For a week, we've been following all that is happening on the other side of the world between Russia and Georgia. My writing could take many directions today, such as who's right or wrong and what this news might mean in the endtime.

What I'd rather talk about is this, however--the good news. The country of Ukraine keeps popping up as a likely next conquest for Vladimir Putin. But whatever happens militarily in the future, God has been already been at work in the Ukraine in a mighty way.

Take for instance the work of Sunday Adelaja. He was raised in poor Nigerian village by his grandmother after his father and mother abandoned him. At age 12, his grandmother died, and he was forced to fend for himself. He later applied for and was granted a university scholarship to the Ukraine. But a few months before he left, he became a Christian. He now pastors the largest Evangelical church in Europe (20,000 members) with more than 2 million converts and 600 church plants throughout the world. In Adelaja's book Church Shift, he describes the focus of his congregation: to impact every aspect of their country's culture.

The conquest of the Ukraine was on God's mind long before it was on Putin's. In his book Transformation, author Ed Silvoso talks about Ken and Carrie Beaudry. They have used their company (Beaudry Oil) as a ministry vehicle to plant more than 500 churches in the Ukraine and four neighboring nations. Then in 2001, Beaudry and partners decided to provide food and send teams to the prisons. Within a year, a church with 300 members was planted inside the first prison. Soon 10 other prisons opened up, some of which offer Bible schools for training inmates to become pastors.

It's okay for you and me to keep one eye on the bad news news, but as Christians, we must always remained focused on the Good News. Above all, Jesus came to save that which was lost (Mt. 18:11).

And that includes those in the Ukraine.