12/7 Another pre-sunrise start on a train for me, starting to get to know the route to the train station very well. I travelled to Ivano-Frankivsk with Yulia who is a lovely young lady working at the Baptist Seminary who has been helping us out with translation. Thankfully this was...
9/7 Sunday in Odesa. Luba who coordinates the volunteer medical clinics into de-occupied areas invited me to church this morning. She doesn’t speak much English to organised a young lady called Tanya to interpret for me. I’m glad she did as it was fantastic church service and it is clear...
7/7 This morning I felt a bit sheepish having added an extra region to my air raid alert app on my phone after last night’s missile attack – which meant I woke up my fellow travellers at 12.30 a.m. saying there was an air raid alert. As we had planned...
5/7The train ride back to Lviv from Uzghorod was again beautiful with Transcarpathian scenery, villages, mountains, forests and farms. Most of the day was spent on the train. Becky from International Networx who had given me the contact in Uzghorod, came on the train with me to visit Lviv. The...
3/7CMA Ukraine showed us around their warehouse and office and it was inspiring to see what they are doing. They have grown from a small group of Christian doctors to a large organisation that the government trusts to help with logistics and humanitarian aid. Their story is quite amazing and...
1/7 Today was the day we were heading to Ukraine from Krakow. Rudi had arranged for a car to pick us up. Unfortunately the driver Denis was a bit of a maniac and the road was wet and it was raining. It did cross our minds more than once that...
22/6-23/6The next couple of days were spent at the conference with some inspirational sessions hearing from doctors all over the world doing some amazing humanitarian work.We heard from the Tanzanian Lutheran archbishop in an opening speech about how the church here is running over 140 health centres and hospitals in...
16/6This morning we had planned to visit a mission hospital in Koche – a visit arranged with the Christian Hospital Association of Malawi. But the sister in charge was off and not answering her phone. The guy from CHAM suggested we just turn up so we did. Sister Rosemary who...
9 August Waskesiu Lake at Prince Albert National Park in Northern Saskatchewan is our stop today on the way to the next doctor meeting. A welcome oasis after yesterday’s crazy long drive through desert and fields. As a descendant of a Ukrainian mother it’s been very interesting to me to...
8 August On the road to Saskatchewan. Endless hours of canola and wheat fields dotted with the occasional oil well. It felt a lot like outback Australia. It was dry, hot, bushfire smoke filled the air and we drove for hours without seeing a soul. Endless roads and fields One...
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