Ukrainian camp meeting

THE UKRAINIAN CAMP MEETING & OUTREACH MINISTRY EXPERIENCE! Vol 45 #11
What a wonderful God we serve! This has been one of our busiest years ever and greatly rejoicing in what the Lord has done. Together with Walter Zygarewicz, we arrived after 28 hours and a 5-hour drive to minister that same night in the Ukraine Youth Regional Rally in Volin, Ukraine. We had a mighty rally in spite of being so tired. God gave us strength to minister and we had a goodly number respond to Surrender to Christ and then many yielded themselves to the Call of God on their lives. Praise the Lord! It is always wonderful to win ‘Soul winners.’

Thousands of Youth gather to hear the Word! Early the next morning we traveled almost 2 hours to a Pastors Conference/Seminar in Kovel, we had a full day with the pastors of the province. There were many who expressed their appreciation for the teaching and encouragement toward evangelism. There were about 100 pastors participated in the conference and were blessed.
Hundreds come forward to Christ as Tony Abram invites them to repent!	Standing room only in Lutsk.
Then after an early supper with all the ministers, we drove another hour to a tent crusade in Ratne, Ukraine. In Ratne, Associate Pastor Stephen Scots, of Sacramento, California invited us to minister at the tent crusade. He even interpreted me one night. Their church put on a free health clinic for one-day hiring 20 Ukrainian doctors (mainly specialists) for twenty dollars each. Many of the doctors came to the crusade service.
Pastor Stephen Scots interpretes Tony Abram in tent	Some were healed themselves in the meeting. Many people responded to the call of salvation and many were healed, even several of the doctors. The mayor of the city came to the service and thanked us for what we are doing. There were testimonies of healing and deliverances. Water’s sister in law from Woodburn Oregon Zina Shevkenko also was with Walter. She and her husband Ben pastor a large Slavic church in Woodburn. She was born in Kerch, Crimea. (Now a part of Ukraine) This was her first visit since she left at age two. She went through WWII there, in Poland and Germany, captured together with her parents by the German Army and forced to work on the railways. They came to the USA after the war.
We ministered in Lutsk, at the Central Pentecostal Church where many were touched by the power of God and testified of healing. This church, with over 2000 members, is the largest in the Pentecostal Union in Ukraine. There are one or two that are larger that are pastors by two men from Africa. One is Pastor Henry and the other is Pastor Sunday. I was invited to be a guest speaker together with Walter Zygarewicz at the Youth Camp in the Koristan area, (many young married couples and teenagers) came from all over Ukraine. There were 4,700 registered not counting those who did not register. We both ministered to about 5,000 young people in every service. When I preached on evangelism there were over 500 came forward in response to a call to be missionaries.

The harvest is ripe and the workers are few. This is the harvest time. Hundreds were baptized in the Holy Spirit and 2-3 thousand were refilled with the Holy Spirit. The last night we were there I gave my testimony, like the Apostle Paul I love to tell the old story of how I met Jesus and how he changed my life. (You can find a good part of my testimony by going to our website at www.tonyabram.com.) There were at least 300 that responded to the altar call for Salvation plus more than 400 backsliders surrendered and returned to the Lord with rejoicing, many with much tears and repentance. There were hundreds others who made a rededication to the Lord. Several thousand cried out as Isaiah did “Here am I”, I am ready to proclaim, live and demonstrate the gospel.
Two to three thousand are refilled with the Holy Spirit	Hundreds stand outside
Our friend and missionary, from Taiwan with his team, Brother Nick Krisisky came for the last night of the camp to be with us. He was thrilled and amazed with the camp meeting, which is located not far from Chernoal. Except for the open tabernacle the camp is quite primitive. There is no running water, no kitchens, no dorms and only outhouses and it looked like hundreds if not several thousand tents. Everyone prepared food for themselves. Quite different than the fancy comfortable camps we have in North America.
Tony with Victor. Kucher	It was nice to see students from some of our schools attending. We also saw Victor and Agaifa Kucher from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They were visiting family near by and came to visit the camp. We closed our ministry in Kiev. We are preparing for parallel schools in Krasnodar, Russia, and in Kharkov, Ukraine. We will have a third school and conference in Moscow in Nov/Dec.
This will be for pre-selected missionaries, by the regional bishops, who will plant churches in un-reached parts of Russia, such as Siberia, near China and Mongolia, etc. We are discussing an additional school in Armenia. We are also supporting a training program for Central Asia, which I cannot elaborate here.
Standing room only in tent.	Having a meal after seminar with all the workers.
One note my luggage did not arrive until the morning I was leaving Ukraine. Earlier this year Marge and I had to wait four days for it to arrive to Ukraine but this time it just did not come until I was leaving. I do always carry an extra shirt, socks and change of underwear. Washing had to be done every night and wore dry or not the next morning. Almost like Romania we were under a very hot heat wave. Records broken, so had to change clothes every day. These are some of the small things we much face and keep on praising God not for it but in it. Praise God!
Zina Shevkenko testifying with Walter looking on	Left to Right. Walter, Nick Krinusiky, Pastor Paul and Tony.
Thank you for you’re understanding and again, thank you for standing with us and backing our efforts. Together we are making a difference. Many blessings to you and may God grant you His divine wisdom in all you do.
OUR SUPREME TASK IS THE EVANGELISM OF THE WORLD! LET US BE BUSY ABOUT OUR FATHER’S GOOD BUSINESS! WE ARE WORKERS TOGETHER WITH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Mark 16:15 Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.