1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today, we are going 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: to take you over to the Ukrainian and Russian war 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: that is going on, but we're going to take you 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: to kind of a different aspect of that, and that 5 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: is the moms and the women that are left behind, 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: something that I think that we are very spoilt here 7 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: in America. We don't really think about what happens when 8 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,760 Speaker 1: your husband goes off to a war that he's unprepared for, 9 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: or when a war occurs, and maybe in some cases 10 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 1: the men just leave the family, and the men who 11 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: come home are suffering from PTSD and sometimes they leave 12 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,560 Speaker 1: the family. What we haven't heard in the United States enough, 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: I think, is that there is a massive amount of 14 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 1: women who are not only on the ground fighting, but 15 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 1: they are in the house fighting with their kids every 16 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 1: day to make sure that they have food, to make 17 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: sure that they have clothes, to make sure that their 18 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: kids are getting education in the middle of a war zone, 19 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: something that we just don't experience here. We have so 20 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 1: much protesting and so many people on either side of 21 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: these wars that are going on worldwide who really have 22 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: no intimate connection to what's happening on the ground and 23 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: I got this pitch. And sometimes, you know, you probably 24 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: wonder how we decide which podcast we want to do, 25 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: But every so often something comes in my email box 26 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: and I go, wow, that is something I want to 27 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: know more about, and I hope you guys want to 28 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: know more about it too. So we are blessed today 29 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: to have Christy Mack with us and Alexandra Abramchuk, both 30 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: people who are working with groups in Ukraine. Alexandra, she 31 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: came to the United States from Ukraine. She is one 32 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 1: of those moms. Christy is a She assists with a 33 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: special project edit Illinois based Slavic Gospel Association. The Gospel 34 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: Ministry partners with local evangelical churches and ministry pastors in 35 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: Ukraine and the former Soviet Union. And like I said, 36 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: Alexander as a young mother who has come to the 37 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: United States, but she has many stories. So welcome to both. 38 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 2: Of you, Thank you, thank you. 39 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 1: I just if we can start, Alexandra with you a 40 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:19,519 Speaker 1: little bit about your story and the experiences of mothers 41 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: that are going through this in Ukraine. You came to 42 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: the United States because of this destruction and death and 43 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: destruction daily in Ukraine. 44 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, so actually We didn't plan to come here, and 45 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 3: as you know, for men, they don't have this opportunity 46 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 3: to leave the country. They should stay and until they're 47 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:47,119 Speaker 3: sixty they should be there in Ukraine. But for my husband, 48 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 3: he got an opportunity from his job to go abroad. 49 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 3: I was eight months pregnant then when he called me 50 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 3: and said, I'm abroad, would you mind coming to me 51 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 3: and we can be in a safer place. And I 52 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 3: didn't plan that. We didn't plan that, but go really 53 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 3: showed us this path that we can take and for 54 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 3: our baby to be born in a place where there 55 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 3: is no rockets flying over their heads. But it was 56 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 3: hard because all of a sudden, I had to say 57 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 3: goodbye to my family. To my parents, they were they're 58 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 3: still waiting to meet their grandson, their first grandson. I 59 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 3: had to say goodbye to my sister and she's really 60 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 3: struggling to being there alone. To my brothers. I have 61 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 3: two brothers, seventeen and fourteen years old. They also have 62 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 3: their own struggles going to school, having to stay half 63 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 3: of the day in a shelter because of the air 64 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 3: rate siren. But yet it was a hard choice for me, 65 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 3: But I have to decide either to stay with my family, parents, siblings, 66 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 3: or to be with my husband, because if he came 67 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 3: back home from his job, we didn't know how it 68 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 3: is and up and it was the choice that I 69 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 3: have made to give my son an opportunity to be 70 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 3: raised up with his sad or like, if you remain 71 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 3: in Ukraine, there is a high chance that you end 72 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 3: up raising your childe alone because men are either in 73 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 3: the army or or worse. So that's how it happened 74 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 3: to us. So we came to the United States last September. 75 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 3: It's been more than a year now. It's a blessing 76 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 3: for us to be here, to be like in a 77 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 3: peaceful place, but still have this heartache for our families 78 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 3: and for our nation. 79 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: How old How old do the men? At what age 80 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: do the men get recruited into the army. 81 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 3: So starting from twenty five, but once you're eighteen, you 82 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 3: cannot leave the country. 83 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: So your brothers, you probably worry quite a about your brothers. 84 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's seventeen and next year he has, like the 85 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 3: last year to decide whether to remain there or to 86 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 3: go anywhere abroad. But again it's the choice that my 87 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 3: mom has to make and for her. She doesn't want 88 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 3: to leave my dad alone, so it's another difficult choice 89 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 3: and decision. 90 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: Christy, how did you connect? 