2024 Charity

Jesus Christ's Church

​Xylokeriza, Corinth, Greece

We are excited to introduce you to Natasa Papada of Corinth, Greece. We have chosen Natasa due to her work of reaching people with the gospel, training leaders, planting churches and providing education and encouragement to everyone she meets. You are welcome to contact Natasa today to see how you can help her ministry.
Note: At our retreat, we will do a special offering on Sunday morning to support Natasa Papada and her church.

Natasa Papada, Director

Jesus wants everyone to come to Him for salvation, a relationship, and to live forever in eternity with Him. This past April 2024, Kris Swiatocho had the opportunity to spend a week ministering with single adult, Natasa Papapda, in Corinth area, Greece. Natasa is a mighty woman of God with a heart and passion to reach people for Christ. From a daily ministry to Gypsies, single and women’s ministries, development of local churches including a new home church, to discipleship and leadership development, she doesn’t sit still for long. Listen as she shares more about her work in Corinth and neighboring towns.

PRAISES:
Natasa and her church are seeing a difference in their work; lives are changing. She is also seeing a difference in the work with leaders. She is praying about the next Church plant.
 
PRAYERS:
Natasa would love more funds to provide/pay for teachers on Saturday and to continue providing food, clothing, educational supplies, gas for the car, insurance, etc.
Note: We are praying  for God to provide a van so that Natasa can pick up all the children at once and the funds to pay for the expense of having a van.
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HOW YOU CAN HELP:
If you want to talk with Natasa Papada personally, email her at [email protected]. You can also find her on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/natasa.papada
Phone: +306974491254 or +302741036984
 
If you would like to donate, that is not tax deductible. You can go through her PayPal account. Use Natasa's email, [email protected], to connect with her.
 
If you need a tax deduction, you can donate to Kris Swiatocho Ministries by clicking here or going to www.KrisSwiatochoMinistries.org. Be sure to designate your donation that it's for Greece.

Jesus Christ's Church, Xylokeriza, Corinth
Natasa Papada is a single adult helping to change the lives of those around her. She lives in Xylokeriza village outside Corinth, Greece. Growing up Christian Orthodox, she yearned for a relationship with the Lord that was more meaningful. As a young adult, she would stop attending church, falling into a life without God. Then, at 30, everything changed. She had learned about Jesus in a way she had never known. That she could, in fact, have a relationship with him that would give her hope, direction, and love. She said she surrendered her life to Jesus and asked him into her heart to save her from her sins. To quote her directly: "I can't live without Jesus; he is my oxygen, my rock, my refuge, my comfort, my friend; he is everything in my life." After being saved, she joined a church, meeting others who would help her grow. She was inspired by this kind of discipleship and wanted to do the same for others. Then, one day, God called her into full-time ministry. She started ministering to the Gypsies nearby. Her passion for helping others inspired her to learn more, so she attended Rhema Bible College in Athens. Natasa is a woman on fire for the Lord. Besides working with the Gypsies, she loves to help with Church Planting, start ministries, and train leaders.
 
Natasa oversees and leads the various ministries listed below:
• Every Sunday: Church service that includes ministry to children and youth.
• First and Third Wednesday: Single Women's Bible Study
• Second and Fourth Wednesday: Women's Bible study
• First Saturday: Youth Ministry
• Second and Fourth Saturday: Home church in a nearby village for several families, including Gypsies
• Homebound ministry
• Monday-Friday: Ministry to the Gypsies (see below)
• Every Saturday: Ministry/Education to the Gypsy children
Note: There are occasional events, such as a Christmas party this past December for the Gypsy children, where a donor provided socks, underwear, toys, and pizza. Also, she hosts women's events, leadership training, one-on-one mentoring, etc.

Gypsy ministry:
Years ago, while working in her family's bakery, Natasa delivered bread to the Gypsies. Then, one day, God gave her a vision to turn it into a ministry. Twenty-five years later, it has expanded. Natasa is a mother figure among the Gypsies. She helps with many areas, including helping with paperwork they might get from the school, medical needs such as getting vaccinations, finding legal or other support, governmental paperwork, etc. 99% of all Gypsy parents are illiterate. This is something Natasa is hoping to eliminate with her new teaching model she has on Saturdays.

Present Gypsy ministry:

• Leading Gypsy families to salvation to trust God, walk daily with Him, and attend church. Note: There is no way to fully describe the life of someone who is a Gypsy, the culture, the relationships of men to women, young brides, and so forth. But hopefully, as time goes by, we can communicate more and more about the type of life they have and can support Natasa with her efforts to make a difference.
• Working with Gypsy women in self-care, building self-esteem, and raising their children.
• Teaching basic life skills such as personal hygiene, brushing their teeth (they can't afford the dentist, which is very expensive in Greece), and manners. Also, some gypsies live in tents and have no toilet except a hole in the ground.
• Providing school supplies for the children, lunch while in school (Greece does not provide meals for them while in school.), clothing, shoes, etc. Each morning, Monday-Friday, Natassa takes lunch to the nearby village for 23 children and ensures each child gets on the bus. If a child doesn't attend school, Natasa does not provide a meal or other support. She also provides any school supplies they need and what clothing or shoes are donated.
• Providing education on Saturdays. Natasa goes back and forth four times in the morning and four times in the afternoon, picking up and dropping off the children at the church so that they can get help with school lessons, something to eat, and education about God. The ministry has many volunteer teachers but is in critical need of more resources to pay the teachers and buy supplies.

 
The ultimate goal of the ministry to Gypsies, other than salvation, is to help them escape poverty and one day live outside the village, to have a regular life, a job, and a family and provide for them.

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Vera and Alezander Molla

I am so thankful to The Singles Network Ministries and the singles at the Labor Day Weekend retreat in 2019  for your generous gift to Seeds of Goodness Ministries in Albania. We were able to feed so many people and love them in Jesus. We paid our workers, purchased some new equipment, paid for training plus so much more. Praise Jesus. —Vera Molla, Albania