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…
Friends, Svetlana and I just concluded our stay in Cape Town South Africa, the first of a three stage September ministry trip. We had 27 students from 23 countries at the International Sport Leadership School (ISLS). I felt like we were in the most important place on earth having the opportunity to train people from every…
Ion traveled to the state of Washington, where he led a four day retreat with people from Emanuel Slavic church. This retreat was organized by one of the ILT trainees, Andrey Savin, the associate pastor of Emanuel Slavic church of Vancouver, WA. Then on Sunday, Ion was invited to preach in two churches and in the…
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…
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….
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…
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….
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…
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…