Video of Uzhgorod

See a little bit of Uzhgorod in this cool video!

Prayer Requests

Prayer Needs

do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.  Philippians 4:6-7

Prayer Requests

• for our space to hold our English Club and church services.
• for good health for myself and Vova.
• for provision for our ministry needs here.
• for the new church planting team God is putting together
• for the Holy Spirit to open and soften the hearts of people to accept Jesus.
• for Andrew, one of our new friends here.
• for Kelly, a missionary who is traveling here in March.

Please leave YOUR prayer requests for me to pray for you in the comments... or send me an email at greghemsley@yahoo.com  God Bless You!

New Church Plant

 Uzhgorod, Ukraine!

God is calling me on from helping start the church in Mukachevo,  which is up and running well, to a city just thirty minutes away. I will be going to Uzhgorod to help start a new church, Uzhgorod Christian Fellowship. My teammate Vova Wolf who is Ukrainian will come with me to head up evangelism and do most of the translating.We are seeking the Lord on putting together a team.

Our first thing to do is to start an English Club. We will teach English as a second language for free as our gift to Uzhgorod and in doing so hope to make good relationships with people here.

After the English Club is up and running a few weeks and we hope to start a weekly Bible study. Please pray that God would open the hearts of the people here to accept Jesus as their personal Savior. There is a lot of religon here but they lack what we hold dear, a personal relationship with Jesus!

Right now our English Club will be held in a classroom of an English School. Please pray for God to provide a space of our own to be able to hold events all week long. We hope to have a the following at our new church plant.Please be in prayer for the following.

• Sunday Morning Services
• Sunday Evening Youth Group
• Wednesday English Club
• Thursday New Believers Bible Study
• Friday Night Kids Outreach
• Saturday Men's Breakfast & Bible Study
• Outreach to gypsy children

If you would like to help financially support this new church plant we would love to have you partner with us. We are in need of sponsors for monthly rent for a space to hold our weekly events, ministry supplies and equipment, and ongoing operating costs. Please send all contributions through my forwarding agent Angela Roberts 

Please send your contributions to:
Greg Hemsley
C/O Angela Roberts
6011 Sandcherry Drive
Indianapolis, In 46236
or you can send money to me directly online via SKRILL all you need is my email address greghemsley@yahoo.com

Thank you all & God Bless You!
-Greg

Coats Needed

we are in desperate need of 40 more winter coats for the children in the gypsy camps outside of Mukachevo...if you would like to help provide coats for these little ones you can by giving online (click the link below) or click on the "Support" tab at the top, you can also send a check by mail.....Thank you all & God Bless You!

https://www.egsnetwork.com/gift2/?giftid=78AFB7C7AB7048F

New! Prayer Card

Hi all, I can't thank you enough for your prayers. Your prayers are heard by God and are making a real difference in the lives of children and adults Jesus calls "the least of these". Prayer sometimes is something we do after we have exhausted all other efforts however it should be the first thing we do and we should devote much of our efforts in prayer......this is the work. Thank you for laboring in prayer with me and for me and others and the work God is doing here in Mukachevo, may God Bless You! Below is my new prayer card, feel free to right click on it and save it and even print it out and put it somewhere to remind you to pray daily.

Coming to the States!

Hi All, asking for your prayers as I prepare to head to the states for a short rest and to raise support for the gypsy camp ministry we are doing here in Mukachevo Ukraine. Still in need of traveling money to go around to different churches, please pray for God to provide all I will need while there and for the rent and food for the men staying at my place in Mukachevo while im gone, they will be doing intense bible studies with one of the Pastors from Lviv, he and his wife just moved to Mukachevo to help out and teach leaders! Praise God! Much love in Christ and His blessings  Traveling Oct 9th returning to Ukraine Nov 15th

-Greg

if you or anyone you know would like to help you can give online herehttps://www.egsnetwork.com/gift2/?giftid=78AFB7C7AB7048F

Update in Mukachevo

Thank you for all your prayers, encouragements and financial support. I could not begin to be here serving without you! I so appreciate your heart for missions! 

My time in Lviv came to and end as God was preparing me to move to Mukachevo, Ukraine to help plant a new Calvary Chapel Church called Lviving Water Mukachevo. The city of about 120,000 people is located in the southwest corner of Ukraine about a 4 hour train ride from Lviv. We are close to the Hungarian and Slovakian borders and the Carpathian mountains surround us. Mukachevo is in a valley and the Liatorytsia river runs right through it. Not always has the city been part of Ukraine, in the 1800's it was apart of Hungary. Mukachevo is mainly made up of Ukrainians but we also have many Russians and Hungarians people that live here. If you ask what language we speak, well it is a matter of what language people start out with. It could be Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian or a more local language made up of a little of all three. I think from talking to people here most people speak Russian but that is up for debate. People here are open to different languages and are not concerned with just speaking Ukrainian. 

Our church, Living Water Mukachevo, is located in the center (downtown) on a busy walking street. We currently have about 11 people. I am currently leading our English club on Wednesday nights. We meet from 5 pm to 7pm. This might sound early but the sidewalks roll up in this little city at 5 pm and most businesses are closed by 5pm. To be out after 8pm is considered late. It's definitely a slower pace here than I am used to but I love it. I still want to get up and go to Wal Mart at 6 am. The shopping is good here with a central bizarre and another huge open bizarre at the end of town that has fresh vegtables and fruit along with harware and things for the home. You have to sometimes search for things from several different vendors but it is nice to get to know more people and have the chance to share with them why I am here :)

We are working with a team from New Life Church in Kyiv to do childrens ministry outreach programs and camps in the gypsy villages near Mukachevo. We provide bible teaching, worship, crafts, lunch, and medical care. There are four gypsy camps with groups of children from 40 to over 200. This is my first week working with the children and it is amazing. To see their faces light up when we sing about and tell stories about the Lord is truley awesome! We are planning to reach out to even more gypsy camps as our Mukachevo team grows. We have 3 new missionaries moving here to serve this next month. 

Thanking God for all He has provided for us so far! Amazing how He works, always in awe of God and His faithfulness and great love for us! 

Needs:

Winter clothes, coats, and shoes for the gypsy children (all sizes)

Toothbrushes, toothpaste and small towels for the children

an 8 passenger van to transport teams to the camps to serve (aprox $5,000)

a laptop computer for the our worship leader and his team to use

a portable air conditioner

a sofa and two chairs for our apartment (sofa will be a sleeper so we can host more guests)

Prayer Requests:

For continued provision to host the two Ukrainian men in my home as they help start the church and for provisions to host more Ukrainian men who want to lead the church.

For the adults and children in Mukachevo to open their hearts to Jesus

For the the children and parents in the gypsy camps to open their hearts to the Lord.

For God to provide all we need here to start the church, spiritually, physically, and financially.

For His Spirit to fall fresh upon us daily!

Please pray as God puts together a team here to plant the church

For our team members, Joel & Katya, Vanessa, Tolik, Janice, Vova, Marilyn, and Greg

Please pray for the teams that will come and for more people to catch the vision to come and help us here in Mukachevo spread the Gospel.

Please pray for us as we teach the youth from the Pentecostal Church in Mukachevo as their Pastor heads to the states for two years.

Thank you all, May God shine on you and bless you and your families. Lifting you all up in prayer :)

-Greg