Author: David

Thank you all so much for your prayers and support for the camp here in the summer of 2025. As usual, Follow seeks to serve entirely unchurched and unbelieving youth, and I’m amazed every time at how God brings so many every year, primarily through advertising on platforms like Instagram. We basically just put it out there that we are doing a camp in the mountains or at a lake, and God does the rest.

Katya helped with an art class, I helped with English lessons with a guy named Thaddeus from Slovenia, and I even got to give a couple of basic boxing lessons with some practice pads that I recently bought. All of those things were catalysts towards trust and opportunities for conversations about God, truth, and the Gospel. I was also blessed with the opportunity to preach on one of the evenings and to help with worship both during the big evening program and around the camp fire. It was really cool to see how they responded to Christian songs talking about Jesus and His sacrifice.

Katya and I had many meaningful conversations with several different youth there, but the ones that were probably the most impactful were with Vlad, Oleh, and Oksana. Please pray for them and for a girl named Sophia, who actually gave her life to Jesus while serving at the camp!

Looking forward to camp next year!

The past several days have been a bit scarier, because russia has been launching over 400 (sometimes 500+) drones, missiles, or bombs in one night throughout Ukraine. The night of June 28-29 was one such evening, just a few days ago. Russia seems to enjoy launching cruise missiles and suicide drones and attacking the general population around or on national holidays—June 30th was “Constitution Day”, which is akin to the Ukrainian Independence Day. The fact that Ukraine has its own separate constitution apart from russia is offensive to folks like putin and his followers.

Please keep praying for our safety and that we will win this war. As I’ve said many times before, every day we survive, we are winning, as their goal is to wipe Ukraine off the map; however, there are many of my friends that will never see their homes again unless we take back parts of Ukraine that are occupied by terrorists and russian regulars—Crimea, Donbas, Luhansk, and Mariupol for example. We have friends or family from each of those areas, and they have had to build new lives from scratch, sometimes multiple times, because of how russia has taken everything from them.

Please also keep praying for the will and spirit to keep fighting and that God would bring national revival to Ukraine both spiritually and socially.

Thank you all for sticking with us and for praying for us! We do see God moving—someone got saved and another got baptized from our small group just a week ago! There is a lot of other fruit in other ways as well—the worship team is growing, we have more opportunities to minister to wounded veterans, and we are exploring ways to serve active military, especially those that are serving and protecting us from our church.

God bless you all!

We just finished a two-day retreat with the worship team in the Carpathian Mountains. It was amazing to get away with our friends, pray together, worship God, and make plans for the next season of the worship ministry.

It was an amazing trip! Thank you all for your consistent support and prayers! ❤️❤️

Hi, guys! Please pray for a few of our friends here that were recently drafted or signed up for the army. Ukraine has had a lot of casualties over the course of this war, and it now needs more and more patriotic men and women that love their neighbors enough to risk their lives to defend us and our freedom. That means that more and more people in our church, small groups, and neighborhood are either signing up (like the family in the picture above) or being drafted. Please pray for their safety, for us to be able to reclaim the lands that we’re stolen and homes that were destroyed (so that our friends and Katya’s relatives could go home), and for a true and just peace. All of that is asking for a miracle, but it’s not too big for God!

Katya and I both worked at the seminary this week, though we were in different classrooms the entire time. I taught a class called “Prayer and Worship” for the “Church Ministry Development” faculty, and Katya translated a three-day seminar for pastors’ wives. Here are some pictures from those two events:

I unfortunately was very busy teaching and forgot to slip into the classroom where Katya translated in order to get a picture of her with the teacher; however, I always hear good feedback from the women after she translates.

Please pray for the students, young leaders, and pastors’ wives, that God would continue to work in and through them to heal Ukraine and spread the Gospel far and wide.