Wednesday, December 26, 2007
CHURCHES UNDER SIEGE
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Dear Prayer Partners,
Saturday, November 17, 2007
impact ministries november update
Thursday, October 25, 2007
dear prayer partners
October 24th through Sunday 28th, we are ministering in Anchorage. These services will be unique with the Samoans, Koreans, Spanish, Russian and English churches cooperating together for an International Missions Conference. We believe this delights God when the whole spectrum of the Church comes together, especially for prayer in the name of Christ and links their vision and their heart in fulfilling the Great Commission.
The following weeks we have meetings in the Anchorage, Palmer and Wasilla area which include preaching in Korean churches, English and Russian services. November 5th is Richard's 60th birthday and we will be in Anchorage with our dear friends, Ralph & Alice Kurka. On the way home, we stop in Wrangell, Alaska (November 8th through 11th) where we will be ministering. We return home on November 12th for a short time to be with family over Thanksgiving.
November 23rd, day after Thanksgiving we leave to minister in Monterrey, Mexico. We are the only American participants in a Latin American Missions Congress, hosted by The Kings Castle Fellowship of Mexico. There will be guests from Costa Rico, Brazil, Argentina and we will be representing the rest of the world, in particular Eastern Europe. For this we need a heavy anointing to challenge and change the patterns of many of the churches and leadership to lifting their eyes and behold God's desire for the nations. The prophetic word that God has given us for Mexico is this: "There is coming an hour when it will no longer just be said that God is moving in Argentina and Brazil, but it will be said, "There is a new move of God in Mexico that is shaking and taking the nations."
After the Conference in Mexico, there is a solid 10 days of ministry in churches in the Monterrey area. When we had services in Monterrey this last March and April, we saw mighty outpourings of the Holy Spirit on churches and youth and we are expecting even greater things in God in this coming visit. Please pray for our health, our safety and transportation and especially for God's anointing that breaks every yoke. God has given us an overwhelming love for the Spanish people and they in turn have adopted Sara and I as family in Christ.
We return from ministering in Mexico on December 12th and plan to be home until the end of the year before leaving for Russia, England and Ireland in January of 2008, Lord willing.
Thank you for your prayers, your covering, your caring and your covenanting together with us in casting the net to the nations.
Yours in the Bonds of Calvary,
Richard & Sara Michalski
Friday, October 19, 2007
Thank you faith partners
provided a miracle release through sacrificial giving. $14,000 dollars has come
in, ear-marked for helping feed the villages that are most devastated by crop
failure. There will be multiplied hundreds of people fed and encouraged by
your sacrifices in the villages near Kherson. The young and the elderly will
be upholding you in prayer because there will be food on their table that were
donated by brothers and sisters in Christ whom they have never seen but will
see in eternity. The Gospel now to them is more than just words in the air,
but it has become a heart issue and their testimonies will resonate
throughout friends and family in the entire region of Southern Ukraine.
We still have two weeks before the final donations and offerings need to be
in, in order to be hand delivered to the most severe points of this crisis.
Jesus said, "If you have done it to the least of my little ones, you have
done it unto me." We are believing for a miracle of an additional $10,000.
This will help start to set up a long term solution for this impoverished area.
Four acres of land is being made available for us on which Impact Ministries
plans to set up a bakery and a medical clinic. In this region of 83%
unemployment, this would become a lifeline and testimony of the Lord's mercy for
miles around.
Thank you for those who have sacrificed and for those who have not yet
given, we implore you for Christ's sake and the Gospels, please be part of the
tremendous HARVEST YOUR GENEROSITY WILL REAP. Your gifts small or great will
make a difference in time and eternity. Thank you for your prayers that have
made these miracles happen.
As soon as any pictures come from the distribution, we will pass them on to
you.
