Mercy Projects Founder on Rescue Mission Inside Kyiv

Don Hughes : Mar 17, 2022
God Reports

"What I am seeing is a people torn. Most did not believe this could happen. Others mourn the loss of life and the senseless killing. A young mother shared today and showed us photos of the home they had just built. She and her husband finished it several weeks ago. Today it is gone." -Jeff Thompson

[GodReports.com] Mercy Projects founder Jeff Thompson has left the safety of bordering countries to rescue children and their mothers inside Ukraine. (Image: via God Reports)

He landed in Hungary ... He immediately went to the Ukraine border to coordinate refugee care with staff and ministry partners.

Hearing of the dire circumstances within the war zone, Thompson, along with his adult son Joel and a local missionary partner, bought two 9-passenger vans in western Ukraine, serviced them, and left yesterday for Ternopil.

Thompson said, "We stayed in the home of one of the foster families supported by Mercy Projects last night. Ternopil is relatively quiet at this time. We got up at 5 am and drove 8 hours through snow, ice, and leapfrogged long lines of vehicles into Kyiv today and rescued six people."

"They called us crazy Americans," Thompson added. "Actually, as the song says, 'Our God is an awesome God.'"

He reported that air raid sirens went off as they left the city. He said, "We got through the checkpoints and to safety about two hours outside Kyiv. We will remain there before continuing rescues"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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