We’re really grateful to DHM supporter, Jacquie, from Epsom, who organised a cake sale this week, which raised a significant sum to support the ministry of DHM in Ukraine as we prepare for our trip at the end of January.
DHM values its relationship with Epsom Baptist Church, where our
Recently, Dr Mykhailo Cherenkov and a group of Mennonite Brethren friends from Kansas and California, visited some ministry locations in Eastern Ukraine and participated in feeding the homeless in Zaporizhe, a large city in Eastern Ukraine, south of Dnipro.
Mykhailo is Vice-President of the Association of Spiritual Renewal (ASR),
Recently, DHM has started to build relationships with Poltava Baptist Church (PBC) in Eastern Ukraine. Located on the Vorskla River, which is a south-flowing tributary of the River Dnipro, Poltava is a city of great cultural and historical prominence.
At the end of January 2020, a DHM team will visit
Our team in Ukraine, led by our Community Outreach Co-ordinator, Karine, produced this video, which went out on social media, inviting young people from the village to celebrate Christmas at DHM’s centre of ministry in Ukraine, known as the House of Hope in Vasylkivka.
In Orthodox Christian countries, such as
Today, 7th January, is Christmas Day in Ukraine. So Merry Christmas!
The Ukraine team celebrated Christmas by preparing some packages filled with small presents. The packages were put in boxes and Pastor Alexander used the DHM minibus to take them to some of the poorest families in the surrounding villages.
Just last week, a team from DHM were warmly welcomed by the congregation at New Malden in West London. For Joshua and Varduyi it was great to be back with friends at NMBC, especially with Pastor Johnny Pozzo and his wife Kate, and Simon Bramwell, who is minister-in-training, currently studying
We were delighted this week to meet our friend, Pastor Alexander Demyanchenko, at Boryspol International Airport on the outskirts of Kyiv. DHM trustees, Joshua and Varduyi Searle, were in the Dnipro Region of Eastern Ukraine last week, where the temperature dropped down to -15°C (including the wind-chill factor). It won’t
On Sunday 3rd November a DHM team was invited to present the vision of Dnipro Hope Mission to the congregation of Reigate Baptist Church. We were really encouraged by the warm welcome and the hospitality that we received from this wonderful church.
Most importantly of all, God showed up
Pastor Sasha Boyko today led a group of young people from Vasylkivka Baptist Church to visit a care home for disabled people. They took to the nearby church those from the home who were well enough to travel. And when they had finished at the church, they went straight to
I was glad of the opportunity during a recent sabbatical period to spend some time in Ukraine. Although the main purpose of the visit was academic (to teach in seminary and to do some research for my next book), I was also able to renew contact with DHM’s key strategic