Articles for tag: Russia

Children’s Home in Limbo after Invasion of Ukraine (Part 1)

Good Samaritan Children’s Home was founded in Ukraine in 2001 but relocated to Germany last year because of the Russian invasion. Adjustments have been challenging. . . .

March 7, 2023

Ministries & Nonprofits Organizations & Events

As War Rages, TCM Supports Ukrainians in Ministry

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. . . .

December 17, 2022

10 Months into War: A Grim Situation in Ukraine

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.

July 29, 2022

Ministries & Nonprofits Organizations & Events

IDES Responds to Crisis in and Around Ukraine

When Russia attacked Ukraine, IDES (International Disaster Emergency Service) sprang into action. IDES, which is accustomed to operating under challenging circumstances, has partnered with 15 organization to provide relief to Ukraine and 11 surrounding countries. . . .

June 30, 2022

Ukrainians Plant Crops, Gardens Despite Uncertainty

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 . . .

May 31, 2022

UKRAINE: Professor and Her Father Find Safety at Haus Edelweiss

“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 12, 2022

Polish People Open Homes to Refugees but Are Fearful of Future

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

Rekindling the Light: Reflections on a Trip to Romania

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.

April 27, 2022

Medical Missionary Follows Patients from Ukraine to Germany

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 25, 2022

UKRAINE: Fighting for Their Faith and Culture

Ukrainian Christian leaders take a stand against 'Russian worldview' and other Russian propaganda.

March 13, 2022

UKRAINE: Ministry Continues Amid Russian Attacks in Mariupol, Odesa, and Western Ukraine

"Surviving is just one side of the story [in Ukraine],” says Natasha Reimer from Mulberry International. “The other side is saying goodbye to loved ones.” . . .

March 3, 2022

Prayer Worship & Prayer

UKRAINE: 31 Days of Prayer and Fasting

On March 1, I joined IDES’s “31 Days of Prayer and Fasting.” Each day I receive an email from IDES with prayer points to cover for Ukraine that day. I encourage you to join me and many others.

February 25, 2022

Prayer Worship & Prayer

Pray for Peace in Ukraine

I met Oksana Kuklinowsky when I was preaching in several churches in Ukraine. Her husband, Valeri, was minister of the church in Zdolbunov, in eastern Ukraine. . . . Several years later, Valeri was killed in a tragic accident, leaving Oksana to raise their five children. . . . I tell you all this because I need to put a face, or faces, on Christian families in Ukraine. . . .

February 23, 2022

Ukraine: How Should We Respond?

Christian church ministries played a role in the growth of Christianity and churches in Ukraine starting in the 1990s, writes Doug Lucas of Team Expansion. Now, in light of this week's invasion by Russia, you might be asking, "What can I do?" I propose these key action steps. . . .

February 22, 2022

My Heart for Ukraine

"I lived in Ukraine for five years," Laura McKillip Wood writes. "I made some of the best friends of my life there, both American and Ukrainian. I met and married my husband, Andrew, another missionary there. . . . Needless to say, I have watched the events unfolding in Ukraine with anxious interest."

November 23, 2013

JUST ONE: Ivan S. Prokhanov

TRUE STORIES OF WORLD CHANGERS WHO STARTED ALONE:Â This month we share stories of individual Christians who couldn”t wait for others to tell them when to help the hurting and share the gospel. Their clear vision of a pressing need pushed them to do what they could as soon as they could. IVAN S. PROKHANOV By Victor Knowles He was born April 17, 1869, in the Russian city of Vladikavkas, nestled in the snow-clad Caucasus. The highest peaks in the Caucasus are taller than the fabled Alps. It was perhaps fitting that Ivan S. Prokhanov should be born here because

February 22, 2012

Sending, Serving, Reaching: TCM International Institute

By Jennifer Taylor TCM InternationalÂ Institute (Founded 1957) P.O. Box 24560, Indianapolis, IN 46224 www.tcmi.org Tony Twist, President It takes a one-time Master of Arts scholarship investment of $16,000 to equip an international leader for a lifetime of service and ministry in his home country. Compare this to the $60,000 or more needed annually to send a U.S. missionary overseas (where service is usually less than four years), and it”s obvious: equipping national leaders to reach their own countries for Christ is both effective and cost-effective. TCM exists to develop bivocational “international disciple makers” throughout Europe, Russia, the Middle East, and

December 1, 2010

TCMII Reaches Merger Agreement

Last week, Training Christians for Ministry International Institute (TCMII) and the European Evangelistic Society (EES) announced a merger agreement. EES will become a wholly owned subsidiary of TCMII. For nearly 60 years the EES has been a witness to the gospel at TÃ¼bingen University in Germany. The organization has also helped sponsor a colloquium for international doctoral students. TCMI has ministered to believers throughout Eastern Europe and Russia for more than 50 years and established the institute in 1991 after the collapse of the USSR. Today TCMII enrolls more than 800 students from 28 countries and provides leadership development and

November 30, 2006