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Trip #8 Coming Soon
One week from today, we will return to Ukraine in support of our mission there. The trip will start in Krakow, Poland again, where our...
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Mar 4, 20241 min read
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Children's Center Becoming Reality
In my last post, I showed detailed artistic renderings of the Children's Center in the city of Dnipro. Here are some videos of the...
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Mar 4, 20241 min read
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Children's Center in Dnipro
One of the most meaningful, long-term projects we have at this moment is the development of a Children's Center at SkyDoor Church in the...
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Mar 4, 20241 min read
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Many are Left Behind
One of the difficult realities is that many simply will not leave. We watched the heart-wrenching farewell, possibly the final farewell,...
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Feb 29, 20241 min read
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Feb 29, 20240 min read
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Kup'yansk is Increasingly Ravaged
Over the course of nearly two years of conflict in this area, The battle lines have ebbed and flowed back and forth across this strategic...
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Feb 29, 20241 min read
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Preparing to Evacuate Kup'yansk Area
Using the Ford Transit again in Kharkiv as a mobile fuel station to fuel up all the vans and busses being used to evacuate people from...
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Feb 29, 20241 min read
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So Much Unexploded Ordinance
One of the tragedies of this conflict is the amount of unexploded ordinance still present in the cities, countryside, and forests. This...
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Feb 29, 20241 min read
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Parked my boat on the Roof
Tim and I went with a village resident about 10-12 miles downstream from Kherson. He had the GPS coordinate of a rooftop on which about...
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Feb 29, 20241 min read
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Zodiacs to the Rescue
We immediately purchased two inflatable zodiacs with motors, life rings, life jackets, etc and returned to Kherson to assist in the...
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Feb 29, 20241 min read
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Near Beryslav and Kherson
Entering the city of Kherson shortly after its liberation by Ukraine Many of the roads in the area are still mined
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Feb 29, 20241 min read
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Ford Transit vs Artillery strike
Leaving the front lines in a hurry after a really hard day in Kharkiv Oblast, the invaders had gridded the intersection with their...
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Feb 29, 20241 min read
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Juz Chillin'
Waiting in Hotel Transit with a small load of food for a drug rehab home in central Ukraine.
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Feb 28, 20241 min read
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Delivering Picnic Supplies
During the summer months we assisted with my Saturday afternoon gatherings for the people of Moshchyn, Kyiv Oblast. Dima Ryaboy was...
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Feb 28, 20241 min read
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Riding 'shotgun'!
Because the roads and the days are generally long and hard, it is always nice to have some riding companions in the van. Here is the...
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Feb 28, 20241 min read
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A Meal and a Coffee in Transit
Sometimes we run so hard that we only have time to pull over for a dehydrated pasta meal or a coffee - whatever the season, wherever we...
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Feb 28, 20241 min read
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When the roads are just ROUGH
Sometimes the roads are still mined. Sometimes, they are just ROUGH. An estimated 60,000km of roads driven by our Ford are like THIS:
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Feb 28, 20241 min read
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When the Roads are mined...
Sometimes when the roads are still mined, we have to make our own. In many places in the south and east of the country, we simply have...
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Feb 28, 20241 min read
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