Carl Dambman, coordinator of Athletes in Action (AIA) for Euro-Asia
I am so thankful for the opportunity to see some of the fruit from three decades of serving in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Ion Keptene from Moldova (7th Dan Black Belt Tae Kwon Do) arrived yesterday to teach leadership and discipleship. We first met in 1991 a few weeks after Ion and his key disciple in TKD had trusted Christ and were told by the church leadership to leave sport. I shared with him scripture and person testimony of how God can use sport for His glory and bring many to Christ. Ion and Vasile are greatly used by God, teaching inductive Bible study methods and training young sportsman in Moldova, and many hard places in Asia and around the world. The half hour I spent with them at the Bible Conference in Moscow in 1991 was the best investment I have made in 3 decades of ministry in Europe. Ion and Vasile have key disciples in Moldova who have multiple generations of disciples. Thousands of young athletes are being trained by them and their disciples. They also mentor leaders in most of the 15 former Soviet Republics and many other countries teaching Bible and how to train sportsmen in spiritual and physical disciplines.
Irene from San Diego
Dear pastor Ion,
I finished reading your book Control over your thoughts in Russian and I am thanking the Lord for our encounter. It was truly the answer to my prayer.
I am a fairly new Christian (baptized Nov. 29th, 2009) that was getting more questions and less answers in the local church. I had an address for a different church to check out sometime, but I did not until the Sunday before your seminar started. So that Sunday I was surprised to find myself visiting new church, but as it turned out it was divine appointment. Because I went there that day I was able to join your 3-part evening seminar next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Read more.
Maurice from Oxford
Hello man of God,
I am so glad to hear from you. Firstly let me start by saying a big thank you to you for totally yielding everything to the Lord. I was very touched by the sermon you gave at the conference. It was not because of any clever use of words but by the literal presence of the Spirit of God which I felt as you started to speak. I will be very honest and say I was not expecting what I got from you, but God has a funny way of letting us know not to assume things when He is in it. Read more.