A Healing Path.
A People of Hope.
Pain is real — this series does not pretend otherwise. But pain is not the last word. The last word is hope, healing, and the God who restores our souls and stays with us in our suffering. Over seven weeks we trace seven loves that draw us back to wholeness: the love we receive, the love we return, and the love we carry to others.
We do not walk it alone. The 7 Loves was written in partnership with Baptist leaders in Ukraine, and our congregation is journeying beside Kompas Church in Zhytomyr — a Texas–Ukraine friendship where wounded people are becoming wounded healers for one another.
The Journey, Week by Week
Seven Days of Devotions
Short daily reflections from Ukrainian and Texas Baptist leaders. Choose a day to read.
Kompas Church
“In a nation at war, a young church is proving that love heals — carrying bread, hope, and the Gospel to the frontline and to the forgotten.”
Founded in 2017 in the heart of Zhytomyr and led by Pastor Vasyl Povorozniuk, Kompas is a young, growing church where roughly half of those who gather each Sunday come from outside the faith. Since the full-scale invasion began, 63 people have been baptized — most from non-church backgrounds — even as the congregation has lost members in battle and to captivity.
They have ministered to those affected by war since 2014, and that calling has only deepened. In a city marked by fallen soldiers, the missing, the wounded, and the displaced, Kompas has become known even to its mayor for a simple reason: they show up for the hurting.