We can count the people who attend, but faith decisions happen over time, not in one day. Our performance is one moment in people's spiritual journeys - we don't know where they are on that path or what will be the decisive moment for them. We know we can't claim specific conversion numbers, especially when local churches and their members are doing the long-term relational work. But churches keep inviting us back, and from time to time God allows us to see stories like this one that remind us why we do this work. Here's one of them:

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Early this year, our director Serhiy visited Lutsk to meet with potential teachers. He and his wife were walking through the city and passed by the Alley of Glory. Every city has one now - endless rows of portraits of those who gave their lives defending our country. In front of one portrait stood a tall young woman, quietly, bitterly crying. 

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On the portrait was her husband - he died on the battlefield. She would visit his grave, but his body remains on the burned fields of Donbas. Next to her were two children, and all around - pain, solid, impenetrable, thick pain. For some reason, Serhiy couldn't walk past. They talked, and he exchanged contacts with her. 

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Four months later, we had a performance in Lutsk. Serhiy wrote to Natalia and invited her to come. She came. She liked the performance, the children received gifts. Serhiy introduced her to the local church pastor and his wife, they exchanged contacts and agreed to meet at a service. 

This wounded woman who had lost everything was touched by the love of Christ. And we pray that one day she will be wrapped in this love and surrender to it, and become a beloved Daughter of the Heavenly Father, and that this will change her life and the lives of her children forever.