was starting.  I recommended the Person of Jesus study and told her I had even translated the first few lessons into Russian.  Andrea took the first few chapters to try it out and ended up going through the study with a group of women over the next couple of years.

Fast forward to March 8 – Women’s Day – of this year.  One of my fellow Kyiv team missionaries gave her testimony at a women’s event geared toward the women of our church as well as their mothers (many of the SPRC members are university students).  They had a great turnout and Tracy is going to begin a new Bible study with them.  Well, guess what curriculum she’s going to use?  That’s right, Andrea has just about finished with it and the leader’s guide got passed back to Kyiv.

I am so encouraged to see how God has used and is using this Bible study with various groups in Kyiv! Just another example of how God is working in a very broad way as well as specifically with each of us as individuals. He is concerned with more than just my plans.

Keep Tracy in your prayers as she begins this study.