From July 6-17, 2010, seven members of NHF will be in Ukraine for our 4th Annual Reunion with our sister church, New Hope Church, in the city of Kremenchug.

For the first few days, U10 will join members of NHC in local urban ministry, particularly to children & orphans.  After Sabbath Worship with NHC, U10 will travel with the church to its annual week-long Summer Camp (Retreat), held in the countryside about 45 minutes outside the city-center.  There, U10 will rest and fellowship with NHC brothers & sisters, as well as support NHC's outreach to invited guests -- friends, neighbours and coworkers who are not believer.  In past summers, this Camp time has been crucial to deepening friendships across belief-borders.  As a result of the affection, community and trust built at Camp, many non-believers have started to attend church and/or joined NHC's Bible study groups.  Many friends and neighbours have come to know Jesus Christ as their Saviour, and NHC's ministry continues to expand, grow and flourish.

U10 is humbled & excited to continue to play a part in the growth of God's church in Kremenchug.  In addition to pouring into the life of NHC, U10 hopes to come home with a brighter view of the movement of God's Spirit around the world, a deeper understanding of how to love one's friends, neighbours and community, and a stronger inclination to stand for Christ, in faith, power and grace.

Please keep in prayer for U10: Rachel Ahn, Sunny Ahn, Chae An, Julia An, Catherine Cha, Jeremey Houlton, Raimund Strauck (and our honorary team-members on-the-ground in Kremenchug: Sasha Nagaevich & Luda Bodnar).

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(as of Spring 2010)

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(as of July 31, 2009) 

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U09 team is currently in Kremenchuk, Ukraine.  Please check out our blog for update:

(as of July 14, 2009)  U09 is officially ONE WEEK away from departure!  Next Tuesday, Juy 21, 5 NHF-ers will leave for Ukraine and 10 days of joyous ministry with our sister New Hope Church in Kremenchuk.  Training is wrapping up quite well, supplies are almost all prepared and bags are soon going to be packed to the brim.  U09 remains so humbly thankful for the support, prayers and encouragement of each person at NHF.  Would you please continue to pray for the team:

• adequate -- no, even surplus! -- financial provision
• God's "finishing touches" on personal testimonies, prepared skits and Russian language practice
• much rest and refreshment in these last days before departure
• physical protection from weariness and sickness
• spiritual protection from any and all attacks of the enemy
• traveling mercies to, within and from Ukraine
• the leaders and staff at NHC, as they prepare for their Summer Retreat and our arrival
• a blessed joint ministry during our days and evenings together
• an even closer bond of sisterhood to be forged as a result of U09

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(as of June 22, 2009)  It just doesn't seem real ... even with a successful Bake Sale under our belts (thank you, NHF!) and team support letters mailed out, it is hard to believe that in exactly one month, U09 will be landing in Kiev, Ukraine, and making the drive toward our brothers & sisters in Kremenchug.  As in past years, reality will set in when New Hope meets New Hope face to face ...

U09 -- Sunny A., James A., Catherine C., Jeehyun K., and Robert N. -- continues to rely on your prayers during these next 4 weeks.  Please pray for:

• our weekly training times on Sunday afternoons
• spiritual, emotional, mental & physical strength and protection of the Holy Spirit
• creative vision and God-inspired imagination as we look toward joint ministry with NHC
• physical health during training, travel and our time in Ukraine
• intimate and wonderful U09 team bonding
• successful fundraising, sufficient for the 5-member team as well as love-offering for NHC
• our reunion with NHC to be sweet and fruitful
• the unbelievers in Ukraine to be touched by the Spirit and graced with Christ's salvation

(As of December 24, 2008):  Hello, our beloved sister “New Hope Church”. We are glad that our dear Lord gave us his love and an excellent sense of a continuing celebration of victory in Him. We are glad He gave us YOU, so we can experience those feelings together. We are a great mystery of His love to each other. We congratulate you, our loved ones, with the greatest celebration of our life - the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ: on the earth and in our hearts. We wish to your church more enormous prosperity in His life and bringing Him more and more fruit.  

