From MTW:
THANK YOU
Words can’t express how grateful we are for your service, time, effort and energy. It is huge! We will send you are more formal thanks with some things to celebrate when the summer iteration of CFU is complete. We are on pace for ~185 couriers, 1200 crates and over 250 churches participating in some form. Praise the Lord. To God be the glory!!
PRAYERS NEEDED
We are in the final 10 days of CFU and the peak of “busyness" as we welcome final couriers. This week alone 49 couriers will land/landed. On Monday, 17 couriers are scheduled to land. You all are well equipped to pray because you know what it is like to pack at the last minute, go to the airport with crates, deal with check-in, fly, arrive tired and disoriented and be in Krakow for a few days. Please pray with us and for the final few days of CFU.
Pray for
Kirk, Doug and Joel (MTW Team Lviv hosts in Krakow): pray for energy, health, endurance and small moments of rest.Couriers flying now and soon to fly - smooth check in, safe travels, free crates, health. To be impacted by the CFU trip. Airline counter agents that are kind, helpful and able to give free crates and get all these couriers and crates on the planes (we have some huge parties checking in today and Sunday)For this aid to encourage the Ukrainian Church, encourage the American Church - to save lives, impact communities and to create pathways for the Gospel.
HELP NEEDED
We have a favor to ask.
Please click here to leave a review for Amber Hotel in Krakow
All of you stayed at the Amber Hotel in Krakow. This hotel has been a huge blessing to MTW Ukraine and our guest volunteers since early March. The MTW Krakow Crisis Team ran operations from this hotel for months. They have welcomed over 185 couriers. They have been very good to us… helpful, gracious, flexible and accommodating. We would like to bless this hotel in a small way by giving them numerous 5 star reviews. It takes ~ 2 min to leave them a review. If you are willing and if you liked the hotel, will you please take 2 min today to click the link below and post a favorable review for the Amber Hotel? Thank you!
Click here to leave a review on Trip Advisor
OTHER
Check out this video of crates being sorted in the Lviv warehouse last weekend. See the photo attached of the Lviv warehouse from last weekends sorting and volunteer party.
Again, Thank you for serving and loving Ukraine through the CFU ministry project. To God be the glory!
Grace & Peace
A White Mother’s Plea For Her Black Son
To the Women of color in my life who’ve led and guided me in this transracial adoptive walk. To the God of faithfulness and everlasting grace.
Brown hands hold
Contrasting against the paleness of mine.
My grip holding
So tight—
Closing my eyes to the ever unfolding
Stories and wrongs that
Transcend belief.
Lord, how long have you heard
The cries of black mothers?
Lord, forgive my pride
Seeped in self-worth.
My strength—
Derived in privilege.
My rosy glasses
Glossing over 400 years of abuse.
Thinking that I know enough
That change will happen
While I sit with hands folded.
Lord, mend us.
Let them hear:
I cannot BREATHE.
Enough is enough.
Let them see my son
When he is grown
As beautiful.
As created in your image.
As worthy.
Lord, help me to let go.
Trust—that you love my black son
More than this heart pumping inside my breast
That bleeds with our lost sons
Tamir
Michael
Ahmed
Names I cannot name—
Their mothers who also weep.
Hear our cries, O Lord.
Lord, guide my heart.
Break down my anger for those
Who Choose not to see the inequality.
Who Say they don’t see color.
Don’t See the injustice.
The Layers of dark cruel history
Defining the unconscious designs
That my son stands upon
And defines his future and lifespan.
Lord, help me to see my son grown.
Preserve his beautiful joy
His sensitive spirit
His fulfilling promise as a son of the King.
Let not his head be bowed to anyone but You.
Protect his head, his heart
From the impending weight
That shackles his brothers.
Mercy, rain down on all of us.