Wayne's Blog

It was a really great event. After months of preparations and awaiting the Samaritan’s Purse shoebox gifts to arrive, our church put on a puppet show for the needy kids in town and from surrounding villages. We held two shows, one on Saturday and one on Sunday and over 150 kids came (with dozens of [...]

Wayne & Olya’s missionary account To send financial support to Wayne & Olya’s missionary work in Ukraine, just click on the “Sowing Factory” image to get our banking details. We are currently working through getting a PayPal account set up for added convenience. To see some of the Church Projects in need of funding, go [...]

It was with great anticipation that we waited for the Spring 2008 to arrive.  Warmth and sunshine means ‘construction season’ in Ukraine.  However, we faced three major challenges that we quite frankly did NOT expect because the. High price of retail cement/no access to large bulk purchases. No willing labourers. Poor (terrible) quality cement With [...]

We’ve just had our first article printed up in Australian Christian Church’s First Priority missions magazine. This is the biggest exposure that we’ve had to date. You can read the full article by clicking the image. Enjoy! Our goals are to: Inspire the next generation of missionaries to go where the Lord calls. Raise prayer [...]

We have sold the winter supply of our foam blocks. The money went towards buying new cement. Praise GOd for our trusty old forklift. We are ready to start production for the summer. Please pray for workers.  Like never before, there is a lack of local labour willing to work.  It looks like we’ll be [...]

Spring has come. And with it comes the building season. We have put up dozens of signs advertising our light (insulated) concrete blocks. Please pray that we sell our winter stock soon. We still have about 40m3. After that we can begin production again. If this enterprise takes off we’ll have great little money earner [...]