02/07/2026
The latest from Pastor Jeff on the field, 🇺🇦 We are safe and sound out of Ukraine and back in Moldova. 🇲🇩
So grateful for your prayers and support.
Here is one night I will never forget. More posts to come as I share the incredible time we spent in Ukraine.
It was a bitterly cold winter night in Cherkasy, with temperatures well below zero, when we visited one of the pastors we sponsor—Pastor Michael.
We stood in the home where he grew up, a house his parents built years ago. As a child, his parents finished the attic and added a second floor, not knowing why. Years later, it became clear.
That home is now filled with children.
Before the war, Michael and his wife prayed about adoption. After the war began, he started visiting the local orphanage. Some of the children began calling him “Dad.” One adoption turned into three.
Then came another call—Ukrainian orphans who had been evacuated to Canada but were abandoned once their escorts were safe. The children didn’t know the language, were traumatized, and wanted to come home.
Michael brought them back.
And took them in.
In a short time, his family went from three to ten.
All of this while Michael was battling cancer.
All of this while he was wrongly detained and nearly sent to the front lines of the war.
And still—he said yes.
That night, the kids were laughing, smiling, singing. Michael looked at us and said with certainty,
“These are my children. I have ten kids.”
Then he shared something else.
Their heating system was failing. In frigid winter temperatures, there were days they couldn’t get heat to work at all. He had been trying to save money to fix it, knowing how urgent the need was with ten children in the home.
And that’s when we were able to bring an offering.
It came at exactly the right time.
Michael wept as he testified how God has provided again and again—ever since he first said yes to the Lord, and yes to these precious children.
This is why we do what we do.
This is the impact of your support.
This is Kingdom Bridges in action.
🙏 Please continue to pray—for these children, for Pastor Michael and his family, and that we would all have the courage to say yes when God calls.