They have no power and there was a lot of bombing where they are throughout the day - in both Nipro and Novomoscosk.

Today we spent the day just behind the front lines! We were invited to be part of the tank battalion that is fighting right by the Russian

We had a great dinner at the end of the day this past Sunday, May 19th! These are many of my friends from a decade or more that wanted to

This a picture of a kamikaze drone attacking Nikopol, where Stepan and I are preaching on Sunday!

About a week ago Rolfe asked a really thoughtful question, one that could kind of languish in the back of your mind;  But I thought that it

I thought it might be interesting to know a little bit about the way our loving God has directed us to bring financial support to these dear

We arrived safely in Novomoskovsk today, thanks be to God!  Tomorrow we are not able to go to the front, so that has been moved to next

Tonight they called a meeting for all the leaders of the Central Baptist Church, so that we could search the Scriptures together, like Acts

There were about 70 kids at the kids club and 30 parents from very poor families. Some have spent weeks in underground subway tunnels...

On Friday we drove 50 miles away from Kharkiv to deliver food packages...They don’t travel inland but depend on folks to deliver supplies

This morning at church I talked about God’s love, the Holy Spirit and hearing God’s Voice!  Most people seemed pretty grateful for this and

Last night the Russian forces captured 4 villages near here in the Kharkiv region, close to the City.  Kharkiv is the second largest city

Before we left Kiev, we had reports of power outages and bombings, but we made it fine into Kharkiv! 

Families were given 6 hours notice to vacate their houses. There are running battles with police in Mathare around the school. The whole

Jerry sent the following update with the promise to finish up with more after dinner, but it ended up being so late that he kept...

by Pastor Jerry Theckston Everybody in the picture is a doctor except for the young boy, Artom, and the girl with the grey shirt who...

Just now as I am writing this blog entry in my ‘hosts’ apartment, two bombs just exploded not far away!

I wanted to update you as of Easter Sunday, May 4, 2024. Yes, they have the opportunity because of the Orthodox Churches to celebrate Easter

It is the middle of the night, and our train has stopped at the Polish/ Ukrainian border, both sides take turns inspecting our documents...

Northern Ethiopia has been the center of a terrible Civil War, costing the lives of over 500,000 people! It is a very tribal area with viole