LCC Volunteers Serving Ukrainian Refugees

Your Donations Are Sent Directly to Ukraine Pastors to Help Impacted Ukrainians
 
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DONATE — UKRAINIAN RELIEF FUND

Last week, LCC volunteers Kathy and Joan flew to Poland and met up with Pastor Scott Yount and his wife Lena (from Ukraine) to serve Ukrainian refugees. At the Ukraine Mission Center, they have been busy preparing meals, cleaning items for the church, and befriending adults and youth. Most of all, they have been showing the love of Jesus to everyone they meet!
 
Kathy enjoyed 15 games of ping pong with Yarik, age 16, Kathy and Joan played Uno with Ukrainian youth girls, and Joan shared coloring materials with a young girl.

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As a nurse, Joan also administered tests at the COVID testing clinic. Kathy brought carved birds made by an LCC donor and shared them with a refugee mother and son. Kathy and Joan also spent time visiting Ukrainian refugees with disabilities and their family or caregiver who are seeking safe shelter.

Kathy and Joan traveled to the border safely and spent 24 hours handing out blankets, hot drinks, and other essential supplies. Refugees receive accommodations, food, healthcare, and hygienic packages free of charge. They met Valeria and her cat, who came to the border from the Ukrainian town of Nikolaev. She has a daughter in Slovakia, who she will stay with for a while. Natasha brought her two kids over the border on March 1 but had to go back to Ukraine. She drove 15 hours to get back to the border.

Kathy and Joan traveled to the border safely and spent 24 hours handing out blankets, hot drinks, and other essential supplies. Refugees receive accommodations, food, healthcare, and hygienic packages free of charge. They met Valeria and her cat, who came to the border from the Ukrainian town of Nikolaev. She has a daughter in Slovakia, who she will stay with for a while. Natasha brought her two kids over the border on March 1 but had to go back to Ukraine. She drove 15 hours to get back to the border.

DONATE — UKRAINIAN RELIEF FUND

Working through LCC staff member Rev. Larry Myers, below is an update from the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Ukraine (SELCU) pastors, thanking LCC donors for your financial support and prayers.

Sergey Bevz (SELCU pastor in Dnipro)
 
“Thank you for your letter and donations. Praise the Lord and thanks to all who donated! Now a very large flow of refugees passes through our city. In recent days, we have been forced to refuse many people accommodation for the night, as we have no places at all. We are trying to expand our capabilities, to do some work in the building, to make more places. Thanks for your prayers and support! May our Lord Jesus Christ bless you!”

Yurii Timerkan (SELCU pastor)
 
“I am very thankful for you and Lutheran Church Charities. In this difficult time for Ukrainians, it is very helpful and important to receive groceries, medicine, and other stuff and to hear that God remembers us and doesn't leave us. A lot of people around our Church already changed their attitude to the Church. We have some people who come to visit our prayer-time and worship services. God uses this time for changing hearts of Ukrainians. And this donation helps us in providing the Gospel to people and takes care of our neighbor. Thank you for continuing to pray for us.”

Valerii Verba (SELCU pastor in Nova Kakhovka, near Kherson)

“Good afternoon from Ukraine. Thank God for the new day and the blessings of this day. I received your letter and the funds you spoke about have arrived. We thank the Lord and you for continuing to help and support the ministry in Ukraine. I will write more about the service that is accomplished through this. Please continue to pray for Ukraine. We bless you in the name of Jesus Christ!”

Ukrainian Church – Palatine, Illinois

On behalf of LCC, Jim Dunne and Pat Sweeny presented donations to Archpriest Mykhailo Kuzma and Nadiya Hnatyuk of the Ukrainian Church in Palatine, Illinois, to provide direct and immediate financial assistance to their contacts in Ukraine.

Oleg Ivanets, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Concordia University

LCC continues to support the family of Oleg Ivanets, Ph.D., assistant professor at Concordia University and chair of the university's quantitative business program. Your donations were sent to St. Luke Lutheran Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to help get the family out of Ukraine safely. Oleg shared the following update through Linda Sproul at Concordia University Ann Arbor:
 
“Thank you so much for your help, it is indeed instrumental in these difficult times. My parents managed to evacuate to Poland and apply for Canadian visas. Now we're all waiting for the visas. Canada implemented a special program for Ukrainians, so it's much easier to get there than to the United States. So far they're recovering. They were in a pretty bad shape when they got to Poland but now they are recovering and feeling much better. Hopefully I will be able to see them soon. Thank you and God bless!”

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Ukrainian Lutheran Church (ULC)
 
LCC is also working directly with the Ukraine Lutheran Church (ULC) by working through the Lutheran Church here in the United States in fellowship with them!

Your Donations are Immediately Helping Ukrainians in Need!

Please prayerfully consider donating to help Ukrainians by showing the Mercy, Compassion, Presence and Proclamation of Jesus Christ to those who are suffering and in need!
 
Thank You for your support in being the hands and feet of Jesus to those suffering!

DONATE — UKRAINIAN RELIEF FUND