Our prayers have been answered! Earlier this week, our main contact in Ukraine, Rev. Alexander Boyko, returned to the Dnipro region in a minibus that he collected from Western Ukraine. It’s a Renault Trafic (2011) and it’s still going well notwithstanding its 230,000km on the clock!
The purchase of the
Eastern Orthodox countries like Ukraine celebrate Christmas not on 25th December like Western (Protestand and Catholic) countries, but on 7th January. What better way then to get away from all the Christmas chaos in the UK than to escape to Ukraine for a week at the end of December?
This
Just before Christmas, a team from DHM was invited to speak at Longfleet Baptist Church in the beautiful seaside town of Poole on the south coast of England. Joshua and Varduyi were welcomed by the minister, Rev. Suzie Roberts, who graduated just last year from Spurgeon’s College with First Class
This Sunday New Addington Baptist Church invited the Chairman of the DHM Trustees, Joshua Searle, to preach in their Sunday service and to give a presentation on some of the projects that DHM is supporting in Ukraine.
It was a blessing to share with this wonderful church and to speak
On Sunday 30th September I was invited to Blackheath and Charlton Baptist Church in central London to speak about the work of Dnipro Hope Mission. It was a great occasion and it was a privilege to preach at this wonderful church and to lead the congregation in worship.
During the
We need your help to raise money for a people carrier (MPV) car for our mission partners in Dnipro. Our aim is to buy a good-quality 9-seater MPV that can be used as a tool for ministry, enabling local Christians in Dnipro to provide pastoral care for people in orphanages
Our partners at the Church of the Transfiguration, a Baptist church in Kyiv, recently organised their annual camp for people with disabilities. This camp is conducted for disabled children and adolescents and is held in Voronkiv village, just south of Kyiv, for a month in summer. DHM recently sent a delivery of disability equipment, which
It was a great pleasure to visit New Creation International Church in Lewisham last Sunday.
The lead pastor there is one of my former students, Rev. Gideon Okeoma. Pastor Gideon graduated last year from Spurgeon’s College and is leading a church plant in a deprived area in south London. He
A team of DHM volunteers has just delivered a van-load of disabled equipment to our mission partners, based at a Baptist Church in Kyiv, Ukraine. This church runs a remarkable ministry for disabled people on the margins of society.
Although the church volunteers have been able to offer pastoral support
I was struck by the quality and authenticity of the fellowship among the wider European Mennonite family. I cannot remember attending a theological conference that was pervaded by such a deep and meaningful sense of community.
Given my links to Ukraine through my work with DHM, it was a blessing