Thank you for your concern and for praying for Ukraine and the Ukrainian People
1. This week, BIEM director for Ukraine Eugene Buyko and his wife Sofia will be leading a group of believers traveling east, toward the front lines, to evangelize among soldiers. As they did for past trips, the ladies of their Bilogorodka church have personally prepared various foods and frozen them so these can be taken to soldiers at the front. This time, the church in Lutsk has joined in. They baked cookies and wrote various words of encouragement for the military on the packages. The Lutsk church also purchased many socks and laundry detergent—the items most requested by the military. Please pray for this outreach and for everyone who will be helping. May God use these material gifts to open doors for sharing the Gospel.
2. In Lviv, Ukraine, BIEM church planter Yura Levtseniuks says, “I sincerely thank God for your support in helping our military. It is very valuable. You have prayed for a [wounded] soldier named Yevgeny, who was brought here from the front. We met him in a hospital in Lviv. God has done a miracle in His own way. Now Yevgeny can walk and even talk. But, unfortunately, he speaks very poorly... He’s missing parts of his upper and lower jaw and teeth. His nose is completely gone. I drove him to the train station so he could spend a month at home [in Kharkiv], and he is coming back here to Lviv for treatment. He’s still in serious condition, but he listens attentively to the Gospel. Pray that God will draw him to Himself and that he will want to repent. I believe God brought him into our lives, along with his whole family. My children drew pictures for him, and he says he looked at them the whole way.”
3. In Desna, Ukraine, the church building recently suffered damage when a Russian drone targeted a nearby electrical substation. The blast blew out windows and did other minor damage. Even before this attack, with BIEM’s help the church was already putting on a new roof. Now they have extra work to do. Against this backdrop, Eugene Buyko recognizes the work of another partner who helps to distribute tourniquets and other vital aid from BIEM to those who need it.
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4. On May 30th, BIEM sent a 40-foot container of aid to the church in Obolon, the northwestern district of Kyiv, Ukraine. Praise God, that container has safely arrived in Obolon, and the church will soon begin distributing the contents. However, a mountain of paperwork remains to be done to fulfill the demands of Customs and other government organizations. Please pray for those believers tasked with preparing and submitting all of the required documents.
Sam Slobodian
President, BIEM