The new CD with the praise and worship songs of the “Salvation” church called “You are the only One” will be released soon. Everyone who wishes can hear and watch the presentation of the CD at the celebration of the church’s anniversary on Saturday, 25 September, at 6.00 p.m. It will be held in a form of the festive concert where all the songs will be performed live. There will also be an opportunity to meet their authors.

The new CD is now being manufactured. It will include twelve songs by different church authors performed in various styles.

“The CD will include some accapella songs and others of different musical styles. Everyone will be surprised by the styles of the performance and the arrangement of the songs,” the worship pastor of the church Ganna Ponochevna tells. Also, some new soloists and leading musicians were involved in the process of the recording, in particular, saxophone player Oleg Nazarchuk and the famous guitar players Vitalii Rustamov and Anton Popov.

 The “Luka” recording studio has prepared a real surprise for all who loves to praise the Lord by singing which is timed to the appearance of “You are the only One” musical album. The separate CD with the phonograms for all the songs will be released together with the praise CD. Besides, the lyrics and chords of all the presented compositions will be available at the church website.

The regular water baptism ceremony was held in the “Salvation” church, which is headed by pastor Philip Savochka, in Vyshneve town on 5 September. 24 new brothers and sisters joined the church this day.

“We are very glad to greet you!” - pastor V. Naboka noted when addressing the new members of the “Salvation” church. The congratulation to remember for the new church members were the flowers and the Bibles given to each of them. One more special present was the prayer of the blessing said by the church as a sign of admitting them into the spiritual family.

As it was reported before, the water baptism ceremony is held in the “Salvation” church on the first Sunday of every month.

The “Salvation” church holds the summer holiday camp for youth and children yearly. This year, unlike all the previous years, it was not held in the rented premises, but in the “Tabor” Prayer & Health Centre of the church located near Radomyshl town (Zhytomyrska oblast). About 300 children had the joyous and useful time at the first and third children’s sessions, and more than 200 young people did at the second youth one. Some instructors and coordinators constantly attended to them being near.

The program of the children’s camp was called “Visiting a baker”. The children knew about the entire process of the appearance of bread from the grains to a warm and fragrant loaf in an interesting and theatrical form. A baker told them about all the stages of the process of baking step by step and paralleled them with some spiritual truths daily. To make it more obvious and memorable the children were involved in some visual studies. They really took some flour, salt and water to make the dough. Then they used it to make different biblical characters. One of the days the children had the prayer for the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Almost all children got baptized and the ones who had been baptized earlier got renewed in it.

Besides the spiritual program the children were involved in some interesting and instructive games. They did some morning exercises and played football, field hockey, badminton and other outdoor and sport games every day.

Another interesting event was the “birthdays” night. All camp celebrated all the birthdays at the same time! 18 cakes decorated with candles and fireworks were made for this event. After singing the congratulatory song “Happy Birthday to you!” everyone had the joyous time drinking some tea with the cake and merrily sharing their impressions about the nicely spend time with each other. The pastors and the ministers of the church visited the children every evening. In particular, the guests of the camp were pastor Valeriya Budai, Roman Korniiko, Volodymyr Tsyvyliuk, Iryna Shorohova, Mykola Savchuk, Tetyana Keba and Natalia Savchuk. They brought the word from the Lord to the children and shared it at the common children’s services. 

The youth session was held under the slogan “Real Life!” The boys and girls found out what the life of a true Christian must be during ten days of their rest.

One of the bright events of the rest was the election of the camp’s president. Olexii Savochka gained the victory over other candidates by arousing the interest of the voters by his program and the promises to hold some appreciable reforms. He really kept his promises afterwards!

The youth and children were in the atmosphere of the constant spiritual support and exhortation every day. God’s presence and blessing were sensed in the camp right from the first services and the sound of worship.

The senior pastor of the church Philip Savochka visited the youth in the camp and besides the spiritual food in the form of the sermon teaching that the important things must always remain important he prepared a surprise for everyone. He arranged a volley-ball tournament. The instructors and the ministers won it with the great disparity in score. Also, the pastor suggested that a ‘lazybones day’ should be held in the camp. So, the youth had an opportunity to take a rest up to 11.00 a.m. of the next day and then everyone went to a pond and idled at the beach for the rest of the day.

One of the features of the camp was the workshops by interests. The singing, playing guitar and drums, dancing, dramatic art, photographing and visage arts are the workshops where the young people delightfully learned the new things and discovered their gifts and talents. The youth was constantly in motion. Different tournaments were held daily.

Besides, different pastors, the church ministers and some invited guests visited the camp every day. Pastor Tetyana Keba, Roman Korniiko, Volodymyr Chernopyskyi from Kamenets-Podolskyi city and Andrii and Maryna Bilonozhko from Kyiv city shared messages with the youth. A saxophone player Oleg Nazarchuk joined the musicians at the time of the worship and Tetyana Shylova and Oleg Maiovskii ministered by singing.

