Read our recent press release here: https://bit.ly/3rClI3y and follow the journey of two emergency ambulances from our warehouse in Hesketh Bank to Ukraine.
You can also view a video of one of the ambulances being presented by Bernard and the International Aid Trust Ukraine team at Fastov Regional Hospital Clinic here: Driving Hope to Ukraine – Emergency Ambulances – YouTube And watch more, very encouraging, videos from Bernard’s recent visit to Ukraine on our YouTube channel: @InternationalAidOrg International Aid Trust – YouTube
The new edition of our ‘In Touch’ magazine is out now! You can read it here
There’s lots of news of all that God is doing through International Aid Trust: encouragement from the Prison Ministry in Ukraine, the Vision Mission improving sight in Sierra Leone and where they will be helping next, Holiday Bible camps and clubs in India, Moldova and the Philippines, as well as more aid coming into the warehouse and a visit to one of our shops!
If you have signed up for postal updates, your printed copy of In Touch 8 should have arrived! If you have not subscribed to postal updates and would like a copy or would like a larger number of copies for your church or group, please email: office@internationalaidtrust.org.uk
Driving Hope to Ukraine: Two fully functioning ambulances have arrived in Ukraine , having travelled from International Aid Trust’s warehouse in Hesketh Bank, Preston!
Bernard with IAT Ukraine team and senior hospital staff
There is a lot of good news to share from the ministry in India; children and young people are having great fun and learning about the God who made them, at Holiday Bible Club, new churches are being planted and new believers are being baptised, please follow this link to read more: http://bit.ly/3VZ7gxz
Over the last few months three of our UK teams have been blessed to visit our ministry in Sierra Leone.
Please follow this link Sierra Leone visits to read more about baptisms on the beach, progress on the building of New Hope Academy, eye tests for nearly a thousand people in Lungi, Palm Sunday with real palm branches and joy in Jesus!
Peter & nurse Rebecca undertaking eye testsDavid & Lorna with high school children
Pastor Michael and Alice in Sierra Leone found this little one abandoned on their doorstep, wrapped in rags, just before Easter. Read here how God has worked through his people to bring hope into a hopeless situation for this baby boy and his mother Sierra Leone baby
The video below shows some of the aid you have kindly donated being distributed in Izium by our Ukraine team.
Dear Friends and Supporters,
It is one year since the war began, when Russia invaded the peaceful nation of Ukraine, that we love dearly. The country has been damaged heavily, many thousands of lives have been lost, both civilians and troops. There was no reason for this wicked act, which has left people living in poverty and made millions of refugees.
But International Aid Trust has, with your help, been able to respond very quickly. Thanks to our wonderful teams on the ground in Ukraine, and our wonderful teams in the UK. So many of you have been working away to help people you’ve never seen, that’s your heart. God bless you all, you’ve made this all possible!
This war began with evil intent, but we responded in love and God has used that love to help hundreds of thousands of people. Up until now, we’ve been able to identify, collect, sort, pack and distribute over £10 million worth of aid, in less than a year, and that is down to you.
Our response to the need in Ukraine has only just begun really. Even if the war was to stop tomorrow and Russia was sent back to its own borders, which we pray will happen soon by the way; there will still be a huge rebuilding job to do, so please do continue to help us.
There are many other terrible situations in the world which we are also supporting, but think of these numbers in Ukraine, over half a million have been killed or injured, 270,000 Russian Military personnel alone.
But God’s love is bigger than all of that, we’ve sent out two trucks in the last ten days, from our warehouse in Hesketh Bank. Within four days they are at our warehouse near Kyiv and aid is very quickly being distributed. Every penny you give, every item of clothing or generator or food or medical supplies you donate, gets to the people who need it. Please keep supporting us, with your help we can do this, and we will see the victory.
We are deeply saddened by the earthquake that has caused so much devastation in Turkey and Syria, and are praying for all those affected.
At this time we are not accepting donations of practical aid, but if you would like to make a financial donation, we will pass these on to the network of churches in Turkey whose communities have suffered so badly. This support is being coordinated by our friend Pastor Yurie in Kiev, Director of Foreign Relations.
Please visit donate here for ways to give and use the reference ‘Turkey’. Every penny given will get to cause.
