Dear Pastors and Friends,

As many of you know, one of our newest church plants is in the Druzhba district of Ternopil, a large city in western Ukraine. The Ukrainian missionaries who have been called there are Sergiy and Karina Koop. Previously, they had both served in New Life Baptist Church, where Karina’s father, Vitaly Bilyak, is the pastor. Sergiy, who served as New Life’s youth pastor, ended up also leading the church’s outreach to refugees. This experience gave both of them a burden to reach refugees with the Gospel and planted in them a vision to establish a new church in the Druzhba district, which is now home to 30,000 refugees.

This month’s video is one that Sergiy and Karina personally made to introduce people to their ministry. Right now, the greatest needs for this new church are monthly support and $20,000 to finish the construction of a large apartment in the middle of this area. A donor has committed $10,000 in matching funds to this project to encourage others to give toward the $20,000 needed.

Here’s the video link:

https://vimeo.com/user37287229/chooselife

Blessings to you!

In Christ,

Sam & Amy Slobodian