Disaster Assistance

Priority Mission Partner, Pioneers has a base in Poland with team members at the border to welcome and assist refugees. 

Priority Mission partner, Teen Challenge Romania, are assisting with shelter and relocation services for refugees. 

Mission Partner, Samaritan’s Purse, is responding to healthcare needs through the establishment of several field hospitals. 

Mission Partners, Jeremy and Catherine Merillat with CRU Hungary, are ministering to and helping transport refugees. 

The Merillats are long-time friends of FPC, and are supported by FPC for their ministry with CRU. Catherine (then Catherine Swaffer) served on staff with our Children’s and Youth Ministry before she was called to ministry overseas
in Hungary eight years ago.  Originally focused on student ministry with CRU, their work is now focused on family ministry. With the war in Ukraine, they are shifting some ministry to include responding to the growing refugee population in Hungary. They have already spent many days and hours helping transport Ukrainians and providing supplies and relief to those who have endured so much.

Pathways for Little Feet’s global partner, Lifesong, supports orphans who have aged out of orphanages and are now living in transitional homes. Sadly, in Chernigiv, Ukraine, one of Lifesong’s farms which Pathways for Little Feet partners with, Farm 2, was bombed eight times. By God’s grace, everyone is safe and unharmed. However, there has been damage to the
buildings, bridges, greenhouses, and berry fields. Pathways for Little Feet has a matching pledge for contributions received for repairs at the farm and humanitarian relief.  Lifesong staff are responding to the great need in their country even with their own suffering. An update from them: 

“Our team in Chernigiv (near the farm outside of Kyiv) is doing some amazing things and some carefully optimistic progress in delivering supplies- generators and fuel, food and medication, and drinking water. Both of the bridges to Chernigiv are destroyed, and we are using boats for deliveries. This is an unbelievable Team!  Regarding the second farm outside of Kharkiv: Our large white bus (Kharkiv) has joined the convoy to Mariupol. They are waiting for a green light to move forward to join the evacuation efforts of the people of Mariupol (an occupied city in southeast Ukraine) where 100,000 people are trapped living in acute misery and distress. This is the city where the maternity hospital was bombed.”