From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (597th day):
Our church in Avdiivka, Church Without Walls, had to evacuate to Pokrovsk a few months ago because Avdiivka was under constant shelling, and everything above the ground was damaged. The building where the church rented space in Pokrovsk got hit by a missile soon after they moved, but thankfully, nobody was hurt as it was not the time when people gathered there.
Since Oct 10th ruzzians put a lot of efforts into trying to surround and take over Avdiivka. Some war journalists are saying that originally ruzzian troops were going to get Avdiivka as a gift for putin’s birthday, but the beginning of that operation was delayed a few days. The city has been under non-stop shelling for the last 3 days. About 10,000 ruzzian troops are trying to advance and failing. They are losing more than 700 people a day, but they don’t seem to value their people’s lives.
Today ruzzians also shelled Pokrovsk and hit the social services building, killing one person and injuring 13. Nick’s brother, Sergei, lives close to Pokrovsk and, of course, Church Without Walls and our missionary Alex Zaitsev is in Pokrovsk now. Please, pray for God’s protection and for our defenders to be able to stop ruzzians near Avdiivka and continue to liberate our land.
PS. The video in this post was shared by Alex Zaitsev a few weeks ago. It shows how the lives of Ukrainian kids have changed since ruzzians invaded our country.
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A year ago: Oct.14, 2022
From LXX (Day 233): Dear brothers and sisters, We had a night without sirens. Praise the Lord!
It’s a holiday today – the day of Fatherland Defender and this holiday has a special meaning now. Many of my friends of different ages are now in the army, protecting our land. We are very proud of the guys from our church who are fighting for us. We are proud of the workers of our medical clinic, who are now serving in the army, providing medical assistance to our soldiers. I want to say separately about the army of chaplains who serve in the spiritual field in this war. They all are our heroes today.
Photos of L., the plants she is taking care of and her cat
Among all things of yesterday there was a very special moment. Sometimes you know exactly that the meeting you have is arranged by God. On Thursday we have a Bible study for the group of refugees in our church, I came earlier to help Valeriy, our elder, who leads the Bible study, to set up chairs, prepare refreshments and drinks for the meeting.
One lady of the group, L. came earlier. L. is from Kharkiv and stays at the building of our Christian clinic and she loves taking care of the plants there, it brings her joy and at the same time is a recovering therapy for her. Her cat Marusya lives with her there.
It was clear that there was something on her heart. We began to talk and she said that she knew about God from her childhood, her grandmother was a believer and L.considered herself to be a believer, too. She used to go to the church on holidays was very respectful of church traditions, but now she feels that something was missing in her life.
Our elder Valeriy
She has been visiting our church for a while and could hear the gospel not just once. But she needed to have the personal talk with Vxxx and have all her questions answered. Some people have a special gift of sharing the gospel and they do it in a special way. I think Vxxx can do it addressing the hearts of people in such a way that they see this beauty of the gospel.
Yesterday I talked to our counselor, R. We were talking about our future refugee center and tried to see new directions of our work that we can start, we discussed the aspects of the work we all are doing now and how it can be integrated in one place.
We found a very nice place for the center with good location and if God blesses us to buy it we will start the work there right away.
R is busy like all of us. He does counseling in the office and online counseling, he is also an active blogger and you can see his videos on Facebook and Instagram where he addresses different psychological topics, gives practical tips for people with different problems and he teaches psychological self-help techniques (panic attacks, psychology of relationships, depression, anxiety, psychosomatics, urgent help for refugees, etc.)
Few days ago he did live broadcasting of a very important topic of today, he talked about survivor’s syndrome, when people who survived in mortal danger feel guilty thinking of those who died. Many people were able not only to listen but participate, sharing their experience and asking questions.
R.s wife works as a nurse in the intensive therapy of one of Odessa hospitals. She works very hard now and her work is hard emotionally. R asks to pray for her health.
Please, pray for our counselors, for the work we do and for us to bring fruits.
Please, pray with us for organizing a refugee center in Odessa and for a facility where the center will be located.
In Christ,
Lxxx
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