{"id":2542,"date":"2013-05-02T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2013-06-11T23:38:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:38:14","slug":"what-is-missions-book-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/what-is-missions-book-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Missions? Book Giveaway!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to Elpida on winning the book! )<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How do you define &#8220;Missions&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>What do you have to do to do missions?<\/p>\n<p>What do you have to be a missionary?<\/p>\n<p>The answer to these questions will determine many of the choices you make in your life and I want to hear those answers. I&#8217;m so interested in what you have to say that <strong>I&#8217;m giving away a copy of the book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008DXF7HC\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B008DXF7HC&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sukfam-20\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Finish the Mission&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please leave your answer in the comments below for a chance to win the book.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time take a look at the video below to find out what&#8217;s going on here in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hx8CfdgDOmg\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>May is a month of missions for us! \u00a0Below are two missions events that we need your prayers for this month.<\/p>\n<h4>Mission to Moldova<\/h4>\n<p>On May 10th I&#8217;ll be heading to the city of Faleshti,\u00a0Moldova. We will be helping Pastor Vasilly train local church members for evangelism. Pray for safe travels for Misha and myself as we cross the border into Moldova. Pray also for success as we lead seminars in several locations.<\/p>\n<h4>Missions training<\/h4>\n<p>May 27 &#8211; 31 we will conduct a special missions course at our institute called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kairoscourse.org\/course-descriptions\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Kairos&#8221;.<\/a>\u00a0This course is designed to help introduce students to different cultures and world views and learn to effectively communicate the gospel. Please pray that our students would be\u00a0equipped\u00a0for missions and inspired to serve Jesus in other cultures and countries. Pray also for the facilitators who will be leading the course.<\/p>\n<h4>Thanks for your prayers!<\/h4>\n<p>Last month we successfully led seminars in Lughansk and in Kirovograd. Our family also to traveled to Cherkassy and ministered in Christina&#8217;s home church for Palm Sunday. We finally gathered our missionary team for a two-day conference in Kiev earlier this week. Thankfully, there were not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"How a Blizzard Can Change Your Plans!\" href=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=2430\">blizzards <\/a><\/span>to stop us this time!<\/p>\n<h4>We still haven&#8217;t celebrated Easter!<\/h4>\n<p>If you are wondering why we celebrated Palm Sunday last week, you can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Why We\u2019re Not Celebrating Easter this Week\" href=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=2457\">find out here.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0This Sunday we will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ with our church here in Odessa. 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