Please pray for a just end to the war.
PRAYER REQUESTS
1. Russia’s huge attacks over the past weeks on Odessa and Kyiv specifically, but other cities as well: Yesterday there was no water, heat, or electricity in Odessa. Pray particularly as they anticipate the impact of this for winter. Most people are using generators 8 hours/day, with some cities having two hours of power alternating with two hours of no power each day. Many expect the winter to be worse with only 6 hours/day of electricity. Pray that Ukraine can restore uninterrupted power to cities across the country and make measurable gains in preparing for winter.
2. The new mobilization law continues to be of concern for men and their families in Ukraine, with 100+ EPCU members currently serving in active military duty. Pray for all Ukrainian soldiers, and specifically soldiers called up from EPCU churches, that they may they be protected from harm and comforted as they fight for their country and long for their families. Pray for mothers, wives and families who are managing their homes without their men who are serving.
3. Praise that a Christian counselor will begin working with the EPCU church in Lviv. Pray for more trained counselors to address the trauma-induced needs of people, and for MTW-Ukraine to be able to help facilitate more training of counselors there. Pray for funding for one of our churches in Belgorod in southern Ukraine to be able to buy a counseling facility.
4. The EPCU churches continue to show the love of Jesus and minister to those who need humanitarian support, despite church elders and members being called into military service. Pray for churches ministering to those displaced who need food, housing, counseling, and for Bible study groups that are meeting. Pray for EPCU Pastors to persevere as they care for their church members and for the needs of their communities, while missing the missionaries who previously served alongside them.
NEW PRAYER REQUESTS THIS MONTH
1. Praise that EPCU Pastor George of Covenant of Grace Church in Odesa, with his wife Snezhanna – were able to come to our Global Missions Conference in Atlanta, and were able to visit many other churches as well. Praise they got back to Odessa safely, and have survived the recent attacks.
2. Praise for new people coming to churches who are talking about their problems less and about their thankfulness more. Pray for church members in Ukraine as they seek to follow and be faithful to Jesus, particularly when many things in their daily life are troubling and don’t make sense.
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