Gert Pohl 2022-06-14
Updated donation status for the coming aid delivery to Kyiv on 30th of June 2022
Donation account: Life-project e.V. VR-Bank Aalen Germany
IBAN: DE40 6149 0150 0024 4140 00
BIC /SWIFT: GENODES1AAV
For the upcoming trip we have again planned 11,000.00 euros. Among other things, we will use this money to support the contact point for refugees from the east in Kyiv with the largest amount. There, groceries and everyday necessities will again be bought from the food wholesaler Metro in Kyiv in order to provide the refugees directly with the most necessary things to supply. We documented the reports on this in great detail in May if you simply scroll down in this blog.
Furthermore, we visit the small Baptist community again, whose women cook for their soldiers in the east and provide them with the essentials. Not only their men benefit from it, but also many other men at the front are also cared for. This congregation has been serving in prayer and practical love unspectacularly but faithfully since the beginning of the war. We would like to continue to support this and thank you for your commitment. During our last visit there in May, we gave Pastur Vitali Zhurek an amount of 2000.00 euros on your behalf, for which he thanked you very warmly on behalf of the community and on behalf of the many volunteer helpers and also the recipients. This help directly benefits our brothers and sisters on the front lines.
Here we can have a little peek into this action...
We`ve got a little Video-snapshot from Pastor Vitali:
On 13.06. our donation account has grown again to 4,202.27 euros. We thank you and our LORD for blessing these aid deliveries in this way. Please don't forget to continue to stand up for our brothers and sisters in prayer.
Here's one more request: We've had an increasing number of requests for donations of textiles, but also the most necessary simple kitchen utensils such as pans, plates and cutlery. Many refugees are now coming to the capital with almost nothing from the destroyed cities to the east. Everything is asked. We will probably be on the road again with the same Mercedes Sprinter as last time. Konstantin, the owner of the transporter, will have a trailer hitch installed next week and we can then attach the trailer from Pohltechnik to the rear, so that we should have enough space. As usual, the meeting point is in my garage at Heimatwinkel 21. Please register in advance (0172 7300577), or if I or Dennis (in house no. 19) are not there, at the Dombacher family, house no. 26, ring the bell directly opposite.
Well, if you wanted to sort out your closets anyway, now would be another great opportunity to help grateful brothers and sisters in need. Everything we take with us, we bring directly and free of charge to the distribution points for those in need. Without interim storage, dealers or other intermediary institutions.
Of course, the same also applies to the financial aid, which we sometimes convert into food on site (see our previous documentation) or hand over personally to the volunteers in Kyiv. We included some of the many expressions of gratitude from the recipients in our last report. With our donations in Kyiv alone, we have already packed more than 4 tons of food individually in small plastic bags and distributed it in this way to the volunteer helpers in the communities there. Approximately 300-400 people are confronted daily with the Word of God in the form of a short prayer before receiving the food. Churches fill up significantly from Sunday to Sunday with more people. Many allow themselves to be called to repentance and, through this testimony of love, recognize the very personal grace of God in their lives.
Let us not let this light of love go out and let us honor our LORD. In addition to all the terror and horror of this war, we are seeing the MERCY of OUR LORD these days, which he is showing to these people in a very special way through his lively community in the midst of this inhuman war in the Ukraine.
We thank you for all your prayers, donations and supporting the concerns of our Ukrainian brothers and sisters. After our return, probably on June 4th or 5th, we will report again.
All glory to HIM