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Dear Pastors and Friends,

Hello again from the Slobodians! This month's video update features a report on how the Coronavirus is affecting the ministry of BIEM. As you can imagine this has had various effects on our office operation, our missionaries on the field, and our traveling personnel. This is a bit longer than our usual video updates but we do give a country by country description of the varying situations.

Not mentioned in the video is that two of our families have been quarantined for two weeks because of recent travels outside their country of residence. Thankfully they are not showing any symptoms and so far none of our folks have contracted the virus. Praise God!

Our Spring seminary session in Kyiv, Ukraine scheduled for late April may be affected as well. At this point if the Americans scheduled for that session cannot travel to Ukraine, the Ukrainian brethren will continue with the session as planned with all Ukrainian teachers providing that the prohibition of meetings larger than 10 people is no longer in effect. If that ban is still in place or if travel is still restricted, they will still have the Spring session, but it will be done online.

Thank-you for your part in this ministry. May God bless you!

In Christ, Sam & Amy Slobodian