(Pictures from 2022)
I’m sure you noticed, whatever your reaction to the ever-changing politics, that today is the three year mark of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
I just wrote two notes of thanks to my Ukrainian friends and colleagues for their heroic – yes heroic – efforts.
Through missiles and drones flying over and falling near, they went out, received the funds we sent, answered various bank questions and acquired the funds we sent. They took those funds, acquired food, upgraded stoves to cook more food, and began all night and day shifts of kitchen workers to prepare meals to feed the thousands who heard about the facility that provided hot food, a safe bed and a little rest as they fled to the west away from the Russian onslaught.
During those first months – eventually I stopped counting – they served over 175,000 persons.
Looking back, I remember the work of our team in the US who responded at crazy hours to admin needs to properly account for the donations that came from all over. The need to establish procedures because the war made banking more complicated, our admin team rose to the occasion to get those funds where they were needed as fast as possible. I thank God for His provision through our many donors, who keep helping so that even today, we’re continuing to provide support.
While there is so much uncertainty surrounding this conflict now, I am assured of one thing: God is active through His people so that I can give Him glory even in the midst of the horrors of humans brutality against one another.
The pix are from the early days in early March ‘22.
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