Together Manifesting Calvary's Love,
Richard & Sara Michalski
with Impact Ministries
P.O. Box 2500
Redmond, WA. 98073-2500
Tel: (206) 321-2407
Thursday, September 20, 2007
"HEALING - THE CHILDREN'S BREAD"
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
MID-LIFE CRISIS OR MID-LIFE TUNE-UP
I am beginning to realize some of the Old Testament laws that God had put in place was not filler space of types and shadows, bridging us into the New Testament but rather by the inspiration and wisdom of God,all of what is written and said in the Word has merit for us in the 21st Century. On the mission field, sometimes "fish oil" is the only fuel available and I am presently undergoing a sixty-year tune-up. My filters have been changed, my spark plugs have been changed and I am coming home with a new vitality and vision for what God wants to do through Sara and I and Impact Ministries in the future. The treatments here in Perm, Russia have consistently brought my blood pressure down to 120/70 and my blood sugars have been returned to the normal range. I feel new strength in my legs and my heart doesn't seem to be stressed out, despite the very HOT TEMPERATURES and stair climbing we have been doing daily to our fourth floor of our apartment.
We attribute this most of all to the mercy of God's healing covenant, provided by the stripes of Calvary in Jesus Christ our Lord. We thank each of you who have affectively released that covenant and its efficatious application to our lives through your prayers. Sara has had several other health issues that God has addressed which we are also eternally grateful for. We thank God for each of you that covered us with your prayers, your giving and just being our friends. God is better to us than our feeble words can tell and we can indeed say with the "Psalmist" "That the lines of our life have fallen into pleasant places." Isaiah is right when he declares, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint."
Thank you for waiting with us and believing together for our heavenly tune-up. We are coming home July 26th, renewed in the Lord and the power of His might, due largely to your agreed participation and prayers. God bless each and everyone of you with health, healing and God's greatest happiness in your lives and family.
In Christ,
Richard & Sara Michalski
Impact Ministries
P.O. Box 2500
Redmond, WA. 98073-2500
KNOWING THE WEATHERMAN
It came as a personal revelation to me the other night as the Lord spoke to me in a form of a question. The question being, "Haven't you noticed, son that when you come into a city or a nation; when Sara and you come prayed up, the level of Spiritual conflict is often manifested by sudden changes in the weather?" I remember just a few short years ago, we brought a team with us from City Church and several other churches. Pastor Jay Smith, one of the associate pastors from another church has blessed the Body of christ as a gifted song writer. He had a melody in his heart and head for ten years but no words to complete the song. While flying to the Ukraine with us, at 30,000 feet in the air, the words began to flow, "Letit rain upon the Ukraine as never before; Let it rain on the Ukraine with the floy of the Lord. I can see the lightening flashing; I can hear the thunder roar; Let it rain upon the Ukraine, with the Glory of the Lord."
Several nights later in a village venue, Pastor Jay decided to sing this song with God's new words. Just as he began to sing in an area that had not seen rain for over three months, God punctuated the daybeau of the song with lightening flashing and the roar of thunder. Needless to say, the congregation and all under the covering of this "House" were electrified by the punctuation of Heaven. As he began to sing, the tin roof of the church began to be pelted with a heavy saturating rain. Heaven was making a statement and earth got the message in the Ukraine.
As I watched the news real the other night, here in Perm, Russia, the news was punctuated by a heatwave and fires in Greece, Crete and France; a snowstorm in Austria and a heat-wave in New York. Jesus rebuked His generation for being able to discern the skies and not know the hour of their visitation. Is it possible that all nature is convulsing and groaning for Its' REDEMPTION AND THE RETURN OF THE LORD, JESUS CHRIST! Perhaps our generation needs to be rebuked because we see all these things happen and so many millions on the planet are unaware of the part that weather is playing in the final pageant of time.
When in the Ukraine a few weeks ago, one of the elders made a statement that resonated in my Spirit. He said, "We are so glad to see you and your team because whenever you come to town, the weather dramatically changes." Our cry before the Lord upon our leaving the Ukraine was, "Lord, one more time, bring the rain to this dry and thirsty land." I can see the tears of the 'babushka's from the villages telling us this summer, "All we have left from the crop is straw; all else has been burned away from the heat. Unless God does a miracle, we will have nothing to eat!" During the time of Elijah, there was a famine where it had not rained for 3 1/2 years, yet God had provided for His Prophet through blessing a widow and her son. Whether God supernaturally ministers to these widows or better yet, the rain falls on the just and the unjust.
