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BillyGraham.TV | Ukraine: Finding God In Crisis | March 3, 2025
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- (various reporters) this is a major escalation.
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- - russia has launched a new wave of missile attacks...
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- - the most widespread bombardment
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- Since the deadly...
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- - everyone is bracing to see what happens next.
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- (graham) because of the killing
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- People have become hardened.
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- It just breaks your heart.
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- (woman) you don't know what is gonna happen.
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- Maybe they will come to your house
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- And they will shoot all of your family.
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- (explosions)
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- (man) when i received a call from the rapid response team,
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- It felt like god
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- Was opening a door and saying,
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- "this is where i want you at this particular time."
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- Every day with every drop of a bomb
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- You brush against your mortality.
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- (air raid sirens blaring)
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- (man) the war in ukraine
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- Has devastated the country.
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- Many are losing hope.
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- The question for all believers is:
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- What am i going to do about it?
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- (graham) it's a difficult time
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- But we're doing all that we can
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- To help the people of ukraine
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- To stand up and to serve in jesus' name.
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- In many ways,
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- Ukraine has faded
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- From the news.
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- But this crisis
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- Hasn't stopped.
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- From the very beginning we knew this conflict
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- Would impact millions of people.
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- And we wanted to bring everything that we could
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- To the table to help the people that were in need.
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- The billy graham evangelistic association
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- And samaritan's purse are working side by side
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- Serving and meeting the needs
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- In the name of the lord jesus christ.
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- I want you to see for yourself what is happening on the ground
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- Months into this horrible conflict.
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- (man) so in your bag,
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- You're gonna find body armor
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- And a helmet.
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- All right?
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- And then you're gonna attach it to all velcro,
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- And you want it snug but not overly tight.
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- You want to breathe in it
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- But you want it close to your body
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- Because it gives you the most protection.
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- That's good for a 9mm or shrapnel.
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- We're gonna get air raid alarms daily,
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- Multiple times a day.
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- If you feel a concussion from an impact nearby,
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- Or if you hear an impact nearby,
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- You want to grab this, seek cover,
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- And then put this on as you get into your shelter.
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- If you wait and put this on where you're at
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- You may never make it to the shelter.
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- (explosions)
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- When i was nineteen years old, i moved to russia
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- And i didn't know the language.
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- Being the only foreigner there helping a church plant,
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- I learned the language through just,
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- Practice, through just, relationships.
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- And i was working alongside ukrainian missionaries.
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- Because a lot of the churches
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- Were planted by ukrainian missionaries.
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- (door closes)
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- So when i received a call from the rapid response team,
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- It felt like god was opening a door and saying,
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- "this is where i want you at this particular time and
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- "you're going."
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- (jonathan) the role of a chaplain is making jesus known,
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- Sharing the good news of our lord and savior.
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- And doing that through loving people,
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- Through listening to them.
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- (speaking in foreign language)
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- ...in jesus' name.
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- We're not just doing that for just, therapy.
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- We're pointing them to the one
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- Who is everlasting,
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- The one who can give them the living waters,
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- The one who can heal their souls,
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- And that is jesus christ.
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- (jo) the place where we're going now
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- Has been one of the focal points of the conflict.
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- Because of its proximity to the front lines,
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- Their source of water has been destroyed.
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- They're facing a host of fear and trauma.
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- (natalie) in mykolaiv, our programming
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- Is really focused on water supply.
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- The city where their water supply was coming from
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- Had been completely occupied by russia,
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- And russia realized
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- That there was this large water pipeline
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- Passing through to mykolaiv, and as an act of war,
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- Cut it off, directly.
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- Life was very difficult when the water pipeline broke
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- In the kherson region.
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- That was a major disaster in a city of 500,000.
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- The shocking picture i saw was when it rained
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- And people formed a line to collect water
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- From drainage pipes in buckets.
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- (water trickling)
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- (natalie) the need is so much bigger than even we can meet.
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- We would not be able to accomplish this water project
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- Without our church partners.
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- They help coordinate the well drilling,
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- And then they are fully in charge of operating
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- And maintaining the water systems that we install.
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- Because we are working out of churches,
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- Multiple people have been drawn back to church
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- Because there's a water source there.
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- (victor) we met the needs of the people
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- By giving them food and water.
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- It allows people to see the impact of the church
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- And the living god who provides for man to be fed.
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- (explosion)
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- (people clamoring)
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- (explosion)
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- (air raid siren blares)
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- (air raid siren blaring continues)
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- I think everyone is scared of death.
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- It's impossible to not be affected by it.
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- Every day, with every drop of a bomb,
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- It's like you brush against your mortality.
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- And can you imagine this entire city
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- That might think the same way?
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- (praying in foreign language)
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- (jonathan) the fear of death is more
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- A powerful grip and vice
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- When you're worried about your loved ones.
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- What will happen to them?
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- (crying)
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- (graham) so much suffering,
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- So much heartache,
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- So much pain.
