The Lord of the Harvest has His People Spreading the Gospel

Fifty years ago the vast expanse of the USSR was infamous and renowned for its walls that kept people in! The limitations of personal freedom were accompanied by an exclusion of the knowledge of God the antichrists claimed did not exist. Today that God can say that the Union of Soviets no longer exists. The walls are down, but men’s hearts do not seek God. Nonetheless, throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia — places once subservient to Moscow — the Lord of the harvest has His people spreading the gospel.  

These harvest workers in Ukraine are not blessed with an infrastructure which readily supplies them with vacation Bible school material, yet they organize weekly summer camps to reach the youth with the knowledge of Jesus Christ. The pandemic throughout Europe curtailed attendance, but from the Carpathian Mountains to the  Dneiper River,  Gospelink preachers donned masks and perseverance this year!  

Pavel  Petrovich  Metlenko, Gospelink’s National Director in Ukraine, contracted COVID-19 in November of 2020 and passed away with pneumonia complications. His departure was not anticipated; he was aging but still serving fervently. Nonetheless Pavel Petrovich leaves a testimony of a faithful God. He was a man concerned about God’s reputation and the purity of the bride of Christ. Despite his meager living allowances in his Soviet industrial city, he never filled out an application for personal support from Gospelink. Even though he was evangelizing a small village himself, he always knew of, and recommended, a preacher more needy than himself. Pavel Petrovich then directed Gospelink to find and assist national preachers in Ivano Frankovsk, Karkhov, and Dneper! The work he started continues!  

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These stories and updates are shared from the 2020 Gospelink Annual Report.

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