It is with great sorrow that I share the news of the passing of the founder of Music Mission Kiev, Roger McMurrin, on Tuesday, December 12.

I wanted to send you some of the feedback we are receiving from the different venues on how well the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and Chorus ladies are performing under Conductor Vika Konchakovska guidance at our concerts.

There are now over 450,000 IDPs staying in Kyiv. In April, Music Mission Kiev started helping a new group of Internally Displaced People (IDPs).

On July 13, Ukraine’s headline news counted the 505th day of the war in Ukraine. At 2 AM, Kyiv was under drone attacks yet again. The reports said there were 20 drones and two missiles downed by their air defense.

The Ukrainian Bulava or Buława: Ukrainian spelling: булава [bula'va]) is a ceremonial mace or baton or scepter typically bestowed on the highest ranking military officer.

This past Saturday, pastor Ruslan joined Vika R. at the Bible study for internally displaced children from eastern Ukraine. The children meet with us weekly.

Pavlo Chernenko is an amazing man. When the war started in February 2023, he and his wife had three children, and she was pregnant with the fourth.

A new project at Music Mission Kiev (MMK) is always greeted with great anticipation and excitement to assist the struggling people of Ukraine. The Saturday, April 15, 2023, gathering was no exception.

Every year our widows look forward to celebrating Easter with our traditional paska bread.

Spanning four days of travel from February 13 - 16, 2023, Pastor Ruslan and two companions went to Druzhkivka, Ukraine…

For most people worldwide, the war in Ukraine is a distant reality covered by the news media. Here the war is knocking on our doors and windows ... literally.

Last month, Yuri Amelin (our new associate pastor) and Vika Rybchynska (Children’s Music Club) began our Trauma Healing workshop for Internally Displaced People…

This past Thursday, Oksana was back in Kyiv visiting from Germany. She taught the Bible lesson for this week about Jesus healing a paralytic.

A few weeks ago, a series of lengthy air raid alerts forced us to postpone the beginning of our concert twice and cut short our program.

It has been a difficult week in Kyiv. The danger of explosions is much greater than in recent days.

As October ends, we are in the ninth month of the war in Ukraine.

On this last day of September, we have moved into month eight of the war in Ukraine. If you have kept up with the news…

We are less than one week from starting the seventh month of the war in Ukraine. My local paper today had articles…

Our mission had a good week in spite of the challenges they face. You may recall mass transportation became fully…