UKRAINIAN RELIEF

through the

Romanian Missionaries out of Sovereign Grace Baptist Assembly in Bocsa Romania

and

 Grace Bible Baptist Church

Denham Springs, LA

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Brothers and Sisters, March 6, 2022

In 2009, Grace Bible Baptist Church organized Sovereign Grace Baptist Assembly in Romania with Raul Enyedi as pastor. Since then, the Church there has begun a bible study close to the Ukraine border. These Ukrainian men have a profession of faith and though they are not at this point baptized, they have shown interest in truth. Since the war began, these men have been bringing in supplies and rescuing Ukrainians wanting to leave the country. The Sovereign Grace Baptist Assembly has been offering humanitarian assistance and providing gospel literature for this effort. Our church will be assisting them by providing funds for the purchase of those things the people in Ukraine need, and the printing of gospel literature to distribute to the Ukrainian people.

For the purpose of this short-term endeavor, Grace Bible Baptist Church is willing to help our sister churches get love offerings for the Ukrainian assistance, to Romania where it will be distributed to the Ukrainian people. Raul explains more below, he will provide a financial account receipts and expenses. You may send funds directly to the church in Romania or by sending a check to our address above, made out to our Church with “Ukrainian Aid” in the memo.

One last word; I have seen images of Jehovah Witnesses and other false religions on the Ukrainian border offering assistance to the refuges. While I appreciate the aid they are giving, I know that they are also poisoning their minds and hearts with lies. Though this is not mission work, but humanitarian assistance, we need to share the gospel with these people, as our Lord is the only true and permanent help for them. I know many of you have been burdened for the Ukrainian people, many wonder how to help. We do not believe in social missions, we understand, what true mission work entails. Yet shouldn’t the Lord’s bride offer help to these people and share with them the Gospel of Christ? “And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?” James 2:16

Greetings from Romania, brethren! This is Brother Raul Enyedi, pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Assembly of Bocsa, Romania and a missionary here. Many of you know me personally and are actively involved in supporting our missionary endeavors and printing work.

Our free literature has reached many countries, including our northern neighbor, Ukraine, where we have brethren that receive and distribute our literature there. We also have a brother that has offered to translate our materials into Russian and proofread the existing translations. They are not from our kind of churches (we don’t know of churches like ours in Ukraine), but these men are saved and are interested in sounder doctrine. This is why they joined our Bible study group in the past. With war coming into their country, things have changed dramatically. The brother that is a translator, together with two other men, have been driving back and forth to Kiev, risking their lives every day, to deliver food, water and supplies there and to bring people out that flee from the harm’s way. The war is horrific, and it causes much suffering. There are urgent needs for food, water, clothes, medicine, etc. We, in Romania, felt burdened and led by the Lord to help these people in Ukraine. We started raising money for this humanitarian relief fund, and we are also working rapidly on translating Gospel booklets into Ukrainian, to print them and distribute them to the people. If the Lord leads you to join hands with us, we would be thankful. We are doing everything on our end to ensure that the funds are spent correctly, efficiently, and transparently. We will be providing financial reports, as well as updates on the situation.

Thank you,

Brother Raul

Update From Raul:

Greetings, Dear Brethren!

We wish to thank you for all the prayers, encouraging messages and abundant giving toward the Ukraine Relief Fund. We are deeply moved and impressed with your generosity and love toward this cause. It will be a help for many, and we will be making several trips with humanitarian aid. The first of which will be on Saturday, Lord willing.

We feel a great burden for our brethren from Ukraine, but also a great responsibility toward all that have been and are contributing toward this cause. We need to be wise and faithful stewards of this ministry. We have been receiving money for this special fund in several ways. This means a lot of extra work for us in doing the financial report. This work is very demanding for us, and we need to keep things simple and efficient. Also, Aurel Munteanu and I offered our personal accounts to receive the transfers and it is wise to avoid receiving too much at once, so that we would not be flagged unnecessarily.

Grace Bible Baptist Church of Denham Springs, LA were very gracious to offer us their assistance for this work. They will be collecting the checks made toward Ukraine Relief Fund and wire them to us. Their address to send checks to is:

Grace Bible Baptist Church of Denham Springs, LA
c/o Keith Laurence
26913 Homer Laurence Lane
Denham Springs, LA 70726

Checks should be noted “Ukrainian Relief”.
Phone: 225-321-2266 (Pastor Robert Keller) or
Phone: 225-664-3557 (Treasurer, Keith Laurence)