When the war ended, a missionary used a stove and blankets to warm the Ukrainians
Ken Ward's co-workers likened the missionary, who spent more than two months in Ukraine , to the well-traveled people of the Bible. Ken Ward, third from left, with members of the Odessa People's Church and aid recipients in the village of Pervomayskoe on January 28. October 19, 2023, in Ukraine. (RNS) — It wasn't the drones or the explosions he heard recently that haunted missionary Ken Ward on his many trips to Ukraine since Russia invaded its neighbor. . These are people like those in a "small town", he said, outside Kherson, in the south-east of the country, which was bombed in December. There, he saw destroyed houses and heard stories of villagers who buried the "small" body of a dead woman while trying to get others to safety. "We've started going to all the streets in the city," Ward, 66, said of the small team he's working with to deliver the relief supplies HelpingUkraine.US provides. “It's sad. Ward, a veteran who...