Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (Philp. 1:2)
This morning I woke up with the thankful heart. The Lord blessed us so much in the past month. We had a time of struggles and He comforted us. We rejoiced and He rejoiced with us. We are thankful for His faithfulness and we pray that the Lord would bless you in the most unexpected ways.
We pray, ‘that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ - to the glory and praise of God (Philp. 1:9-11).
Eugene and Aneta family
Eugene, Aneta and their three children David, Erik and Joana arrived to England about 4 years ago. Since then, they have been attending Brunswick Baptist Church. We are very happy to be able to make friends with Eugene and Aneta as we all have a heart to preach the Gospel to the Polish people.
Since Polish people still facing difficulties in meeting the ends back home. As a result of this, Eugene’s brother Slavik has moved to Gloucester. We met him on Saturday and we were able to talk about the love of God and that He is looking after him in this difficult time.
Please, pray for Eugene and Aneta to have wisdom and share their love for Christ with Slavik that he would find hope and peace in Him.
Family reunion
At the beginning of November Rita’s sister visited us. She has never been in England. We had a great time together and rejoiced that we were able to pray and show the love of Christ. She said that she never had such a peaceful holidays. Please, pray for Loreta to find this peace in Christ.
God is a team Leader!
God is full of surprises! A few weeks ago we received a letter from an elderly woman from one of our partner
churches. As we read the letter, God spoke to us,
‘I have called you to this place’. It reminded us about Gideon in Judges 6:14-16). 'The Lord turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you? "But Lord," Gideon asked, "how can I save Israel?" My clan is the weaker in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family." The Lord answered, "I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites together."
As we think about ourselves being God's team in Gloucester. We are just like Gideon thinking how weak and incapable we are, but God warmed our hearts, when he said that 'We will work Together'. He won't leave us on our own. This is the best promise!
As an angel talked to Gideon. In our case we received a letter from a woman who have had a heart for Polish people since the WWII. The letter encouraged us so much! God confirmed our calling once again. If He decided to place us in Gloucester He will open up doors for the Gospel in this city. Please, write us! We need your prayers and your life stories that demonstrates His faithfulness and encourages us.
We know that working on our own, we would never bring glory to God, because the whole concept of mission is about being part of God’s mission, we are His team. He is the Leader and we are His fellow workers.
Praise Him:
for Saturday prayer meetings with Eugene and Aneta;
for Rita being able to make contacts with Polish people;
for Vidas being able to provide for the family;
for Rugile doing well at school and making good friends’
for growing number of supporters;
for partner churches: St James, Brunswick Baptist Church and Kendal Road Baptist Church for being supportive and encouraging at the beginning of our ministry.
What we have not done in order to be able to preach the Gospel?
We are quite strange missionaries. In one hand we are in the ministry, but on the other hand we cannot do anything for a very simple reason. We have not raised our support yet and we are struggling financially. We all know that anyone who goes on the mission overseas, they must raise support and then go, but we are not going overseas. We are here!
Recently, we had a meeting with our partner churches and European Christian Mission to talk about this issue.
We concluded the meeting with very clear view, that for us to begin our ministry we need to raise support.
However:
we will continue meeting with Eugene and Aneta;
we will keep contacts with Polish people that we met during these three month;
learning Polish;
we will do some more research on Polish community in Gloucester;
but the main focus of this year is support raising. We need to raise £13 000 a year.
We would appreciate your prayers!
As you all know Rita has been learning Polish. She has a great teacher Ola and she helps her a lot, however, Rita feels that she does not have enough opportunities to practice Polish. We have done some research on language learning possibilities. We found out that Cheltenham Campus offers ‘Polish Beginners’ course. The course would help Rita immensely! The course will begin from the 5th of January. Rita will need to register this week, because if there are not enough people, the course will have to be cancelled. We humbly ask you to pray that we would be able to pay for this course.
If you feel that you can support Rita with £156 ( also £60 for a bus tickets) for 12 week Polish language course, please contact us.
Thank you for your prayers and support!
In Christ,
Rita, Vidas and Rugile Rimkai
Vidas, Rita and Rugile Rimkai,
8 Casey Close,
Gloucester, GL1 3QP
01452 548363
rita.rimkiene@ecmi.org
vidas.rimkus@ecmi.org
European Christian Mission
Freepost NH-4573
50 Billing Road
Northhampton
NN1 5BR
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