Let the testimony of the Lord fill the land that God answers the prayers of the destitute and hears the cry of His own. The day we were preparing to leave the Southern Ukraine, already the clouds were beginning to form and light rains were beginning to fall here and there. Our petition and prayer is, " Lord, let it RAIN ON THE UKRAINE, both in the natural and in the SUPERNATURAL."
Pray with us that the testimony and the goodness of the Lord will lead many wayward sons and daughters to repentance and faith in Jesus Christ through the tangible testimonies they understand; food on their table and grain in their garners. Let it be Lord for your NAME SAKE, AMEN! In Christ for the Whitened Harvest,
Richard & Sara Michalski
with Impact Ministries
P.O. Box 2500
Redmond, WA. 98073-2500
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Sara and Richard meetings in Seattle
Richard will also be speaking at a Noon lunch on Tuesday 8/7 at the Denny's in Issaquah off Gillman blvd. For more info go to: http://www.eastsidefullgospellunch.com the public is welcome.
Exciting special details of the Russian trip will be given
News From Russia
Thank you for entering into our fruitful harvest, your prayers and intercession and sacrificial giving. As you have sown and as we have watered, God has been faithful to give us increase. We have seen many astounding miracles, including large cancerous growths instantly removed, hearing in the middle ear restored and dizziness for many years stopped by the power of Christ. Children coming to Christ have been coming by the bucket fulls, alcoholics, drunks and Satanists were jeering and mocking in the last crusade, were instantly sobered by the fear of the Lord to a quick transition of weeping and repenting. All this fruit is on your account that have joined us in covenanting with your covering through prayers and giving.
We get home the end of July.
Love in Christ,
Richard & Sara Michalski
PHASE I of our Eastern European trip completed
We saw well over a thousand decisions for Christ and our last meeting in the Ukraine with NoondaySun saw several thousand young people gathered together on a Sunday afternoon for the International Day of the Child Festival. Some of the crowd was drunk and hostile; others were Satanists trying to disrupt the meeting and trying to put a curse on our team members, but greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world." I John 4
The authority of Christ came upon us and Richard spoke to their laughter, saying, "You may be laughing now, but unless you come to Christ and repent of your sins, there will come a day when your laughter will cease and you will be crying out for mercy." It was like a shockwave that hit the crowd and a Godly silence hit the people. Moments later multiplied hundreds raised their hand for Salvation, prayed the sinners prayer of repentance and received New Testaments.
Thank you for making these miracles possible through your giving and through your prayer covering. We were able to purchase over 100,000 Russian New Testaments. During our leadership and women's conference, God was present to heal. We received a testimony of a Cancerous growth that was instantly removed and scores of other testimonies of hearing being restored, ulcers being healed, stomach disorders instantly being cured by Christ and speech being restored; all by the precious blood and power of Jesus Christ. God's mercy flowed like a stream among these precious people in the Ukraine as hundreds of hands were raised in our conference, attesting to the healing power of the stripes of Christ.
Thank you again for your covering and prayer.
PHASE II of our trip takes us today by rail, 23 hours into the Ural mountains where we will be ministering until our return to Moscow on the 20th where we will be traveling 500 kilometers, 8 hours by train from Moscow by rail and ministering to a grouping of churches where we have never been to before. Their youth are coming together in several cities and we are believing together for a mighty visitation from the throne of God. Pray that God will save the lost, heal the sick, transform families and that Jesus would be greatly glorified. Pray for our health and our medical treatments that we will be undertaking while we are in the Ural Mountains and we are believing God for a complete healing in this season of our life and ministry.
