Mission Russia International

Gertjan And Judy Pelleboer – A New Baby!

Hi dear Friends!

A NEW BABY?

Well – sort of… Read on…

We are thrilled to announce that our website “NEW CREATION SPECTRUM” is on the horizon.  NewCreationSpectrum.co.za goes live on the 10th November 2009.  This wonderful idea came about as a result of so many people asking us questions like, “what do you do? what is your ministry?”

Every year that we have returned to Russia, God has added yet another sphere to our “spectrum” which makes it difficult to explain in one paragraph.  Now we can say, “You can look on our website to see what we do and if there is any way in which we may serve you in Jesus Name”.

And let the beauty and the delightfulness and favour of the Lord our God be upon us; confirm and establish the work of our hands – yes, the work of our hands, confirm and establish it (Ps. 90:17).

DAVE GILBERT

We were guests for 3 months. Then became “Pelleboer Guest House!”

From mid-June for three months we lived with friends in Ukraine and Holland and then Dave Gilbert boarded with us for one month when we returned to Russia.  He no sooner had left us to return to South Africa when we welcomed fellow missionaries Anthony & Jeannette Marquez from America, and Leigh Goodwin & John Tyrell from England for the weekend.  We had a houseful and then after 4 months of living with people we were suddenly…

HOME ALONE?

Sasha asked me “so, what’s it like being on your own?”  I said “I don’t know yet hey – I’ll tell you after a week because at the moment we are missing everybody.”  Dave fitted in so well with us that it was as if he always lived with us and I so enjoyed serving all our guests.

Well, since they all left we’ve twice hosted Ukrainian pastors who come to Tula to do Bible School lessons here and it seems like we’re going to be “Hotel Pelleboer” until we return to South Africa in December when we will once again be the “guests” with no home of our own.

BUSY OCTOBER

My dream of training women in Russia to continue with the ministry of Inner & Outer Beauty finally realized when a dear Pastor & his wife from a town outside of Tula asked me if I would do seminars with 15 of their ladies who are so willing to be trained in this ministry.

I am so enjoying these ladies!  Every 1st & last Sunday afternoon I do seminars & training with them.  This requires a hang of a lot of work, but I’m passionate about imparting to others all that the Lord has given me over the years.

DRUG & ALCOHOL REHABILITATION CENTRE

“Why do you think we come here to this place every week?” is what I asked the folk there this morning.  I told them how if it wasn’t for Jesus that I would very likely have been addicted myself, & that because I am free I want them to be free.

I want to deposit the Word of God so deeply into them that the Bible would become their addiction.  Above all that, I preach the gospel to them that they may know the Author of the Bible personally – and the final reason, which they might not be able to understand, is that I really do love them.

AND ANOTHER RE-HAB

Besides us working together at the re-hab in Tula on Tuesdays, Gertjan has twice gone to help with physical work at a re-hab in Moscow.  Last Friday afternoon he went with our friend Victor to the Moscow re-hab and only returned home at 2 o’clock in the morning on Sunday.  They connected all the radiator pipes of the two storied house to this wood burner which heats up the water to heat up the house see.  Winter is upon us and the guys will not survive the cold without heating.

HELP IN TIME OF NEED

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world (James 1:27).

Our dear Nina is not only a widow, but her only son died in a car crash a few months ago.  She is a precious lady and so faithful to the Lord.  Gertjan and the guys went to clear up the garden and put up a fence for her

OVERWHELMED WITH SUFFERING

Some years ago a wise, well experienced, fellow missionary to Russia told us “Russia has many needs and it is so easy to become so overwhelmed by trying to meet all the needs, that you can forget what you came here for – to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. We realize that “giving and good works” are very much part of preaching the gospel – but sometimes when you see your friends suffering and we can’t help – we feel overwhelmed.

Sveta’s eldest little boy, Daniel, is retarded and needs to go to a special school which costs an absolute fortune.   She was an orphan and all orphans receive a flat.  The bank now wants to take her flat from her to pay her husband’s enormous debt, which would put her and her three little ones out on the street.

Her husband has also just been in his “umpteenth” car crash and needs money to pay for those costs as well.

She may receive 3000 roubles a month from the state for her baby, but because they have not been able to pay the 9000 rouble municipal debt for the heating etc., they won’t register her baby and she can’t collect that money if the baby isn’t registered.

This is a very shortened version of just ONE suffering friend who cannot ever remember a day in all her life that was free of troubles.  Her inability to rise above her terrible circumstances reminds me of   Exodus 6:9 “So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; but they did not heed Moses, because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage.”

If you are able to help us to help her, please would you write on the bank deposit slip “for Sveta” – that she can at least pay her municipal debt, so that she can register her baby and receive a small income for food.  The full debt is about R3000 – but whatever you can give towards that will be tremendous – THANK YOU.

With much love and appreciation for each and every one of you for your “WITHNESS”.

Gertjan & Judy in Christ, in Russia

SOUTH AFRICAN CONTACTS: HEIN & JEANNETTE
4 John Ave, Charlo – 6070 Port Elizabeth
+27-072-510-7483 (cell), +27-041-368-1262 (h)
email: heinvanvledder@hotmail.com

PASTORS KALJU & DOROTHY PRIILAID
+27-082-653-7105 (cell), +27-041-368-5777 (h)

BANKING DETAILS: STANDARD BANK S.A.
G. Pelleboer savings acc.  083783741
Branch no. 051001; Swift add. SBZAZAJJ