This month we wanted to thank you VERY MUCH for keeping us in your prayers so faithfully. We see it daily how God is taking care of us in every little detail and how He is preparing us for the future ministry in Ukraine. We reached the 70% mark in our fundraising this month and we praise God for that. It is really encouraging to see so many brothers and sisters excited to be part of a ministry on the other side of the world. This week we marked all our regular supporters on a map (some smiley faces represent more than one person). It was fun to see all these different places where people care about people in Ukraine. And we know that if we were to mark all the places where people pray it would be even more!Here is couple more things we would really appreciate your prayers for:
- Better communication with the Ukrainian Lutheran church and especially the pastor in Lviv. Right now we have a very hard time getting hold of him and that makes our planning for the ministry in Lviv much more difficult.
- God’s protection when we travel
- God given opportunities to be an encouragement to those we meet when we travel
- Miriam’s back problems
- Our visa situation – we applied for a new US visa at the end of May. We have not gotten any reply yet. Because it got obvious that it is now beyond the normal processing time we started wondering. Today we learned that, probably in error, the file had been referred to a fraud section. The person helping us with this, said there is no legitimate reason for it to be there and she hopes to get it out of there soon so that the proper processing can continue. This error substantially delays the case but we still pray that our file will be processed in time for us to leave for Europe in February 2007.
- You can also pray for strength for us during our last couple of deputation months. If you want to see our schedule, you can look at our calendar at http://www.chmiels.com/calendar.htm
Tomasz and Miriam
