Wayne's Blog

I thought I’d put a few statistics together that may help you understand a little more about Ukraine and our work environment. Ukraine has a negative growth rate:  -0.62% (227th out of 233 countries) Ukraine’s death rate is the 10th highest in the world. The next numbers are to do with Ukraine’s economy, taxation and [...]

This Spring saw our involvement in Kaharlyk reach a new milestone. We donated 1000 litres of biodiesel to fuel local government tractors during the Spring cleanup throughout our local community. Just days before, I’d invited the Mayor and his close associates to come and see our biodiesel facility. He was very impressed. I was able [...]

Over the winter we have been busy at the warehouse retrofitting our biodiesel reactors to handle greater production capactiy. But more importantly, we have finally received our first official document for our biodiesel enterprise. We had a sample of our biodiesel tested at the National Institute for Fuel & Energy called MASMA.  Our product is [...]

Recently, I was invited to attend a seminar in Kiev devoted to the development of  biofuel in Ukraine.  In one day I got to meet the who’s who in Ukraine’s fledgling renewable energy sector.  It was certainly a privilege meet these professionals who have been struggling to help Ukraine’s politicians write legislation encouraging and supporting [...]

Achievements for 2009: Baby Nikita’s birth It’s been a wonderful year of naturally spiritual Church family moments. A wedding, an engagement, baby birth (twins) all of young people from our congregation that grew up in the church over the last 10 years. numerous successful kids and youth camps.  More than a dozen salvations. new young [...]

Sometimes I just think about my life and laugh!  I mean who can ‘afford’ to create their own indoor sporting complex.  But thanks to couple small donations (from other expat missionaries) and money made from the biodiesel enterprise, we’ve been able to convert one of the now dormant mushroom growing rooms into a our very [...]

This is a short video of our Community Transformation Project. Enjoy!!! Praise Points: Our oil supply contract has been renewed for another year. Our new team of young workers is being honest and responsible Regular morning devotions and quality time with the workers Biodiesel sales are continuing to pick up slowly Lab tests of blended [...]

Thanks to a big donation we now have our own truck!  It’s a 2000 model MAN 5 tonne truck and is a real answer to prayer. It runs smoothly and now is fuelled by our B100 biodiesel. Having our own vehicle is a strategic step forward toward making our operation run smoothly and efficiently.  Up [...]

Meet Misha. He is 21 and IS as short as he looks!  Nevertheless, he’s faithful and is learning all the tricks to the trade of the biodiesel production.  Now that Misha is coming up to speed, I’m beginning to feel my work load pressure decrease.  This is a major answer to prayer. We’re also proud [...]

Micah, proudly supports our biodiesel production. He regularly buys B100, which is 100% undiluted biodiesel.  He also designed stickers for us and has them on his van. Biodiesel Update: We have now been collecting McDonalds’ oil regularly for a few months months.  That’s amounts to 3 or4 tonnes every week. Unfortunately, low fuel prices are [...]