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Dear Pastors and Friends,

Hello from the Slobodians. This month's video finds us in Ukraine for the winter session of our seminary where we are training nationals for ministry in churches. Abbas in one of our students from Iran. Ukraine has a small community of Iranians who were able to obtain refugee status which they treasure as it allows them to escape the tyranny of their homeland and live in freedom. Better yet it is here that some have found the Lord and obtained a citizenship in heaven! Abbas is one of those and has a hunger to learn God's word and to serve Him.

Currently we have 60 students in the seminary. 32 are Theology students, 14 are Christian Education majors, 13 study music with the goal of preparing them to be choir directors and 2 are missions majors. Over these years this school had graduated over 300 students which are now serving in nearly 70 cities and towns in Ukraine as well as a handful of foreign countries. This school functions as a partnership of BIEM and the Brotherhood of Independent Baptist Churches of Ukraine so the students come from all over Ukraine, which is the size of Texas. Therefore many of our students come from a long way.

Praise God for this opportunity to invest in the lives of young people willing to serve God.

Sam & Amy Slobodian