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‘Miracle From God’ As Cash-Strapped Romanian Baptists Aid Ukrainians

Getting financial aid to Ukrainians still in Ukraine is difficult. With wire transfers interrupted, pastors jeopardize their safety by literally taking money to internally displaced refugees who are then challenged to find needed goods to purchase.

Southern Baptists can help relief efforts by sending translators fluent in Russian and Ukrainian, by praying for Ukrainians and Russians, and sending financial aid.

“Churches can send small teams to come to Romania and Moldova,” Fodorean said. “Large teams will complicate the problem for Romania. … After the war is over, Americans can send church teams to rebuild towns and villages in Ukraine, if God will in His mercy allow us to go in Ukraine when the war is finished.”

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The war is helping Romanians and Ukrainians put aside historical prejudices. Decades ago, Romania was larger in landmass. Portions of Romania were lost to present-day Ukraine in the days following World War II, when Ukraine was part of the USSR.

The historical tension was highlighted for Fodorean as he crossed a toll bridge when traveling to Bulgaria to visit a church Feb. 27.

“The man who was there for toll fee told me, ‘You see so many Ukrainians here, why we receive them, why we welcome them. Do you remember what they did to us?’ Which means even the people outside the church, they know about the situation with Romanians and Russians.”

But Fodorean considered it a rhetorical question.

“The Ukrainians are amazed at how Romanians treat them, and I receive a lot of testimonies … on internet, on Facebook,” Fodorean said. “Because their mentality was … Romanians (do) not love Ukrainians, and Romania, politically speaking, will try to take back the territory (taken) years ago.

“Now is the time to share love. It’s not the time to research the history,” Fodorean told Baptist Press. “We act in love, and this love is from God. We (do) not look to what was, we look (at) what is. We understand what is the need and respond.”

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Jackson prays to see Romans 8:28 in action in the war.

“The ultimate thing,” he said, “is that God would use this for good. And for good I mean to end this war, but for good in that the Ukrainians would see that the war ceased not because of military might, but because of Jesus Christ. And that the eyes of the world would see that Jesus Christ is the only Prince of peace and that in seeing Him, there would be a worldwide revival and awakening.”

This article originally appeared at Baptist Press.