Kyiv · M4 Europe church plants
After the National Prayer Breakfast, I stayed on in Kyiv.
A church called “home”
Through my work with M4 Europe, I travel to different parts of Europe to document church plants whose pastors and teams have gone through the M4 Team Process. This time I visited Denis and the church he planted in Kyiv: Dim. In Ukrainian, dim means “home,” and that’s exactly what this community is trying to be.
Dim goes where most churches don’t. The team takes the Gospel into night clubs and reaches out to young people caught up in drugs. These are people many have already given up on. Dim gives them a family, a place where they’re seen, loved and welcomed home.
An evening by the Dnipro
On the evening I was there, the church gathered on the sandy bank of the Dnipro River. People sat in a wide circle on blankets while a guitar played and voices joined in worship. Denis stood in the middle with the open Word and spoke about new life in Christ.
Then came the moment we had all come for. A young woman who had battled drug addiction had decided to follow Jesus, and she wanted to say so publicly in the waters of the Dnipro.
I won’t describe what happened next. You need to see it for yourself.
▶️ Watch the baptism and the story of Dim here:
It was amazing to be there. In a city that has lived through so much darkness, I saw light: a home built by God, one life at a time.
This is His story, not ours. Take a few minutes to watch it, and share it with someone who needs hope today.