Ukraine church gives to Alabama tornado victims

For years, Alabama Baptists heard about how their partnership with churches in Ukraine was helping Baptists there spread the gospel.

But Sam Day, director of missions for Tuscaloosa Baptist Association, said he wanted everyone to see the depth of the gift that came back across the ocean to Alabama.

After tornados hit the state, the churches in Ukraine prayed and fasted.

“One church held 24-hour prayer vigils,” Day said. “Their church opened as a prayer center.”

They also took up an offering for Forest Lake Baptist Church and Alberta Baptist Church, both in Tuscaloosa and both damaged by the tornados. 

“It was a beautiful picture of 2 Corinthians 8 where the church in Macedonia, poor as they were, gave out of the little that they had to the churches in Jerusalem,” Day said.

In that passage, in the Macedonian churches’ “severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme joy” overflowed in generous giving.

The Ukrainians’ generosity likewise is “a beautiful illustration of brotherly love,” Day said.  

(TAB)