The Upstream youth community in Kyiv witnessed two girls and a young man commit their lives to Jesus through baptism on March 16, 2024. Each of them heard about Jesus and got to know Him through the study of biblical truths.
On Saturday, March 16, 2024, a baptismal service was held in Mykolaiv. Four individuals made a covenant with God and joined the church. Two others became believers in the Adventist church in Berezanka and two more in the first Mykolaiv congregation. The oldest of the newly baptized, Andrii Prokofievych, is 92 years old.
On the same day, in the Adventist community of Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region, five people were also baptized. The people who were baptized were from Bezuglyaky, Bila Tserkva, and Volodarka. Some of them made their decision after an evangelistic program held in the Bila Tserkva-2 community, and others after personal preparation with their pastor.
On Saturday, March 16, 2024, three boys were baptized in the first Rivne congregation. They had been attending youth Bible study meetings held every Tuesday by the local church pastor.
The youth missionary congress "In the Footsteps of Jesus" was held in the city of Vyshgorod in the Kyiv region, from March 22 to 24, 2024. It brought together youth from the Chernihiv, Sumy, and Kyiv regions. This special event ended with the baptism of three young people.
On Saturday, March 23, 2024, the family of the First Community in Berdychiv in the Zhytomyr region witnessed the baptism four others.
On March 23, 2024, a solemn water baptism service was held in Kyiv, where representatives from different communities of the city gathered and 15 people who had been trained made a covenant with the Lord.
Two people were baptized during the evangelistic meetings in the Rivne region in the city of Dubno. Alla had been attending worship for almost a year and taking Bible studies. For Yuriy, the gospel meetings were his first contact with the Adventist church.
The gospel meetings that ended in Lutsk brought results. Four people joined the Adventist Church and now they will help seekers of God's truth grow in their faith.
Two young people, siblings, Maksym and Albina Shaposhnik, attended the first Adventist congregation in Lutsk. They were born into an Adventist family, and after studying Bible courses at the Bible School, they decided to be baptized.
Two other people who were baptized in Lutsk, Mr. Yevhen and Mrs. Olga, were familiar with Adventists, as Yevhen's cousin is an Adventist. But the first time the couple showed a real interest in Adventist doctrine was when they were visited by missionary Serhiy Meles. As a result of regular meetings and study of the Word of God, they were baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
On March 23, 2024, five people who had studied the Bible and were prepared for baptism made a covenant with God in the village of Klishkivtsi.
The original article was published on the Ukrainian Union Conference website.