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

1. BIEM’s Vitaly Bilyak recently completed his 13th war-relief trip to Ukraine’s war zone, where he and others distributed food and preached the Gospel to civilians, to active-duty servicemen, and to wounded ones in the Kurakhove hospital. On this particular trip he was accompanied by Andrei Eliseev, who directs the Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Ministry of the church. When they finished the civilian part of their journey and arrived at the military unit they were helping, Vitaly was presented with a military medal for his service!

2. Praise God, the trip to another area of the war front by Sasha Petrenko for which we requested prayer last week did take place. Now, Sasha and others are in the Zaporizhia area to deliver generators, winter coats, New Testaments, and other war-relief supplies. Please pray for spiritual fruit from all the Gospel seeds being planted in the soil of War Relief aid.

3. We have previously mentioned the need for prayer that our container heading to Ukraine arrive before December 1 due to new restrictions that go into effect on that day. The good news is that the projected date of this container’s arrival in the Polish port is November 23, which normally would provide plenty of time to get the container into Ukraine by December 31. Unfortunately, truckers across Poland have just gone on strike. As a result, the flow of trucks from Poland to Ukraine has come to a halt. Please pray that this strike will end in time to transport our container from Poland into Ukraine before December 1.

4. Last week we mentioned that our Ukrainian church planters Eugene Buyko and Pavel Usach have arrived in the U.S. and now are speaking in churches to share firsthand accounts of how God is using BIEM’s aid to introduce people to the Gospel during the war. Eugene and Pavel paused their activities long enough to record an update for the following video:

https://vimeo.com/user37287229/containerconcerns

5. In the Kherson area of Ukraine, our people are considering holding an evangelistic winter camp for children whose parents were killed during the Russian occupation of their city. They request prayers for wisdom and divine guidance as they consider the logistics of holding such a camp.

In Christ,

Sam Slobodian
President - BIEM