Category: Updates
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5/20/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: Vyshyvanka Day in Ukraine
Admin: Vyshyvanka Day (Embroidered Shirt Day) is an international holiday that aims to preserve the Ukrainian folk traditions of creating and wearing ethnic embroidered clothes called vyshyvankas. It is celebrated every third Thursday of May. Vyshyvankas are, along with pysankas, one of the best known symbols of Ukrainian culture (Wiki). From Lxxx (Day 86): Dear…
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5/19/22 – displaced church of Kharkiv visits church in L’viv
Most of the members of the Presbyterian Church in Kharkiv relocated further west in Ukraine to the city of Ivano Frankivsk, which is south of the Presbyterian Church in L’viv. Mission to the World’s relationship with the Kharkiv church goes back to the late 1990s when the church was established with the leadership of Pastor…
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5/19/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: the church continues as the church in war
From Lxxx (Day 85): Dear brothers and sisters, Today is a holiday of embroidery shirt in Ukraine and we will have a little party at the local defense center. We will wear our shirts, sing Ukrainian songs and make a video for our soldiers. It’s interesting to notice that more and more people start speaking…
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5/18/2022 – Volunteer snapshot: Providing Medical Supplies to Ukraine
From Philip Foster: I am working in Krakow, Poland, to ship medical supplies to our sister churches in Ukraine, to then be distributed to those who need it most.
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5/18/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 84): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s a rainy day today and we are happy that many gardens receive water. We have a dry climate so rain is always a happy event for us. Yesterday I wrote about the ruined hotel on the beach. All hotels are empty now and it so happened…
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5/17/2022 – Moms from Maine Mobilize [again] Aid for Ukraine
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From Krakow, Poland: Yes, moms, but professional women who have mobilized a community to bring aid to Ukraine. Joy Guliani (Delta flight attendant) and Emily Hickey (nurse practitioner) have returned to Krakow, Poland, again with even more bags than last time. When they arrived with 10 free checked bags last time (thank you Delta Airlines…
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5/17/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: from a peaceful weekend to terror on Monday
From Lxxx (Day 83): Dear brothers and sisters, One of the peculiarities of the war is fast turn of events. Everything can change in a second. Our quiet and peaceful weekend changed with terror Monday morning when a bomb destroyed a beach hotel right next to the building of Pxxxx and Kxxx Mxxxxxxxx, the family…
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5/16/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 82): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s the start of a new week and we hope it will be good and we will have good news. We pray so much for the end of the war. It’s so sad to hear from some European politicians, who are advocates of Russia, advise to start…
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5/15/2022 – Eurovision Song: Mother Stephania
Here is the latest song that has become well known across Europe, Stephania. Voice of Ukraine has featured several Ukrainian songs of differing genres and perspectives, but each is a heart-felt expression of outrage at the genocide being perpetrated by one man in Moscow – a man who has unleashed unspeakable horrors on a people…
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5/15/2022 – Worship, War and Peace
From Krakow, Poland: Today, throughout Ukraine, God’s people have gathered to worship in the midst of war. We hear often that churches have grown through the crisis of war and even former skeptics are finding their way to churches to find hope. This is true even of the Church of the Saviour Evangelical Presbyterian Church…
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