Gratefully Yours in Christ,
Richard & Sara Michalski
with Impact Ministries
P.O. Box 2500
Redmond, WA. 98073-2500
Monday, June 11, 2007
Upcoming trip to Ukraine & Russia June 15th - July 26th
Thursday, May 24, 2007
TRUCKING WITH JESUS & RICHARD SPEAKING
RICHARD SPEAKING IN KENT WASHINGTON
Over this same week-end, Richard will be preaching at the Ukrainian Assembly of God Church in Kent, Washington on May 27th at 10:00 in the morning and 6:00 P.M. The emphasis will be, "Pentecost Today" as this is the Pentecost week-end. The address is:
Ukrainian Assembly of God Church
Pastor Alexander Shevchenko
23435 - 104th Ave. S.E.
Kent, WA. 98031 Tel: (253) 850-7111
It would be great if we could see some of our friends from that area in the service. Thank you so much for being part of our lives, ministry and family. Thank you for your prayers. God bless you and use you for His Kingdom.
In Christ,
Richard & Sara Michalski
with IMPACT MINISTRIES
P.O. Box 2500
REDMOND, WA. 98073-2500
Tel: (425) 882-0761 email: impactmin@aol.com
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Translated “Chat” session with Erika Rodriguez April 17th (from Mexico)
Hello My dear friend, please tell brother Richard and Sara that we are living the prayer he made, just as it happened with the teenagers in the retreat, it has now happened with the youth group.
3 Teenagers returned and they were unable to stop speaking in tongues even today they are unable to speak Spanish. And Sunday night all the youth group prayed over the adults in the church and started ministering to them, and they started falling under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, they prayed over a father and his little boy of 3 years old, and they both fell to the floor under the anointing of the Lord. Pastor Paco was very happy he received around 15 prophetic words from the young ones, it was so incredible, like 4 of them hugging him at the same time, and they left and another four came to pray over him and he was zapp on the floor, I cried and cried. The meeting finished at 12:30 but not until the pastor was able to grab the microphone and dismiss us, it was an amazing scene, to see the youth hugging the parents, and the elderly so beautiful! Many are still speaking in tongues unable to speak a word in Spanish, other young ones are speaking with an American accent, others are speaking in Chinese, a sister started speaking in portuguese, we took out all the chairs, everything and everybody were laying on the floor under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. This is crazy but "Welcome Precious Holy Sprit" a sister was telling me, that from another church where she used to attend before, they called her and asked her what are we doing at the Church "La Fe" because everywhere they hear of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that the Lord is bringing,
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News from Monterey Mexican Nationals
Beloved Brother Richard and Sister Sara,
Thank you for sharing such glorious and precious testimony, with us, we are praying for the comfort of the Holy Spirit over your lives, you are in our hearts.
Thank you for being such a living testimony of your love, passion and surrender to the obedience and voice of the Holy Spirit, the breakthrough and the open heavens you left in the church and in the lives of many of us. There are no words that could describe what the Holy Spirit has been orchestrating. We've been in the new building for 2 weeks now… and there is such a Joy and rejoice during praise, a brokenness in the worship and an amazing conviction during the message. Pastor Paco is not even finished sharing the message and the souls are coming to Christ. Last week 50 new souls came to accept the Lord, it's like waves of the presence of the Holy Spirit bathing his church. I have no words to describe what the Holy Spirit is doing… the teenagers/youth group are doing evangelistic campaigns in schools, and parks. The church is going for evangelistic outreaches, there is a hunger like never before for His Presence, Thank YOU. Thank you for literally being at the altar of sacrifice and pay the price so we could live these glorious times which we are guarding with a holy reverence because we don't want the visitation to end. The first Sunday in the new building the church was completely full, there were people even standing, over a 1,000 people. There is a great expectation on what Will Jesus do Today?, it's so precious….no earthly words can describe the visitation of the groom to the bride, Thank YOU.
In my life there has been a complete revolution that the Lord has brought to my heart, been learning about all this new area, which I had no idea of, heavens have been left open at home, in the middle of the night .. the Holy Spirit wakes me up to have communion with him there is a hunger and thirst, so many words in the Bible have come alive. I know you understand me… there are no words to describe this…his presence its so beautiful…unspeakable… just to be there and wait on him… Thank you! Thank you!
