What: Valentine Dinner with special guest, Branson comedian Mike Bliss. Casual dress.

Who: Not a banquet for couples only but a dinner for all. Note: childcare will not be provided.

Where & When: HCC Fellowship Hall and Auditorium, Sunday, February 4th, 2024. The Dinner will begin at 6 pm in our Fellowship Hall. The Mike Bliss Comedy Show will start at 7 pm in the HCC auditorium.

How Many: We will sell up to 80 tickets at $25 for the meal + show. Up to 120 more tickets are available at $15 for just the show.

Tickets: Tickets available at Larry's Hometown Market in Anthony and SPK Grocery in Harper.

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THE UKRAINE REPORT  - JANUARY 2021

Happy New Year from Ron and Nancy Minton in Ukraine.  We spent most of December, 2020 in the States.  Time goes by so quickly.  We had hoped to visit some grand-kids, but almost all were sick.  But the last few days they were well enough for us to visit for a short time.  The other family lived too far away and we didn’t have the time to get there.  We will be grandparents again soon.  That will give us ten grandchildren.  The first is now in college.  They grow up quickly so influence your kin while you can.

Thank you for you partnering with us.  We are proud to be your missionaries and if you gave money or prayed for us, you equally share in God’s work over here.

Last year was an amazing one for the ministry and we wanted to send you a summary.

2020 IN REVIEW:
BIBLE COLLEGE
The 2020 Bible college year ended strong.  Like almost every other ministry, Covid-19 slowed everything down, but we had scheduled extra classes and some were cancelled just as we predicted.  But by God’s grace, even in “2020 - The Covid Year,” we had the most classes since we started in 2005.  We had even more classes, but we do not include some shorter non-credit classes.  Some info is as follows:

1. In 2020 we had 28 classes - an all time high since our start in 2005.
2. In 2020 we used 12 different teachers - an all time high.
3. In 2020 we had our first class in one new Ukraine city.
4. In 2020 we had more than 100 first time students take classes.
5. During 2005 - 2020 the total number of people who have registered and taken at least one class was about 2,100 (final statistics will be known in a month or two).
6. During 2005 - 2020 the number of classes increased 13 years and was the same 3 times.

HEALTH
In December we went to the States for four weeks and had combined 12 medical events - tests, minor treatments, and checkups.  Thanks to the mercy and grace of Jesus, we both are still healthy.  When we returned to Ukraine we had a very hard time because of Covid test requirements confusion at the airports. We both had Covid tests and were both negative.  In many areas, we really experienced the wonderful grace of Jesus in 2020.

PRAYER NEEDS:
- Travel restrictions making scheduling more difficult
- One new country, Estonia, where we plan to start classes
- The large number of people being trained in the Bible college
- Our health, helpers, and churches in these difficult times

It looks like 2021 will be a great year.  Always thank the Lord because He has given all of us the chance to serve Him wherever we are.  We can only do what we do because of the grace of God and your prayers and help. 

Хвала Христу, Он спас меня!
Ron and Nancy Minton in Ukraine

Dear Friends,

We are currently in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and Ron is teaching a Bible College class on Bibliology - the Bible.  Our goal is to give the students an unshakable faith in the truth and inerrancy of the Bible.  On Friday the class will be completed and we will go back to Dergachi, our hometown and get ready for more classes - it just keeps growing.

Nancy has a new helper, Marina.  They try to keep up on all the admin, house chores, children’s outreach, etc.  They do a lot together but we never get fully caught up.  I am sure you know this feeling.  We have good health, and Nancy still is finishing up the garden - when we are in our city.  Our garden gave us tomatoes, zucchini, cabbage, broccoli, pumpkins, many apples, and some pears.  We are thankful for everything.  

The Bible college is still going strong.  It is a challenge just to keep the schedules updated as some visitors have travel restrictions, etc.  We started out 2020 with a lot of classes and then Covid slowed everything.  But there must have been a pent-up demand for classes because we have started in one new location and will be in another as soon as travel allows.  Even in this Covid year, we will possibly have 27 classes, an all time high for our 15 years.  Only God can keep things going like this.  

Already we are praying about the 2021 Summer Evangelistic English Club which will be held in our backyard.  We regularly see neighborhood children and they run up to us and ask about the next club.  They call it camp even though they go home every day.  We will need two American girls who have finished high school or who have only one year left.  They will teach very basic conversational English to Ukrainian children.  They will live with two Ukrainian girls from our churches.  It is basically June 6-August 15, ten weeks.  We invite those who are interested to speak with their parents and pastor and contact us by email.  We will send them the details.

We ask your prayers:

• for our health and strength to keep up with everything
• for the 2021 English club
• for us to be godly examples and witnesses for Christ
• for America
• for the Bible college students to be strong in the Lord

Thank you so much for helping us win Ukrainians for Christ.
We count you among our dear friends.  Pray for Peace in Ukraine.