91 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 2: Well, my husband and I got married forty one years 92 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 2: ago and he was an aerospace engineer at that time. 93 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 2: But we left aerospace about seventeen eighteen years and actually 94 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 2: it's been twenty three years now to come into ministry 95 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 2: with Slavic Gospel Association. Eric is the vice president of 96 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 2: ministry operations and oversees all of the different ministries and 97 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 2: so he has gone about a third of the year. 98 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 2: But I have this really great opportunity to travel with 99 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 2: him maybe one or two times a year to different countries. 100 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 2: So we support and we do pastor and wives conferences 101 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:09,480 Speaker 2: while we're there. And I met Alexandra about three years 102 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 2: ago now because we had taken some pastors and wives 103 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 2: over to Turkey for a gathering, and so we connected 104 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 2: right away because that was right after pretty close to 105 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 2: being right after the war started, and we connected right away. 106 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 2: But my ministry is to pastors wives, and so when 107 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 2: I go over with my husband and we travel together, 108 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,960 Speaker 2: we try to take the pastors and their wives out 109 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 2: of their normal environment because a lot of them work 110 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 2: and serve very very hard, long hours, and so we 111 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 2: bring them to a retreat center and we give them 112 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 2: an opportunity to just sit together, first of all, with 113 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 2: their spouse, to be able to communicate with other people 114 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 2: who are in the same place that they are. The 115 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 2: ministry over there is difficult even without the war, but 116 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 2: in about a year a year and a half ago, 117 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 2: I was able to travel there and bring those couples 118 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 2: out of a war torn area, and Alexander with us 119 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 2: at that time too, and we heard story after story 120 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 2: of how these couples were serving people in their churches, 121 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:23,520 Speaker 2: the ones that had stayed, the ones who were struggling 122 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 2: there at home, the ones who were leaving and trying 123 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 2: to find different places to find a new home. But 124 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 2: I have made I've had the opportunity to just sit 125 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 2: and chat with wives, with pastors, wives with single moms, 126 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 2: with young women who don't have kids, and it's just 127 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 2: been a huge blessing for me to be able to 128 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 2: make this connection with the women there. 129 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: You have some stories the Slavic Association, the Gospel Association 130 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: has shared some of these stories of young women who 131 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: are raising their kids by themselves. Tell us a little 132 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: bit about those women who are on their own. One 133 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: single mom, Elena, she is working by herself. Her windows 134 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: were actually shattered by a drone that went over, that 135 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: her children were injured. She's actually leaving them at night 136 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: and hoping to see them in the morning. I think 137 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: this is something we don't actually think about here. Like 138 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: I said, we're so spoiled here in the United States 139 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: to think that these women are alone. They have no 140 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: family around, they have to work. Now. Maybe they were 141 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: able to stay at home with their kids before, but 142 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,439 Speaker 1: their husband gets taken off to war. Then they get 143 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: the call that they're alone for life, that their husband 144 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: has died, and she leaves at night to work and 145 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 1: her kids are by themselves. 146 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:56,600 Speaker 2: And this is story after story after story that we're 147 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 2: hearing about these women, and loneliness is one of the 148 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 2: biggest things. First of all, these women are dealing with 149 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 2: the grief of losing their husband. They're dealing with the 150 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 2: grief of their expectations of a marriage and what that 151 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 2: I mean, You marry for life, and so you don't 152 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 2: all of a sudden just get cut off and don't 153 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:20,679 Speaker 2: have your spouse anymore in most cases, and so these 154 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 2: people are lonely they're dealing with the fact that they're 155 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 2: playing the role of mom and dad. And I know 156 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 2: that there was one story that came in that she 157 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 2: said that the hardest thing that she had to do 158 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 2: is raise her fourteen year old and fifteen year old 159 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 2: sons because she didn't know how to teach them how 160 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,839 Speaker 2: to be a man. She didn't know how to teach 161 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 2: them how to even serve their families or be the 162 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 2: leader of their families. Because now she's trying to not 163 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 2: only be mom, but she's trying to be dad too, 164 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 2: and she's learning herself. People have one that some of 165 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 2: the women have shared stories about having to pick up 166 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 2: the roles of the husband as well, in working for 167 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 2: one thing and providing for the family, but also just 168 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 2: doing the little things around the house that they don't 169 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 2: normally do. They have to listen to their children say 170 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 2: why isn't Daddy coming home tonight, and to take on 171 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 2: that emotion that they're dealing with themselves. I know one 172 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 2: other lady wrote to us and said, I basically have 173 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 2: to force myself not to break down and lay down 174 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 2: on the floor and cry while I'm trying to help 175 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 2: my kids. These ladies have to take sometimes. I know 176 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 2: Alexander can tell you a lot more about that too. 177 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 2: But they take their children into the shelters, even in 178 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 2: the middle of the night. They have to get them 179 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 2: up out of bed and take them to a shelter. 180 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 2: So this emotional load that they carry of just not 181 00:10:55,600 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 2: having a normal life, a normal family is quite burdensome. 