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billrigsby62
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 29, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 29, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 29, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 29, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 29, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 29, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 28, 20241 min read
Juz Chillin'
Waiting in Hotel Transit with a small load of food for a drug rehab home in central Ukraine.
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billrigsby62
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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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billrigsby62
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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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