Stories from our work in Ukraine.
Team updates, field reports, and reflections from the trips, partnerships, and people that make up the long arc of this work. The work is held by people. These are some of them.
The Leaders Who Stayed: A field update from Ukraine.
We gathered 61 couples who lead the church in Ukraine — pastors, chaplains, and their wives — across two retreats near Kyiv and Lviv. Three days to pause, rest, and be honest in the middle of a war. The day we arrived, bridges were being bombed. The day we left, we watched air defense hold the sky. Here is what happened, and what we are learning.
Read the full story →Dispatches from our work in Ukraine.
Team updates, field reports, and reflections from the trips and partnerships that make up the long arc of this work. Updates land after each trip.
February–March Team Update.
Our team served during the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion. A chaplain training intensive in Kyiv, time with pastors carrying heavy loads, and meetings in Kharkiv with veterans, social workers, and trauma-care leaders.
Read more →December Team Update.
A multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, and mental health professionals returned to Ukraine to care for pastors and chaplains in Kyiv, visit military recovery units, run a pop-up medical clinic in Kharkiv, and spend time with children and youth in Dnipro.
Read more →Standing with Ukraine on Independence Day.
Musicians and veterans joined us for an August trip arriving on Ukraine's Independence Day. Four gatherings for displaced families in Kyiv, Independence Day celebrations in Dnipro, care packages for children and adults, and time with medical professionals serving in unimaginable conditions.
Read more →Medical Renewal Campaign 2024.
120 fully stocked medical trauma kits, 100 additional tourniquets, over 100 clothing kits, and 1,000 bottles of pain relief and stress relief supplies delivered to soldiers and civilians in Eastern Ukraine. A medically trained team served in two facilities while others built relationships and provided emotional support.
Read more →The first Renewal Retreat.
Our inaugural Renewal Retreat outside Kyiv welcomed nearly 90 participants for three days of holistic care — teaching sessions, individual counseling, massages, a sauna, laughter, and tears. Body, mind, and soul, nourished together.
Read more →2023 Ukraine Update.
A year of focused effort on three critical fronts: food distribution among internally displaced people in Kharkiv and Dnipro, power generators to keep families warm through rolling outages, and medical supplies delivered to the frontline in Donetsk and Kherson Oblasts.
Read more →Emergency Aid Distribution.
At the onset of the full-scale invasion, TRI was on the ground responding to urgent needs in Sumy Oblast and Donetsk Oblast — the first chapter of a partnership that would continue long after the cameras left.
Read more →Stories come slow.
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