The yearly culmination of the camp is the special service called “Tabernacle”. One of its features is that the children and youth go through the main spiritual program of the camp before this service being prepared and open for the changes which God usually makes in their hearts each time during the “Tabernacle”. This year the “Tabernacle” held at the youth session was an especially blessed service. There were many important events at it. The service began with two separate seminars for boys and girls. The young people openly asked some questions that disturbed them and the pastors gave the exhaustive and wise answers. The senior pastor Philip held the seminar for the boys and his wife, pastor Nina Savochka, held the similar seminar for the girls. After getting the answers to all of their questions the youth turned their hearts and attention to the Lord in praise and worship.

Then everyone participated in the Communion and took the notes with the Biblical references and prophesies, prepared by the pastors beforehand, and prayed that the word he or she would read may be a real personal revelation and prophesy from the Lord. The ones who needed extra explanation could speak to the pastors who were ready to explain the meaning of each note. When everyone received a word of instruction or prophesy the senior pastor anointed the young people with oil as a sign of being set apart for the ministry to the Lord. Everyone lit his/her candle from one big candle and then carried it to a symbolical big wooden cross leaving it at its foot. Pastor Tetyana Keba explained to the youth that the fire of the Holy Spirit that they had received in the camp is to be carried further that it may kindle the hearts of other people for the Lord.

After that the youth had some free worship. Someone just prayed and someone else sang or read the Word of God. After the end of the service everyone returned to his/her room and continued to share the impressions about the service and tell each other the exhortations and prophesies they had received through the notes. All of them were impressed by how much the words from God had coincided with everyone’s needs.  

So, besides having the fun, sport games and entertainments in the camp the young people have also been spiritually renewed there. They have burnt with God’s fire in the new way. They will recall this wonderful camp for a long time preparing for and looking forward to the next one, but now is the time to realize everything they have learnt and received from God for this short but such a blessed period of the rest!

The testimony about God’s power showed at the service of healing and deliverance on 25 July, 2010.

Sergii telling:

There was a time in my life which is painful for me to recall about. I was addicted to alcohol although I did not consider myself an alcoholic. I did not take any medical treatment and I thought I was a usual normal person though I used to drink daily and especially at weekends and holidays. Every morning I would say to myself that I would not drink, but then I grew weak in the evening and I got drunk again.

Another addiction that I had was stealing. I worked at an enterprise which produced flour and I just could not keep from stealing. I used to steal flour, bran and just anything which was kept badly. It looked like drug addiction… To pass by the guards, to take the stolen things out of the enterprise and then to sell them – all this troubled me much and created some tension which I then needed to relax by something. Of course, I relaxed by drinking. I would go out and get drunk not paying attention to my family.

Liudmyla, the Sergii’s wife, telling: I got married in 1983 for love, but some disillusionment filled my life in time. I did not want to live although I had a child, because my husband would get drunk every day. My and my daughter’s life bore a strong resemblance to sitting on a barrel with gunpowder, for we did not know what was in store for us during a day. The life turned into the hell on earth…

Sergii telling:

I looked into my wife’s eyes and I could obviously see some hatred towards me. And it was completely justified. My life and deeds made her look so.

Of course, I did not want to have such a life, but I did not see any way out. This very languishing generated in me the desire to seek for God. I knew one lady whose name is Galina for many years because I had constantly used to buy vodka from her. One day, just before Christmas, I came to her place for a regular portion and she gave me an invitation to the “Salvation” church instead of vodka.

It was Christmas next morning and I together with my wife went to the church for the first time.  The things that happened in the church have changed my life forever. I liked everything I had seen and heard in the church very much despite the fact that I understood very little of it. When the alter call was made I sat down that nobody may have noticed me, but I heard a voice inside me saying, “This is the very thing you have wanted!” “Yes, I did!” I said. “Then stand up and go!” the voice continued, and I replied, “Ok, I will go!”  

Liudmyla telling:

When we came to the church I did not realize what was going on yet. I though that my sinful husband was the one who needed it, because I considered myself a righteous person. I continued to expect that he would get drunk again every evening, but the time went by and he did not drink. It was a real miracle for me.

Sergii telling:

When I and my wife sincerely repented before God our life changed completely. I sensed that I do not want to drink any more in the very first day after the repentance. Those of you who know what the alcoholic slavery is will understand me well. The evening came, however I did not want to drink! I was very impressed and I realized that the thing that had happened to me was not just a ritual, but the work of the power of God. I got completely absorbed into the new life in the church and began to serve God. The only thing that connected me with my old acquaintances is my testimony because I began to help the people having the same kinds of addictions I had used to have right after my repentance. This is how God began to use me in the rehabilitation ministry gradually. 

