Grace to you and peace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ! My name is Sergio and I
am writing to you to let you know that Jesus Christ saved me a sinner of sinners and
freed me from slavery of sin!!!
I grew up in the world, and I searched for pleasure in sin to include: self pride, money,
social status, education, drugs, alcohol, women. There is pleasure in sin for a season
however the wages for sin is death. I was on a path to Hell! In 2018-2019 I was in the
village of Motovilovka, in Ukraine, and the Deacon of the church, Viktor Petrovich, a
seventy year old man, was helping us plant potatoes and he was sharing the Good
News about Jesus Christ! The Lord put it on my heart to search for Him, and through
Viktor Petrovich He saved me. Faith comes from hearing and hearing the Word of God
and the Lord blessed me to study the Word and pray with Viktor Petrovich every
morning around 5 am for about a year. The Lord gave me a new heart during this time
and caused me to be born again.
As an infant in Christ I needed a spiritual father who would help me grow in my faith in
Christ. However I could not stay in Ukraine because I had nearly $200,000 in debt. The
Pastor of the church, Oleksi, and Viktor Petrovich said I needed to go back to U.S.A
and pay back the debt. We announced the need to the church and the church prayed
and a miracle happened, Chase bank sent me a settlement letter to Ukraine for $3,000
when I owed them $30,000. I did not know many brothers or sisters in Christ, or fathers
in the faith in the U.S.A. I wrote many letters to different churches and only one church,
Word of Grace, invited me. It was Pastor Nikolay and the ministry called Mission of
Mercy.
I am thankful to Jesus Christ for this ministry because it teaches that Jesus Christ is
the Way the Truth and Life and only through Him may anyone enter the Kingdom of
Heaven. For nearly six years this ministry which is now part of Living Hope Bible
Church has provided me with spiritual food, a place to live, food, even money to buy a
car when my car got destroyed and I had no money. I am very thankful to the leaders of
Mission of Mercy especially Pastor Nikolay, Sister Diana, brother Paul, Oleksii and
many others who volunteer their time, money, homes, cars, cook food for me and
many others like me. May Christ repay them one hundred fold!
Christ bless all of you!!!