UKRAINE

Hello dear brother Patrick!
I greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! How are you dear brother? We are good, praise the Lord. This week we send next buses with food and medicine to Ukraine. Please, keep at the moment in prayer our brothers and sisters in Ukraine. Now, very hard situation at the front line. Russian soldiers intensively bombard Ukrainian army positions and go slowly ahead. Maybe you head about Alina´s brother. It is so unbelievably! We pray intensively this week about the situation in Ukraine. We know, that our God is Almighty!

Hello dear brother Patrick,
I greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! I send you some photos from last visit of places not far from frontline (Donetsk's, Cherson's and Charkov's region) where our brothers and sisters serve to orphans and people in need.
Thank you very much for your prayers and support! God bless you in your ministry!
Thank you very much dear pastor Patrick! We greatly appreciate your pravers and support!!!

With our “Pet” ministry, money has been given to 9 different animal shelters in 8 different cities across Ukraine.

Hello dear brother Patrick,
I greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! I send you some photos of refuge center in Bucha´s region, where our team serve kids, that are orphans from east part of Ukraine: Bachmut´s region, Cherson´s region and Donets´k region and Luhansk´s region, where they lost their parents or live with only one parent. Mostly these kids need medical help and psychological help because of consequences of war. At the moment there are around 60 children at the refuge center. At the moment We are preparing Christmas gifts for these kids to bring them at least a little bit joy and help them to  ease the pain of losing parents. Also to show, that God is able to give them the sense in their life! God is good!

Hello Patrick! Praise our Lord Jesus Christ!! We've recieved money! Many thanks from pastor Sasha, from me and Katya, from brothers and sisters of our methodist church in Chernivtci, from leaders and people in rehab centre and many others. Your support during this terrible war in Ukraine is great testimony of God's love and His real power. We actualy see amazing God's care about us and many people here in Ukraine through you. We are grateful and we praise God for yours love to God and to people. May our Lord Jesus Christ bless you Patrick, your family, your church and all people in USA who support and pray for us all this time!

I send you photos from ministry in orphanage in Bucha's region. We take care of this orphanage during for a long time. Kids are happy to have reconstructed house. (we almost finished with the work). It is so joyfully to see smile at these children faces. Thank you dear Patrick for your prayers and help! God bless you!

Pastor Patrick has been doing interviews with Lockwood about the ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the current needs of their people on Viewpoints on the Talk Station found on 107.1 FM. Click the link below to watch an interview on their Facebook page. You can also listen to an interview with Pastor Vladimir from Slovakia, Pasha from Ukraine, and Elina who is a Ukrainian refugee living in South Carolina with some of her relatives.

Ukrainian Church Members saying "Christ has Risen, Christ has Risen indeed!"

Hello dear brother Patrick,

We send you hello from 2 orphanages from Buchan´s region and Sumi´s region. The orphanages in Sumi´s region – SHOSTKA is still under Russian attack permanently, cause is located near Russian border. But praise the God, that fathful people are there and serve kids and other people in need. At the moment We focus and serve in 2 direction: 1) Orphans in Ukraine (mostly East part of Ukraine) 2) Soldiers, old and poor people near front line. At the moment We serve thousands people in Ukraine, that need physical help but most important spiritual help – to receive Jesus Christ as personal Saviour. Please, say THANK to your church that help running this important ministry! Praise the Lord!

Food, clothes and medicine we send every week to Ukraine, to people in need. Praise the Lord!

Update from our friends in Ukraine

Dear brother Patrick,

On 24 February 2022, we went through one hard and difficult year. We went through it together! During this year we served thousands of people in need, our brothers and sisters were near the front line and risked their lives, but serve people in need. We gave them also shelter and help to fix and reconstruct their destroyed by bombs houses.

Through materials and physical help, we gave them spiritual food and proclaim the Gospel of God. Many people were saved and gave their life to Jesus Christ! Everything could be real and happen because of your prayers and support! Dear brother Patrick let me thank you very much for your support of our ministry!

We would be very appreciative if you will be able to continue to help us in ministry if it is possible. We still looking for brothers and sisters who want to participate on the ministry. Thank you very much and God bless you richly!

Vladamir Vuksta

Hello dear brother Patrick, I send you more photos, which were taken near the front line. We have sent food and medicine to people from Sloviansk, Bachmut, Kramatorska, Liman, and Cherson. Our brothers served around 1,000 civilians and 600 Ukrainian Soldiers in these regions. They prayed together, shared testimonies, and preached. It is a good way of evangelization when you physically help people and at the same time give them "spiritual food" - the Word of God!

Our partnership church in Slovakia supported by our financial resources and prayers delivering much need food, medicine, supplies and Christmas gifts in villages in Donetsk region 20 - 30 miles of the war zone.

