Author: Dal Stanton
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6/8/2022 – L’viv: ‘I kind of woke up after a dream. I wanted to live again, to get to know people, and I finally started to feel at home among you.’ ❤️

ADMIN: An interview with Kirk Norris, MTW missionary in the L’viv church working with young adults. The L’viv church consists now, I’d say, of probably a third of the people, if not more, are from Kharkiv. There’s also a scattering of other people from Kyiv and from Zaparizhia and from other places who have landed…
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6/8/2022 – What is ‘normal’?

ADMIN: After living in Kyiv, Ukraine, for a number of years, Jamie Peipon was a volunteer for the MTW Ukraine Crisis Response Team in Krakow helping as a driver of aid into Ukraine and translator. He and his Ukrainian born wife, Dasha, and 2 children reside in Jackson, Mississippi, where Jamie is the Assistant Minister…
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6/8/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: joy cultivated

From Lxxx (Day 105): Dear brothers and sisters, I was reading Psalm 46 this morning and verse 10 spoke to me: “ Be still, and know that I am God”. When a lot of things happen and life turns into some kind of race, God tells us to stop and spend time with Him. Yesterday…
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6/7/2022 – Crates for Ukraine: Meeting Needs in a Meaningful Way

The people of Ukraine recently marked 100 days of war in their country. And MTW missionaries have continued to meet the needs of people and churches across the country who are suffering in unique ways. By providing aid to people in the name of Jesus Christ, they encourage those traumatized by war and create inroads…
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6/7/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: A visit to the front lines

ADMIN: VOU seeks to tell the continual story of our brothers and sisters in Ukraine where the realities of war are not an option. We seek to keep these realities before our readers to continue to pray and to give in order to bring much needed supplies into the regions of Ukraine where the needs…
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6/6/2022 – A volunteer on the MTW Crisis Response Team in Krakow makes a huge difference

Admin: Susi Hackman is from Pasadena, Maryland, where she is a member of Galilee Lutheran Church and an ongoing short-term missionary to Ukraine for Grace Independent Baptist Church in Crownsville, Maryland. She is an ’empty-nester’ with two grown children and have been married for 25 years to an awesome husband. Formerly in the military, she…
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6/6/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 103): Dear brothers and sisters, We had a good day yesterday, we enjoyed the worship and the fellowship afterwards. The sermon was about the sovereignty of God based on the story of Nebuchadnezzar from the book of Daniel. There are many parallels with the present days. A new lady, Mxxx, has a…
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6/5/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

From Lxxx (Day 102): Dear brothers and sisters, We wish you a good day and a good worship! Our day started rather early with air alarm. Later we read in the chats that there were hits on Odesa region but we don’t know where. There were several hits in Kiev but we don’t know the…
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6/4/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky

Lxxx (Day 101): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s a nice morning and when I open the window I hear the birds singing. It’s nice to hear birds and not sirens. Yesterday evening we heard sirens several times. We remind each other all the time that when we hear sirens warning us of air attack and…
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6/3/2022 – Dire conditions in the city of one of our churches – Kherson

A few times per month, the pastors of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ukraine meet via Zoom to report on the conditions within their cities. It’s a time of encouragement, but also a time of describing the escalating need for aid in Ukraine. Pastor Sergei Kukuskin’s report described the dire conditions currently in the city…