Academic Dean’s Blog

Now we are in 2009 A.D. and this new year we have new reasons to pray, ask, give thanks and praise Jesus. Last year prayer are here in PrayerArchived basket.

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Praises and Prayer Needs ( updated May 20, 2009 )

Answered Prayers, let’s thanks the Lord!

• Kyiv Seminary continues renovation of its main campus facilities. Funds are provided despite world’s economic crisis. Praise the Lord with us!

Personal and Family Needs

• Please pray for my son Matviy who is sick this day. He got high temperature and probably a flu bug.  Please pray for his healing and patience to us.
• Please pray for God’s leading in my family housing situation. Please pray for me to have faith in God to provide.
• Please pray for my spiritual growth. Please pray for me to keep growing in knowledge and love of our Wonderful Saviour Jesus Christ.
• Please pray for our son Matviy (Matthew) to grow in love, strength and wisdom and to stay healthy.

Seminary Needs

• Please pray for faculty of the seminary. They have many needs that the school can not meet at this time. Your help and prayers are needed.
• Please pray for Gennady Friesen, our adjunct instructor, he has been diagnosed with brain tumor. He now recuperates from operation. Please pray for his soon recovery and treatment of cancerous effects, tumor turned to be cancer. Pleas also pray for his wife Armie and their boys.
• Please keep in constant prayer Bonnie Saucy, wife of our MA program director, long term residential faculty member and theology professor Dr. Mark Saucy. Bonnie has been fighting with breast cancer. Latest communication from her, we received this week, brought promising news of better treatment results. Her doctor allowed her to terminate chemotherapy for a while. Our seminary community, students and faculty alike, upholds them in daily prayer. Please, join us in prayer.
• Pray for new students who will matriculated next semester. Please pray for new students God send our way for training in his word and preparation for ministry this coming fall.
• I am very glad that our seminary reaches out to students from other countries, and not just Ukraine.  Married students from other countries want to study at KTS. We still cannot provide room for such type of students.We urgently need to expand our facilities to accommodate all who desire to study. Please, pray for it.