On 18 December took place church membership meeting, where we summed up the whole year. We remembered how God richly blessed our church, saw photographs, and talked about plans for 2009. The meeting took place in a very friendly and inspiring atmosphere. In the end of our meeting we took a general picture and had snacks. We counted 23 blessings that we want to share with you.  

1. Celebrating with the whole church of New Year (2008)
2. Baptism - Spring (4 persons)  
3. Improvement the ministry «Street People» (team has grown from    4 to 10)
4. Beginning of the project «Feeding»  
5. Rehab center - the study of Gospel to John with addicted people, 2 times a week  
6. Team «Rush time" - HIV prevention, a work with HIV positive people  
7. Multiplication of home groups from 6 to 9  
8. Arrival of our friends from New York  
9. Camp «Names of God»  
10. Camp banquet  
11. Baptism - autumn (5 people)
12. A growth in the theater ministry  
13. Children's ministry  
14. Puppet Theater - participation in Sunday services and orphanages

15. Going of leadership team on the pastoral conference “Hilsong”
16. Ethics in schools (2 teams)  
17. Evening of equipment - education for leaders in just 1 month  
18. Starting of a family club  
19. Sports ministry - every Saturday playing volleyball, attracting non-believers  
20. The birth of babies Camille and Mark  
21. The start of class on Evangelism «From heart to heart»  
22. Summit for pastors of home groups (once a month)  
23. Purchase of drums in late December

Objectives for 2009  
1. To grow in the knowledge of God through prayer  
2. Each member of church has to define his spiritual gift and to serve to the body of Christ  
3. Each member of the church could bring to God at least one person  
4. To deal more actively with the social structures of the city and to do a great social activity  
5. To multiply the number of groups from 9 to 18  
6. To focus on Mission  
7. To pray that the city would provide the land for the construction of the house of prayer  

   On the end of December 2008, there are 76 members of the church .
For the 2008: 1 person is excommunicated, 9 people joined to the church through water baptism, 11 people moved from other churches  

     Thank you, we are glad to have you. You are a great joy and encouragement for us. We hope that our relationship will grow and we will be able to serve more to one another in the Lord in 2009.  
     With great love in our Lord God!!!

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On September 28th, 11.45a, Pastor Sasha and Luba welcomed their third child, a baby boy!  Everyone is healthy and strong - praise God for this expansion of our family!

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(This is from an email received on Thursday, September 18, 2008, from Sasha Nagaevich [a/k/a, "Sashko"], the youth pastor at NHC.  Luba, mentioned in the end of the message, is Pastor Sasha's wife, due to deliver their third child any day now.  It is a boy, and they are either going to name him Mark or Edward - yes, after our very own Pastor Edward.) 

The autumn has come. All people came back from their vocations and our church is together again. We are all in an inspired mood and looking forward where God is going to lead us further. On September 7, we had a baptism on the area where we had our church camp. Five more sisters were joined to our church. That was an especial time. We spent the whole day together on the open air. In the beginning we conducted a baptism on the riverside and after that we had a service in the cafeteria. That was a time of worshiping, prayer for these who were baptized and we also had a Lord`s supper. The drama group showed a drama that had a name “Auction of a soul”.  That was a wonderful time, a lot of joy, happy faces. Knowing those people` lives before repentance and who they are now – that is a huge difference. It was impossible to look on that without tears. We played volleyball and other games together and had a meal. That was a great celebration for the whole church. That was especially joyfully to see on that meeting 15 unbelievers - relatives and friends.

Last week was begun one more home group (now we have 8). The people in the group are those who came to the church after the camp. Sashko is in charge of the group.

Our prayer requests and plans on October.

October 25, we are planning to start a family club. Also in the beginning of October we are starting to teach a Christian ethics at schools and studying Bible in a local center for alcoholics and drug addicts. That is a state center but we have an access to meet with them. Pray also please for safe Luba`s delivery.     Let God help us in that!