Seeing the miracles that God was doing in my life I hoped that He would also change the relationships between me and my wife. We consulted some ministers a lot and I was recommended to take notice of my pride. At first I could not understand what the matter was, but then God showed me that my very pride had prevented me and my wife from building up our family in the right way. I did not pay attention to my wife being completely preoccupied with myself right from the beginning of our family life. Therefore I understood that for me to have the real relationships I had to learn to understand and love her.

Liudmyla telling:

I took the great offence at my husband. I used to hate him. Even a little conflict could easily cause hysteria and draw tears. But once I heard a sermon by pastor Philip saying that a man who does not forgive does not inherit the Kingdom of God. I was scared because I understood that I may have not got to heaven owing to my attitude towards my husband. I began to ask God to help me to forgive. Some time passed and I became free from it! Even if we had a usual everyday conflict I just could not take any offence at my husband any more. Resentment and hatred have left my life forever.

Sergii telling:

Before, I and my wife often abused each other and could have no communication for months. However, God gradually changed us. He gave us patience towards each other. I know for sure that we would have never succeeded without God’s help. Our relationships constantly changed for better. Eventually our family became an example for following and we were invited to the “Father’s House” where we have already lived for five years showing the little orphans an example and model of the Christian family and love.  

Liudmyla telling:

Today our whole family lives with the Lord. Sergii is a rehabilitation pastor. I help him. So do our two daughters. I believe and know that we will serve the Lord until the end of our days.

Sergii telling:

To say that I am just a happy man means to say nothing. I pray crying before God and thank Him that He is in my life every morning. I bathe in God’s mercy and grace. I have not deserved it, but I realize that God is so good that He has loved each of us despite who we were and what we did before meeting Him. He can lead out of any hopeless situation and replace old things with absolutely new ones. The new feelings, relationships and life are what God has given us!

The evangelistic service of healing and deliverance was held in the “Salvation” church on 25 July again. It began with the following words of a hymn “Glory and honor and praise to God and His Lamb forever!”

When addressing the present ones with the words of greeting pastor Valerii Saraniuk said, “God wants us to be especially sensitive and attentive to His voice and then He will show His mercy to us without fail!”

“Whose words will you believe?” the praise group headed by pastor Ganna Ponochevna sang addressing the church. “We will believe the Word of the Lord!” the church answered in one accord.

As ever, there was a video clip showing a story about God’s miracle which happened in one family. It was the story about Sergii and Liudmyla who experienced the special grace of God when He delivered Sergii from chronic hard drinking and restored the true feelings of love and respect in their family which had been destroyed for the years of Sergii’s alcoholism and his wife’s hatred towards him. You will have an opportunity to read the full text of this testimony in the “News” section of our web-site soon.

After the video clip the heroes of this story came upon the stage to the applause of the church. Pastor Mykola Savchuk asked them to tell the people who are still in the captivity of sin how to be delivered from it. Sergiy and Liudmyla advised everyone to believe in God wholeheartedly and ask Him for help and then the Lord will give the answer and power to struggle against sin and overcome it without fail.

The church said the prayer of blessing for the happy couple.

“Help me! I have the last hopes for I am dying without You, Lord!” the church sang in the deep worship.

Pastor Tetyana Keba preached this day. She shared the message called “Incredible deliverance”.

The sermon turned into the prayer for healing and deliverance of people. The deep worship to the song called “At the Cross” went on during this prayer. Many people at both services testified that they had sensed how God touched them and healed them of their illnesses or delivered from the fears and addictions. In particular, there were some testimonies about the disappearance of the heavy pains which had worried some folks for a long time. The people told that pain in the spine, some inner organs, head and stomach had disappeared. Some were delivered of the lingering depressions and the fear of the unknown which had worried them for years. One young man who came to the church service just for the second time told that he had been addicted to drugs, but any desire to take them disappeared after the prayer.

Pastor Tatyana called the people who need the repentance to come forward. Many people responded to the altar call at both services saying the prayer of repentance as a token of their reconciliation with God.

The service ended with the prayer of thanksgiving and the Lord’s Prayer.

When greeting all the present ones at the service pastor Valerii Naboka read a passage from the Bible, Hebrews 6:9-12, and said, “The Bible says that the salvation is very important for us! We must always be careful that no sin, vanity or problems could distract us from following Christ and, as the result, deprive us of the eternal life. It is important to serve God and people because the Lord remembers and values our service. Therefore, let us perform it with fervency which does not weaken. It will help us to inherit God’s promises!”

The praise group led by Mariya Suschuk sang and called the church, “Every knee will bow before Him! Nations and peoples will worship the Holy One!”

