Thank you for your concern and for praying for Ukraine and the Ukrainian People

1. Because we shipped two humanitarian-aid containers to Ukraine only 3 weeks apart, this will create double the bureaucratic challenges for our people in Ukraine, who need to satisfy cumbersome requirements to have all the contents classified as humanitarian aid (and thus duty free). Please pray that they will be able to navigate all the miscellaneous paperwork and requirements necessary with getting these containers trucked from the port in Poland to the recipient churches in Ukraine.

2. Earlier, we posted about the Melnychuks, a Ukrainian family in which the parents are active Christian leaders who adopted 10 of their 15 children as orphans. Donations to buy a small bus for this special family near Lviv are now up to $11,392. We praise God for this progress. Please pray concerning the $8,608 still needed.

3. In our video for this week, Andrii Sovenko interprets for Pavlo Purfeniuk, pastor of the Forest Church in the village of Borova, which is in the Kyiv region of Ukraine. Here’s the link:

https://vimeo.com/user37287229/lisna

Sam Slobodian
President, BIEM