#56: Ukraine

You’ve seen pictures, heard reports, lamented over the horrors perpetrated on the Ukrainian people, and prayed for those involved.   Fred Heumann of MusicWorks International has made 18 trips to Ukraine to train church and seminary leaders in worship, theology, and music. One of those seminaries, the Ukraine Evangelical Theological Seminary (UETS), is 15 minutes from Bucha, the city that was savagely occupied by Russian soldiers.   On the second day of the war, Fred founded ServeUkraine.org to help meet the needs of Ukrainians. On Thursday he will share some background and insight into Ukraine and its people from his unique perspective. He will also introduce us to Ivan Rusyn, president of UETS. If the technology works and he’s available, Ivan will be with us also by Zoom.   If you want to know more about Ivan, you can read an interview in Christianity Today. Ivan concludes the interview, “I want to say I see God’s hand at work. When I go back to Bucha tomorrow, can I tell the old woman (who “had no windows, no water, no electricity, nothing”) that God is working in her life? Theologically I believe He is. But in front of such suffering, I lack the strength to communicate it.”