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Name: Jonathan
Country: Ukraine
Metro: Kiev
Birthday: 2/12/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: My Lord and saviour-Jesus Christ; Steffie-my beautiful WIFE; Love anything to do with music: writing music, playing music, listening to music; photography...I'm sure there's more,
Expertise: Oy! Umm..I'm a musician, I guess. Play piano, drums, kazoo
Occupation: Student and husband
Message: message me
Member Since:
10/27/2005
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| Go, go, go, go, goHey all! Just got back from the national conference. What an awesome, edifying and challenging time. The theme of the conference was The Church - it's structure, uniqueness, purpose, future. God has really challenged me through everything that was shared to be more simple as far as my purpose and goals go. John Chubik was sharing how the church is the body and Christ is the LIFE. And we can have all of the body parts, but without the life we're....well, dead. We so often view Christ as only our redeemer, our friend - which he is. But he's more! He's our LIFE!!! Do we live that way. The second thing that really impacted me was the great commission - the purpose of the church, thus the title of this weblog. Phil Metzger was sharing of how we just need to go. Go to the mission field, go to the streets of your city, go to school, go home.... There are plenty of places to go and spread the life of Christ!! Man, how simple. Yet it's one of the elements the church and it's members, myself included, lack most!!!
Live a life of abandon to Christ. There isn't anything that comes close to it's importance or beauty.
Peace
Jon
"The Funeral Procession" Going to bury the old bodies of new believers:)
Krissy was baptized at the conference
Me with my pastor, Alyosha Satenko, at the baptisms
Worship service, Saturday night
Alyosha Satenko, Brian Brodersen, Georgie and me
Praying before worship, Sunday morning
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| Hold me JesusWell, sometimes my life just don't make sense at all
When the mountains look so big
And my faith just seems so small
So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace
And I wake up in the night and feel the dark
It's so hot inside my soul
I swear there must be blisters on my heart
So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace
Surrender don't come natural to me
I'd rather fight You for something I don't really want
Than to take what You give that I need
And I've beat my head against so many walls
Now I'm falling down, I'm falling on my knees
And this Salvation Army band is playing this hymn
And Your grace rings out so deep
It makes my resistance seem so thin
I'm singing hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace
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I'm never going to promise that I will be a better blogger again... But here I am! Posting after only a few months:) I do hope to keep this up though.
There are tons of things starting to happen, so I think I'll have more to write about. First of all, Steffie is going to be taking russian courses through a mission called SEND. She went today and really liked the way they do things. It's been an answer to prayer, since trying to do it on her own has been tough, and I'm busy a lot of the time so I can't really be her teacher.
I have a concert coming up this weekend at the philharmonic! Yikes, going to be my first time performing there. The music school I used to go to is having it's anniversary concert and they asked me to be a part of it. Definitely a great experience, just really nervous!!!
Well, haven't been able to take very many pictures lately because the screen on our camera broke:( Hopefully we'll get that working soon and we will be able to post some pics....that slideshow is getting pretty old
Peace
Jonny
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| Maybe I should post?Does anyone actually read this anymore? Well, in any case, I guess I'll start throwing random thoughts, news, photos etc. out here again:) Sorry it's been so long...
Been a great couple of weeks. Steffie's parents have been here, visiting. Fun to show them the city and to spend time talking, definitely an encouragement.
Today is actually sixth anniversary...or rather monthaversary. It's gone so fast! My goodness...Well, so far so good...it's neat to learn all of these new things about each other and to grow in humility and grace with one another.
Well, I can't think of much to say at the moment. I'll write more later (famous last words)
Jonny
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| Hey all!
Little update...
Steffie and I were in Ternopil this last week for the first service of the new Calvary there. It was amazing! around 35 people came. Georgie invited me to do worship down there and there were a couple other people from our church that wanted to come and support the team as well. Steffie got to help with the nursery...well, 2 kids:) It was a really awesome time.
Going to ternopil will be one of things I will be focusing on this year. I want to be doing the same there as here...helping to teach people to play in worship...Lots of stuff going on at the Kyiv church right now. Lots of new people want to play in worship and we are really praying about how they can serve.
Well, that's about it for now, my wife put pics of our trip up (she took all the pics) xanga.com/stephitchka
Peace to all
Jonny
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