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UPDATE on the Ukraine situation and our response

3/10/2022

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PictureOur home is a welcome place for any Ukrainian who finds themselves in Antequera.
UPDATE:
Wanted to give you a really quick rundown on what's going on and how we are working to help:
  • We are accepting financial donations via our special project account at TMS Global. That account is called "Nueva Vida Mosaico", which is the name of the Spanish non-profit organization that our team founded a couple of years ago in order to be able to facilitate our work locally and legally receive / move funds. If you wish to donate to help us help Ukrainian refugees and aid efforts, you can go directly to that account site at NUEVA VIDA MOSAICO SPECIAL ACCOUNT ,put a dollar amount in the Give box, and follow instructions for donating. All of the following situations are directly funded from our personal ministry account or from this special account!!! And we need funds to make all of this happen.
  • We have received a request to help relocate and house a Ukrainian mother and child. They specifically asked to come to Spain because the mother speaks fluent Spanish as a second language. We were connected through another CCW contact. (CCWs are a tightly bonded community and we have connections and contacts that literally link almost the entire planet!  That is proving VERY helpful in this crisis!) We are currently in conversations with this CCW and the Ukrainian mother to work out logistics and help her to safe haven. It is highly possible that she will arrive here within the next week. She is currently going through the refugee intake and vetting process in the country that she evacuated to.
  • We have already sent $800 to our direct connection on the Ukraine border. They are actually several miles inside Ukraine running a shelter that is taking people in as they make their way to the border crossings. They are housing over 1000 each night as they walk to crossings. We are in close contact with them and will send more funds to them soon. Our $800 is just a small drop in the bucket when you are housing 1000 each day!
  • Billy's Refugee Highway Partnership care team is responding to needs as they work to resource CCWs and churches who are receiving refugees. Lots of CCWs are mobilizing into those areas to respond to the immediate crisis. They are in full action mode. So Billy's team is also in full action to resource them and coordinate efforts, etc. Both immediately and in the coming months, these people need special trauma care and crisis debriefing. 
  • Billy is working with one of our CCW friends who is certified in training others for Trauma Competent Care. We have an in-person workshop already on the calendar for May, but we are scrambling to get an online version up and running for immediate access and training for CCWs and churches who are receiving refugees and need training in dealing with this special situation.
  • Our team and other organizations who do refugee care were invited to a special emergency meeting with the mayor on Tuesday to help coordinate efforts in our city. Our team has a very special skill set that we have placed at the disposal of the city (special training in understanding culture and helping people learn and adapt, care specialist and counselor, special training in working with refugees, translation capabilities for English and Russian, etc. Billy also volunteered to be on a task force with the city.
  • We are in conversation with CCW friends who have a direct link to US military aid shipments that are going to border countries. We will be helping send funds for sleeping bags, clean warm clothing, and child care items to go in those aid shipments. 
  • Please be in special prayer for all the refugee women and children who are crossing borders. There are *bad guys* who are taking advantage of the situation and scooping up these innocents to "help them". Unfortunately, they are actually sex traffic gangs who are now in a feeding frenzy and preying on this situation. This is big money and they now have an unlimited supply of women who need assistance and cash. Lord, have mercy and PLEASE protect these women and children!!! 

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John & Barbara Thorngren
3/11/2022 07:24:55 am

Thank you-Thank you-Thank you.
Thank you for putting feet to our prayers.
May God continue to bless the work of your hands,
Barbara and John

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    Laurie Drum

    In my USA life, I was a teacher in Texas for 15 years.  I was also a professional photographer, a soccer mom, a horsewoman, and the neighborhood hospitality queen.  I did "Joanna Gaines farmhouse style" before Chip and JoJo were even a thing - we restored an 1884 Victorian farmhouse in small town Texas and did shiplap walls until I thought I'd go crazy. I taught at NASA, scuba dived with astronauts in training, and studied animals at Sea World for educational purposes. I've tried just about everything, because I have an insatiable need to know if I can do it! Never underestimate a Texas girl in cowboy boots!

    ​In 2006, my husband Billy and I became cross-cultural workers (CCWs) with TMS Global.  For five years, we served in three rural Quechua Wanca villages in the Andes of Peru.  And when I say rural, I mean RURAL - like no potty!  I spent my days in Peru learning to live a Quechua lifestyle in a rustic adobe house - cooking Peruvian foods, sewing with Quechua women, raising my chickens and goats and pigs, and planting my gardens. Now I live my life in small town Spain, serving other cross-cultural workers via teaching and training and care, and helping displaced people to navigate their new reality in Europe.

    I'm passionate about fostering personal growth, growth in community, and growth in The Kingdom. Walking alongside others and helping them to use their unique design, their gifts and strengths and maximize their abilities to fulfill their God-given purpose - that's what makes my heart sing! 

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