182 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,959 Speaker 2: It's heavy, it's a very big weight. I think I've 183 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 2: explained before that what I saw when I was in 184 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 2: Ukraine and just observing as I walked that there was 185 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 2: all of these buildings that had been destroyed, and so 186 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 2: you see that as you're driving. Yet you see a 187 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,079 Speaker 2: mom and a stroller, you know, walking her baby and 188 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 2: a stroller, or kids at the park with mom preparing 189 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 2: a lunch, or picking her kids up from school, and 190 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 2: so under this umbrella of wartime and drones and missiles 191 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 2: and you know, hearing the sirens all the time, the 192 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 2: women are trying so hard to keep some sense of 193 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:51,079 Speaker 2: normalcy for their families and they have to fight for it. 194 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,200 Speaker 2: It's not coming easy. 195 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: Alexandra, on the ground, when you're there, what is it 196 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: like for those women to hear or for I guess 197 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: anyone in Ukraine to hear about the worldwide battle of 198 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: do we support Ukraine, do we extend this war? Do 199 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: we try to go after Russia? What are people thinking 200 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: on the ground, Do they want intervention? How do they feel? 201 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 3: I would say half and half half of the people 202 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 3: they think that, okay, we will do whatever we can 203 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 3: and we'll make our best and we fight. And that's 204 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 3: why when the war began, like we didn't rely on anyone, 205 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 3: and many men volunteered and joined the army. I remember 206 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 3: my husband went to also volunteer and joining, and they said, sorry, 207 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 3: we have no weapons because so many men went to fight. 208 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 3: So our people wanted to be the first there to 209 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 3: fight and to protect and defend their country. But now 210 00:12:55,480 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 3: as we see that we have so many lives lost 211 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 3: already and we are short of weapons and everything. Of course, 212 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 3: people count on other countries and they come to the 213 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 3: point when they think, please do whatever intervene. We just 214 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 3: want it to end, not because we are so maybe 215 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 3: it's our like a big expectation or something. We just 216 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 3: want people to stop dying. That's it. We don't ask 217 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 3: for anything more than that. Just please. We don't want 218 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 3: to see death and destruction no more. 219 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: I saw a story of a mother who had left 220 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: her son overnight at her mother's house. And of course, 221 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I think about the number of times I've 222 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:50,680 Speaker 1: left my children at my mom's house for a sleepover 223 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: with grandma. And he requested, let me stay. I want 224 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: to be with grandma overnight, and she said, she hesitated, no, 225 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: we should go home, but and stay there, and she 226 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: let him stay, and the building was bombed and he 227 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,839 Speaker 1: was the only casualty. He lost his life that night. 228 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: She had already lost her husband because he had gone 229 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: off to war, and she lost him in the war. 230 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: Then she lost her son. And the incredible pain you 231 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: could see in her eyes as she was going through 232 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: that guilt of why did I leave him? I mean, 233 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: I cannot imagine having to deal with the immense questions 234 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: of where am I safe on a regular basis. 235 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 3: It's complicated. And even I have friends, young women, and 236 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:42,160 Speaker 3: they were thinking, should I do anything to protect my husband? 237 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 3: We have two kids, what if we have three? And 238 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 3: then the men with three kids, they get special reservation 239 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 3: and they cannot be called up to army unless they volunteer. 240 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 3: So they face this choice and they think, on the 241 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 3: one hand, they always wanted to a big family. It's 242 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 3: not something that came up just just now. But they say, 243 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 3: we can have one more child. But then is it 244 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 3: fair to this child be worn into the war. But 245 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 3: how can we make it to the baby and suffer 246 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 3: and hear all these a riid sirens and the bomb 247 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 3: being and explosions. But again, like what if I lose 248 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 3: my husband and then my two kids they lose their father? 249 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 3: What if I what if I can avoid that? So 250 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 3: do I do anything for that? So it's a real 251 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 3: choice and decision that they face. And I have two 252 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 3: friends that they got their third baby this year, and 253 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 3: it's so complicated for them because, yeah, on one hand, 254 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 3: their men there, they are safe. But then having three 255 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 3: kids and you have to wake up in the middle 256 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 3: of the night, grab them all together and go anywhere. 257 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: We don't have special so you have to leave the 258 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: house to go to a shelter. 259 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 3: The house, yes, because when the rocket is flying over 260 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 3: you and another rocket hits it down, the debris they 261 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 3: can explode, They can fall on your house, the house 262 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 3: can go on fire. And actually those debris they cause 263 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 3: that destruction more often than the rocket itself, because sometimes 264 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 3: the rockets are hit down in the air, but then 265 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 3: when they fall down, they they destroyed the destroyed houses, 266 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 3: So the people have to go anywhere to a safer place. 