Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
I'd like to share with you some of the latest news from the Bible Institute and a few local congregations about the events that took place during the last month.
First of all, the great news to share with you. Beginning of June next year, we are to resume the Masters' Program. It will be the first Master Students recruitment in the last few years. About 5 different people contacted me and they were looking forward to the resuming of the program. Personally, I'm extremely happy because the graduates of the program join our permanent Instructors' pool.
Secondly, one more congregation contacted me looking for a full-time preacher. There's a very high probability that one of our next year graduates will be ministering in the congregation. It demonstrates that our Bible Institute does a very valuable work training new ministers qualified to preach the Lord's truth. Looking at the map of Ukraine one will see that geographic location of the Churches of Christ with our graduates as Ministers is getting a wide spread.
And yet another great news of the last week. The Department of Education of Ukraine gave us an official permission to work with orphans at the Children's Home. It opens the door for our local congregation for active social work with the teenage orphans who reside there. Sometimes God closes one set of doors but opens a different one.
Last month the first year students had Genesis (taught by Viktor Semikoz) and Exodus - Deuteronomy (by Dmitry Galyuk). The second year students had 1 and 2 Thessalonians (Dennis Sopelnik) and The Book of Acts (Vladimir Paziy). In the end of the month our students will go back to their home congregations. The classes will resume on the second week of January.
We send our Season's greetings to all. May God bless you with wisdom in making important decisions!
Your brother in Christ and co-worker in the Lord's Vineyard,
Dennis Sopelnik.