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The meals keep being cooked, packaged, and taken to hard hit places along the northern, eastern and southern regions of Ukraine.

Our partners continue to work around the clock to care for hungry people but also to give them hope.

This great endeavor to feed those in danger zones has brought substantial meals to communities from Zhtomyer to Kyiv up to Chernihiv, over to Kharkiv all the way down and around to Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolyiv.

This is a work of love. These partners are the hands and feet of God bringing hope to people caught in a seemingly hopeless situation.

With God there is always hope.

Below is a photo of a dear brother who was sharing that hope in God in conversation with a person who had received food.

We are so grateful to partner with these faithful servants of God. As the war begins its ninth week, they continue to serve. We continue to send essential funds daily to enable them to continue to serve hungry and displaced Ukrainians. Thank you who have given to join us in this great endeavor.

Here’s results of how our partnership is helping:

Total meals cooked, sealed and delivered to hard hit and often dangerous communities inside Ukraine: 60,758.

Number of persons receiving some level of temporary housing at our partner camp: 7129

Persons who pass through this week and find food and temporary accommodation for a night this week from Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv: per night average 120.

We’re committed to long term help. To date every dime donated has gone to Ukraine. We thank God that, thus far, we are able to pay all bank fees and administrative costs from our general fund.

Please continue to pray for Ukraine, for peace, for our partners to have strength when air raids keep them up much of the night, for us to continue to be able to send them funds.

Thank you for giving.

GIVE: http://www.ceokids.org/give

As followers of Jesus, adopted children of God, wherever we are, HE IS.

“I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!””
‭‭(Psalm‬ ‭122:1‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

“Let us go” suggests choice. It implies calling.

To where shall we go?

“The house of the Lord!”

Is this the Temple? No. It is no more.

Is it your local church building? Yes, but…

While this is rightly applied to the local church, it would be very sad to me if the only time you went to the house of the Lord was when you gather with fellow disciples.

No, it’s more. It’s a “morning by morning” dwelling with God.

Wherever we were, these last three weeks, I was glad to go the house of the Lord. I was glad to go to the throne room of God and boldly approach the throne of Grace, dwelling in the Scriptures, giving him praise, begging him for the things on my list of prayers for people, and thanking him for… everything.

Whether at a kitchen table, on a balcony overlooking the neighborhood, a chair in a hotel lobby, a cafe, at home in the regular place, a safe place during an air raid, sitting in your quiet vehicle after dropping the kids, or wherever, remember the invitation:

“Let us go to the house of the Lord!”

It would seem that even in hard hit places (like Bucha – that you’ve heard so much about) the elderly stayed put. They have stayed home. They now have no access to stores or markets.

Along the way Bucha has been a regular destination for meals. Here are some photos from the weekend.

Since the war began, our partners have been serving their fellow Ukrainians to the glory of God.

Thank you for praying. Please continue.

Thank you for giving.

GIVE: http://www.ceokids.org/give

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
‭‭(1 Peter‬ ‭1:3-5‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

“My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭119:81‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭15:13‬ ‭ESV‬‬

One of the most notable aspects of this trip was to have our Board Chair, Mark Stewart join us for a few days during our gathering. Mark is a dear and trusted friend and an incredible Kingdom servant and thinker. Our partners were glad to meet him and be encouraged by him. I am proud to serve with this brother.

“I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” (Philippians‬ ‭1:3-6‬ ‭ESV‬‬)