The church First Methodist Morehead City has been supporting in Slovakia has been able to send food, medical supplies, and generators to Eastern Ukraine Donetsk Oblast (State) in the Donbas region.

Throughout the year, we have sent relief to Ukraine specifically designated to support pets and pet owners as they have had to flee their homes and seek refuge.
With this funding, our friends in Ukraine have built a new animal shelter in Lviv.
We do love our pets!

Relief continues for our brothers and sisters in Ukraine as they were able to purchase food in Slovakia and take to families in Eastern Ukraine that have been liberated from Russians! This is Thanksgiving!

Thanks again my dear brother for your prayers and support! Now several days I’m in Kyiv, now in Uzhhorod Pasha and Zhenya hard working) Everything is good there, and we also do big work with sending food and other stuff to the hard regions. Also, We see that now more people need shelter, so we are thinking about taking one more level in our building in rent.
In Kyiv I saw that Russian tanks were already there, but they have gone. I think it’s because the whole world was in prayers about Ukraine at that time. Because it’s really a miracle, that they didn’t continue to go to the center of Kyiv, it’s 10 km left for them. Also, I was in Bucha and other places which were occupied and destroyed. And in these cities, all the fences along the streets are full of bullet holes.  That is, Russian soldiers simply fired blindly to the right and left when they walked along these streets, killing civilians.  This is because the civilian population also tried to match, apparently. So next week will go back, and with new power will continue our ministry. We are so blessed by you and your church  You are in our prayers

Every day we see God's miracles in our refugee shelter.  Many people already go to church regularly, some have personally met Jesus.  It is a special joy to see how children begin to know God.  Next Sunday, some children from our shelter will recite poems) They like it in church!  On Monday, we were sending a group of seven people to the Netherlands, and one woman, who did not believe in the shelter, asked the whole group to pray for the road and their arrangement near the bus.  God touches people every day here.  Our team tries to be an example of a real Christian, and it seems that we often succeed We also take care of people from our first shelter, the school.  But 11 people have already been taken from there to the second shelter, as the school wants to close as a shelter next week.  But for some, the state has already found another place, and for some we take in.  Also, the Methodist Church in Ukraine is now looking for land with houses in order to give housing to those who have nowhere to return, and to those whose homes and apartments have been destroyed.  And we are very involved in this process.  I am sure that God has a wonderful and blessed plan for these projects.  This week I served in the gypsy church.  It was wonderful!  Pastor Vasily asked me, as Pastor Joseph left for Germany for some time.  Also, I, Pasha, and our entire team send a lot of products and hygiene products to the most hot and needy places in Ukraine.  In the photo you can see the happy faces of people who received these products) Now we want to collect a large truckload of products, clothes, and hygiene products in Kharkov, people are in great need there, there is a humanitarian disaster.  Now we are making a plan for this big project, we want to do it in the near future.  We sleep little and work a lot, but God blesses us with such wonderful people who live with us... They all help us very much.  Someone took care of the cleaning, someone in the kitchen, and someone sits at the reception desk.  It is much easier for us to work now than before.  It's as if God took us by the hand and miraculously carried us forward.  We are very grateful to you and your church, you are doing incredible things.  We love you, our brothers in Christ Jesus!

Hi my dear brother in Christ, all monies received on the account! We have no words to express our appreciation and thankfulness. Now we are installing heating systems in every living room.  It's already cold in Uzhgorod) So, thank you! Thank your people in church! Thanks God! Our ministry continues to be as dynamic as in the previous months.  Now we are actively preparing for winter, as well as for receiving even more people. For this, we purchase heaters and bunk beds.  The school where our first shelter was located starts the educational process tomorrow.  Therefore, all the people from there were moved to another village.  We continue to take care of them.  In the main, there are elderly people.  In one of the women, against the background of the battles experienced in Kharkov, arthrosis began to develop very rapidly.  And things got so bad that she could lose the ability to walk.  But by a great miracle of God, we managed to agree with the doctor at the local hospital so that he would take her for an operation.  And she has been operated on for more than a month, and we hope that together we will manage to keep her able to walk.  As for the second shelter, which we call "hostel".  We had record settlements in July and early August.  Because fighting in the Nikolaev, Dnepropetrovsk and Donetsk regions became more active.  People from Kherson, Kramatorsk, Kharkov and other cities also continue to arrive.  We are very happy that we were able to host such a large number of people.  In July alone, more than 80 people lived with us.  Each person living in our shelters receives the necessary assistance, namely: comfortable living conditions, high-quality three meals a day, clothing, hygiene products, medicines, medical care, etc.  In order for all residents to have unlimited access to drinking water, we installed a special water filter.  Before that, water was delivered to us by drinking water companies, there was not enough of it and it was quite expensive.  All of the above, each person receives absolutely free.  For many people, we were able to find accommodation abroad for a long period.  Now hundreds of women with children live and go to school in complete safety and without air raid alerts.  It seems to me that I have already told you that we have arranged the delivery of humanitarian aid from the Netherlands through Slovakia to Ukraine, and every week we send women with children on the return route.  In addition to physical and material help, we try to help spiritually.  Every Sunday we take a large group of people to church.  For most, this is their first visit to a Protestant church.  Many children of our migrants go to the local school.  We also pay much attention to the organization of leisure activities for migrants.  We take children to Christian camps, excursions, acting classes, and sporting events.  For adults, we conduct training and meetings with psychologists.  We organize socializing, walks, various games, watching cartoons, as well as birthday celebrations.  An air conditioner was installed to maintain the temperature in the food warehouse.  We also partially paid for the repair of the toilet in our first shelter, at the school.  We also continue to provide targeted assistance by mail throughout Ukraine to all those in need.  Recently, we have sent more than 100 food parcels.  A couple of weeks ago we were given a minibus to use for our ministry.  Now we can transport more humanitarian aid, and also more people.  Thank God!  Also, now we are working on opening another shelter, where we plan to accommodate even more people for longer periods.  And we really hope that we will be able to organize jobs for migrants.  This is all possible thanks to God and partners like you and your church. Praise Jesus! Thank you so much for your support!

