Nose Ring

Just wanted to share a short story (actually 2 stories in one)...

Nose Ring...
This story happened to me when I was in Nepal with my team doing a mission trip.
One morning I wake up and see that the nose ring I used to have is now broken. It is missing the stone. So basically the "main thing". Maybe it seems like not a big deal, but you can't NOT SEE the ugly look of the thing, that is suppose to be a decoration, everytime you look in the mirror. You can't pretend you don't see that it's broken! So after few days I gave up and went to the master with only 80 rupees I had (which is $0.8, and it's nonsense to spend your last money on such things during a mission trip!!). Anyways, I came there and the master said he will fix it, but didn't tell the price. SoI left the stud there and went home... The next day I come back and this master says he couldn't fix my nosering but insted he made a new one which is much MUCH better than the one I had. And when I asked how much does his work cost, he said it is a gift for me... Seriously, a silver nosering with semi-precious stone?!
(this also reminded me of a story of my dear friend about her necklase)
That day I was reminded of what God did to me... The same story. When I came to Him, broken and ugly, the only thing He asked me to do is to only let Him do the work and to surrender...without asking anything back. And He didn't say that He will "fix me", but instead He gave me a new life, He made me a new creation.
So powerful, yet so simple...

Ezekiel 36:26-27

However, it's not the end of the story...

When you take out the nose ring for a while, it is hard to put it back.... The hole becomes smaller with time and may soon close. It is a painful process to put the ring back.

This what happens when you come back to "your world" after you've been gone for a while. It's just painful to fit in.

Oh, how thankful to Him I am! I know it was He who told me "go" and Who was with me all the time. And I know that He would NEVER leave me. So...

It is well, with me... :)

God LOVES people in Tikapur

Oh wow... It's been almost 2 months since I posted something here. Of course, a lot of things have happened during this time, but I will tell about it later. (hopefully) :)

Today I want to share what our Father has put on my heart. It is about Tikapur.
Tikapur is a small town in Nepal. People are awesome and their hospitality is crazy! When we first came to the village these people made a path from flowers for us, swept the dust from our shoes with their hats and kissed our hands. However, people are really poor here, especially in the close villages. I mean REALLY poor. Mud houses, dirty and torn clothes, no money to send children to school etc. And as it usually happens, in such poor places there is a HUGE issue of alcohol addiction. Along with it, women are half of the value of men. So men don't respect women AT ALL! To be honest there vere several times I just wanted to cry or beat up someone when I saw how men treat these poor women and children here. And the worst thing is when you know what they do is wrong but you can't change a thing...

Though it doesn't mean there's no hope.

What hit me recently is that God's love really has no limits!! Despite the past of these people: alcohol addictions, worshiping millions of gods, disrespect and the worst thing - selling their children... God still loves them all!!!!! And they are so precious to the Lord!

Psalm 139

1 You have searched me, Lord,
    and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
    you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
    you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
    you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You hem me in behind and before,
    and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
    too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
    your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
    they would outnumber the grains of sand—
    when I awake, I am still with you.

 Only Father could send some random people from Ukraine, Russia, the US, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Canada to show His love and pray for them. I'm soooooo happy to be part of it! 4 people got saved in one day! God keeps revealing Himself to them. And I hope there would be some who can be true Christian leaders for them.

So the adventure begun!

This is real!!! We have already entered the phase of OUTREACH!!!!!

Thank you all for your prayers and support! After 24 hour trip, we arrived safely to Russia with no problems on the border. Praise God!

Soon we will start our 2-week ministry in the city of Zheleznogorsk. Can’t wait to share how great, loving, caring and just amazing our God is and excited to see what He will be doing through us here.

In 2 weeks we will head to Nepal…. SERIOUSLY!!!!!! This IS real!

There is still an urgent need of financial support for the outreach. Personally I need $700 to pay. $150 I need to pay before January 13!!!! Please pray for that as well!!

But besides all that, things are going really well and we are ready to meet the new year! 

My dear friends,  I wish that this upcoming year will be exciting for you!  May you draw closer to the Lord and He will reveal His absolutely amazing love to you!

Much love and Happy New Year!!
Tanya 

If you would like to help me in the mission,  please pray for my team! And if you want to donate, please pray once again (hehe) and there are some information below:

TETIANA SUKHAREVA

Currency of account: USD

Account number: 26257008204199

Bank name: Public Joint Stock Company “UkrSibbank”

Bank code: 351005

Beneficiary bank (JSC “UkrSibbank”): 

020061151200138

UKRSIBBANK

MOSKOVSKY AVE 60

KHARKIV, UKRAINE

SWIFT code: KHABUA2K

and another variant is you can help through my leader's account:

Accounting Office YWAM Montana, 501 Blacktail Rd., Lakeside, MT 59922. Andrij Futorskyi, Project #3309

"The world is not in your books and maps. It's out there"

3 months of the school: 1 big can of peanutbutter, 3 1/2 packages of coffee, 3  cans of nutella. And we are almost DONE!