267 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 3: It's usually just a seller. We don't have special shelters 268 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 3: as in Israel, where people prepare and expect war. But 269 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 3: for us it was out of the side and we 270 00:16:55,040 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 3: were never prepared for these kind of things. So they 271 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 3: are slip deprived, both mothers and kids. They have sometimes 272 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,679 Speaker 3: they became his They become hysterical because their nervous system 273 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,640 Speaker 3: is immature itself. But then on top of that they 274 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 3: have to experience these auto medical things. Can imagine that. 275 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: No devastating Christy, what is what do you guys do 276 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,399 Speaker 1: on the ground there? How does the SGA help? 277 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 2: SGA helps the local churches first and foremost we have 278 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 2: there's been so much going on. There has been doors 279 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 2: have been opened front in the churches and that and 280 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 2: people are coming that maybe not would have not ever 281 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 2: even come through a church door before. But through these 282 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 2: churches they are ministering to the families that come first 283 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 2: and foremost people have had to leave the front lines 284 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 2: and come in further inward. And so in these churches 285 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 2: there's conversations, there is food, and beds and necessities for 286 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 2: toiletries and things like that. So they take care of 287 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 2: their physical needs. There's been a lot of humanitarian aid 288 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 2: that has been handed out, and they just take the 289 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 2: time first of all to meet those first physical needs 290 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 2: and then most importantly that spiritual need. They share the gospel. 291 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:32,879 Speaker 2: They sit and they have a conversation with everybody coming 292 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 2: through the door. They meet them in the place that 293 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 2: they are, and then they had they take the opportunity 294 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 2: not to leave it just in that church. But then 295 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 2: we have many programs for widows for Compassion Ministry where 296 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 2: they're going out to the homes and trying to see 297 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 2: where people are needing food. 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We 330 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 1: had heard when President Trump was elected, he talked quite 331 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: a bit about the fact that he wanted to see 332 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:58,639 Speaker 1: these deaths stop, that there's three hundred earth three thousand 333 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: people dying a day, that we're seeing this war just 334 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,160 Speaker 1: rage on and again. Here we don't think about what 335 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: it means to have an entire generation of men lost. 336 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: I mean, we've read about it. We've certainly read about 337 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: the Great Depression and what that was like and women 338 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: going back to work and women playing sports games to 339 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: try to keep the country in a positive mood. And 340 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 1: that was that. But that's for us, that's history. That's 341 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: something that we don't connect to. It didn't happen to 342 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: our generation. What do you see, Alexander on the ground 343 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: when you talk to people back home and for your 344 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 1: own family. But for these women, what do they see 345 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 1: as the future if this war does end? How do 346 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: you rebuild if you don't have men? 347 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 3: Many people don't think like that far because what they 348 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 3: think is like, do I survive tomorrow? Okay, let's make 349 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 3: it one step at a time, and it's actually the truth. 350 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 3: People stopped planning vacation, and they stopped planning renovation in 351 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 3: their house. Whatever. Just we have to make it till 352 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 3: tomorrow and we will see, and it's we can already 353 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 3: see the consequences of this ongoing war. In August, when 354 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 3: my brothers were about to start the school, it turned 355 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,840 Speaker 3: out that there is no transportation for them, and many 356 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 3: parents started to write letters to the government. What happened 357 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 3: while there is no transportation and the fact is that 358 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:37,880 Speaker 3: there are no men to be the drivers, and there 359 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,640 Speaker 3: are not enough women to replace them because they're already 360 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 3: on other working places. And it's already one of the 361 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 3: things that you can see. Or it was the season 362 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 3: of harvest also August September, and the fields uh were 363 00:22:55,359 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 3: not like the harvest was not gathered because the was 364 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 3: there were no men who could use a tractor and 365 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 3: go and take it all. So our economy suffers from 366 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 3: that as well. Or there are now my sister wrote me, 367 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 3: and I keep receiving messages that there are huge power 368 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 3: outages in Ukraine because last night they bombed the electrical 369 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 3: plans and what they try to do is destroy our 370 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:32,199 Speaker 3: energy system. Since they when they cannot prevail on the battlefield, 371 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 3: what they try to do is make people even more 372 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 3: depressed by even taking these such usual things as electricity 373 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 3: and heating in your home. And now my family stays 374 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 3: without hitting and light for half of the day, and 375 00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 3: it's only the beginning of the winter season, because in 376 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 3: Ukraine it begins in early November. So imagine for people 377 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 3: and for young families with kids being the winter, no heating, 378 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 3: no light. You can cook food properly, you can hitch 379 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 3: your child. We've been there, but we didn't have a 380 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,320 Speaker 3: child back then, and it was complicated. You cannot work. 381 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 3: I remember working online and you had only two hours 382 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 3: per day when you had electricity. Some either cook or 383 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 3: do your laundry, and sometimes you spend days without even 384 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 3: having a warm meal or wearing fresh clothes. 385 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: It's something we don't even think about here. I mean, 386 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: if we have our power out for a few days, 387 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: we just think that this is like a complete government shutdown. 388 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: How could this possibly happen? But I think the weather 389 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,639 Speaker 1: in Ukraine in Michigan, I think the weather in Ukraine 390 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: is somewhat similar to the weather that we have here 391 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: in Michigan. And I and we are also headed into winter, 392 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 1: and certainly we cannot imagine having this situation where you 393 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 1: just don't know if you're going to have heat, you 394 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 1: don't know if you're going to have energy, you don't 395 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: I mean the ongoing war. What was Ukraine like before this? 396 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: Were there regular concerns of bombings? 