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| "Tie your shoes and pray for the Hughes" |
Dear Friends,
We’ve just finished two weeks
of Vacation Bible School. As in years
past, the first week was with kids in David’s neighborhood and the second in
Soroca at our rental. We were pleased to
have a variety of kids join us- returnees and newbies, 5 year olds to 13 year
olds, churched and unchurched, boys and girls.
The Lord gave us good weather both weeks and very minor behavior
problems. Our lessons focused on Moses’
life up to the crossing of the Red Sea.
Covering the Passover lamb for the Thursday lesson provided a natural
segway into sharing the Gospel. During
our second week, one girl asked to talk more with Sarah about salvation. The Sunday following the week in Soroca, we invited
parents and grandparents to a special review/awards program – something new for
us. The time went well and I’m sure
we’ll consider doing it again in the future.
As you know, VBS takes a decent amount of preparation and lots of energy
to keep up with the kids, but we enjoyed the weeks so much. Our prayer is that the lessons they heard,
songs they sang, verses they memorized and Bibles they took home with them
would all be used to draw these little ones to our Savior.
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| Zastinca |
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| Soroca |
We take a break from teaching
English classes in the summer. Back in
April we had a special lesson in which we focused on the topic of Easter. We had done something similar in the past
with Christmas, but this was our first time with Easter. Viola was especially pleased how it went with
her ladies. In the spring we did
something new for our Thursday night service.
Instead of simply teaching a lesson, I prepared worksheets for different
ages and together we studied the book of Esther. We played sacred instrumental music and each
person read and studied on his own.
We’ve finished that now, but we may use that format for another study in
the future.
Our house project is actually
looking like a house! Since we last
wrote we sorted bundles of metal then began assembling. We finished that in the middle of June and in
the past month a crew has put all of those different wall panels, floor joists,
spacers and roof trusses together into a unified structure. We are currently digging trenches for water
and sewer lines and the next steps will be the roof and getting plywood on the
walls.
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| Assembly of first panel |
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| Our house as it currently stands |
We have two specific people
we’d like you to be praying for. “O” is
an older lady who comes faithfully to our Thursday evening study. She seems to have a desire for spiritual
things, but we are not sure if she yet understands salvation. “P” just turned 90 last week. He attends our service in the village and
very much wants to be baptized and join our group there. We have some questions regarding his
understanding of the Gospel and need God’s wisdom to know how to proceed with
him. We would also appreciate your
prayers for a yearly planning meeting we have with our coworkers in a few
weeks. We want to be led by the Lord as
we make adjustments to current ministries and plans for the upcoming twelve months. Thank you for your involvement in our
ministry!
In His service,
Jacob and Viola Hughes
For Prayer:
1. Two older people in our
ministry, P and O.
2. Yearly planning meeting with
our coworkers in August
3. Decisions regarding our
house and further progress to be made
For Praise:
1. Two great weeks of VBS
2. Encouraging progress within
the ministries our team is involved in
3. Our house structure is now
standing
