What if I were to tell you that you were CHOSEN and could take the greatest opportunity of your life? This opportunity would include a salary with all expenses paid, you would also experience the greatest fulfillment and joy but only under a few conditions…it would require you to relocate to the other side of the world and you could never return. Would you take it?
Call me dramatic but let’s face it, it’s more fun this way right?lol Those of you who follow our families story for some years now, you know the path we chose to take wasn’t simple, yet the Lord was calling us into a place of complete surrender and obedience. We were faced with many challenges and hurdles that we were asked to jump and we’ve won many and have failed at some as well(figuratively speaking). In those places of wins and losses, we have learned so much about the grace that our Father has given us to walk this out in His Sons victory day after day. To man it looked/s like failure, but to the Father it’s progress…a progress and journey we each walk out till the day we are promoted to glory. Although we weren’t given such conditions when we jumped on a plane with our family of six and moved our lives to Africa over a year ago, the thoughts of this scenario of not being able to return has. Covid-19 has turned the world into a place of fear and its brought confusion and stress to so many. People are in need of peace and the peace of God lives within you. You are the answer for your area of influence…
These past several months have been quite interesting wouldn’t you say?
May has come so quickly, and this month we celebrate my little guy Moses and my birthday. Another year of victory, and Im so incredibly humbled and honored to be carrying this torch that the Lord has given me 31 years ago. Moses is turning 4 and for those who are curious, he has become the ultimate chatter box! Moses loves dinosaurs and is incredibly knowledgeable on the types and characteristics of these ancient creatures. He uses words like “struggling” and phrases like “that’s berry shark”. Aren’t children so precious? They truly make every day so entertaining lol. Last weekend our amazing OM Team in Chipata decided to surprise and throw me and Moses a birthday party/baby shower and pulled it off so well! We were all so surprised and beautifully reminded of how precious the people around us have become nearly like family. We posted pictures on our instagram stories so if you haven’t seen it yet, you can follow us to get the latest updates on “yana.gorlachev”.
This month we also had some lovely additions to out Chipata Eastern Province team join! Sekelani had a baby boy Cornelius and Edina had a baby girl Sarah. They are absolutely precious and both mama’s are recovery well, Praise God!
Currently our family is working on a plan to get back to the states to prepare for our little girls arrival in July. Thank you to all of you who have prayed and continue to pray that the Lord would make a way, I do believe that He will, and want to thank those of you who have dropped us messages on our phones and have blessed us immensely with extra funds. Our flight with Delta has been canceled and now we are looking to book different flights through another airline and THE only airline that is flying currently in our area. It’s going to cost us an arm, a leg, and a liver probably. We have no other choice but to purchase within the next several weeks because Im currently pushing 30 weeks. If you have it on your heart to sow into that, we want to give you the opportunity to do that below. You can send us finances through our organization which will go straight into our account. [All donations are tax deductible]
http://www.overlandmissions.com/donate
- Go to the link above, and fill in all fields with your info.
- In “donation memo” enter our info [Gorlachev 3244]
- Input the amount you have on your heart to give and submit.
- Done! You should receive an email confirmation after.
You guys are seriously so precious to our hearts and especially to the Lords. God is so faithful and He sustains our accounts amen?! Thank you dearest partners who support us on a monthly basis. The gospel is being preached and lives are being transformed and we couldn’t do it without you. You are the hands and we are the feet!
Speaking in faith, for those who would love for us to come visit your home town, church, or any missions movement that would like to hear our stories and testimonies from Africa, please PM me personally and we will try to organize that into our itinerary. We do plan to travel a bit once I recover from the delivery to visit our ministry partners/friends and we both would absolutely love to encourage the body of Christ, equip and pray for you/your family and enjoy some sweet fellowship. You can message me directly on Instagram @yana.gorlachev or email me at yana@overlandmissions.com.
Although each of our Journeys in this life are different, we serve one vision and that is the vision to make Jesus known to all the earth. To every people group and to every culture. No one is excluded. The gospel is worth the sacrifice and the battles and challenges we face everyday. Three of our children have experienced malaria within a 4 month period. Like I said, we wage war with sickness and death and sickness can attempt to kill and destroy, but we serve a mighty God. When Andrey and I said YES to the Lord, we knew that we were going against the kingdom of darkness. Knowing who we are in Christ stripped us of all fear and we laid our families down before Jesus’ feet. We said Yes to Jesus and He empowered our Yes and gave us the grace for every hurdle we would/will endure. Friends, there is nothing that the Lord won’t empower you to do. If it’s fostering children in your home and showing them the love of Jesus, He will help you do it. If it’s pulling girls out of trafficking to save their lives, He will help you do it, and If He calls you to sow seeds in churches or organizations to fund the Kingdom, He will help and give you the grace you need to accomplish that. Nothing is impossible, and everything is available when your in the center of His will. Whatever God calls you to do, make sure that you are healing the sick, raising the dead, cleansing the lepers, casting our demons. Freely you’ve received, freely give!
We love you and we can’t wait to be reunited with our family and friends very soon. We can’t wait to share what the Lord is doing in the Nations! Thank you for your prayers and likewise as a family we pray for each of you every night. May the Holy Spirit pour His spirit out in your homes, children and neighbors today in Jesus name. Be blessed!
Till next time,
The Gorlachev Family
