While the city was being ravaged by war, three premature babies were successfully evacuated from Kyiv, Ukraine to a hospital in Poland.  The rescue mission was conducted by Project DYNAMO, an American civilian and ally rescue non-profit based in Tampa, Florida.  Two doctors, two neonatal specialists, one nurse and a Ukrainian ambulance crew aided the mission.

“During operational planning and execution, I was anxious because premature babies, under the best of circumstances in the best hospitals, are fragile and vulnerable,” Project DYNAMO Co-founder Bryan Stern told Fox News Digital.  “When we put them in a war zone surrounded by Russian artillery and troops that presents a complicated medical situation and makes it much scarier.”

“From an evacuation perspective, having to move these fragile babies through these war zones by vehicle, is wrought with peril and danger.  I'm overcome with joy and happiness to be able to help the family by delivering [the babies]," Stern continued.  “The Project DYNAMO team, in concert with others, all worked together to deliver these bundles of joy to two happy families.  Once the operation was complete, with happy parents, I felt like a delivery room doctor introducing children to their parents for the very first time.”

The babies were transported in incubators in ambulances over 700 miles from Kyiv to Hospital PRO-FAMILIA in Rzeszow, Poland, where they were reunited with their families. *

While a spiritual war rages, another rescue mission is ongoing.  You and I are the patients in need as we suffer from the guilt and consequences of our sins (Romans 3:23; John 8:34).  Jesus, God’s Son, is the One who has made our rescue possible for He paid the price for our redemption by dying on the cross for our sins (Ephesians 1:7; 1 Peter 1:18-19).  Christians continue the rescue mission by sharing the good news of the Gospel.

The Apostle Paul said, “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power (Greek: dunamis, from which we get the English words dynamo and dynamite) of God to salvation to everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek” (Romans 1:16).

The Good News is that “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).

God will save and give eternal life to those who place their faith and trust in Jesus (Acts 16:30-31), turn from their sins in repentance (Acts 17:30-31), confess Jesus before men (Romans 10:9-10), and are baptized (immersed) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins (Acts 2:38).  He will continue to cleanse from sin those who continue to walk in the light of His Word (1 John 1:7-9).

The Gospel is God’s DYNAMO for salvation.  Won’t YOU believe it and obey it so that you can be saved?

-- David A. Sargent

* Information gleaned from “Premature babies in Ukraine rescued via ambulance escort during Kyiv shelling” by Cortney Moore of Fox News, www.foxnews.com.

David A. Sargent, Minister

Church of Christ at Creekwood 
1901 Schillinger Rd. S.
Mobile, Alabama  36695

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