Since the first bombs fell on Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, The Christian Chronicle has covered the conflict and its impact on Churches of Christ worldwide. Following are links to the Chronicle’s reports, filed from Ukraine, Eastern Europe and other parts of the globe: Members of the Church of Christ in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, Ukraine, worship in 2003. This piece, reported on the first day of the war, provides background gleaned from four reporting trips to Ukraine by Chronicle staffers and dozens of interviews with Ukrainian believers during the past two decades. Dima Grischuk, left, and fellow drivers with the Let’s Love ministry prepare for a journey to eastern Ukraine to distribute aid and to ferry back the displaced. In Chernivtsi, Adi Voicu of Romania and Dennis Zolotaryov of Ukraine load Ukrainian- and Russian-language Bibles from Eastern European Mission for transport to Romania. The Bibles will be given to Ukrainian refugees. Multiple modes of transport can be seen at Ukraine’s border with Romania. Yulian Parfenenko, 6, helps his mother, Alyona, with grocery shopping at the free resource center run by the Cluj-Napoca Church of Christ in Romania. The Parfenenko family fled Odessa, Ukraine, at the beginning of March. As they get ready to watch a movie in the hotel, Ukrainian children make shadow puppets on a projected computer screen that reads “Pray for Ukraine!” The Kościoł Chrystusowy w Warszawie (Warsaw Church of Christ) meets in a rented facility in the Polish capital. Most of its members are refugees from Ukraine. Only a few images from the church members’ seven-week ordeal remain, including this picture of one of the countless times they took refuge in their building’s hallway. As an evacuation corridor opened, most of the members deleted photos and videos of the siege from their phones, fearing that Russian soldiers would confiscate them. Sasha Chekalenko takes notes during Sunday worship with the Sopot Church of Christ in Poland. Viktoria Oshurko works as a translator in a Košice relief center. In the early days of the war, 2,000 Ukrainians per day came through the center. A native of western Ukraine, Oshuko came to Slovakia to study public administration at a university. “Mentally, it’s hard,” she said of the weight of the war. After Russia’s retreat, hungry Ukrainians in the city of Izium take loaves of bread delivered by Volunteer Brothers. Andrii Bilokonnyi shares a message of hope and prayer for workers and refugees at a former boarding school in eastern Ukraine. Paul Nance, coordinating minister for the Hillsboro Church of Christ, speaks on the Kelley Clarkson Show. A long line of Ukrainians walks toward the Polish border checkpoint, fleeing the war in their homeland.
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