397 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 2: Never? 398 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: It was just a Western country. 399 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,919 Speaker 3: We've never thought even of such a thing, and. 400 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: We were. 401 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:37,480 Speaker 3: Oriented on developing and having strong European connections, and just 402 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:43,360 Speaker 3: we were young country. Ukraine became independent in nineteen ninety one, 403 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:50,360 Speaker 3: so it's like in her thirties, you know, right, it 404 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 3: was with a lot of ambitions. 405 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,640 Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, well, and you mentioned the harvest. I think 406 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: for people that are listening, they need to understand that, 407 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 1: you brain is critical to Europe when it comes to 408 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 1: I mean, you're considered the bread basket of Europe. You're 409 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: considered the area where all all of the flower is harvested, 410 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: so the majority of what Europe is using to make 411 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 1: their own food. You would think that there is a 412 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 1: great concern over whether or not Ukraine survives this because 413 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: certainly you don't want that kind of resource to fall 414 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,919 Speaker 1: into the hands of Russia. So really your economy is 415 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 1: built on manufacturing and agriculture, and those two things are 416 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: very heavily focused on men to make sure those those 417 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: industries are successful. 418 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,439 Speaker 3: Yes, and I remember my friends. I have friends in 419 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 3: Spain and they wrote me lest here that their price 420 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:51,159 Speaker 3: on groceries rows up because of this fall down in 421 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 3: our economy, and because of we couldn't produce that much 422 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 3: salt and oil, the price on their olive rose up highly. 423 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 1: Well, that's what And obviously we know that there's a 424 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 1: motive behind Vladimir Putin going in there to he wants 425 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: to take it over. Certainly there's a concern of if 426 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 1: you get Ukraine, what's next? Does he go to Poland. 427 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: We've been talking about all of these things in the 428 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: United States, but we're very far removed, and I think 429 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: it's easy to forget the struggles on the ground. These 430 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: mothers who are alone tell us some of the stories 431 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: of loneliness, Christy that you've been able to. We've seen 432 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,439 Speaker 1: some of these women band together and say, you know, 433 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 1: we decided as a group, we're going to raise our children. 434 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,120 Speaker 1: We're going to try to raise up strong sons. At 435 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: the same time, they're learning to use weapons, they're learning 436 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: to defend themselves. They are also wearing army fatigues and 437 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 1: going out and fighting. There's got to be a massive 438 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,920 Speaker 1: fear of not only being alone, but also their children 439 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,159 Speaker 1: being raised without them, because certainly if they're going out 440 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:00,960 Speaker 1: to the front lines, that's dangerous too. 441 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this has been just a great struggle 442 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 2: for the women. It's very sad. It grieves our heart 443 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 2: that there's so many men who are dying for sure, 444 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 2: and we can't ever neglect to think about that as well. 445 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 2: But these women who are left behind or trying to 446 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 2: do this on their own, are carrying just this heavy weight. 447 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,439 Speaker 2: That is, you know, when it's a physical weight and 448 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,960 Speaker 2: an emotional weight and a spiritual weight. There's really not 449 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 2: a safe place unless you are intentionally looking for something different. 450 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 2: And I think that, Like I have a story that 451 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 2: actually Alexander and I gathered together of one of my 452 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 2: friends who actually this is a missionary pastor who works 453 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,479 Speaker 2: in Ukraine near the front lines, and he goes in 454 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 2: every day every week. They load up a van and 455 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 2: they go straight to the front lines. They deliver food, 456 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 2: they deliver what they can for all of the people 457 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 2: who are left near the front lines and then they 458 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 2: drive as fast as they can back again. They load 459 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 2: up again, and they go right back and they're risking 460 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,360 Speaker 2: their lives. They're doing that every day. He's not in 461 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 2: the military, but he's serving. He's part of SAW the 462 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 2: Gospel Association. Now. His wife, Natalia every morning gets up 463 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,800 Speaker 2: and helps him get ready and puts on all of 464 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 2: his armor that he needs because there's a good chance 465 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 2: that he won't come back that day. He needs to 466 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 2: be protected. And so there is one day that he 467 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 2: didn't make that normal phone call that he was supposed 468 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 2: to make to just let her know that he was okay, 469 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 2: and she got really upset and she was just really 470 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 2: worried about him, and he finally did make the phone caller. 471 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 2: She got a phone call, but it was from another 472 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 2: person who had said that he ended up get getting 473 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 2: hurt out there, and she said that it's just the unknown, 474 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 2: the not knowing. Am I going to lose my husband today? 475 00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 2: Am I going to be able to raise my kids? 476 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 2: We've had story after story of moms who have said 477 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 2: they're exhausted, they don't know how to make it through 478 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 2: a day. They get up and they move forward doing 479 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 2: what they know. They're supposed to. Just like Alexander said, 480 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 2: we don't think too far in advance because we have 481 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 2: to make it through today. And so they don't plan 482 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:43,240 Speaker 2: as many wedding showers or even weddings or baby showers. 