SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS)—A Shreveport pastor has returned from a trip to Ukraine amid the ongoing war against Russia to celebrate Ukraine's Independence Day and participate in the national prayer breakfast.

Dr. John Bodine, executive pastor and missions director at Cypress Baptist Church in Bossier City, visited Kyiv, Ukraine, on a mission trip in August with "Razom for Ukraine," an advocacy organization that gives humanitarian support to Ukraine.

"My friends are telling me don't go to Ukraine now, right now, and I want to, and so through lots of conversations and putting roadblocks there, the Lord led me to go."

"Did we have to go into a bomb shelter a couple of nights? Yeah. They did send some bombings into Odessa, and we saw some; there was evidence of that there. What I didn't se

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