For many, the holiday season is full of celebrations of our Savior’s birth and gatherings with loved ones. But in Ukraine, widows like Viktoria struggle and are challenged by extra responsibilities and loneliness. “I used to love the holidays,” Viktoria admits. “But now I don’t know how to survive them.” Let’s lift up these hurting women and ask the Lord to grant them His peace that only He can provide—during the holidays and every day.

Praise God for His work as He protects and touches hearts with the Gospel in the bitter cold winter of Ukraine! “The church has become a real salvation and comfort for us,” shares one family who received much-needed aid from an SGA-supported church. “Due to unstable work, we often lack funds for even basic needs, let alone buying fuel . . . we are sincerely grateful for your help in buying firewood. This will not only ease our living conditions, but also give us the opportunity to survive the winter with warmth and hope.”

In Ukraine, Nadezhda is praising God for you this winter: “I have a large family . . the house we live in is difficult to heat, it takes a lot of fuel. Our small household income barely covers basic needs and bills. The heating season adds to the difficulties. But thanks to God, I received financial assistance from you for the purchase of solid fuel. With this money I can buy briquettes. I thank God and all of you for your help!”

As churches in Ukraine provide emergency supplies and the hope of the Gospel this winter, suffering people can be warmed both inside and out. “Thank you so much for your prayers,” one pastor says. “We would like to express our immense gratitude to God and to you for the resources through which we can work together with you to enlighten and warm the people of Ukraine with the Gospel during the darkness and cold that the war has brought us!”

Praise God! Thanks to the generous support of friends like you to our Ukraine Winter Heat & Hope Campaign, many churches are receiving essential, life-saving supplies like firewood. These resources allow them to become centers of heat and hope for their communities! “This is a timely help for us and a great joy that we are not alone in this difficult time,” one pastor says. “May the Lord bless you for the work you do.”

Praise God! In a church where there are no men, an elderly widow still has hope this winter in Ukraine. “We are not able to buy firewood our own,” she explains. But through the generosity of friends like you, God is equipping the body of Christ to provide a source of heat and hope. “We sincerely thank you for your help. We have purchased firewood. We thank God for your sincere hearts!”

Families are suffering through another cold winter in war-torn Ukraine. May God lift them up in His loving arms and have mercy on them. We rejoice that many local churches can reach more souls with tangible help of firewood and hope in Christ.

As the war in Ukraine continues and countless lives are uprooted, more people are discovering hope through the message of God’s Word. Let us pray for the internally displaced and for local SGA-supported churches to remain steadfast in opening doors to the Gospel.