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“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”) Matthew 1:23 

I congratulate you with Christmas! Jesus was born to save us from our sins, and He is being with us. Praise and all thanks to Him!

In this year we celebrated Christmas together with a Korean church called “Awakening”. I prepared message “God with us” based on Matthew 1:18-25. Power of sin and Satan seems to be too strong, so sometimes I was discourage to do anything. Looking back to passing away 2011 year I repented that I was only by name a Christian, but did not believed that God was with me, lived by my own human strength and had many failures. But I accepted that with God I can move mountains! I thank Jesus who came to save us from sin, to be with us, in Him there are no failures, praise to him! The sisters prepared a song, Sh. David was producer of a Christmas performance. God sent some new Bible student, in particular Zhenya, a friend of Mark, who came for the first time. After SWS we had delicious lunch and fellowship.

I thank you for your prayer. Please, pray for me with Sh. David to study Bible diligently (we are now studying Colossians), to have the word of God, to be faithful in prayer and evangelization. Please pray for Sh. Joan of Arc and Victoria to be patient and joyful in parenting, to be faithful in prayer, and for their music ministry. Please pray for brother Mark to overcome lustful desires and drink the water of Jesus and to be satisfied in Jesus, and for sister Dasha to accept Jesus as her true husband.

With love in Christ,
Sh. Jacob, Kharkov UBF