Dear Pastors and Friends,
Life stays busy whenever we have BIEM national church planters visiting us in the United States, and this current experience is no exception. Currently, we have Eugene Buyko and Igor Fomichov here to visit churches and to assist in raising funds for BIEM’s War Relief efforts. In addition, this past week they applied their time and energy to help us load (extremely tightly!) another 40-foot, high-cube container packed with gently used clothing and shoes, foodstuffs, tables and chairs for churches, and a wide variety of other useful items for opening doors and ministering to souls in war-ravaged Ukraine. To see a brief video of the packing process, we invite you to click the following link:
https://vimeo.com/834898242?share=copy
These container-loading days can be exhausting. We strive to utilize every bit of airspace to get as much “bang for our buck” as possible out of the container shipping costs. (And of course, each box and item must be recorded for the cargo manifest.) But despite the inevitable sore muscles, these projects are a labor of love, performed both for the Lord and for saved and unsaved recipients in Ukraine. Many of you provided the slightly used garments aboard this shipment. Thank you for them! Others of you have provided financial donations, which go toward ordering the shipping container and paying for its transport from here to Ukraine. Thank you, too! It might sound like a cliché, but in this ministry, we are ever aware of the fact that we could not accomplish such projects without all of you. Thanks so much for standing with us. May God bless you richly!
In Christ,
Sam & Amy Slobodian