Ron and Nancy Minton

Hello, we hope everyone is doing well! In this update, we wanted to take an opportunity to share a bit about how God has blessed us during the Covid pandemic.  We have seen God work in powerful ways in our lives and in the lives of those around us.
     It is easy to view this strange time of the pandemic only in negative terms, disruptions in our ministry, the financial struggles of the poor increased, more people struggling emotionally and spiritually, many people sick and some dying, fear controlling the lives of many. But to forget that God has been present and working during this time would be a grave error.  As we reflect back on this time, we can see God at work and blessing us through it all.
      The forced slowing of our normal routine  and more intentionality studying God's word together along with time for deeper conversation has allowed everyone on our team to grow closer to God and also deepened our relationships within the team.  Through some health challenges of some of our team members we were blessed to see over and over the power of corporate prayer and God's sovereignty.  
     We have been blessed to see our community members carry on much of the agriculture work on their own while we have not been able to travel.  Many of the seeds we planted about internal resources and community responsibility have begun to sprout during these last few months, which has been a great encouragement to all of us.
     On a more personal note, many of you were aware that our son experienced a serious health crisis in June.  That whole experience was one miracle after another: his survival, Lisa being able to travel to be with him in the middle of the pandemic, the support and assistance we received both prayerfully and financially, and finally, Lisa being allowed back into Brazil after problems with her documents almost led to deportation.  
     As we reflect back on these last few months, we are amazed and overwhelmingly grateful for all God has done within and for us, our team, and the people we serve.  We also move forward with assurance that whatever our ministry and world may look like moving forward that God will be
     Speaking of moving forward, we are happy to report that we will be able to resume ministry activities in the near future.   Our team has been able to get together for some much needed fellowship and to begin talking about our next steps and it has been great to see each other.  We are excited to visit our communities again, but at this time we don't know for sure what ministry post-Covid will look like.  What we do know is that God already has a plan and we just need to be obedient in taking that next step.
     Of course, none of what we do would be possible without your partnership. We again want to thank all of those who currently partner with us. If you feel God is calling you to begin partnering with our ministry or to increase your current partnership, contributions can be made through CTEN, either online at www.cten.org/dalewhittom or by mail or phone at CTEN, PO Box 291307, Kerrville, TX 78029-1307, 800-872-5404.
  
Praises and Prayer Requests

This update has been full of praises so we won't list them here again.
   
Prayer Requests

• Wisdom and discernment for our team as we make decisions about how best to resume ministry.
• Continued good health for us as we begin to begin ministry activities.
• That God will continue to provide financial support for us to continue to serve Him here in Brazil.

In Him,
Dale & Lisa Whittom
 

Dear Friends,

How quickly the days have gone by.  We arrived in the States January 1, 2020 and had a good time with family and friends.  After Ron’s medical treatments we tried to return to Ukraine, but the country, like other countries, had closed their borders to travelers.  For more than three months we had all flights canceled.  Now we have tickets to fly to Ukraine on July 8.

Ron taught a live online class from Texas to students in Ukraine.  Our Bible college had other online and in person classes as well.  During Ron’s class Nancy played a few Russian songs that they knew.  It was fun.  The college is going well.  It is amazing how many classes we had before the virus slowed us down, but we are still not far behind and we have two new profs preparing courses right now.  In the fall Ron is scheduled to teach in Ukraine, Armenia, and possibly two other countries where we have extension classes.

Prayer items:

• Our planned return to Ukraine on July 8.
  
• July 4 we will be celebrating our anniversary as well as Independence Day.  Pray for our country, as Satan tries to weaken the USA to slow worldwide missions efforts.
  
• Our shortened Summer Evangelistic English Club.  We may not be  allowed to have gatherings.
  
• Our health and safety, as there is still some Covid19, and a little more crime in Ukraine now.
  
• New online courses for our students.
  
• Bible College: We had to change some plans, but hope to start our first classes in Estonia and Georgia in the fall.  Also, a church in another city in SW Ukraine requests we start classes for them.
  

Thank you so much for helping us win Ukrainians for Christ.
We count you among our dear friends.  Pray for Peace in Ukraine.

Ron and Nancy Minton

Harper Christian Church was pleased to sponsor a homeschooling forum for Harper County.  The focus was on those interested or new to homeschooling.  We had a panel of four homeschool veterans who shared their journey and talked aboutthe joys and the realities that come with teaching their children at home.  The evening finished out with a Q & A session and lots of curriculum for interested parents to view. 
Twenty people attended and more wanted to attend but were unable.  With all the interest in homeschooling in Anthony, Harper, and Attica, Kansas, we hope to put this event on again in the future.

We're so glad you've chosen to attend our online Sunday church service.  We recommend starting with the first YouTube video for the adult Bible class message from Ed Hughlett Sr., and then clicking on down through the worship service and sermon by Pastor Ed Hughlett.  Please note that there are Parts 1 and 2 for both the adult Bible class and sermon.

Ed Hughlett Sr. bring this week's message about life's power.  We are currently going through the book of Philippians.

We're so glad you've chosen to attend our online Sunday church service.  We recommend starting with the first YouTube video for the adult Bible class message from Ed Hughlett Sr., and then clicking on down through the worship service and sermon by Doug Kutilek.  Please note that there are Parts 1 and 2 for both the adult Bible class and sermon.

Ed Hughlett Sr. bring this week's message about life's power.  We are currently going through the book of Philippians.

This week, we are blessed to have Doug Kutilek, a reputed Bible scholar who has attended three colleges and four seminaries and graduate schools.   Doug expounds on John 16:33 in the sermon "A World of Trouble," a fitting title and topic during this time. We think you will be blessed by this message.  Thank you, Doug!

Due to technical difficulties, we are unable to share this week's worship service and sermon, but we do have the first 30 minutes of Adult Bible Class below.  We apologize, and hope to be able to share full services with you during the month of June.

Ed Hughlett Sr. bring this week's message about life's power.  We are currently going through the book of Philippians.