Author: Dal Stanton
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4/12/2022 – Pastor’s appeal for prayer on TableTalk

Ukrainian pastor and lecturer at ERSU, Valery Zadorozhnyy, gave his perspective on the Russian invasion in the March issue of TableTalk magazine. He emphasizes the need for daily prayers for the Ukrainian pastors that have stayed in Ukraine to care for their congregations. He highlights the need for prayer for both Ixxx and Sxxx in…
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4/12/2022 – Believers responding to Ukrainians in Slovakia
God is surrounding the people of Ukraine with His servants. John and Kathy (retired MTW missionaries) have returned to Slovakia to help in the work of housing displaced people and meeting the crisis needs of the Ukrainian people. They have been working between Kosice, Slovakia, L’viv, Ukraine, and the MTW Crisis Center in Krakow. They…
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4/12/2022 – What Does It Feel Like to Flee From Your Home?
Reposted from John Lesondak FB (retired MTW missionary – Slovakia) This is a testimony from a Ukrainian woman that had to feel her home and was helped by the Crisis Team in Krakow: “Never in my life have I ever thought so fast, never had to make decisions and change them at the speed of…
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4/12/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 48): Dear brothers and sisters, We are happy to wake up and find out that the sea is stormy. There is less chance for Russian ships to approach and shoot. Nikolayev, the city that resists the attacks on the way to Odessa is often bombed. More refugees come to our town. Yesterday…
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4/11/2022 – The joy of restored worship in Kyiv

From Pastor Ivan: “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity” Ps. 133:1. It is difficult to put in words the joy of meeting with brothers and sisters at a church service in the midst of a wartime. Ever since the beginning of the full scale war, our capital city has been…
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4/11/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 47): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s a new week and it’s the forty seventh day of the war but actually it is eight years and forty seven days. The war started in 2014. It was a quiet day for us, we had several air alarms but nothing happened and we should not…
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4/10/2022 – A protest of Ukrainian mothers and children in Krakow

From Dal Stanton, MTW Kyiv missionary and MTW Crisis Response Team in Krakow, Poland: Beth and I walked out of the restaurant after attending the afternoon worship at Christ the Savior Evangelical Presbyterian Church when we were surprised to see a demonstration progressing toward the main square in the heart of Krakow. I wasn’t expecting…
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4/10/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky – Spanish TV Interview
From Lxxx (Day 46): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s Palm Sunday today. We wish you a good worship day and may the Lord fill your hearts with His love and peace as you approach the great holiday of Easter. In Orthodox culture people celebrate Palm Sunday and Easter a week later and we, protestant churches,…
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Editorial: Give Ukraine everything it asks for and now

Editor’s note: Editorials are articles that present the opinion of the editorial team of the Kyiv Independent. We write this editorial with difficulty. Journalists are the people of words, but right now it’s hard to find the ones to reflect what we feel. The uncovered atrocities of Russians have left us, and millions of others,…
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4/9/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 45): Dear brothers and sisters, Yesterday there was another tragic event. Two rockets hit a railway station in Kramatorsk. The enemy purposely kills civil people in the places of mass gatherings. And just a day before we received a family from that city in our church who left from the same railway…