My heart will always be full of gratitude and honor to you for what you did for this servant.
How are you sister Sara? How is brother Richard? His feet? We are praying for you.
Receive Rufeshka and Ignacio's Love and prayers as well, she left today to
I Love you,
Marushka
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
BETWEEN HEAVEN and EARTH!
As you may or may not have heard, Sara and I with great personal regret celebrated Nadejda Ilyin's "HOME GOING" May 3rd, 2007. What you didn't hear was the glorious account of over a week of being suspended, sometimes in heaven, sometimes on earth and sometimes between the two. God answered Sara's prayer in that she was allowed to see her mother upon our return from ministering in Mexico. What a glorious several weeks the family had, singing the songs of the Lord, reading the Word of God aloud and praying one for another.In the final days of Nadejda's life, she helped us unlock some Spiritual secrets. For example: She said there is a huge difference between heavenly angels and earthly angels. The heavenly angels not only are bigger with a beautiful tan, bronze look, with skin that is so radiant that it shines like it was on fire, but they are also different in that they often speak in three's saying, "Holy, Holy, Holy," "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah," and "AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!" In one of these meetings with mom, we were introduced to Moses, who by the way according to mom's account is very tall. We also by her accounting were introduced to King David and to Isaiah. These introductions were paled by our being personally introduced to the Heavenly host by mom. For example: Nadejda would say, "This is Richard, Sara's husband. He is a preacher of the Gospel you know and he has a pure heart." My brother in law, Paul was introduced as a singer in the church choir and was said to be a "Nazarite", again, with a pure heart. At these moments, Nadejda recognized everyone coming into the room; knew them on their first name basis but would look past them and introduce them to the heavenly host. These final days were punctuated by her releasing every one that had offended her and every thought of ill will plus interceded prophetically over each one of our lives. We saw a sense of humor with a gregarious laughter, underscoring her speech.One of the things we saw her do which is so uncharacteristic of her conservative, Slavic up-bringing, is she would put both thumbs up in response to what the angels were saying and doing. With a huge smile on her face, she would say, "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah" and end it with "AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!. The doctors and nurses were amazed, though her body was ravaged by cancer as her organs closed down, she was in NO PAIN. She was quick to tell us that the water we were giving her was so polluted and dirty compared to the pure, refreshing water of heaven that satisfies the soul.Nadejda left a legacy of seven children and their spouses, 21 grandchildren and one great grandchild, all redeemed and serving Christ with gladness. She will be greatly missed due to her fervent prayers, intercession and her passion for the Word and the lost. It will take many intercessors to fill the gap and take her place. A few of you have responded in the memorial contribution that we have opened up in honor of Nadejda's memory, which being translated, means, 'HOPE". Michael, Nadejda's husband will be going to Siberia with us in the end of June and July to continue the work and vision the Lord enabled them to begin. So in order to continue the legacy of helping the poor, the homeless and the orphaned, from Siberia to Central China, please send your tax deductible contributions to:IMPACT MINISTRIES, marking the memo line: "HOPE FUND".P.O. BOX 2500REDMOND, WA. 98073-2500Thank you for all your prayers, phone calls, emails, cards and letters. What would any of us do without the comfort of the Holy Spirit and the Body of Christ!Yours in Christ for Souls,Richard & Sara Michalskiwith Impact Ministries
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Saturday, May 5, 2007
Dear family & Friends
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
PROPHETIC FULFILLMENT MEXICO UPDATE
In 2006 when we were picked up at the airport by Ruth & Ignasio. They asked if they could pray for us. Before we even left the airport parking area in Monterrey, Mexico, the prayer had changed to prophecy. Almost all the way from the airport to the hotel, the Lord spoke prophetically into our lives, highlighting prayer burdens that we have had for years and were not verbalized to anyone. When we arrived to the hotel where the conference would be held the next day, Ruth said to us, "One more thing." I thought to myself, "Could we possibly handle this, 'one more thing'? As already we were in a puddle of tears in the van. The 'One more thing' she referenced was a vision her father had forty-five years earlier. As a missionary to Southern Mexico among the Chapas people, Ruth's father saw a vision. Ruth said, "these are his exact words".
