Grace Partnership Updates

While the war rages on in Ukraine, you should know that the church continues to baptise, serve, care, and mission! Please take 1 minute to read the below update from our brother Volodymyr.

"Your message found me at the prayer meeting in the church. His presence and God’s people gathered around is the best place to be considering that - all is under God’s control and we are moving forward step by step.

We see new people coming to church. Pray that discipleship and care would grow and that God might bring out more leaders for small groups to provide for this discipleship and growth.

We continue to serve humanitarian help to refugees in our city. Currently there are more than 20 thousand of them in our city. Many volunteer centers were closed. We continue to work, but we have reduced our working days from 4 to 2 days in a week. We still have some resources to give away, but experience shortage at times, but then… some other provision come in so we carry on, trusting God on daily basis.

Pray God continue to provide enough products for those who come to us for help. I plan to visit New Life in Alphen by the end of September to pick up a load for this purpose.

It seems like the war will last for some time… probably till the fall of next year… this winter seems to be a very difficult one, not only because of the predicted cold temperatures, but there will be a shortage of gas for heating and the power grid of our city may experience fails due to overload…

Just today we (pastors of local evangelical churches) had meeting with mayor of our city (he is a born again believer) and he shared those struggles preparing us for the winter season. Pray that we all go through this coming cold season in one piece.

We spoke of some ideas of how to serve our community.

My son Timothy got married on 20th of August. My daughter. Lads Nad her husband have moved from Lviv back to Rivne. So we see our grandsons more often and she is pregnant with a third baby so, those are some updates.

Pray for our eldership team to grow in vision and relationship, and of course I need your prayers as well as being the lead pastor is a big shoe to fill."

Thanks for taking a moment to read this update - now... please take some time to pray for our brothers and sisters in the Ukraine today!

2022 Grace Partnership Conference

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Dear Friends, July 2021

July has been a very busy month for Grace Partnership, even while I (Aron) have been working remotely from Bolivia. I had a surgery to repair my nose on July 8th, 2021, and the recovery is almost complete!

Please read on to hear some of what has been taking place over the last few weeks. No update is complete without expressing my gratitude for the difference your monthly partnership makes. None of what you read would be possible without it!

Casa De Esperanza Missions Trip

Fidel and Chorito Cortez recently returned to Bolivia from their month long visit to the United States. It was an important trip in that they were able to raise the monthly support of Casa by over $1750 per month, almost all through Grace Partnership Churches! Additionally, nearly $30,000 in one time gifts was collected for the ongoing kitchen renovation and the tile and concrete projects that await a fall missions team.

October 29-November 10, 2021 is our upcoming missions trip to Casa de Esperanza. Details can be found at www.gracepartnership.net/missions. This trip will be an exciting opportunity for several people to see first hand the difference we can make when we come together with our gifts, time and financial resources. I had the opportunity to have several meetings with Fidel here in La Paz to plan for this upcoming trip. You can register now!

New Churches

We are enjoying getting to know Bay Point Church of St. Petersburg, Florida. We have had initial meetings with the elders of Bay Point, and they continue to express interest in partnering with Grace Partnership. Additionally, a visit to suburban Chicago will take place at the end of August to continue the dialogue with a local church in Cary, Illinois. We are grateful and excited to grow Grace Partnership one local church or one local church plant at a time!

Pray for Monthly Partners

April and May were very good months in terms of seeing the monthly supporter list from a variety of churches grow. We continue to pray for creative ways to share the vision of Grace Partnership, that we can continue to build on the early foundation. We have more opportunities than we have resources, and we want to steward the resources we have wisely. Would you pray that God would add to our number of monthly supporters? Can we believe together that we will see 350 monthly supporters before Christmas? That would mean approximately 115 new monthly supporters. God is able!

May God richly bless you all! Follow us on Facebook and at www.gracepartnership.net.

On behalf of Grace Partnership,

Aron Osborne

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