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

1. Praise God for a wonderful answer to prayer! As you know, we at BIEM were concerned about the new regulations governing humanitarian-aid shipments to Ukraine that were scheduled to go into effect on December 1. Despite our best efforts, due to the Polish truck drivers’ strike, it looked like our container would not arrive by December 1. However, this week the December 1 date has been extended by 6 months! Thank you for praying.

2. After leaving the U.S., Pasha Usach and Eugene Buyko have arrived back in Ukraine and rejoice to be reunited with their families and churches. This weekend, Vitaly and Alona Yurchenko, along with their 20-year-old son Nikita, arrive here at our headquarters to continue speaking in churches about how God is using our war-relief efforts to reach souls in Ukraine and to increase community appreciation of our churches there. Please pray that God will bless these December meetings.

3. On his 13th trip into the Donbas area, BIEM’s Vitaly Bilyak and Andrey Eliseev took both the Gospel and humanitarian aid to soldiers serving on the war front. Some of the recipients are men from their church who were conscripted to serve in the military. To see video footage that Vitaly and Andrey provided, please click the following link:

https://vimeo.com/user37287229/donbas13

4. Igor Fomichov reports that V_____, a female staff member of the local military hospital in Desna, was moved by all that the church is doing to help wounded soldiers in the hospital and in distributing war-relief supplies in the community. This prompted her to visit the church, and she now attends regularly. Please pray for her salvation.

5. Also in the military city of Desna, the public-school administrator was likewise impressed by all that the church is doing for the military community during this time of war. So much so that he reached out to Igor and asked him to speak before the whole student body and to share what the church is doing. On November 29, Igor spoke to the entire school. He not only explained what the church is doing but why they are doing it, thus giving glory to God. This was a wonderful opportunity to present the Gospel, which is bound to produce fruit.

In Christ,

Sam Slobodian
President, BIEM