Category: Updates
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4/22/2022 – ‘How do you ask, what happened?’
From Jamie Peipon FB post (Jamie is the minister of music at First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, MS, and is a volunteer working with the MTW Crisis Response Team in Krakow, Poland): While on the plane coming to Poland, I remember thinking, “How on earth do you ask someone who is fleeing a war that you’ve…
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4/22/2022 – Ukrainian Seminary Professor’s Plea: Please Don’t Tire of Praying
For Fedya Minakov, exile within his own country isn’t a new experience. In 2014, Minakov left his hometown of Donetsk with his pregnant wife and 2-year-old child after Russian forces invaded the region in eastern Ukraine. Minakov planned to return home in a couple of months when he thought the conflict might ease: “We never…
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4/22/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx (Day 58): Dear brothers and sisters, Yesterday we had a church lunch remembering the Last Supper. We were glad to have new people with us – refugees and some people from our community who were invited when they came to the church to receive help. We have many calls every day from the…
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4/21/2022 – A Litany Stories from Ukraine on a Trip from L’viv
From Jamie Peipon: This picture is one I took yesterday while on a rooftop in beautiful L’viv. You can see the Ukrainian flag flying proudly above the skyline. There were lots of people out and about in the city, but they also have not begun to let their guard down.
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4/21/2022 – Song “Prayer for Ukraine”
From Bob Burnham: Bob, a missionary serving in Odessa, Ukraine, shared this video of church friends, singing the song, Prayer for Ukraine. The chorus translates to: God, I pray for Ukraine, God, I pray to you for the people: You forgive them, you save them And you show them mercy. God, I know that you…
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4/21/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky: Ukraine became a praying nation
From Lxxx (Day 57): Dear brothers and sisters, Today we will meet in the church for lunch remembering the Last Supper of Jesus. We will sing, pray and read the Scripture, meditating on the journey to the cross. We will mourn and prepare our hearts to the joy of resurrection on Sunday. We hope everything…
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4/20/2022 – Song “I’m not OK”
For Ukrainians, music is a vehicle to express a myriad of emotions during this time of war. Kazka was made famous in the TV program, Voice of Ukraine. This song has become famous today. Warning: vulgarity was expressed when some saw Russian bombs falling on their city.
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4/20/2022 – Angels of L’viv
Angels come in all kinds of forms. The author of Hebrews says, “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” In L’viv, the angelic names are Ruslan and Vika. Ruslan is from L’viv and part of the L’viv church. Vika, is now in L’viv, but originally was in…
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4/20/2022 – Hitching a Ride at the Ukrainian Border
Jamie Peipon is an MK from Ukraine and is the minister of music at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi. Jamie, who is a Ukrainian speaker, is volunteering to help as a caravan driver from Krakow to L’viv.
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4/20/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lxxx ( Day 56): Dear brothers and sisters, The first thought and prayer we have every morning is about the city of Mariupol and the people who are still alive there. Our soldiers who protect the city and many civil people are staying in the basements of a big plant Azovsteel. Russia uses heavy…
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