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One year on from the start of the Ukraine war and we are filled with sorrow - but God is still moving
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Sharyn Borodina2023-02-15T09:30:00
In March 2022, Sharyn Borodina shared stories of what God was doing in Ukraine, a year on she gives Woman Alive an update.
When war broke out last year, my Ukrainian husband, Ruslan and I were leading a Youth with a Mission (YWAM) base in Ternopil, Ukraine. I wrote about the first few weeks and what God did in that time.
Now, a year on, we are in North Idaho with our two teenage daughters, while trying to continue to support the work we are doing in the country remotely. For the first six months of the war we were based in Poland, going into Ukraine in June and July. We returned to the USA, my homeland, to give our daughters some stability in schooling, our prayer is to be in Ukraine this summer. Ruslan is still taking trips back to Ukraine and Poland every few months.
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