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- People of ukraine have many questions
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- And they have doubts and they have fears.
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- We have got to be able to share the hope that we have
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- In god and that's through faith in his son jesus christ.
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- And that's why it's so important that we work with
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- Chaplains to be able to preach the gospel.
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- (voice-over) partner with us
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- As we send billy graham
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- Rapid response team chaplains
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- Around the world
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- To offer healing and hope
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- In jesus christ.
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- These crisis-trained chaplains
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- Provide emotional and spiritual
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- Care in the wake of manmade
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- And natural disasters.
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- To learn more about
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- Our rapid response team,
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- And how you can partner with us,
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- Visit billygrahamtv.com
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- Or call 800-631-7141.
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- (graham) months into this crisis
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- I think many people, their hearts have been hardened
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- Because of the battle, because of the fighting,
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- Because of the,
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- The killing.
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- It's sad to see.
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- (isaacs) markets are closed down.
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- Supply chains are closed down.
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- Infrastructure is being destroyed.
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- People are hungry.
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- (ryan) so we have a network of hundreds of church partners
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- That are able to
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- Extend the influence and the programming
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- Of samaritan's purse
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- Out into the furthest reaches of the country.
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- We are currently moving more than 1,500 metric tons
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- On a weekly basis.
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- (graham) i just feel that we should be doing
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- Everything we can
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- To help people,
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- But to do it in the name of jesus christ, god's son.
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- (jonathan) the rapid response team is having a training
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- Where we're gonna raise up local chaplains to
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- Serve the needs of the community.
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- One of our local chaplains is leading the seminar today
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- And it's just an amazing thing to see ukrainian chaplains
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- Raising up other ukrainian chaplains.
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- The billy graham chaplain ministry is very important
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- Because the war is
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- Continuing in ukraine,
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- And i hope god will give us wisdom
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- To bring these people to the lord.
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- (jonathan) despite that the war is raging on
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- It's still important for the church to go...
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- To go where the hurting are,
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- To go where there's pain.
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- (explosion)
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- (reporter) the news breaking overnight,
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- Russia is blaming ukraine for a truck bomb that caused
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- A major fire to erupt on the only bridge that links
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- Russian-annexed crimea
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- To russia.
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- This is a major escalation
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- This morning.
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- Moscow had threatened kyiv
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- With reprisals
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- If that bridge is attacked.
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- (explosion)
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- (various reporters) tonight russia is responding
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- With deadly bombings across ten major cities
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- Inside ukraine including the capital of kyiv.
- 00:15:42.260 --> 00:15:45.196
- (various reporters) ukraine said the russians used
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- So-called suicide drones...
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- - as multiple blasts
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- Ripped apart busy neighborhoods...
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- - the most wide-spread bombardment
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- Since the beginning of the war.
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- - everyone is bracing to see what happens next.
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- (isaacs) when our team arrived into this relatively small town,
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- It was essentially deserted.
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- And the people that were living there were hiding
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- In the shadows and the corners of the buildings.
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- They had been cut off from all communication
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- For six months.
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- (isaacs) there is an immediate need for the kind of care
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- That we can offer.
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- (indistinct conversations)
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- (tiffani) whether it's shrapnel, artillery,
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- Delayed traumas, acute traumas, we're seeing
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- A lot of things that i've never seen before.
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- We've had people come in that have, innocently,
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- Trying to harvest mushrooms, stepping on a mine.
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- We had one gentleman who was reaching
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- For his gas can and it was booby trapped.
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- It was tied to a grenade and it exploded.
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- Even though they've been liberated,
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- There is still the effects of war.
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- (explosions)
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- (dog barking)
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- (isaacs) everywhere that russia has attacked,
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- One of the things that they destroy are hospitals.
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- They destroyed the healthcare facilities everywhere.
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- There's a lot of risk
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- And no one can really predict what's going to happen.
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- (tiffani) when we got here
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- We had layers of security briefings,
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- Explaining to us the danger and the risk.
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- It hit hard.
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- (angela) there's a lot of things
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- That we see working with patients that have experienced
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- Such intense suffering
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- That takes its toll slowly on us.
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- (april) we see hundreds of patients.
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- Just having this facility, the hope that it
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- Brings to the community.
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- It really gives us the opportunity to testify about
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- Christ and the gospel
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- And that they're not forgotten and that he loves them.
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- We pray, father, as we go forth this morning that we can be
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- Your hands and feet.
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- I pray that you give us what we need
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- To take good care of these patients,
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- Not just their bodies but also their souls.
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- We are there to help people in a very dangerous situation.
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- And to do it so that they would have an opportunity
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- To show and to tell that jesus loves them.
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- (hamm) the billy graham evangelistic association
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- Has a lot of friends throughout ukraine.
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- And those relationships began
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- With a visit of dr. graham
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- In 1988.
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- He did so with
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- Understandable misgivings.
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- After all, it was the soviet
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- Government that was inviting him.
