Updates from Ukraine: God in the Rubble

Second-year Bible Institute student, Katya, taking her three siblings to safety
Ukraine Updates

Updates from the Director of WOL Ukraine

Last evening on Fox News at Night, Matias Radziwiluk, the director of Word of Life Ukraine, was able to share about the many opportunities our Ukrainian and European teams have had to serve the Ukrainian people over the past three weeks. Despite the horrors of the reality of war, it has been humbling and beautiful …

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The Body of Christ Serves Ukrainians Throughout Europe

Our missionaries in Ukraine and the surrounding countries continue to serve in various capacities. In Ukraine, the eight men who remained behind have continued to shuttle citizens from the Chernihiv area. Over the weekend, they were able to evacuate 137 men, women, and children. The team was also able to lead a convoy of seven …

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Christ Shines in Spite of Broken Hearts in Ukraine

We received this update from Matias, director of WOL Ukraine, today: After two days of evacuations in the city of Chernihiv, the reality of war has started to settle in. Yesterday, our team of missionaries was joined by a local pastor—whose wife we evacuated to WOL Romania—and another fellow believer, who heard that we were evacuating …

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European Missionaries Work Together to Aid Evacuation Efforts

The eight WOL missionaries remaining in Ukraine continue to serve alongside churches to evacuate people and deliver food and supplies to those in need. Currently, the team is working north of Kyiv to evacuate citizens in immediate danger from the Russian onslaught. Just yesterday, they made it to a checkpoint with seven vanloads of people, …

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God Provides: Relief Efforts in Ukraine

The eight Word of Life missionaries remaining in Ukraine continue to deliver supplies and evacuate women, children, and the elderly from Kyiv. Thus far, they have been able to transport over 140 people to the border–including, just this morning, 40 adults, 18 children, and 2 newborns. The group has also been able to deliver countless vanloads of …

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6 of the 8 missionaries delivering supplies and transporting displaced people in Ukraine
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Serving Those in Need Across Ukraine

On a Zoom call with a leader in the US, Matias described the current state of his team both in Ukraine and across the border. As individuals and families cross the border and seek refuge in neighboring countries, many are being received directly into homes by benevolent strangers waiting at the border to take them …

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Word of Life Ukraine: Evacuating Our Team

This morning, after a night full of paperwork and planning, most of our staff crossed the border into Hungary. The line to cross was long and slow, but our team has made it safely. Our group of about 50 people was primarily made up of women and children. The Ukrainian men were not allowed to …

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Word of Life Ukraine: A Plea for Prayer

Over a series of voice messages, WOL Ukraine’s director, Matias Radziwiluk, describes the conflict that has been building between neighboring countries, Russia and Ukraine, since 2014. He calmly explains that this conflict has been their reality for eight years, and in fact, the country has learned to flourish in spite of it–all while the world …

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