483 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 2: The norm has completely gone and it's just trying to 484 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 2: make it through a day. They're exhausted from their work. 485 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 2: They're working now, but then coming home in the evening 486 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 2: and still doing all of the things that a couple 487 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 2: you does together in keeping a home, and so all 488 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 2: of the stories. They may have different names, and they 489 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 2: may have different homes or different communities, but the big 490 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 2: thing is is these women are doing it on their own. 491 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 2: And so we're thankful that they do have the support 492 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,920 Speaker 2: of the churches because a lot of them are getting help. 493 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 2: A lot of them do have a woman who can 494 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 2: come and sit alongside them and have a conversation and 495 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:33,239 Speaker 2: encourage them. They can maybe even take their kids for 496 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 2: a couple of hours to say, have some free time. 497 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 2: They're doing Bible studies. You're seeing a lot of women 498 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 2: who are coming under the churches for that. 499 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 1: What is that like? I mean, this is the former 500 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 1: Soviet Union. There was not a lot of ability to 501 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 1: hear the Gospel in the Soviet Union. So this is 502 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: probably a lot of unchurched people that are hearing the 503 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: gospel for the first time. 504 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 2: I would imagine they are, and we have seen a 505 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 2: lot of people accepting Christ and their lives are completely 506 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 2: turned around. So the people who are being steadfast that 507 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 2: had faith before aren't like running and giving up or 508 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 2: what they're doing instead is they're getting stronger, they're trusting 509 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 2: God more, they're moving forward, they're trying to figure out 510 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 2: how they can help others. And then the ones walking 511 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 2: through the door that have never heard it before, they're 512 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 2: seeing something different in the people of the church. They're 513 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 2: seeing that they're wrapping their arms around them and they're 514 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 2: meeting their needs, and they're making sure that they're safe, 515 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 2: and they're coming close to them and lifting them up 516 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,920 Speaker 2: and encouraging their hearts. And maybe it is just through 517 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 2: a conversation or a hug or a sharing the gospel 518 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 2: getting a warmer. 519 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 1: I really think that's the biggest story here, and I 520 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: understand the whole You know, you're looking at war, you're 521 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,680 Speaker 1: looking at death, you're looking at loneliness. But in the 522 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 1: midst of this God is affecting lives and I think 523 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: that's the power of women who are out there that 524 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: have sons that say, I don't know what's going to 525 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: happen to my son having the Gospel there. We've heard 526 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,720 Speaker 1: so many stories of young men in Ukraine that walk 527 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: into a Bible study, that walk into a church and 528 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 1: they go, this is different than the doom and gloom 529 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 1: that I see outside of the church. And I do 530 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 1: think that in it, God does miracles. God does miracles 531 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: every single day. But the church is beyond those four 532 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 1: walls and it is being seen. I hear that that 533 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:40,880 Speaker 1: it is being seen on the ground. We've had so 534 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: many people who are in Eastern Europe, missionaries who are 535 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: in the Eastern Europe, and even in our own church 536 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: had young men come in and go I had no 537 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 1: reason to keep living like I really didn't see any positivity. 538 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: I was stressed. I mean, the post traumatic stress disorder 539 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,040 Speaker 1: is not just the older men or the men that 540 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 1: have gone to wards, the young men as well. 541 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 2: Well. 542 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: I lost my father. I didn't have any hope. I 543 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,280 Speaker 1: walked in and I saw Jesus and I saw something 544 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: totally different than I'd ever seen before. Yes, yeah, that 545 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 1: to me is the miracle in this. 546 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,959 Speaker 2: At SGA, I have the privilege of leading a storytelling 547 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 2: ministry and Alexander was actually one of our storytellers for 548 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,359 Speaker 2: quite some time. But what they're doing is they are 549 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 2: observing what is happening and how God is at work 550 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:35,240 Speaker 2: through his people, and it's every day, story after story 551 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:39,160 Speaker 2: after story. Sometimes I'm like, I have tears coming down 552 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:43,359 Speaker 2: my cheeks because I'm reading of either great pain from 553 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 2: a young orphaned child who has gone into an orphanage. 554 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 2: Yet that's where he met Christ because of our Orphans 555 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 2: Reborn program and so and then all of a sudden 556 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,400 Speaker 2: he's living a new life. And the same thing is 557 00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:01,839 Speaker 2: happening in Ukraine with the widow and their kids and 558 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 2: even the men on the front lines. The chaplains are 559 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 2: going in and they're telling There was one person, actually, 560 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 2: one of the men who was on the front lines, 561 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 2: and he told the story of a chaplain who had 562 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,200 Speaker 2: come and he said, there's like nothing here for us, 563 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 2: day in and day out. We are just like trying 564 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 2: to survive. And you come and you talk to us 565 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,839 Speaker 2: and you give us hope, and that makes us want 566 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,399 Speaker 2: to go on. It makes us want to live. And 567 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 2: so that's what's moving Ukraine. Is something is happening in Ukraine, 568 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 2: and there is definitely hard stuff there and I hear 569 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:44,560 Speaker 2: it a lot and I cry with them. But God 570 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 2: is there and He is working, and there are so 571 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,239 Speaker 2: many new believers in the midst of all of this, 572 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 2: and so many great stories of His glory, his honor, 573 00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,440 Speaker 2: and it's all through His people that are being raised up. 574 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 2: It's a beautiful story. 