Our team is incredibly blessed this month to have freedom in our
ministry. Because our ministry contact ended up stuck in Moldova and unable to get back into Ukraine, we were able to
seek God for His will for our team this month. After a week of English
Bible camp we returned to the city of Odessa and felt called to do
street ministry. Our first couple days included venturing into the city
and starting conversations with the people we felt led to talking to,
asking them about their lives and sharing some of our testimonies of the
past year and what we have seen God do. Entering the race, I remember
feeling a certain pressure associated with this type of ministry. I felt
like there was an expectation to see miracles and healings. Over the
past 11 months I have learned that there isn’t a pressure there. We are
simply called to walk in obedience to God and the results are up to Him.
This child-like realization has taken the pressure off of me during
street ministry and has allowed these couple of weeks to be some of my
favorite on the race.
Before we left for the camp, I felt God was calling our team to do
music ministry in the city. Knowing the power music can have on the
spirit, I felt God calling us to go into the city and to change the
spiritual atmosphere. So upon our return my teammate Jordan and I
prepared a set of worship songs and Team Zion headed into town.
in a beautiful garden area of the city with a heavy flow of locals and
tourists, I wasn’t sure how people would respond to a couple of
Americans singing worship songs in English. As soon as my mouth opened
and worship began to flow from my lips, any anxieties that were present
in my heart melted away and you could feel the spiritual atmosphere of
that street shifting.
As Jordan and I worshipped, Theresa and Jeannie sat on benches near
us and God kept a continuous flow of people coming to them who spoke
English. People from the U.S., people from Italy, from Ukraine, and
more. They were able to share about our trip with them, and more
importantly, about the love and freedom God has for them.
As we closed our guitar case that day, I smiled to myself knowing
that although there were no visible miracles that day, God moved. The
spiritual atmosphere of that street changed that day. Seeds were planted
in the conversations my teammates had. And I trust God was moving in
peoples hearts and in their spirits.
