Greetings to all my brothers in Christ,

 

I am glad to update you on what God is doing in our lives. If you don't know yet, we are expecting our third child! This is a huge gift from God, but at the same time, a big responsibility. Please keep praying for our family as we go through many changes. We are planning to move to another house that will be closer to the areas where we do our ministry. It is not easy, but it is a wonderful thing because God always takes care of us. Also, Sara and Lidia have graduated from kindergarten and will start first grade this year. Finding a good school and registering them for the first time is a completely new experience for us.

 

As I said, God keeps guiding us in our personal lives as well as in our ministry. As you know, we joined a new team in Tbilisi. We are so happy with them and glad to know that this is what God prepared for us. This team is doing a great job, and by joining them, we feel we are truly doing God’s work. We are making many visits to the villages and trying to start new home churches. God is guiding us, and our team supports and encourages us every step of the way. Please keep our visits, the people we are trying to encourage, and the places where we want to start new home groups in your prayers.

 

Also, as you know, I have been teaching music to some of the youth—not only music itself, but also how to lead worship in the church. I am so glad to tell you that for a few weeks now, they have started leading worship in the church themselves, and we are no longer using YouTube music videos! All praise goes to the Holy Spirit, who gives us the talent and ability to worship in different tongues and with different instruments. Now, we are planning to start training new youth groups in worship while continuing to work with the youth we have already started training.

 

We are also launching a new evangelization program for three months. We want to do broad seed-sowing, so we are looking for a lot of partners since we want to reach many people. Of course, we went and spoke to the local leaders and received their blessings for this evangelization. We also decided to partner together, advertising the churches and going out as a team. We all understand that it has been a long time since churches in Georgia have done broad seed-sowing. This is a big undertaking, and we really need the leading of the Spirit in every step, as well as the knowledge and courage to talk to people and bring them to Christ.

 

Additionally, another interesting thing happened: when we ran advertisements offering a free Gospel to Azerbaijani people, many ordered them at first. In fact, we cannot find enough partners to deliver the Gospels, preach to them, disciple them, and help them grow in the faith. I delivered some orders myself, and those individuals started sharing with others as well. People have even gotten in touch with me without seeing the advertisement. We see the great need among this nation; people are truly interested and thirsty for Jesus, but they didn't know how to find the way. Unfortunately, they are still largely unreached because not many people are trying to reach them. Another interesting thing was that many Georgians liked and were interested in what we are doing. This gave us an idea: what if we do the same for Georgians? For this, we would need more partners and would need to double everything we do. We discussed this with the local pastors, and hopefully, God will show us the path.

 

I also took an Armenian group to Turkey for a mission trip, and we visited many churches. It is always deeply significant for Armenian youth to be guided to Turkey for reconciliation and to find their calling in the ministry. We praised and worshiped God in many different cities across Turkey; we received blessings, and we also blessed the local churches and regions. We prayed in the streets and in churches, and we made excellent connections for future partnerships.

 

Of course, we also attended different conferences where we took part in ministry through worship, backstage support, or technical needs. Additionally, we had a Turkish team meeting in Batumi where we shared our needs, were encouraged by each other's testimonies, caught up on updates, and prayed for one another. We feel blessed, and we can see that we are in the right place at the right time. Since we left Turkey, this has been one more confirmation that the Spirit is guiding us in everything.

 

Please pray for:

• Our new baby’s health, as well as the other health difficulties we have been facing.

• All the places we are visiting, the people we are encouraging, and our plans to start new groups.

• Those who received the Gospel, that it will keep working in their hearts and bear fruit.

• The broad seed-sowing program, that we will be able to find partners and have a fruitful evangelism ministry.

• All of our ongoing documentation and financial issues.

• The Georgian ministry.

• Our existing and newly forming music classes, so they will be able to know and glorify the name of Jesus in a better way.

 

May the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be glorified in everything. Amen.