Nearly two years ago, the nightmare for Ukraine began. The journey from bombed-out cities in eastern Ukraine to the west of the country involved a desperate, high-risk trek—first on foot, then in the back of trucks swerving to avoid constant bombardment, and finally being packed like animals in trains headed towards the Polish border. Today, this war is still relevant. Amid the swirling global news, ever-changing and ever-troubling, the innocent people of Ukraine are still experiencing panic, chaos, family separation, and staggering daily death tolls.
But, even looking back on the initial aid efforts, there was hope—and a source of peace.
By God’s grace, some of the famished, exhausted refugees found their way to shelters run by Christian ministry workers who had been busy setting up make-shift bomb shelters in the basements of churches in and near the western city of Rivne. Each shelter provided much-needed humanitarian aid, and open, welcoming arms, asking, “What do you need? What do you want?”
Interestingly, one after another asked this: “Do you have a Bible?”
As it happens, each shelter contained a table full of Bibles —…
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