Ukraine & Belarus Update

Monument in Ukraine - Motherland. https://unsplash.com/@rostikarts

On March 7, 2022, Mark Prater gave an update on his blog on the involvement of Arche Church, a Sovereign Grace church in Germany, and their relationship with a pastor in the Ukraine:

Arche Church is an important part of what's happening because they are collecting supplies, food, water, first aid supplies, those kinds of things. And they're trying to get them to the Ukrainian border so they can be then transferred somehow safely to this pastor that is leading a church in the Ukraine. So, pray for our brothers and sisters in Hamburg, Germany, and their efforts to really serve our brother there in the Ukraine. Those supplies are especially needed right now.

And one other thing we decided on just this week. Jeff, Dave Taylor, and I worked to find a way to get some money to the brother in Ukraine who's leading and pastoring a church. And we were able to find one way to get money in. We hope that it's arrived to him by now.

And so, we'd want our listeners to know to the podcast that Sovereign Grace wanted to find a way to help at least financially support his work, his important work in the Ukraine right now.

Mark also highlighted the work of Kyle Huber in Belarus, Senior Pastor of Greentree Church in Egg Harbor, NJ:

I'm so grateful for Kyle and the number of trips that he has made to Belarus. He’s been going for over probably 20 years now, developing long standing relationships with pastors there. Three or four of these pastors have desire to pursue partnership with Sovereign Grace. And so, we've been talking with them—Kyle's been talking with them—about that. But they are also facing difficulty because they border Ukraine. They're also facing new pastoral issues because of this war. And those pastors, even though not directly in harm's way at this point, are still working very hard around the clock in sort of pastoral crisis type situations to care for their people and try to find ways to care for brothers and sisters in Ukraine.

I know Kyle told me sometime in the last few days that there has been some talk of potential Marshall Law in Belarus. So please pray against that. If you would pray that God would really work to avert more war at this point, not only for Ukrainian people, obviously and primarily, but also the impact that it has upon our brothers in Belarus and their churches.

Dave Taylor, Director of Emerging Nations also posted specific ways to pray for Ukraine & Belarus in his post Things to Pray For in March.

Mark Prater is the Executive Director for Sovereign Grace and serves as an elder at Covenant Fellowship Church. A weekly podcast with Sovereign Grace updates, hosted by Benjamin Kreps, is posted on his blog.