575 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on 576 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:10,440 Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon Podcast. We are so used to hearing 577 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,760 Speaker 1: people today say that it's just life is so hard. 578 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,600 Speaker 1: There's so much division. The entire world is divided. There's 579 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 1: these wars going on. We're slowly seeing these wars come 580 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 1: to an end. We're really praying that that is the 581 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 1: same situation that happens in Russia and Ukraine, that this 582 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,960 Speaker 1: war will come to an end. But I do believe 583 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,239 Speaker 1: that we are seeing a revival as well. I do 584 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,759 Speaker 1: believe that we're seeing this in the United States. I've 585 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,200 Speaker 1: heard about this in Eastern Europe. I've heard about what 586 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,319 Speaker 1: you're talking about. Alexandra. Before we go, share your testimony 587 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,520 Speaker 1: of what you've seen when it comes to sharing the 588 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:42,480 Speaker 1: gospel in Ukraine. 589 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, So what I can say, even in the first 590 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:52,000 Speaker 3: days of the war, when people were completely shocked and 591 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 3: they didn't know where to go. There was no food anywhere, 592 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:02,440 Speaker 3: there was no even connect you couldn't call anyone. People 593 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 3: started coming to church and the church opened their doors, 594 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:10,480 Speaker 3: even though many people fled. And I remember in our church, 595 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 3: which had like six hundred members, there were probably ten 596 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:18,919 Speaker 3: people left only. But they opened the door and they 597 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:24,080 Speaker 3: prepared the food from what they had. They seen songs 598 00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:28,520 Speaker 3: all day long. They invited everyone to come and they 599 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,400 Speaker 3: went to we have like a basement where we have 600 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,640 Speaker 3: our youth meetings, and they said, it's just your new home. 601 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 3: Please stay there. So after it all became more stable. 602 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 2: Uh. 603 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:44,480 Speaker 3: And then because we have troops in our region, So 604 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:48,560 Speaker 3: when they left h and everybody returned, the coup of 605 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:54,280 Speaker 3: the people returning, church became functioning as usual. These people 606 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,719 Speaker 3: came and they became, they believed, and then they baptized 607 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 3: and now they are coming on a regular basis. Then 608 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 3: we have many women who lost their husband, and I 609 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,200 Speaker 3: have a friend she's also a young widow, and she 610 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:15,800 Speaker 3: started the ministry telling these women that you have a wound, 611 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:20,880 Speaker 3: but only Jesus can heal it. No therapists, no self 612 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,200 Speaker 3: help books, only Jesus can do that. And she goes 613 00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:28,520 Speaker 3: on retreats to the mountains with these women where they women, 614 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:36,319 Speaker 3: where they can just relax, change their focus, look at 615 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 3: the nature. And she speaks how she got healed and 616 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:46,320 Speaker 3: that Jesus did that to her. And she also gives 617 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,720 Speaker 3: practical advice how you can serve these women just being there, 618 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:58,520 Speaker 3: just supporting them, inviting them to Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners 619 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,520 Speaker 3: because they are all by themselves else and they are abandoned, 620 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,560 Speaker 3: and when it comes to holidays, it's when they mostly 621 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:12,120 Speaker 3: feel this loneliness. But showing them the other perspective, it's 622 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,239 Speaker 3: what gives hope. And what I appreciate even about our 623 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:20,280 Speaker 3: church is that it was so flexible to say, Okay, 624 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:24,920 Speaker 3: we were oriented on this ministry, but now these people 625 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,040 Speaker 3: need us, so we're going to start a new ministry. 626 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:33,480 Speaker 3: There are many internally displaced people who came from eastern 627 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,880 Speaker 3: part of Ukraine. They lost their homes, and we started 628 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:42,520 Speaker 3: a new ministry for moms who came from those parts, 629 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,560 Speaker 3: and we said we can babysit her children for two hours, 630 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,560 Speaker 3: come and join us for a devotional and they started 631 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,440 Speaker 3: coming and they started inviting their friends, and they said, 632 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,520 Speaker 3: you're the first people who actually not cared only about 633 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,640 Speaker 3: my children, but about myself, and you ask about my pain. 634 00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:05,839 Speaker 3: And sometimes those devotionals it's only about like talking about 635 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,640 Speaker 3: the grief. And sometimes they spend to our crime. But 636 00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:13,560 Speaker 3: they have to tell what they feel to someone, and 637 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,680 Speaker 3: it's better be people in the church. And this ministry 638 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,920 Speaker 3: become that big that we even have like two gatherings 639 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,800 Speaker 3: per day, like in the morning and in the evening. 640 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,600 Speaker 1: I want to say before I let you go, I've 641 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,680 Speaker 1: been looking at what is behind the revival that we're 642 00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,880 Speaker 1: seeing across the globe. Obviously, after we lost Charlie Kirk, 643 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,440 Speaker 1: we in the United States said what is going on? 644 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,760 Speaker 1: Why is you know, why are we being so spiritually attacked? 645 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,600 Speaker 1: And I do think that as the power of Christ rises, 646 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,560 Speaker 1: then obviously the spiritual attack is stronger. But I did 647 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:57,799 Speaker 1: some research on the power of faith, and I was 648 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,840 Speaker 1: as I was doing this, I found that there was 649 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:05,279 Speaker 1: a study done in New Orleans after the Katrina hit. 650 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,799 Speaker 1: After the big hurricane hit New Orleans, there was a 651 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,120 Speaker 1: study that was done between two thousand and five and 652 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:14,480 Speaker 1: twenty ten, and the study showed that the communities that 653 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:18,239 Speaker 1: had the highest church membership recovered the fastest, and they 654 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,839 Speaker 1: found that they recovered the fastest for exactly what you're 655 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,520 Speaker 1: saying is that there was a home base for everybody 656 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,759 Speaker 1: where they felt safe. They could go there, and they 657 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,000 Speaker 1: always knew that no matter how bad things got, there 658 