Yulia (Kyiv)
This is what we see every time coming to the villages with food bags.
Crowd of people waiting. They need food but not only physical, their hearts need living water and bread of life that is Jesus.
We have great opportunity to speak into their lives and share about God’s love and hope.
Today we delivered 475 food bags in Kyiv and Chernigov region.
Thank you Jesus for these people who heard Your word today.
Yesterday we asked you to pray for the situation with the lack of fuel for our teams. Here is the answer a day later….
Glen (Kyiv)
Jacek and I were talking about how diesel in Ukraine is the new toilet paper from Covid days. We were below empty with 30 km to go and had just poured in our final container of 20 liters. The entire day we either passed ghost town gas stations with nobody there, or else incredibly long lines with many hours or days to wait just to get about 7 gallons worth. We talked to people who were first in line and had been waiting two full days for the diesel trucks to show up so they could get their 7 gallons worth of fuel.
Incredibly, not 10 minutes after we had emptied our final container into our tank, we missed our GPS turnoff and had to turn around in an empty gas station to go back the right way. We decided to stop and ask if they knew any place where we could get fuel? Unbelievably, they said their station had fuel! Miracle number 1. There were absolutely no cars or trucks at all at this station so we were the only ones “in line” to get fuel. Miracle #2. They said there was a fuel limit but we could fill up to the limit, drive around in a circle, and repeat the process again and again until we had all the fuel we needed. Miracle #3!
Each one of these things is completely unheard of much less all three happening at the exact time after we had just used up our final container of fuel and we were only using the gas station to turn around!
So many have prayed for our fuel situation and this was such a God thing we just kept laughing and laughing for miles afterwards. Rejoice with us!
Thank you for your prayers, they really do wonders.
Al Akimoff and the Slavic Ministries Team