July Newsletter

Welcome to the next issue of MMN News.

Ukraine

ChildAid - In Kamianske, eastern Ukraine our partner Children’s Hearts are holding “summer camps”. These are being held in the grounds of their centre. Around 60 children will have the chance to play, laugh and for a short while be able to forget about the war…at least until the sirens sound and they have to seek refuge in the make-piece shelter made in the basement of their centre.

Repairs are needed on the Little Lighthouse centre before it can re-open, which the team hope will happen early autumn. With autumn and winter fast approaching, the demands for aid will be increasing in the colder weather, so please pray for God's provision as the team try to plan to meet this need.

ICMDA - At the beginning of July they loaded and sent a shipment of medical equipment to Ukraine from the Royal London Hospital - on behalf of British-Ukrainian Aid. It was an amazingly generous donation from Barts Health Trust - that their inspirational Lead Technologist, Richard Aldridge had collected from replacement equipment - including Blood Gas machines, ventilators, Patient Monitors and Incubators. The equipment is going to the Institute of Emergency medicine in Krakow - who will distribute to hospitals in Ukraine.

CMIAid have been running children's camps through June, one of which was in the Russian language to reach out to Ukrainian families. Around 50 refugee children attended this camp where the gospel would have been preached. A number of children have asked Jesus into their heart, including those from a refugee family that came to the CMIAid base in March.

The situation in Moldova is becoming increasingly unaffordable due to the war in Ukraine, with gas and fuel prices five times what they were in December. Pray for the team as they continue to send support to those in Ukraine, with the cost of food ever-increasing as Ukraine supplied 80% of Moldova's grain before the war, this will continue to become more challenging as prices rise.

D O N A T E

Shipments

The past month has seen a lot of activity on the shipment part of our ministry.

We have been busy getting the next shipment ready to go to Zambia. The goods have been palletised in Swindon and collected this week ready to sail on 22nd July. This time it includes items for all the hospitals and clinics, and goods to support those serving the needy in the Chingola area as well as things ordered by the partners themselves. Many of the items have been donated by yourselves and will arrive in Zambia towards the end of September. In addition, we have included books and literature for Opal Trust, OM Zambia and Scripture Union.

We have, also, been busy arranging the shipment of the steel work and fabrication for a new assembly hall for our friends in Camundambala in Angola. These are shipping from Belfast so we are not able to use our usual freight forwarders because of the Brexit changes.

Costs continue to rise. The freight element of this shipment has increased by 30% from the one sent in March which also saw an increase. The other issue we are facing is the time it is taking for the containers to reach the ports. The ones we shipped to Angola in May and Malawi in April have only just arrived!!

Project Focus

Our project focus this month is ABC Foundation in Albania. The team reach out to local communities with the provision of healthcare and training. By working alongside local churches, they are able to provide practical support through meeting medical needs while sharing the gospel. The foundation provides training to doctors and nurses to expand their education, as well as to churches to equip them with first aid knowledge.
You can find out more about the project in our weekly Blog updates...

U P D A T E S

Upcoming events

We are there for the first week (16th-23rd July) so if you are there please come and say hello and see how you get on identifying some of our partners and the ministry they are involved in. You too can share the love with the Haribo heart throbs!!

Swindon & District Missionary Conference

On Saturday 10th September, the conference will be running in-person and online, where we will be hearing from Jeff Watson - Brazil, Mark West – Lesotho, Jonathan Bradford – Philippines. Full details here