Morning Jolt: ‘Just Pray and Go’: How One Protestant Pastor and His Family Escaped the Russians

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March 22 2024

'Just Pray and Go': How One Protestant Pastor and His Family Escaped the Russians

On the menu today: I hate to end this week's reporting from Ukraine with an account that includes so many grim parts — a trigger warning is in effect for anyone who can't handle reading about threats to children — but this is a story that needs to be heard, particularly in the face of Russian propaganda that asininely paints Vladimir Putin and modern Russia as some sort of defender of traditional or Christian values.

Earlier this week, I linked to a video from Russia Tortures Christians — as far as organizational messages go, it doesn't get any clearer than that — and shared the short version of the story of Mark Sergeyev, a youth pastor at the Melitopol Christian Church. But the short version doesn't really do it justice. I had the chance to sit down and hear Sergeyev describe his family's ordeal and escape — and who knows, maybe there's something genuinely miraculous about the Sergeyev family's deliverance from evil, an evil that specifically targeted them for ...

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