There was another in the fire… These words meant nothing to me. Don’t get me wrong, I do think the story of the fiery furnace is indeed regal, but that is it. The truth from the story never transcended into my everyday life until February 26. Shadrach Meshach and Abednego stood firm for what they…

We climb the stairs of Ira’s house. It was her pride – the only house in the street with three stories, even a small balcony to overlook the village and the fields. Her pride turned into her nightmare on the day the Russians came. The house with the best sunset view turned into a fortress…

In early March, Masha’s house was surrounded from all sides. Miraculously, it is still standing, but the windows burst from the shelling all around. Marie and I were blessed with some funds to fix the windows of a few homes in this particular village. Here’s to many more to come.

God’s servants in Ukraine these days remind me of the Biblical prophets. They are radical. There is no distance to the pain and ugliness their people experience. Maybe the war has made them radical. Maybe this flame has been inside of them all along; as it is maybe in all of us if we would…

This statement of Tatyana, a young Ukrainian woman, sticks in my mind. It was her answer to my question about how much her village suffered under the Russian occupation. “Not as much as Bucha and Irpin,” answered Tatyana. “Look around; only grandmothers live here. This is why they did not rape women. I am the…

Last February, I decided to fast and pray for the base I am working in. In the first week of the fasting and praying, there was a hearing from the Lord session for the staff meeting. Five minutes into the prayer session, Lord asked me to go up and share with the entire staff team…

   I saw quite a few dreams in my lives which shocked me as I saw them, and shocked me, even more, when I saw them come true in my life as time unfolded. God loves speaking to us through dreams and on a fun note, I think “speaking through dreams” is one of his…

  In the fullness of time, in the perfect time, at the right time… Most of us have grown up listening to these words in the church or in our families. I realized the depth of the meaning of these words only when I saw Jesus show up in my life when I desperately wanted…

Religion takes us to a place and relationship takes us to a person. A major portion of my life was spent to reach that place where I would know God as I should. I walked hard with great passion and precision; I was closing in on that place but fading away from the person. Darkness crawled…