Author: Dal
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3/20/2022 – Displaced Ukrainian family in Jackson, Miss., USA
Administrator: Mxxx is finishing Kyiv Christian Academy, where Jon Eide, MTW Ukraine Country Director is Chairman of the Board, Mxxx is trying to do classes online to finish out the year. MTW missionaries (retired) Clay and Darlene Quarterman, as alumni of Belhaven wrote to Belhaven requesting special consideration for Mxxx’s continuing education. Clay and Darlene…
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3/20/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 25): Dear brother and sisters, This is the day that the Lord has made and we are going to worship Him. It’s nice to see many billboards around with Bible verses. At the start of the war there were a lot of angry messages on them with bad language cursing the enemy.…
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3/19/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 24): Dear brothers and sisters, We send you our greetings and thank you for your support and prayers. Yesterday we had a phone conversation with Ixxx Pxxxx, our youth group leader and music group leader who is serving in the army now. He told us about his life of a military man.…
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3/19/2022 – L’viv
March 18, 2022 From ERSU Seminary professor Oxxxx writes from L’viv: [The day before fighting began, Oxxx was on staff at ERSU Seminary in Kyiv. At that time, ] “we feared that Putin might escalate the war in the eastern and southern parts of Ukraine. Therefore, the seminary staff decided to equip the building of…
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A quick overview of Ukraine’s history reveals an often neglected but central aspect of the current war
From Pastor Heero Haquebord – L’viv: In the narrative of the Russian propaganda machine Ukraine is a passive region (not a country, not a nation), caught between the grand powers of Russia and the West. According to this version of history Ukraine has always been a part of the Russian world, and therefore the EU…
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3/17/2022 BD – Counseling Center south of Odessa
Even as they await the onslaught of an invasion of Odessa, believers in BD are ministering to others: “Our town is not safe for refugees yet because of shooting and bombing we experience from the sea and air. The family that we expected to receive in our church yesterday decided to move to a safer…
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3/18/2022 – A Tabletalk Update from Pastor in Odessa
From Valery Zadorozhnyy: Dear Brothers and Sisters, I am currently in Odessa, where all is still relatively well. Air raid alarms rarely sound. A couple of minutes ago, I heard shots from the sea. A rocket hit a house not far from the house where my mother is, but thankfully it did not explode. You…
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3/17/2022 – Jackson, MS
Jon Eide (MTW) has been chairman of the Board of Kyiv Christian Academy (KCA) while they built a brand-new facility on the west of the city. But with the coming of the Russian army, many questions remained. Would we arm the guards to avoid looting? Would it now be destroyed? Could it be used to…
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3/18/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
Lxxx (Day 23): Dear brothers and sisters, Everything is terribly unusual this season. We have unusually cold spring. The days are frosty and windy as if reflecting our feelings. Yesterday our church started fasting and praying for the salvation of the people who are blocked in the cities surrounded by the enemy. We thank God…
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3/17/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
Lxxx (Day18) – Dear brothers and sisters, Today our church starts three-day fasting. We will be united in prayer for Mariupol and other cities which are surrounded by the enemy, the cities which are being bombed and destroyed, the cities where people stay without food, they can’t even bury the dead because of constant shooting.…