"In the end of days a missionary couple from Russia will be coming to Mexico. He has blonde hair and blue eyes and comes from a German background. His wife is Russian, Jewish and born in China. God will use them as a stirring stick to bring revival to many of the Churches in Mexico."
Then sister Ruth turned and pointed to us and said, "You are the fulfillment of that prophetic word".
THE FOLLOWING REPORT IS CURRENT FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 15TH 2007
This now is our second ministry trip to Mexico in recent years. We are seeing God fulfill His prophetic word. On Thursday night last week at the youth camp, the prophetic Word that the Lord declared through us was that He would pour out His Holy Spirit even in the night time and they would be surprised at the magnitude of it in the morning. God filled several people with the Holy Spirit and so mighty was their infilling of the Holy Spirit that some of them couldn't speak in Spanish for days. When calling friends and family or talking to their friends at camp, they replied in tongues. They tried to tell their family on the phone what had happened and again could only speak in the language of the Holy Spirit. Some were so mightily touched that for four days, they were not able to speak in Spanish and were concerned how they would talk once they had to go back to school today.
Two nights later, a similar outpouring of the Holy Spirit fell upon the college career camp, 18 through 30 years of age. Here the promise of the Lord was that He would give waters for them to swim in. At the leading of the Lord, we took water from our water bottle and made a line of declaration across the sanctuary of the camp. Many of the young people just where they knelt were inside that line were touched mightily by the Lord. The Word of the Lord to me just as I was leaving the camp was that the Lord had more in store for them the next day. Their service the next morning started at 10:00 A.M. and it went until 5:00 P.M. without any break. Manna from heaven came down. The youth then traveled from the camp to their evening church service at 6:30 P.M. in Monterrey. They were asked to share testimonies that night in their church as to what God had done to them at camp. One of the words Sara received was that God would make them a flame of fire and obviously the fire of God was still burning. Many testified that they still felt like they were in an inferno of God's Holy Fire.
The youth began ministering to the people in the church and with the churchbeing packed to capacity, standing room only and people sitting on the floor, things got a bit messy in the natural, but glorious in the Spiritual.As people were being prayed for by the young people, the Holy Spirit fell on the congregation as well as on staff and leadership of the church. The 6:30 service dismissed sometime after 12:30 at night.
We thank all of our prayer partners for their prayer covering and we need special focused prayer for this coming week-end as we start ministeringFriday, Saturday, (four times on Sunday) and Sara is ministering in anotherlocation in the evening. We need the stamina of the Holy Spirit and we need a refreshing from the Holy Ghost. After Sunday we have meetings daily until the April 26th, where we leave to minister in Panama until May 3rd. There we have meetings daily in churches as well as city wide crusades. We want God's Miraculous power to come down upon His people and to bring in a mighty harvest of Souls in Panama. Praying for God's signs and wonders to accompany God's Word so that the people will be established not in the words of man's wisdom but in power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit.
Please pray for our health as well. God bless.
Richard &andp; Sara Michalski
with Impact Ministries
P.O. BOX 2500
REDMOND, WA. 98073-2500
Monday, April 16, 2007
Ministry update from Monterrey Mexico
The services have been overwhelming where there have been people coming to Christ in every service, people been healed and set free by the power of Jesus Christ. Praise God! Thank you for your prayers, your sacrificial giving and your investment into our lives and ministry. Your partnering with us makes an eternal difference in the souls the Lord touches. We have seen Salvations in every service, healings and the word of Knowledge in deliverance affecting scores of individuals and families. We were in eight hours of services on Sunday, but thanks to the prayers of God's people, our health is strong.
We will be in Panama from the 26th of April through May 2nd in citywide crusades and churches, and will be returning home to Seattle on May 4th.
