Ukraine Has Been Fighting For Freedom For 100 Days!
For three months, Ukrainian people have been suffering from the war
The full-fledged war started by the Russian aggressor is underway in Ukraine. Civilians are suffering and dying across the country. The enemy has destroyed thousands of houses, entire cities and villages, critical infrastructure facilities, schools, churches, industries and granaries throughout Ukraine.
Despite losses and overall pain, Ukrainians continue to unite in helping each other, in prayers and in doing good deeds, also uniting many countries of the world that have extended a helping hand to Ukraine.
The unconquerable spirit of the Ukrainian people has become an inspiring example for other nations!
Activities of the Christ is Answer Ministries in May 2022
Needy people are the main focus of the ministry of CITA missionaries. We regularly visit people who lost their homes and basic necessities as a result of the war, people who find themselves in difficult life circumstances, widows, single pensioners, people with disabilities.
Charitable food packages were received by those in need in the Donbas, Kyiv, Sumy and Kharkiv regions, the temporarily displaced from Luhansk, Donetsk, Kharkov, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Kherson regions.
Evacuation from hot spots of Ukraine!
CITA missionaries continue evacuating people from the war zone. In particular, 12 people have been taken out of Donbas.
CITA activities in different parts of Ukraine
The team of the Christ is the Answer missionaries is serving in Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Chernivtsi, Khmelnitsky, Rivne, Zakarpattia regions. In May, the missionaries managed to make seven trips with humanitarian cargo, with one to the Zaporizhzhya region, two to the Donetsk region, and four to the Kyiv region.
The bulk of the missionary team continues ministering in the field, including in the war zones, as well as in those places where they were active before the war (Rivne, Ternopil, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions).
In total, CITA missionaries have had more than 400 different meetings, clubs, personal talks, have visited more than 80 families and people, distributed about 52,000 outreach newspapers and have held more than 50 outreach events for groups of people in May.
Rivne
With the help of CITA missionaries and volunteers, a food warehouse and reception center for the temporarily displaced continue operating at the Christ is the Answer Church. The mission team has run several charitable eye clinics for IDPs and local residents.
The missionary team in Rivne also organized a picnic that brought together more than 100 IDPs from the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.
“Let such events be organized more often to raise awareness of the fact that we are all humans, we are all equal and we all need communication, friendship, finding a common language and helping each other,” said Oksana, a guest at the picnic from Rubizhne, Luhansk region.
“I would like there to be more such events, because it is difficult for us, internally displaced persons, to be homesick, but this picnic has dispelled all sadness. I think that today no one even remembered their worries. I am very grateful! We saw people who really serve God,” Emma from Mykolaiv expressed her appreciation.
Dmytro Kosak, an evangelist from the USA, visited Ukraine in May to support IDPs from different regions of the country temporarily residing in Rivne. His journey began in a small town in the state of New York, continued in Krakow, Poland, where, together with CITA missionaries, he arranged for humanitarian aid to be transported to Ukraine. And the final stage of the charity trip was a two-day outreach event in Rivne for 400 IDPs with the distribution of food packages at the Christ is the Answer church.
Kharkiv region
In Muraf, food packages are regularly distributed to displaced people and people in need. In the local church, where CITA missionary Sergey Tiurikov serves as a pastor, those wishing to hear the Word of God gathered with 200 people attending a church service at the same time.
Mykolaiv region
Belousivka. 130 food packages have been distributed to the temporarily displaced.
Mykhailivka. Distribution of humanitarian aid to the temporarily displaced, families of servicemen, pensioners.
Antonikva. Distribution of food to the temporarily displaced, large families, pensioners
Ternopil
Ukrainians unite in Ternopil as well. During the war, this city hosted, according to official data, 25,000 TDPs. Missionary Andriy Vasenda, with a team, takes part in helping such people at the House of Bread Church. Meetings for TDPS started here in March 2022 and are held twice a week in two formats.
The general church service covers up to 150 people. Before the start, people can choose what they need from things and get a food package. At such church services, people hear God's Word, testimonies, and sing Christian songs together. This format of meetings helps to support people.
In two months, the CITA team in Ternopil held about 25 meetings, attended by 600 families or about 2,500 people. Due to the large influx of people, ministers have to register those who wish to attend such events in advance.
“We do not just want to help people with products, there are not enough resources for everyone. Therefore, a decision was made by the churches in Ternopil to help the IDPs with finding work, to help them get established where they have relocated. We are aware that people need to develop further, continue to support the economy of Ukraine, and move forward, so we offer them possible job options. We are interested that the temporarily displaced, our fellow countrymen could realize themselves in our city,” commented Andriy Vasenda, a CITA missionary from Ternopil.
Donetsk region
Avdiyivka, Vuhledar, Pokrovsk, Selydovo, Novohradovka, Horniak, Prechistovka are towns and villages of the Donetsk region where CITA missionary Andriy Kovalenko brought humanitarian aid, serving in the Donbass, but because of the war temporarily living with his family in the Western part of Ukraine. This time he managed to distribute 300 food packages in cooperation with the local church in Avdiyivka.
In the bombed-out cities, where people and entire families with children continue to live in buildings with the windows blown out and traces of fire.
“In these territories, there has been no gas, no electricity, no water for a long time. People settled in basements, near each entrance there is a fireplace and a street kitchen. They have adapted. When asked why they are not leaving, they say: “Where can we go?”, “Where can we get money?”. Some, however, took our contacts in case of evacuation, saying “we will think about it,” missionary Andriy shared.
Kyiv
A team of volunteers, including a member of the Ministries, continue serving the elderly in different parts of Kyiv. They bring humanitarian aid and medicines to Irpin and Bucha, Avdiyivka, Demydiv.
CITA materials in media
The media published an article, written from the words of a missionary of the Ministries, about what the Russian army did to the House of Prayer “City of Praise” and the future missionary center in Rubizhne, which hosted ministers in early February of this year.
The article is about how, half an hour before the road was cut off, he managed to leave the city, what he experienced, and what events the missionary of the Christ is the Answer, who lived and served in the Donbas before the start of the war in 2022, witnessed. The link to the article.
An interview with the director and missionary of the Christ is the Answer Ministries, Taras Sen, has been published. He shared his thoughts about the full-scale war in Ukraine and the position of Russian ministers, about the spiritual component of today's realities, as well as about activities of the Christ is the Answer Ministries during the war. The link to the interview.
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