I had a meeting this week with our seminary president, Anatoly Prokopchuck, from Ukraine, who said:

Brother Manny, I want to share something with you that you need to understand. Your ministry of planting churches in Ukraine used to be important--

(And here he paused, to let the words sink in . . . and then he said with deep conviction!)

Now, it is MOST important!

He proceeded to explain to me-for the next half hour-that the Church of Jesus Christ in Ukraine is struggling-with the paralysis of ultra-conservatism in the older churches and raving liberalism in the newer ones!

Still, Anatoly says-by God's grace and through our ministry-there is hope: for 88 strong and healthy churches have been planted through the efforts of our World Link Ministries team . . . with more churches on the way.