The teams have all been going out to minister and deliver food. There are several Y staff out in villages today. A few Y staff are down near the frontlines delivering medical supplies and solar chargers as well as food. Prayers for safety and for the Gospel to go forth. We had a chance to […]
Ira Kapitonova is with Ivan Kapitonov and Dmytro Bereza After the first month of the war, one of my fears was that the count of days of war would go into the hundreds… Today, I was reflecting on these 100 days. When we woke up to the sounds of explosions at 5 am on February […]
Ira Kapitonova is with Ivan Kapitonov and Dmytro Bereza Day 91 If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14) This verse holds a great promise that […]
Ira Kapitonova is with Ivan Kaptonov and Dmytro Bereza Day 89 It’s been three whole months since the beginning of the full-scale war on Ukraine. It’s hard to believe how different our lives used to be, and I am sure the changes inside us are much more significant than we can see now. I’ve often […]
Ira Kapitonova (Today’s picture – art by Vadym Lutskyi, “Ruined childhood”, 2022) There are days when the news doesn’t seem to report something worth mentioning, but even this is a great achievement of our armed forces. We may read a short statement, “The enemy launched an attack on [insert a city name] but did not […]
Marie John is with Japhin “There is a life after war.” This was the craziest statement I heard in the first month of the war. At that point, it had not occurred to me to think about a life after war. It was as if time stood still from the 24th of February. Everything happened […]
J&M serving in Kyiv had to travel to Romania to update visas I did not think it would be different. But it is. Funny how the geographical border of Ukraine in the east is a joke, and the geographical boundary in the west feels like a safe haven. In Romania, you can sense freedom; I […]
This is Larissa. Before the war, she was a teacher. We met her as a cook at the military checkpoint. She cooks for the 140+ volunteers at the checkpoint to support her homeland. That means preparing meals on the open fire and under the open sky in the wind, weather, and snow. Most men at […]
by Japhin John, YWAM Kyiv 10.04.22 When I try to recollect what happened on February 24th, everything blurs. I remember waking up to someone hammering on the door. “It has started. Kyiv is under bombing”. The next thing I remember is how we got on our knees. We prayed a desperate prayer. God, what will become […]
From Marie John and friends serving with YWAM Kyiv The sky has been silent for the last two days. But there is no relief. It is a scary silence. It’s a silence filled with images from the liberated villages north of Kyiv. Now the whole world knows Irpen, Bucha, Borodyanka. It’s a silence filled with […]
