God is at work in Ukraine

With the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine, we join all those in Eastern Europe in praying for peace. We know that God is sovereign in all situations, and Scripture reminds us that He is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. We keep our focus on Him, asking for His protection of the innocent and trusting that His justice will prevail.

Pray with us that Jesus Christ would be glorified through the crisis in Eastern Europe, and that Southern Baptists would remain vigilant in meeting the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of those who are suffering.

— Dr. Paul Chitwood, IMB President

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Through Send Relief, IMB personnel and their local partners are actively ministering to Ukrainians escaping the escalating war.

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  • The sanctuary of the Baptist Church of Chelms has been converted into a makeshift shelter with dozens of beds. The church members and volunteers from the small town near a Ukraine border crossing have rallied to provide food, clothing, showers and beds to the thousands of refugees fleeing the war-torn nation. IMB Photo Download
  • The sanctuary of the Baptist Church of Chelms has been converted into a makeshift shelter with dozens of beds. The church members and volunteers from the small town near a Ukraine border crossing have rallied to provide food, clothing, showers and beds to the thousands of refugees fleeing the war-torn nation. IMB Photo Download
  • The sanctuary of the Baptist Church of Chelms has been converted into a makeshift shelter with dozens of beds. The church members and volunteers from the small town near a Ukraine border crossing have rallied to provide food, clothing, showers and beds to the thousands of refugees fleeing the war-torn nation. IMB Photo Download
  • Ukrainian refugees – mostly women and children – pour across the border near the Polish town of Chelms. Most families are separated as men aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave the war-torn country. IMB Photo Download
  • IMB President Paul Chitwood, center, and IMB missionaries, left, talk to refugees crossing the Ukraine-Poland border. Baptists put immediate ministry plans into action to best serve those fleeing the war. IMB Photo Download
  • Ukrainian refugees – mostly women and children – pour across the border near the Polish town of Chelms. Most families are separated as men aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave the war-torn country. IMB Photo Download
  • A Ukrainian woman wipes tears from her eyes after an emotional reunion with relatives at the border crossing near the Polish town of Chelms. IMB Photo Download
  • Ukrainian refugees – mostly women and children – pour across the border near the Polish town of Chelms. Most families are separated as men aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave the war-torn country. IMB Photo Download
  • Ukrainian refugees – mostly women and children – pour across the border near the Polish town of Chelms. Most families are separated as men aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave the war-torn country. IMB Photo Download
  • IMB president Paul Chitwood and missionaries serving in Europe pray over the pastor of Baptist Church of Chelms, Poland. The church’s sanctuary has been converted into a makeshift shelter with dozens of beds. The church’s members and volunteers from the small town near a Ukraine border crossing have rallied to provide food, clothing, showers and beds to the thousands of refugees fleeing the war-torn nation. IMB Photo Download
  • The sanctuary of the Baptist Church of Chelms has been converted into a makeshift shelter with dozens of beds. The church members and volunteers from the small town near a Ukraine border crossing have rallied to provide food, clothing, showers and beds to the thousands of refugees fleeing the war-torn nation. IMB Photo Download
  • IMB president Paul Chitwood and missionary team leaders from Eastern Europe pray with a Ukrainian Baptist pastor after a meeting discussing strategies for getting quick and effective aid from Southern Baptists to Ukrainian refugees and internally displaced peoples. IMB Photo Download
  • IMB president Paul Chitwood listens to Ukrainian Baptist pastor Anatoliy Shmilikhovskyy as IMB and SendRelief leaders meet in Poland to coordinate relief to Ukrainian refugees and internally displaced people. IMB Photo Download
  • A Ukrainian refugee who has just escaped the war-torn country via bus struggles to manage her phone, belongings and young child. Like many other refugees, she is separated from her family and once she arrives in Poland at the border crossing she needs to find shelter, food and internet access. IMB Photo Download
  • IMB president Paul Chitwood talks with a Ukrainian refugee at the border crossing into Poland about her tragic journey out of her homeland to safety. IMB Photo Download

It’s been amazing to see how God has used IMB workers with significant language skills and cultural understanding to minister to these refugees right now. Other groups and even local governments are struggling to come up with a plan and find people who can communicate with the refugees, and national Baptist churches and our people are already meeting them at train stations and bus stops as they arrive and jumping right into ministry. Truly God is at work. These older stories from the region highlight the time God was preparing them and the newer stories highlight how He’s using them now. It’s an awesome narrative together.”

— Russell Archer, IMB leader serving in Europe

Pray for Ukraine

After eight years of ongoing conflict, Russia has launched a wide-ranging war on Ukraine, causing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis for the Ukrainian people.

Send Relief, a cooperative ministry between the International Mission Board and the North American Mission Board, is working with local Baptist partners in Ukraine to care for displaced families in desperate need of help and hope.

You can help! There is extraordinary power in prayer. Here are ten ways you can pray for the Ukraine crisis.

Send Relief Ukraine Prayer Guide Send Relief’s Ukraine Prayer Guide

Pray for:

  1. The people of Ukraine as the war progresses. Pray for strength, courage and perseverance as their homeland is devastated by war.
  2. Safe passages out of war zones for displaced populations.
  3. Government officials to lead with wisdom in this tense time.
  4. The millions of displaced people who will be forcibly removed from their homes during the war. Pray that in the face of war, they find psychological, emotional and spiritual healing from this trauma.
  5. Pray for those involved in this war, especially those who do not know Christ.
  6. Local churches, missionaries and relief workers to care for the massive wave of refugees coming out of Ukraine and internally displaced populations.
  7. Disciples Church in L’viv, Ukraine, and its church plant in Bryukhovychi. Many of the people there are displaced from the East. Pray for peace for these believers as they had hoped conflict from 8 years ago was over, and now, they are facing it again.
  8. The Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary as it wrestles with how to assist its students in this time of war.
  9. Ukrainian believers as they seek to be a light in the darkness.
  10. Ukrainians who have never heard the gospel to have an opportunity to experience the hope of Jesus.

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