News Archive

  • Spring 2014 Update

    Our Dear Friends and coworkers,  It has been awhile since the last ILT update, which followed Ion and his son’s fall trip to Afghanistan. In December, Ion conducted training for leaders of immigrant churches in Atlanta where we continued coaching connected with the Disciple Making Movement (DMM). We realize that coaching must follow training for…

  • Summer 2012

    Ion’s Report from Summer 2012 Mission Trip to Kiev and the Caucasus This summer God gave me the opportunity, after the trip to California, to have an overseas mission trip to the Ukraine and to Russia. I arrived in Kiev on June 25 where, for three days, I met with a group of leaders from…

  • January to June 2012

    Dear Friends, We understand that Jesus established his church and even the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. However, history proves that the church has gone through periods of revival and fall. We can see the Judeo-Christian influence in America is declining before our very eyes. The number of churches in the U.S….

  • Kiev, Ukraine

    The last stop on our summer ministry trip was Kiev where we have around 30 leaders from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Russia and several other restricted countries. It was wonderful to have people from those countries where such training is impossible because of the heavy persecution of Christians. For three days, from morning…

  • St Louis World Amateur Cup

    An outreach event for internationals called the St Louis World Amateur Cup was held at the Midwest Soccer Academy in St Louis on Saturday, July 31. Sixteen teams competed in two divisions (open and 35+) representing many countries from the Americas (North, Central and South), Eastern Europe, Middle East, Central and SE Asia and Africa….

  • Moldova Week 2

    From Ion…   From July 12 to July17, we had the second camp coordinated by Mihai and Elena Sarmaniuc. Considering the tragic situation of our country, the main provider of prostitutes to Western Europe, we decided to teach the youth the Precepts course, “Sex according to God”, which actually teaches about how to keep our…

  • Moldova Week 1

    from Ion… We experienced a real blessing, having children and teens from more than 10 locations attend our camps.  At the first camp (July 5 to July 11th) we had 117 attend – 19 were believers and 98 non-believers.  The last three days of camp we made the call to come forward and repent. All…