Source: WorldVenture, March 5, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Donna and Mark McDonnel are WorldVenture global workers to Ukraine temporarily evacuated to Poland. And they just spent 48 hours straight helping Ukrainian refugees. Because sometimes, that\u2019s what it means to serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Donna received a call from her friend and Arabic-language teacher, a Jordanian man teaching in Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Donna\u2019s teacher managed to escape with his Ukrainian wife\u2014who was very distressed\u2014and their two kids in their car. \u201cThat little suburb, across the street from Kyiv Christian Academy was home to a good-sized Tatar community, and he was teaching Quranic Arabic at a school there,\u201d [she says]. It was recently shelled by the Russian military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This man and his family traveled with different caravans of people of different nationalities and spent over 48 hours waiting to cross the border into Poland. Donna and the teacher spoke throughout this time of escape, and she helped him think through where to find a new home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Donna [and others] arranged for lodging to house them on their trip through Poland\u2014an adventure all its own. Eventually, the teacher and his large group made their way to Berlin, Germany, en route to their hoped-for destination of Switzerland. But the start of their new lives has begun with a new challenge: All 11 have tested positive for COVID-19. They are now quarantined. It\u2019s a rough way to start a new life after a harrowing experience fleeing their former lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey are not going back to Ukraine,\u201d Donna reports of her friends. \u201cHe sees this as starting a whole new life. His biggest concerns were being received as a Muslim and the rumors of prejudice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story with prayer points<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also Russian Evangelical Leader Apologizes to Ukrainian Christians<\/a> and The Wartime Prayers of Ukraine\u2019s Evangelicals<\/a> (Christianity Today) as well as How the Ukraine War Is Dividing Orthodox Christians<\/a> (The Conversation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the man in the next article found, sometimes having your life turned upside down can be a tremendous blessing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: WorldVenture, March 5, 2022 Donna and Mark McDonnel are WorldVenture global workers to Ukraine temporarily evacuated to Poland. And they just spent 48 hours straight helping Ukrainian refugees. Because sometimes, that\u2019s what it means to serve. Donna received a call from her friend and Arabic-language teacher, a Jordanian man teaching in Kyiv. Donna\u2019s teacher … Continue reading Ukraine: 48 Hours and a Journey to a New Life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10883,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10882\/revisions\/10883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}