Category: Updates
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4/14/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky – Odesa’s billboard message to Russian soldiers: “Fertilizer, put sunflower seeds in your pockets when you enter our land!”
From Lxxx (Day 50): Dear brothers and sisters, It’s Day 50 today. Fifty days of war. Fifty days of fierce struggle and heartbreaking battle for life, for freedom and for a peaceful future. Thank you for your prayers and support, thank you for the help that your countries give Ukraine, we will not stand in…
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4/13/2022 – A different kind of story: the pipe man of L’viv
From Dal Stanton (MTW Crisis Response Team in Krakow): When Doug first approached me in Krakow about getting a pipe for his neighbor in L’viv, I was faced with a dilemma. The Krakow-based MTW Crisis Response Team had gathered for a time of Friday night fellowship at the flat of a team member for pizza,…
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4/13/2022 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky – Father of Lies
From Lxxx ( Day 49): All thoughts and prayers were about Mariupol yesterday after the news of the use of chemical weapons. What is next? What haven’t they done to our country yet? I turned on Russian TV and had a short glimpse of three Russian channels. Several seconds of each was enough – all…
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4/12/2022 – Unsung Heroes
Reposted from Dasha Peipon FB: My cousin Dxxx and her family are in Chernigiv – one of the most beautiful historic cities in Ukraine. In February-March 2022 it was turned into ruins as a result of Russia’s war. The reports were more and more daunting. According to some horrifying forecasts from a few weeks ago,…
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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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