Hello dear Brother Patrick,
I send you some photos of our ministry in Ukraine, that We support. At the moment We help people near the front lines. Especially towns and villages that were liberated from the Russian occupation. We are talking about the Mikolajev region: Liman, Novoukrajinka, Zaselia, Kotlairovo, and Charkov region: Izum, Kamenka, Oskol, Kapitolinka. Besides refugees, we help also Ukrainian soldiers with food and clothes. This Week We are going to send more buses with food, clothes, and medicine. Thank you very much for your help and support. We couldn´t do it without you! We would like to thank you for your faithfulness in supporting our ministry! God bless you richly!

Patrick we've received the money! Slava Bogu!! May God bless you, your family and your church more! Many thanks to all who support us during such difficult times. Its very essential for us. We believe God will continue to fulfill His purposes so that more people here in Ukraine know Jesus and His love. As a church, we are called to be a light in all darkest times and to help people in their urgent needs in Jesus’ name. Praise God that together we can do more for Him and His glory! May Jesus bless you and your church! Have a blessed Sunday ministry today. Big Hello to all congregation from our church in Chernivtci! Thank you for your constant prayers, and for your spiritual and financial support of our church and our ministries, it’s very important and we very much appreciate it. We are grateful to God that you are with us during this time!

We took part in an evangelical ministry for refugees yesterday. Our brother Dima (my sister's husband, I talked to you about him) preached to them. In the photos and video, you can see people from different war-damaged regions of Ukraine. They were open to hearing about Christ and God's love. We prayed for them and all refugees received supply packages at the end of the ministry.

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦  We received secondary school in village Onokivci (near Uzghorod) as place for shelter several days ago. It is third place in Transcarpatia for shelter organised by Methodist Church of Ukraine. We started from our churches buildings in Kamyanitsa and Uzghorod. There are more than 60 refuges whom ran away of the war on 4th day of this shelter existance. We meet people at train station, provide them opportunity to rest, to have home meal, necessary clothes.  After several days of hosting them we transport people to the borders with Slovakia, Hungary, Romania. Our brothers and sisters from neighbours countries meet and host many our citizens. Thank you for sacrificial ministry with people in need, brothers and sisters! Thank you for prayers and financial support!

 Oleg Starodubets,  UMC District Superintendent of Ukraine.

Pastor Patrick is receiving daily updates from his brothers and sisters in Ukraine and is hearing that your prayers and donations are transforming into the hands and feet of Christ. Olia Kryvytska shared this list of organizations/ministries that your donations are supporting:

Foodbank for refugees in Lviv
The ministry of Genadiy Mokhnenko who helps refugees in Mariupol.
https://www.facebook.com/gennadiy.mokhnenko (link below)

The ministry of Vitaliy Andriyets. He and his team are evacuating and bringing food and medicine to the cities in the east most affected by the war.
https://www.facebook.com/andriets.vitaly (link below)

Dzherelo zhyttia church that is raising money to sew bulletproof vests for those who evacuate people from hot zones and the territorial defense who they bring food and other things that need.
https://www.facebook.com/bodyarmor.ua/ (link below)

The centre that helps people with disabilities
https://gar.org.ua/about-us/ (link below)

Misto Dobra, an organization that is raising money to build housing for children that have become orphans because of this war.
https://misto-dobra.com.ua/english/ (link below)

I am constantly on the lookout for the ministries/NGOs that would need it the most.
Thank you and everyone who has donated and is praying for us!