Longing for Home
From a church partner in Ukraine:
"Every day except for Sunday we hold meetings for refugees in our church, where they come, sit at the tables, and we have some discussions. We pay special attention to their inner world because they have been through horrible things like bombing, when the Russian army was trying to destroy them.
"We were talking about the Ascension Day. The majority of these people dream about going back home to their cities. With each day their desire gets stronger. One man shared his pain with us today. He said that his house had been hit by a shell that had broken the roof and had gone all the way down to the first floor. So there is nothing left from that house anymore. He dreamed so much about coming back home, but his house isn't there anymore. We were all touched by his story because the war not only made these people move from their homes and made them refugees, but it also took their homes from them and they don't have a place to return to now."
John 14:2-3 "In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also."
"When we were reading this passage almost everyone cried, because they don't have an opportunity to return to their homes but they have a home, that Christ made for them in Heaven. And no one will ever be able to take this home away from them.
"We can see how God's Word gives encouragement and hope. We can see how important it is what you and we are doing together for these people."
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