New pictures from Kharkiv...
Here are some of the pictures promised from Jerry that have been taken in the last couple of days:
#1 This apartment and it's residents were destroyed...
#2 Also from this weekend's bombing
#3 More bombing this weekend- the sign reads a 'discount pharmacy'- it is getting more and more difficult to have access to food and medicines because the stores are either blown up or closed...
#4 We continue to distribute food and medicine... people need these items and it is a joy to provide for them, especially in the barren spaces of the subways...
#5 Gennadii's oldest daughter- Irina, she is expecting child number 5- a boy, this month!
#6 Getting ready before the Sunday Service started- this young guy knew a few English words and used them all! The people are always so dear...
#7 We have been able to supply thousands of dollars worth of medical supplies, and medicines through our doctors in Kiev who keep going back and forth to the border to pick up humanitarian aid and also purchase supplies that are needed but not provided through that aid. The tall brother here is Zhenya, who is 6'7". Our doctors from Kiev have a friend who is also a doctor in Lviv. His daughter has a nice apt. in Lviv which she rented at a very good price because she has left Ukraine. Our financial gifts have helped us pay for this place which the doctors and medical students who are volunteering use for housing. They also have a constant stream of refugees and the homeless people like Rolfe and I coming through! It was our hostel while we visited that city and the work there. A funny story is that there was only room for Rolfe and I to share a couch bed. We decided to sleep with his feet by my head and vice versa. I was thinking this was pretty challenging to get any sleep, especially with one of the two of us being a champion snorer! But it was worse upstairs! I just heard today that all the medical staff was sleeping upstairs on one bed together! Our two large doctors, and Zhenya who is 6'7" and the only girl Anna, who is about 5'2" and probably weighs 75lbs. Anna slept on the edge and they said every time one of the guys rolled over, Anna got knocked off the bed! In Wartime, you are always making due with what you've got! Isn't there a song about all rolling over and one getting knocked out of bed?
#8 This girl's city was just taken back by the Ukrainian army, so she fled to the border near Lviv and is one who stayed in the apt. there...
#9, #10 Some of the medical supplies the team helps to distribute.
#11 Part of the medical team in Lviv
(Stayed tuned for more pictures!)
2 Comments
JERRY,
The real joy today was l text Sue . She responded right away. So good to hear to.pray for gas to get to Keiv. She is Miami so glad she spends time with Sarah and Jonathan and the kids. These pictures are heartbreaking what war has done..Thankful for resources to help for medical supplies and humanitarian aid. Especially for the people living subways. Your sleeping arrangements are interesting. You look good even though you don't get much sleep. Comfort for people as you leave today. What joy and encouragement you have given them
Blessings to Rolfe and you. MARILYN
The sole picture you shared earlier today where the house has been bombed and is on fire looks like any number of houses around here. A flowering shrub by the porch, a garage, a cute little yard and then, boom, it's gone. I tried to imagine how that would feel....and I can't. It just seems like a nightmare and my empathy for those living through it can hardly be contained. Then my mind wanders to the medicine you talk about distributing and I tried to see how much of it is insulin and I can't make it out but I am assuming it is there. Diabetic people (and the parents of diabetic children) must be frantic knowing that the supply could be cut off at any moment. I find myself overwhelmed because there's so much to pray for that I don't know what to pray for. Then I remember Jesus saying "pray like this "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the glory for ever and ever, amen". My grandmother taught me that prayer before I could even read and it has always been the rock I stand on when I feel like I'm drowning. It always helps.