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- (camera clicks)
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- Remember that at that time
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- There was still a lot of believers
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- Who were in prison for the sake of the gospel.
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- But dr. graham saw a window
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- Of opportunity to present
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- The gospel in a communist country.
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- Jesus said, "you must be born again."
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- You must have a spiritual rebirth.
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- (camera clicks)
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- And then dr. graham
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- Flew to kyiv, ukraine.
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- (camera clicks)
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- (speaking foreign language)
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- (billy graham) "for god so loved the world
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- (translation)
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- "that he gave his son."
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- (hamm) doc graham spoke at a baptist church,
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- But he also preached at an orthodox church.
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- It was unprecedented.
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- It's my prayer that jesus christ
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- Will become a real person to you.
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- (translation)
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- (hamm) fifteen thousand people came.
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- And what he preached, that gave
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- Hope to those who were in the audience.
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- And that was sort of a green light:
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- Let's move forward.
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- This part of the world
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- Has a special place in my heart.
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- For many years,
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- We've chartered their antonov aircraft to carry shoe boxes
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- To some of the remotest parts of the world.
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- And of course, we have been working with
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- Over 3,000 churches in ukraine for many years.
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- (graham) we want to
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- Welcome you to this
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- Brisk, cool evening
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- Here in kyiv.
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- (graham) i have had opportunity to preach in kyiv.
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- And also in lviv.
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- He is wanting to forgive you.
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- (graham) and we've had
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- Wonderful meetings where we saw
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- Thousands of people
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- Give their hearts and lives to jesus christ.
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- A wonderful opportunity.
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- (graham from pulpit) may god bless ukraine.
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- (explosions)
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- (graham) i never dreamed that missiles would have fallen
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- Very close to where i preached.
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- And lviv would be one of the first places
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- That we would set up a field hospital in ukraine.
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- We're just helping people that have been hurt.
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- So many of these people are just civilians
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- That have just been caught in the middle.
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- (explosion)
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- (indistinct conversations)
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- (graham) when the war started,
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- We knew that the churches were going to be
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- Overwhelmed with needs
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- Of people who are going to be searching
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- To where they can get help.
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- And so we felt it very important
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- That we provide funds to the churches.
- 00:23:30.294 --> 00:23:34.398
- (isaacs) when something like a war happens,
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- Everything is disrupted.
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- So you look for what organizations are there.
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- Well, the churches are there.
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- They were there during earlier times of persecution--
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- They're gonna be there through this war
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- And they'll be there after this war.
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- Those people, they were really so generous for us.
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- After months, when i saw how kind they are,
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- They were feeding us, we were living there,
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- And i started to realize my life that...
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- I was living against god.
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- I come to pastor and said,
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- "i want repentance in front of god"
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- Because i was involved in all kinds of sins,
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- And for me they were
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- Really very strong 'cause they were keeping me for years.
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- The war is the worst time for people,
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- But spiritually speaking, the war is probably the best
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- Time to preach the gospel.
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- (speaking foreign language)
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- (hamm) and what we're seeing right now
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- Through the crisis,
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- People are coming by the thousands
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- To faith in christ.
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- So i decided to get baptized.
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- I understood that i was sinful and this is what i need.
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- And i knew that i could get salvation
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- Only through jesus christ.
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- (maria) understand that every day
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- Can be the last day in your life.
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- You need just to build a close relationship with jesus.
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- (alex) it's a great joy that i came to jesus.
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- (graham) i have been encouraged to see the church respond
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- In such an hour as this.
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- (isaacs) we have an open door to go there,
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- To show the love of christ,
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- To tell the love of christ, to tell the hope of christ.
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- (graham) and we want to preach christ wherever we go.
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- We want the world to know that god loves them
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- And cares for them.
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- Despite the circumstances,
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- We need to step out in obedience
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- By loving god and loving others.
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- As you have seen, the suffering in ukraine
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- Is tremendous, but in the middle of it, god is still working,
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- And saving and changing lives.
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- This is our mission--
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- We want the people of the world to know that god loves them,
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- And that he cares for them,
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- And that we can have eternal life through
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- Faith in jesus christ.
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- The situation in ukraine is urgent.
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- Even if a conflict stopped today,
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- The need will last for years.
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- We plan to be there for the long haul,
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- Working alongside the churches
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- And sharing the love of jesus christ.
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- Thank you for standing with us.
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- We certainly could not be doing this
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- If it weren't for you partnering with us.
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- Thank you and god bless you.
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- (voice-over) partner with
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- The billy graham
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- Evangelistic association
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- In this mission of sharing
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- Christ's love in ukraine.
- 00:27:53.357 --> 00:27:55.159
- Call 800-631-7141.
- 00:27:55.192 --> 00:27:59.062
- Or go to billygrahamtv.com.
- 00:27:59.096 --> 00:28:01.899
- As a thank you for your support,
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- You can receive billy graham's book,
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- God's love for you.
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- Join with us in sharing
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- The good news of jesus christ
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