March 2, 2025
During the first few years of marriage, Faith and Abraham traveled to Southeast Asia several times, worked to prepare their sending churches, and gained further training. When they were prepared to live full time in Southeast Asia, God gave the couple an opportunity they had not expected in a city they had not visited.
November 1, 2023
By Laura McKillip Wood Jody Hesler was in Poland helping with a day of pampering and self-care for refugees from Afghanistan when she felt her phone vibrating persistently in her pocket. Absorbed in helping those she was serving, she opted not to answer. When she finally took a moment to read her texts, she saw a string of messages from several Ukrainian friends. They were all reaching out for help getting themselves or their children across the border. It was February 2022. The invasion by Russia had begun, and her friends needed help getting to safety. Jody and another worker
March 16, 2023
IDES is working to provide aid and help relieve suffering in Syria and Turkey resulting from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck on Feb. 6. The Christian disaster response ministry has provided aid to more than 20,000 people. It has been working through two partners in Turkey and one in Syria. . . .
TCM, which has a long history of ministry in Eastern Europe, wasted no time in working within their network of believers to help those affected by the war in Ukraine. . . .
February 14, 2023
Christian agencies have mobilized to try to help earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria, but an urgent need exists for financial contributions so that more people can be helped sooner. Team Expansion and IDES both shared some of the ways their ministries are helping that region’s earthquake victims.
December 17, 2022
After 10 months of war in Ukraine, more than 75,000 residential buildings have been destroyed, 40 percent of the electric grid is critically damaged, and many villages and small towns have been wiped out. Thousands have died and millions displaced. Amid all this, Christians are at work helping their friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens.
December 13, 2022
Tavriski Christian Institute celebrated its 25th anniversary this fall. It did so during a war, displaced from its campus in Kherson, Ukraine, but dedicated to continuing its commitment to training Christian leaders for a country that needs them more than ever.
August 22, 2022
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, Vika and Sergey made a hard decision. She took their girls and moved to Bulgaria, where they were safe from Russian attacks. With this year's invasion of Ukraine, Sergey is no longer able to travel back and forth to Bulgaria . . .
June 30, 2022
As Ukrainians struggle to grow food this summer, they fear that Russian troops might steal whatever can be harvested. Anya and Andrei are trying to garden for the first time at a relative's small country home. Neighbors have tried to help them as much as possible . . .
June 17, 2022
Mulberry International's ministry to Ukraine—primarily in the hard-hit Mariupol region—has focused on three areas of ministry since Russia's invasion in February: evacuation of the innocent, humanitarian aid, and sharing the gospel.
“My whole life has been divided into two parts—before and after February 24,” says Yulia, who lived with her 84-year-old father under Russian occupation in Kherson, Ukraine, before they escaped to Haus Edelweiss (near Vienna), where she will be teaching at TCM International Institute.
May 23, 2022
Natalia serves as chaplain for a western Ukrainian church that has provided relief to displaced people since the beginning of the war. This is the story of the help provided to three women through the church's "humanitarian hub."
May 12, 2022
Poland and its people have been generous hosts to upwards of 3 million Ukrainian refugees . . . but it has taken a toll. “Poles are afraid,” says Jay Bowyer, a missionary with Graceland Ministries. “They are living their daily lives with the threat of war looming large.”
May 9, 2022
David Faust traveled to Romania with Remember the Children’s Andy Baker and others the last week of April. The group sought to encourage Romanian Christians who have been assisting the thousands of Ukrainian refugees who have flooded into their country since the war began in late February.
May 4, 2022
The war has affected all citizens of Ukraine, even those on the fringes of society, such as the Roma people. Christians in southeastern Ukraine have been working to create a Bible translation in several of the Romani languages . . .
April 27, 2022
June Johnson, who served in Ukraine as a medical missionary with CMF International for 24 years, until the war started, has found a way to continue serving many of the Ukrainians she cared for previously, but now in a different country.
April 15, 2022
Both Sonya (a teacher) and Marina (an airport worker), along with their children, fled Hostomel—a suburb of Kyiv—not long after Russians began bombing their town. They both have now joined the humanitarian effort to help their fellow Ukrainians.
April 10, 2022
Ina never believed in God. She thought faith was for weak people and the elderly. In the course of being rescued (with her daughter) from embattled Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, she came to learn the truth. . . .
April 7, 2022
As stories of atrocities committed on innocent civilians by Russian soldiers continue to emerge from Kyiv’s suburbs—including Bucha, Gostomel, and Irpin—people around the world are outraged. Ukrainians and westerners have mobilized to care for traumatized people . . .
April 3, 2022
Several Kentucky ministries have organized relief efforts for Ukrainians affected by war. They include ScatterJOY Inc., Team Expansion, Mulberry International, and Master Provisions.
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