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 1: was somebody that was there to help them to lift 659 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:35,000 Speaker 1: them up. And through that as they started to rebuild, 660 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 1: there was so much support for entrepreneurship and helping people 661 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,600 Speaker 1: get back on their feet and make something of themselves 662 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,319 Speaker 1: that they actually saw the economy grow faster than they'd 663 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,759 Speaker 1: seen it in any other area. So as I as 664 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:51,719 Speaker 1: I leave you today, I want you to know that 665 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,399 Speaker 1: what you do sharing the gospel there is so much 666 00:41:55,719 --> 00:42:00,520 Speaker 1: more important than hearts and minds. This is generational growth 667 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 1: for these communities and generational growth in Christ. So I 668 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,359 Speaker 1: know we say, okay, well, you know you plant one 669 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 1: seed and you hope that it creates so many more 670 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,719 Speaker 1: seeds that come from that, And that is truly what 671 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:15,799 Speaker 1: you are doing, because not only are you planting that 672 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,520 Speaker 1: seed for those families that will then grow in Christ, 673 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,719 Speaker 1: but they will grow as a community together and their 674 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:26,760 Speaker 1: community will flourish because Christ is there and the spirit 675 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,200 Speaker 1: is so strong. So thank you for sharing this, thank 676 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,960 Speaker 1: you for telling us this. And as I read that 677 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,400 Speaker 1: about Katrina, it gave me so much hope for areas 678 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:40,200 Speaker 1: like Ukraine, like Israel, like Gaza, like these places that 679 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,239 Speaker 1: have been destroyed that once faith, that little seed sprouts, 680 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,480 Speaker 1: that that seed can create so much growth in so 681 00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,480 Speaker 1: many different areas. So before we go, can you just share, Christy, 682 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,040 Speaker 1: how people can support the Slavic Gospel Association. 683 00:42:56,040 --> 00:43:00,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we probably the easiest thing for you to 684 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,240 Speaker 2: do is to go to our website, which is SGA 685 00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:08,480 Speaker 2: dot org. There is story after story of just exactly 686 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,399 Speaker 2: what we've been talking about, plus more because we work 687 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:15,040 Speaker 2: in other countries as well. You can read the stories 688 00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,759 Speaker 2: and then there are links there that take you to 689 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:22,840 Speaker 2: all of the different ministries like Orphans Reborn and summer 690 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:27,080 Speaker 2: camps and Biblical someone at seminaries. We have so much 691 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,319 Speaker 2: to offer there, just in ways that you can get 692 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,400 Speaker 2: be partners with us basically, but more than anything, prayer. 693 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,520 Speaker 2: Prayer is something that we all hold very close and 694 00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,600 Speaker 2: we do constantly lift this up because this is God's 695 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,680 Speaker 2: ministry and He has a plan and a purpose for 696 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,160 Speaker 2: all of it, and we can see it when we 697 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,040 Speaker 2: do get these stories back of how he's building his 698 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:54,400 Speaker 2: churches over there, and you can, if you want to, 699 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:58,279 Speaker 2: you can get involved with a specific church planter who 700 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,560 Speaker 2: is over there, a missionary pastor who does have one 701 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:04,480 Speaker 2: of these local churches that does where the ministry is 702 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,719 Speaker 2: based out of. And so everything is on the website though, 703 00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,040 Speaker 2: and just continue to pray for Usk, continue to pray 704 00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,600 Speaker 2: for Ukraine, and continue to pray for the widows, the 705 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:19,799 Speaker 2: single moms, because it's a hard place to be, but 706 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:24,040 Speaker 2: we have seen just a glorious things that are happening 707 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:24,720 Speaker 2: in their lives. 708 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:29,600 Speaker 1: We're called to pray big. We're called to pray specifically. 709 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,839 Speaker 1: And now as you have heard this story, if you're 710 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,560 Speaker 1: listening today and you've heard this story, share this with 711 00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,600 Speaker 1: your children, because just as we've talked about, it's important 712 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:42,160 Speaker 1: to spread that seed and spread the gospel, also spread 713 00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,640 Speaker 1: that involvement in other people's lives, because that's what we're 714 00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,480 Speaker 1: called to do. Is we're called to lift up the 715 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,160 Speaker 1: entire church. This is our church, no matter where it 716 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,440 Speaker 1: is in the world. Lift them up in your prayers, 717 00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:54,919 Speaker 1: talk about them at night with your kids. Make sure 718 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:58,560 Speaker 1: that there is a connection of believers across the globe. 719 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,759 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for you do. I so appreciate 720 00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:03,680 Speaker 1: having you guys on. Is there anything else you want 721 00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:05,880 Speaker 1: to say before we let you go? 722 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:10,200 Speaker 2: Thank me this way And one more challenge too. As 723 00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:14,319 Speaker 2: we're praying for Ukraine, single moms and widows are here 724 00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,200 Speaker 2: in the United States as well, so look around we 725 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,319 Speaker 2: need to be helping them. They're lonely here too. They're 726 00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:25,280 Speaker 2: dealing with grief, maybe dealing with not having a babysit 727 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,640 Speaker 2: or not having anyone to talk to, not having somebody 728 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,719 Speaker 2: to go to. The holidays are coming up, so look 729 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,520 Speaker 2: around if there's anybody in your community, and maybe reach 730 00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:35,239 Speaker 2: out to them too. 731 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,880 Speaker 1: That is so beautiful, absolutely, and I'm so glad that 732 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,360 Speaker 1: you are connected and that you came on today. Alexandra 733 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,239 Speaker 1: and Christy, thank you so much, Thank you, thank you, 734 00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,080 Speaker 1: and thank you all for joining us on the Tutor 735 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,920 Speaker 1: Dixon podcast. To remember for this podcast and others, you 736 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,919 Speaker 1: can go to Tutor Dison dot com, the iHeartRadio app, 737 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,920 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasting. You can 738 00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,960 Speaker 1: watch the full video on Rumble or YouTube at Tutor 739 00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,640 Speaker 1: Dixon and join us next time. Have a blessed day.