The Aftermath: UKRAINE WAR Million Meals to Ukraine


to assemble the meals. The feat they pulled off is a testimony to their heart to aid the hurting in Ukraine. Incredibly, in just 24 hours, it was


done: 100 pallets of food boxes — 4,800 boxes with 216 meals per box. What initially appeared impossible


was done! But solving one mountainous


obstacle led to another; how to get those meals into Ukraine? The godsend that overcame that


hurdle was part of the unprecedented corporate backlash to Putin’s attack on Ukraine. UPS off ered to ship the food, some 158,400 pounds of it, at zero cost to us to a CityServe ware- house in Warsaw, Poland. The trucks were unloaded, the


boxes stacked, and then the real work began. To accomplish that, the meals


White’s team assembled in Florida were fi rst driven to Atlanta. UPS then shipped them by cargo jet to Frank- furt, Germany. The next waypoint, reached 11


hours later, was the CityServe ware- house in Warsaw. Those meals were desperately needed in Ukraine. But how to get them there? CityServe turned to an elaborate


network of pastors and churches throughout Eastern Europe. The result: an extraordinary, church-led underground railroad you haven’t heard about anywhere in the main- stream media. Ukrainian pastors volunteered to


drive the delivery vehicles, knowing they would have to dodge Russian soldiers — and possibly gunfi re and shrapnel — along the way. When we asked those pastors how


we could help get Ivanka’s one mil- lion meals behind enemy lines to those nearing starvation, they replied: “Send us.”


The heroism of this pastoral deliv- ery team is breathtaking. They risked


their lives every day.


We had to reroute one of our trucks due to intense bombing along the delivery route. And we know at least one pastor lost his life when his vehicle was struck by automatic weapons fi re. Sadly, that death probably won’t be the last.


A logistical delay prevented us from opening a new distribution hub we’d planned just a few miles from the Polish border,


inside


Ukraine. Just a few days after the postponement, a Russian missile barrage wiped out the facility. Thirty-nine people died in that attack.


Had it not been for that delay, CityServe volunteers would have been standing at ground zero when the missiles struck.


CityServe co-founder and church


pastor Wendell Vinson remarked: “We received those million meals and we’re so incredibly grateful to Ivanka Trump and Pastor Paula White for the gener- ous hearts they have for the hurting. “Thanks to their generosity and


that of UPS,” he added, “we’ve been able to rush those much-needed meals into Ukraine and distribute them.” The church-based underground


railroad network has become a vital umbilical cord linking Ukraine to the rest of Europe. It’s by no means clear what lies


ahead for the brave Ukrainians whose communities have been ravaged by Putin’s unbridled violence. But they’re putting their faith in us and we need to keep them in our prayers. Let history show that as Ukraine


bravely battled for its life against Putin’s evil, the church in America and Europe shined forth as a beacon of courage, mercy, and love. That light will defeat the darkness. — Dave Donaldson


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