We always enjoy writing to you through this eNewsletter. We have exactly 300 subscribers and always appreciate feedback from you. We like to hear about what God is doing in this region of the world. A few comments are included at the end of this newsletter.

     We would like to introduce you to an online magazine (eZine) that the United Church has produced for the past 11 years called Virtual Christian Magazine. It is a periodical that features articles primarily about practical Christian living. The articles are short, relevant and designed to be read at your computer. Inside this newsletter we include the table of contents for the current December edition. We have articles about knowing when to speak and when not to, the importance of family mealtime.  Also, one that may be of special interest in our area: Is Religion Dead?  You can easily go the publication online at www.vcmagazine.org.  

     In the November/December edition of the Good News we once again included our Nordic Newsletter. We are trying to get as many as possible to subscribe to THIS electronic eNews as it is produced more often and much more economical to distribute. Our circulation in the Nordic countries has gone through a renewal cycle and decreased some. We are always searching for new subscribers, mostly through our Internet keyword initiative. 

     We are planning trips to your area in 2010 and look forward to meeting a few new people who have written in expressing interest in the Good News magazine. We received a welcoming note from a family in Helsinki, Finland, but cannot reach them. That would be an easy place to visit as we go through there regularly. Would you kindly write me again at vic@kubik.org?

     There is no lack for work to develop our area through subscribers to literature, visits to the area and hopefully the establishment of churches. We have hired Natasha Weatherhead who speaks Russian fluently and currently lives in Barbados. Her visa is still in process to emigrate to the United States and work from our Home Office in Cincinnati. We were hoping that this would happen in July. It is already near the end of the year and her application has still not been acted on by Immigration Service.

    

Johnnie Lambert

Our Associate Pastor Johnnie Lambert has had his second knee replaced on December 10th. He is an indefatigable worker who has devoted so much of his life to serving in the Baltic States. He will be in Estonia and visiting in the Baltic States throughout the month of February. Johnnie would like to write the following to all of you: 
     "I have gotten many cards and reports of people praying for me in my recovery. It is not feasible to write individually to everyone and thank them for their well wishes and prayers. Consequently I am reduced to sending an e-mail to many concurrently. This is one of my first messages since the surgery last Thursday. 

     The surgery went quite well. I had one episode of intense pain on Thursday night, but finally I was given some strong medication, so no real problem. I am now walking without aids, though very slowly and carefully. This surgery seems if anything to progressing even a little better than last April."

     You can view this newsletter plus all the previous ones on the Web at http://kubik.org/ucgee. If you had this newsletter forwarded to you, you can order your own automatic subscription on that page.  We always enjoy hearing from you. 
 

 

 

                                                       In Christ's service, 
                                                      
 

                                                       Victor Kubik

                                                       Senior Pastor

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