ERSU Seminary Prayer News - 3 Oct 2015

Please pray for our seminary Registrar Helena and her husband Dima who is a graduate of our seminary and does our website and publications. Their infant son just died yesterday of heart failure. They live in Western Ukraine and were here in Kiev to get their son's heart operated on for a congenital heart  problem. However, his heart gave out just 2 days before the planned operation. Please pray for the Lord's comfort.  Such moments are the deepest and darkest of our human condition, when only the Gospel can offer hope.

We also ask you to praise God that our seminary session opened last month with 10 new students! It's a great new class, and they started out with a class on Hebrew (taught by our graduate from Minsk, Belarus) and Hermeneutics (taught by Dean of Students, Scott Andes). One new student was even coming down from St. Petersburg, Russia, but he got turned back at the border due to the war in the East! Please pray for Peace in Ukraine, and for reconciliation to follow. The Senior Class had courses on Eschatology (taught by President Erik Van Alten) and Christian Education (taught by Dr. Quarterman). Pray as all the students balance their personal, national, seminary and ministerial commitments!

The seminary is submitting our plans to the city of Kiev this month for our big Building Project to house our students. This would allow us to cut operating costs in half, but it may take us 2 or 3 years to complete. We will also need to sell our current office/library, and the market is way down , right now, due to the conflicts with Russia. Please pray for wisdom and God's timing and provision.  

The Board of ERSU Seminary met last week, approving our plans and our Budget for 2016. Please pray for the Lord's provision -- especially for more churches and individuals to become Regular financial Supporters of the seminary. (MTW Account #95995 -- click here:
        
Ukraine: Kiev Seminary ERSU (95995)