The time has come for the adventure as Gandalf was telling about. We only have some couple weeks left in Ternopil. Soon we will engage ourselves into the calling God gave each of us a while ago.... even before the DTS started. 

This is my newsletter and some explanations of what is happening :)

Hi!
So my name is Tanya Sukhareva. I’m from Kyiv. Currently I’m a student of the YWAM DTS (Discipleship Training School) in Ternopil, Western Ukraine.I have one of the best teams I could dream of. Moreover, it is multi-national (we have representatives from Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and the USA).  We are almost done with the 3-months lecture phase and now are preparing for probably the most exciting part of it all, the outreach!This will be a 12-week missionary trip to Russia and Nepal where we will share the Word of God and show hope to different nations.Through the studies and prayers God has given us the vision of where and how we can serve. Part of my team is going to Russia for all 3 months. The other part, including me, will travel to Russia for 20 days and then we go to Nepal. Originally we were planning to go to India, but God had a different plan for us, so this trip becomes a bit more challenging but with a greater purpose. For this mission trip the Lord gave us vision to work and serve in the mercy ministry for children and with Badi people who are considered to be the lowest ranking untouchable caste in Nepal.
I believe that God will use us in a very powerful way there and we will share with them the love of Christ that God has placed in our hearts. We believe that those who saw the world from its worst side can get to know this world the way God has created it. We leave in less than a month so we need your support! Please join us!Prayer support: Nothing can be done well without prayers! Please support us through prayers for the team, the nation, safe travels and the finances we need for this outreach (14500 USD in total for the team)Financial support:Also, if you feel like to support us with finances, that will be great! We would really appreciate your blessing and participation in this live-changing mission! 

Thank you all!
Much love,

Tanya

It's done! Praise God!

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!

Just a second. I will explain.
I got an idea to create some sort of video with pictures and short video clips from DTS. So of course, I started doing it... My poor old computer couldn't handle it for sure. BUT I TOOK A VICTORY OVER THIS MACHINE! It was like: either you kill me or I kill you. And I did! Yaaaaay!
After 9 hours (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) of working on this thing, it is finally finished and of course, posted on Youtube :)

I'm sorry for the bad quality ahead, but I hope you'll enjoy it :)

Oh, here it comes! ....News letter

Oh wow! It’s been already 8 weeks since the DTS started. And I want to thank everyone who helped this dream to come true!

Within these 8 weeks we had learned so much about who we are and our identity in Christ, we’ve learned His names and “sides” of His character, we came closer to Him as we discovered Him as a loving Father, we found out about the gifts and talents He gave us and the dreams He wants us to dream J So I guess you understand what I’m trying to say… This school is probably the best experience in getting to know God better!!!!  We learn to use our gifts: healing, prophesying, sharing the word of wisdom and knowledge, we practice giving, mercy and serving. Soon (in a month!!!!!) we will get a chance to practice this in other nations.

It was challenging from the beginning. Let me explain. First we were planning to go to India. But through our prayers God has showed that we need to go to Nepal! Really! This will be a challenging trip. In order to go there, we will travel to Russia first for visas (because we can’t do it in Ukraine) and will do a 20-day outreach there. So after that – the craziest adventure ever! To NEPAL!!!!!!!

Soon the verse in Matthew 28:19 will become a reality for us!!!!!!!!!!!

Now me and two of my teammates, Anya and Jordan, are working on the ministry for international students. We have guys from Nigeria, Ghana, Iraq and Poland. They are so cool and like to worship. Oh yeah, we had a lot of fun doing worship together J Also we are planning on visiting orphans soon all together.

God is amazing and so good! 

Please continue to pray for us as we prepare for the outreach and as we try to work on fundraising. Each of my team members doesn’t have money for it yet. But we learn to rely on God in every aspect!

If you would like to support me, please let me know.

Thank you all for your help and prayers!

Tanya Sukhareva

+308 066 309 13 00

sukharevatanya@gmail.com

There we are!

No turkey needed

Want to congratulate all my friends who celebrate or not the Thanksgiving Day today. This is a special holiday indeed.

I'm not talking about good food right now (which of course, makes the day even more special). And please don't say something like: "I thank God everyday anyways, why do I need this holiday?!" or "I'm not an American!"

Is this an excuse to not thank God one more time?! I mean, seriously?! :)

There are billion things to be thankful for!!!!!!

Let's come today (in hearts and minds) not as bunch of individuals who are on their own but together as one body (family, friends, fellowship etc.). Let's thank the Lord today for what He has done/doing and will do for us!

I thank Lord for the life He gave me, the one I had before and especially the one as a new creation, for my family and friends all over the world, for my church which is my beloved family in Christ. And I thank the Lord for the amazing things He has prepared for each of us!!!

Love you all!