Author: Dal Stanton
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Ukraine Captured Larry’s Heart

For months, Ukraine has captured the world’s attention. But since 1998, it’s captured Larry Roff’s heart. Since then, he’s been back over a dozen times and has formed deep friendships. It’s those close relationships that make watching Russia’s invasion so heartbreaking for Larry. In the midst of his grief and anger, he is advocating for…
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7/20/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 146): Dear brothers and sisters, I wish you a good morning. In our church online chat every morning one of our elders places a new verse for us to mediatate and pray. This is a Bible passage of today: “O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day…
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MTW’s Ukraine Teams Pivot to Humanitarian Relief

Jon Eide, Mission to the World’s director for Eastern Europe, describes his work in Krakow, Poland as, “crying over a spreadsheet.” The crying part is easy to understand for someone who has spent years serving in Ukraine. The humanitarian shelter MTW set up in Krakow welcomes Ukrainians fleeing west in hopes of connecting with family…
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7/19/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 145): Dear brothers and sisters, Thank you for your prayers. We had a disturbing day and night. Several air alarms during the day, our bridge was hit again. At night the sirens woke us up several times. In the morning we learnt about bombing of the villages in Odessa area. Our town…
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7/18/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 144): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s a new day and a new week and new plans. Yesterday we had a good worship. I was glad to see everybody. Some new people appeared in the church while I was away and more children come. Ixxxx was with us and our music group performed…
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7/17/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 143): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s so nice to wake up on Sunday morning. It looks like rain and is pleasantly cool. We are preparing to go to the church and I am so glad to be with my church again. But I miss the church in Brasov, I hope they are…
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7/16/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 142): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s a nice and quiet morning, no sirens and the verse that comes to my head today is : “ This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalms 118:24 Yesterday I came to the local defense center…
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7/15/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 141): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s another sad day and we have already lived through many days like this. When you live in a war, people die every day, but it’s impossible to get used to it and accept it as a reality like we do with sirens. It’s hard when people…
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7/14/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx ( Day 139): Dear brothers and sisters, Greetings from Ukraine! I am at home and I am happy to be home, though I already miss my daughter and my grandchildren very much. My trip was very smooth. Bob Burnham, a faithful missionary and our good friend took me home together with a pastor…
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7/12/2022 – Brasov, Romania

From Lxxx (Day 137): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s my last day in Brasov, tomorrow I will go home. I will skip my writing tomorrow and my next message will be on Thursday. Yesterday there were rocket attacks in Nikolayev and in Odessa area, the enemy bombed the beach settlement of Zatoka, which is very…