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November 11, 2026

Ukraine Challenge International

Prayer Requests & Update ~

"Your own ears will hear him.

Right behind you a voice will say, 'This is the way you should go,'

whether to the right or to the left."

Isaiah 30:21 NLT

Opening photo: From the archives: This is the tramvia out in the Puscha-Vodytsa area of the Kyiv region.

🙏 Prayer Prompts 🙏

~ Immediate Needs ~

There have been many requests for generators, batteries, wood, winter tires, etc. More infrastructure is destroyed or damaged with the daily bombings. Our ministry partners and friends are confronted with the memory of last winter and the rapidly approaching new winter. Anytime that you are warm and comfortable, think and pray about giving to help meet these needs. (Read the post from Oleg V below.)

~ Ongoing Events ~

CUSTOM - project reaching older teens and young adults meeting in Irpin led by IBC team,

Aletheia Christian School - Bila Tserkva, Director Sergiy M

Weekly Women's Meeting - Church Faith, Hope, Love led by Alyona S

Weekly Mother's Meeting - Every Thursday (women and young children) and Saturday (pregnant women) and online classes two times a week, Inessa M and her friend, Anna

Weekly Women's Meeting - Holovuriv, Oksana S

~ Personal ~

Vyacheslav N - requests prayer for his wife who has serious back problems.

Inessa M - pray for a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby girl!

Marina K - pray for her health and her family

Pastor Oleg S - back at the front in a new difficult place

UC volunteer Judy Ward requests healing prayers for her husband, Tip, and God's wisdom for their future.

UC Volunteer Anna Grippe had emergency partial hip replacement last week after a fall.

Every word in this update should call you to pray for an end to the war.

Post from Oleg V

Kyiv, November 5

Oleg posts: These are the remains of Ukrainian power plants. Not military objects but heating stations for the civilians. I don’t know how Ukraine will survive this winter. How our children will continue attending schools and our Radooga clubs.

Many of my friends and colleagues already moved out of Kyiv.

Recently we published a book and produced a video about a girl named Nadia at Radooga's club who weighs so little that the elevator in her building wouldn't recognize a human entering it and it wouldn't take her up to the 8th floor. She was invisible to the elevator.

I think that's what Ukrainians want every time we post something horrible that "may not comply with the community standards" of social media.

We don't want pity. WE SIMPLY WANT TO BE VISIBLE.

We want to be remembered by the world in the midst of political, economic and show biz news. We want people not to change their mind about mafia state ruzzia that came to steal and destroy. We don't want the world to accept ruzzia back into the hockey, tennis, music, you name it, world if they proudly fly their flags.

We simply want to be visible..

News from Pastor Volodya V

October Warm Meeting

Volodya posted on October 10: Yesterday in Teplytsia, a truly warm meeting took place for the families of fallen heroes. An unforgettable evening was gifted to us by our guests Thomas and Zoryana Lamberien, our young singer Anichka, and the staff of Teplytsia with good care for us. Tea, coffee, communication, and a home-like atmosphere made us feel cozy, despite the air raid alert. We ended with, as always, a prayer of thanks to the Lord for such a wonderful evening.

(Volodya is 4th from the right; another partner, Oles S, is third from the right.)

Oles wrote: Recent times have brought so much loss and pain. Yet, I want to share something good with you—something that offers answers and hope. It is another "Warm Meeting" with the families of fallen soldiers. I am glad to serve them alongside Volodymr (Volodya) and Valya (middle photo above) Vshyvkin. I believe you can consider Ukraine Challenge part of this good work, as it happens thanks to your support. I thank you on behalf of those who have lost loved ones; at these gatherings, they find support and experience God’s love and care.

News from Bethlehem Church

Poltava "Food Pantry"

Pastor Slava K has an ongoing program of meeting food needs for his congregation. There is no flair or fanfare--he and his team just address the problem systematically and fairly. The small congregation of the original Bethlehem Church exploded when hundreds of displaced people from the East poured into Poltava.

They ask that we pray about God's provisions for the winter. There has been much damage to the infrastructure in this city, also. There are limits on electricity, gas and water already.

Ukraine Challenge is a non-profit organization providing Christian ministry opportunities for believers everywhere to help meet the physical and spiritual needs of the people of Ukraine.

Meeting Needs ~ Sharing Christ.

Our Motto: Building Together on a Strong Foundation

Building Relationships through meeting needs, building lives by sharing the Gospel, and building churches to expand the Kingdom of God.

Our scriptural basis is Ephesians 2:19-22, The Message

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