Received today from our friends who have been living and doing ministry in Lithuania for the past couple of years:

Friends, these times are difficult. We stood by our students this week as they recognized three years of full-scale invasion in Ukraine. They wept, they worshipped, they remembered, and we participated with them as best we could. LCC is a strange place in that we share coffee and conversations every day with people from countries who are at war with each other. As an American, it is especially hard to describe the feeling of listening to a student share about the effects of your country’s actions on their family. You start to wonder, “Am I complicit?” In our roles at LCC, we care for the formation of our students’ minds and souls into those of well-rounded adults, but our government is taking actions that directly and negatively impact many of them and their families. If it isn’t clear, we stand with Ukraine. We stand by our students. Today, you will scroll past another video on Facebook of our country’s leaders making false claims, and tomorrow, we will hold a student whose life was directly impacted by it. To quote one of the faculty here at LCC: “When you have given your sole allegiance to Jesus and his kingdom, you never have to defend the indefensible, excuse the inexcusable, or feel
embarrassed by the one you follow.”