The Impact ministries support group writes: We are witnessing an amazing move of God on this trip. This trip to Central America and Mexico is the "spectacular" fulfilment of 3 documented prophecies. The first prophetic word was given in Mexico over 30 years ago, and the other 2 prophetic words were given in 2006. This trip to Mexico and Panama is just the first leg of this prophetic journey which will involve other nations Including India and China.
Our love to the Church Body,
Richard & Sara Michalski
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
IMPACT MINISTRIES PRAYER UPDATE
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IMPACT MINISTRIES "NEWSFLASH"
There is an estimated 70 million Chinese believers awaiting their first time copies of the Word of God. Although we have reached this milestone of one million New Testaments, yet you can see that our task is far from being completed.
We invite any additional interested persons to join us in Phase II of our "Operation Precious Pearls" Project. Impact Ministries is developing what we feel and believe will be one of the finest New Testaments available in Chinese. Features of this Testament will include, Psalms and Proverbs, center reference column, plan of Salvation, map helps and possibly a small glossary or concordance.
Your assistance in this developmental stage would be as greatly needed as the set up work and production cost are extremely heavy to do this project right. Once the initial production is completed, we then will be able to buy these Gospel units at approximately .25 - .30cents each. This will include transport and distribution cost into the heart of China.
Please join us in satisfying one of the greatest, Spiritual births human history has ever known. "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord God, "That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, And from north to east; They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, But shall not find it." Amos 8:11-12 NKJV.
Help us at Impact satisfy what their souls are thirsting for, GOD'S ETERNAL WORD! Your contributions, small or great would be greatly appreciated by us and by the waiting Chinese Church. Be sure to mark the memo line, "Operation Precious Pearls". Should you desire a short DVD for your church group or Fellowship to promote this project, please include that information with your donation. We will send you "China Cry" DVD.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
urgent prayer request
Sunday, February 25, 2007
“SCRUB A DUB DUB,” WASH MACHINE BROKEN, GOT TO USE THE TUB
It is this kind of dedication that stretches our own commitment level and draws us into wanting to participate with their vision, burden and calling. I thought of a great hymn of the Church with the theme, "Little is much when God is in it". Just for the mere cost of a washer and dryer, this church could be advanced in its challenging young men and women to become free from drugs and alcohol and employ several people in the area of the laundry industry. A commercial washer and dryer would retail for approximately $1,600 U.S. dollars. Some of these funds have come in which will free up some of the most dedicated people in God's Kingdom for that church and that region to minister in other affective areas. These Rehabilitation Centers are in actual fact, training centers for future pastors and Christian workers as has been the pattern throughout our travels in these parts of Siberia.
Something as little as a washer and dryer could be a launching vehicle for major church plants and ministry throughout the area in days to come. We saw over 53 church plants in the Siberian region over the last several years with scores of others being targeted by year end. Your contribution, great or small would be eternally appreciated by these precious ones so full of the joy of the Lord which is their strength.
Richard & Sara Michalski
With Impact Ministries
P.O. Box 2500
Redmond, WA. 98073-2500
Tel: (425) 882-0761 or cell: (206) 321-2407
Friday, February 16, 2007
Operation Precious Pearls
If we embrace this Chinese new project, we will call it, "Operation Precious Pearls". Please pray with us for God's leading, for people and personnel and finances to make it all happen. Thank you for your mutual concern for China and thank you for the offering that will be taken for the warehoused Chinese New Testaments which we are still able to buy out at five per dollar.
Yours in Christ for Myriads and Millions Lost,
Richard & Sara Michalski
with Impact Ministries
P.O. BOX 2500
REDMOND, WA. 98073-2500
Tel. (425) 882-0761 email: impactmini@aol.com
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
SLEIGH-BELLS RING
Just like the encounter of Philip and the eunuch in the book of Acts, the man's inquiring heart said, "What must I do to be saved?" This truly was a miracle encounter as the Holy Spirit convinced this man, his good deeds; even to the least of these orphan children was not adequate for his salvation. As is so often the case, after three generations of Communism and Atheism, Sara had to help him formulate a sincere heart-felt sinner's prayer.
