Growing the Faith of the People
Congratulations to our Preschool Graduates and our Senior Graduates of 2022!! What an accomplishment for each of you! You are loved, adored, and watched over. So many people are praying for your future, whether it’s kindergarten, college, or your first job. Always remember this special verse from Jeremiah 29:11 — “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (NIV)
This week’s Wednesday Night Supper will be our last until school starts back!! Bring a blanket or chairs and come enjoy BBQ on the QUAD! As usual, we start at 6pm. See you there!
We welcome and celebrate our 2022 Confirmation Class. Since last September, these 18 individuals have devoted themselves in preparation for today. They performed acts of service, studied together, traveled on retreats, learned from mentors and from each other. Today, they publicly profess what they believe. At their baptism, their parents and the Church entered a covenant to live as witnesses of God’s grace, mercy, and faithfulness. Today we experience another degree of God’s saving work of faithfulness to bring that work to completion.
(Phil 1:6). In seen and unseen ways, the Holy Spirit continually works to form the nature of Christ in them…
Join us this week after Wednesday Night Supper for the Children’s Choir Spring Musical, “The Rock Slinger and His Greatest Hit.” How scary can Goliath really be? Come learn about all of David’s challenges!
As much as possible, Tammy and Matthew Reynolds have been keeping up with our friends in Ukraine. They have been giving updates on the situation with our Ministry Team and the children. Tammy received this “thank you” letter from one of our Orphanage Directors. It gives you a sense of how you have been directly helping during this crisis. We thank you all on their behalf and please continue to pray for those affected by this conflict and that a resolution will be reached very soon.
Dear St. Paul / Compass Ministry Team,
It is not just the strength and resolve of our brave Ukrainian soldiers that convinces me that our country is invincible, it is also because there are people like you in this world! We are blessed that you partner with us in loving and caring for our children here in Sofyivka … children that the rest of the world has forgotten!
We thank you for your continued love and support, in spite of the difficulties involved in that continued support and provision. We thank you that, in spite of the war, just as you have in the past, to this day you continue to see our needs, understand our needs, and then truly consider it not just your mission, but your calling to try to fulfill those needs!
Thank you for the generators you have provided for us. Thank you for the food, the water, the blankets and bedding, and the clothing. Thank you for the much needed hygiene supplies and thank you for the supply of diapers and baby food your team brought to help us care for the many new children our orphanage has recently taken in. But, more than anything, thank you that you do not forget us, thank you for your humanity, for your support, and, for really loving us as you love your own!! We are all part of one family and through all that you do for us and all that you mean to us, we truly feel that family love!
May God Bless you!
Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!
And now, the first of the photos:
These photos show generators we have been able to get this past week. When we can’t get our hands on the big ones, we can keep facilities going with multiple small generators. Praise God we have been blessed to find these, and blessed with the funds to purchase them.
