Category: Updates
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6/13/2022 – Brasov, Romania

From Lxxx, (Day 110): Dear brothers and sisters, Thank you for your prayers and care. I had a relaxing day yesterday. My daughter Kxxx drove to Ukraine. It was a long trip but she had no problems and by the evening got home. My day was very relaxing, I had a lot of positive emotions.…
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6/12/2022 – The First Generation of MTW Ukraine

With the war raging in Ukraine, while we respond to the crisis by helping our Ukrainian brothers and sisters as best we can, our prayers are molded by a trust in God that He who began a good work will complete it. Our hearts are wrapped around this truth so that even though we look…
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6/12/2022 – Brasov, Romania

From Lxxx ( Day 109): Dear brothers and sisters, I am in Brasov, Romania and this beautiful city in the mountains looks like a paradise. And I am so happy to be with my grandchildren again. Yesterday we went to eat ice-cream, played and had fun. Vxxxx, the youngest, didn’t let me go, holding my…
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6/8/2022 – Video: High School Graduation in Kharkiv

The song about the war: ‘A Dream’ They can bomb happiness. They can shoot at dreams. But they won’t kill our will. Everyone will reap what they sow.
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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…