Category: Updates
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8/14/2022 – War update and commentary
From Jamie Peipon: There have been several interesting developments today within Ukraine; some bizarre, some unexpected, some difficult to verify. One bit that is easy to verify comes right from the Pentagon. A DoD official has said that on a scale from zero to ten, he would rate the effectiveness of Ukraine’s armed forces a…
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8/14/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: A concert to remember
From Lxxx (Day 172): Dear brothers and sisters, We wish you a good worship day! Yesterday was full of blessings for us. There was a wonderful organ concert and many people came to our church. Jean-Marie Leroy performed the music of Bruhns, Bach, Cesar Frank and made us a surprise playing his own arrangements of…
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8/13/2022 – Crates for Ukraine from Jackson, MS
From Jamie Peipon: Dear, friends. Thanks so much for such hard work on the Crates for Ukraine project. In one of these pictures (above), you can see less than half of the crates that the saints of First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, MS put together. This is a great victory for….
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8/13/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky – Bringing music to the war
From Lxxx (Day 171): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s a special day for us because today we will have an organ concert in our church. Our good friend, a faithful Christian and a big patriot of Ukraine, Jean-Marie Leroy came from Paris, France to support us and to encourage us in our fight.
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8/12/2022 – Counseling ministry in Ukraine: From peace to war
From Lxxx: If we ask an average person how he imagines an ideal life he would probably say that he wants to lead a peaceful and joyful life, easily achieve goals and have good relations with people around. But hardly anyone can boast of such a life in the world full of problems and struggles.
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8/12/2022 – war update and commentary
From Jamie Peipon: If the picture of the destruction of this building is any indication, this man has nothing left. More than likely, that wicker rocking chair is one of the very few items that survived an attack on his home. I wonder where he thinks he’s going with that chair. Is it really worth…
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8/12/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 170): Dear brothers and sisters, A cloudy sky and a cool wind make this day comfortable to be outside. I think about our soldiers in the trenches, in the fields, how hard for them to be there in summer heat wearing all the ammunition. I hope this day will make it easier…
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8/11/2022 – 48 hours after Crimea – more Russian atrocities uncovered
From Jamie Peipon: With the strike on Crimea almost 48 hours in the past, the traffic jam to leave the peninsula is still backed up. In the picture below, you can see the highway that leads to the bridge back to mainland Russia is packed. According to today’s follow-up reports, there were at least 60…
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8/11/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: Rxxx’s story of escape
From Lxxx (Day 169): Dear brothers and sisters, There was a thunderstorm at night and we reacted to every sound of the thunder. We knew that it was thunder but still had some strange reaction. But it’s much more pleasant to be woken up by thunder than by the siren. The day is cool and…
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8/10/2022 – War update and commentary: Ukrainian attack of Russian base in Crimea
From Jamie Peipon: Sometimes writing these updates feels like writing the same story over and over again. Other days entire paradigms seem to shift in a moment. This morning, a paradigm seems to have been so radically altered that it can’t even be described as a “shift.” I’ve written about the war’s southern theater, the…
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