by Brenda Poor | May 12, 2022 | Ukraine
We boarded our train in Przemysl, Poland, and arrived tonight after a 13-hour train ride. We made stops in Lviv and a few other large cities, before disembarking at the gigantic, but dark train station in Kyiv. The train was full of Ukrainians returning to the...
by Brenda Poor | May 11, 2022 | Ukraine
We’ve arrived near the Polish/Ukraine border, at Przemysl. We met tonight at “The Hub,” which is a storefront property near the train station that members of Poland and Ukraine’s Church of the Nazarene have set up, under the leadership of missionaries Jay and Teanna...
by Brenda Poor | May 11, 2022 | Ukraine
We traveled south from Warsaw today to Medyka, which is the major border crossing between Poland and Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have crossed this border into Poland since the war began. Now, many of the refugees are returning to their Ukrainian...
by Brenda Poor | May 10, 2022 | Ukraine
Today we visited the largest refugee transit center in Europe. Ukrainian refugees, which the kind-hearted Polish people call guests, are brought by bus from train stations to the Ptka Warsaw Expo Center, which has been transformed into a refugee city that can house...
by Brenda Poor | May 9, 2022 | Ukraine
With the help of the team from Church of the Resurrection, we were able to transport and clear customs with 6 large suitcases packed with medicines and state-of-the-art wound care systems. A pastor from the Church of the Nazarene met us at the airport, and Methodist...