Upon completing his calling on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, noticeable tears were brimming at the corners of his eyes. His heart had been touched and transformed by the presence of Jesus Christ. Now his good works would have eternal merit, as they were done in the Name of the Lord. He would now be showing forth God's goodness and mercy to his generation and to the least of these little ones. Truly, our steps are ordered of the Lord, even chance encounters or so we assume they are, can be divine appointments by the directive of the Spirit of God to the salvation of friends, family and total strangers.
Our hearts greatly rejoiced as we solidified the encounter with a prayer of thanksgiving in our vehicle as we pressed further to be part of an orphanage outreach in the next village. All the while, our hearts were overwhelmed in reflection on heavens rejoicing for one sinner who repented. Daily encounters such as these were evident due to the covering of prayers of God's people. Some had sown, some had watered and this was God's hour to bring in the increase. Siberia is ready for a mighty harvest of salvation. Prophetically, God spoke that Siberia would become as a watered garden, blossoming and blooming abundantly, filled with abounding and remaining fruit at every frontier.
Help us sow water and harvest in the vastness of this grand land with its great people, twice the land area of the Continental United States. The church plants in the last ten years can still be numbered in the low hundreds. Millions await their first time hearing of the Gospel and the planting of their lives in a local Church Body with pastors after the heart of God. Impact Ministries is called to work alongside these indigenous churches, lifting up their hands as Hur and Joshua did for Moses, until the battle is won and the victory is the Lord's. Thank you for participating with your prayers and with your giving.
SIBERIAN HEATWAVE
One village church that comes graphically to mind had been allowed to build their wood-plank sanctuary but had exhausted their revenue in one crucial area and that was a central heating system. The piping and boiler works were in place but the cost of tapping into the local gas line was something that the church cannot afford. Needless to say, this church was extremely thankful for the warm weather and for the close fellowship of their small congregation, bundled together in their winter clothing. What a statement could be made to their community and to the surrounding villages of Siberia that the Body of Christ is more than just a local representation, but around the world, It has family members who genuinely care. The Word declares, "When one part of the Body suffers, we all suffer." The Word encourages us to rejoice with those that rejoice. What would happen if the greater Body of Christ helped pay their $2,000 dollar, gas hook-up charge?
What a resounding testimony this would be to both the Redeemed and the unregenerated of the community.
Nestled deep in the Northern Ural Mountains, this church is waiting on God, believing for a miracle and thanking God for every new day where the temperature doesn't plummet to minus 40. We could warm the coggles of their heart and cause the heavens to rejoice by participating in this divine opportunity in Yanina, Siberia.
Sara and I are prayerfully planning on returning to this area in March and both personally over-see the gift of your kindness and generosity. This would be a life changing statement for this church, their people and their little community. We hope to hear from you as God directs.
Yours in Christ,
Richard & Sara Michalski
With IMPACT MINISTRIES
P.O. BOX 2500
REDMOND, WA. 98073-2500
Tel: (425) 885-0761 or cell: (206) 321-2407
Email: impactmini@aol.com
Saturday, January 20, 2007
News From Siberia
Unfortunately Richard became progressively worse in health, with his body retaining fluids and his blood pressure rising to the point that he should be in the hospital and cancel the rest of the trip. They had to rest for several days, but felt that God's call was on this trip and they were not going to give up. The attending doctor went into all night prayer Wednesday night. The next morning the doctor checked out Richard again, and pronounced a miracle healing. His physical appearance had a marked change, and the water retention problem disappeared. His blood pressure returned to normal, and the doctor pronounced him ok for travel. To quote them: The doctor was amazed and they were all rejoicing in the lord. The trip is back on schedule.
They can be reached by phone for several day's now (try either one and be mindful of the timezone change)
011 3912 776 536
011 8913 838 9290
Edit: Their son Jason Michalski Preached at the University District Campus just north of the University of Washington. In the middle of the sermon (32 minutes into it) you can hear the testimony of Richards miraculous healing. God is truly Awesome!
Generation Church: January 24th 2007