This time some guests from Holland visited the church. The team consisting of 18 people led by Vilma Van Rolken, who is an old friend of the church, had come to the “Father’s House” on a voluntary basis and they came to the service.

When making some announcements pastor Mykola Savchuk told the church about the state of affairs at the youth shift of the rest camp which is going on in the Prayer & Health Centre of the church near Radomyshl town. After the end of this current shift there will be the third shift for children. Therefore pastor Mykola invited everybody who would go to participate in it to come forward to the stage. The church said the prayer of blessing for the children and instructors.

Also, pastor Mykola reminded that the regular water baptism ceremony will take place soon, in particular, on 8 August. Pastor Mykola explained what the water baptism is and why it is necessary for those people who have not entered the covenant with God yet. “No relationships are reliable unless they are backed by a contract!” he said, “Even if companies trust each other greatly they sign documents confirming their contracts anyway! If there is no contract and mutual promise then there are no reliable and trustworthy relationships. The same is true about relationships with God. He wants us not only to be friends with Him. He expects for serious relationships backed by the water baptism!”

Pastor Mykola called the church to say a prayer for those people who are preparing for the baptism or still hesitating about receiving it.

Then pastor Yuri Tsyvyliuk made an announcement that a regular evangelistic service of healing and deliverance would take place in the “Salvation” church next Sunday. He read the story written in the Book of Acts 8, verse 26 and on. It says that God told apostle Philip to go to a solitary road at midday. There he met an Ethiopian eunuch who was in charge of all the treasury of the queen of the Ethiopians at that time. “Philip could have given up going to the unknown roadway at that hot time of the day. But God knew that he would meet the important man there, witness about Christ to him and baptize him. The same thing applies to our life, i.e. if we listen to the Lord then He will lead us there where we will meet people longing to know God!” pastor Yurii explained. He invited the people, who are planning to receive the concrete directions from God through the prayer concerning where to go and whom to witness to during the next week, to come to the stage. The church said the prayer of blessing for the evangelists. They were given special invitations and the leaflets with instructions about the practical part of the evangelization.

“I will find peace in You, Christ. I believe in Your power! Let it rage and thunder, I will soar over the storm with You!” the church sang in the deep worship.

When worshipping, the senior pastor of the church Philip Myhailovych Savochka brought a special gift to God – he invited the ministers of the church rehabilitation centre headed by Sergiy Gasynyak to come upon the stage and blessed them for the ministry.

Then the service was continued with preaching the Word of God. The senior pastor Philip shared the message called “The main things!” He noted that there are some things which must always remain the main ones in our life. You will have an opportunity to read the full text of this sermon on our web site in the corresponding section soon. 

The service ended with many people’s sincere coming to God and the Lord’s Prayer.

It already became a good tradition of the “Salvation” church to release a CD album with the praise and worship songs yearly. Usually, the fruitful and laborious work of the recording, mixing and arrangement goes during a year and then, at the church’s anniversary being usually held on the last weekends of September, its presentation, which is always a long-awaited event, takes place. It is usually held as a festive concert.

So, the “Luke” recording studio has prepared the regular present for the church and all those who loves to praise and worship the Lord this year as well. The new CD which is now being completed and revised is almost ready to be out. It has been called “You are the only One!” It will include twelve songs by different authors of the church.

“We have not had something like this yet!” the praise pastor Ganna Ponochevna enthusiastically tells about the new album “The CD will contain accapella songs and other ones of different musical styles. The first song will become a kind of substantial introduction and the last one will conclude all the messages of the album and sound as a blessing for the listeners.  Everyone will be surprised by the styles of the performance and the arrangement of the songs. For instance, one of them will be in chanson style. We expect it to become one of the favorite ones among the drivers of the church!” joked pastor Ganna, “Besides, some new soloists and leading musicians, in particular, a saxophone player Oleg Nazarchuk and the well-known guitarists Vitalii Rustamov and Anton Popov, participated in the recording process. We hope we have managed to do everything possible for the listeners to like this album being intelligible and interesting for everyone. Rock-n-roll, a children’s song, the deep songs of worship, the accapella songs and the evangelistic songs – all these will give an opportunity for every listener to find something familiar and close, new and interesting! We are sure that this CD is much better than all the previous ones!”

Today, the mastering is going on, the printing processed are completing and the papers for getting the copyright are being prepared. In other words, the CD is almost ready! You will be able to see and hear its presentation at the celebration of the church’s anniversary, on 25 September, at 6.00 p.m. The presentation will be held in the form of a solemn concert. All the songs will be performed originally and live. Also the audience will get to know the authors in person.

We invite all who wishes to visit our festivity and enjoy praising and worshipping the Lord together with the performers of the songs of the new album “You are the only One!”