Dear Pastors and Friends,

Recently, while I was making the rounds of various ministry points in Ukraine, the Lord gave me an opportunity to visit the Christian Rehabilitation Center outside the city of Ternopil. For newer friends who are unfamiliar with this outreach, allow me to say that the Lord gave BIEM’s missionary Vitaly Bilyak a vision to start such a ministry. The church he had planted was still quite young and renting a room for meetings when he proposed purchasing a property to open a rehabilitation ministry. But his church members caught the same vision and agreed. Since its humble beginnings as a small house and farm, this ministry has grown and continues to free men from their addictions to substances and to lead them to new life in Christ!

Here, the men in the program study Scripture together, pray together, and work with their hands to provide much of their own food. In this way, God is redeeming lives that were once ruined. We invite you to click the link to learn more.

For our October video, we invite you to click the following link to hear from Vitaly, who first conceived of this rehabilitation center, and Andrei, who is the minister who oversees it. Here’s the link:

https://vimeo.com/user37287229/redeeminglives

Blessings to you!

Sam & Amy Slobodian