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Day 0 · Lviv ·

1,000 books head south

1,000 Good and Evil books are on their way south! Nathan, our boys and I loaded them up at Nova Poshta in Lviv, ahead of UGO 2026.

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Ukraine Gospel Outreach

Bringing Hope to Ukraine

We carry the Gospel of Jesus Christ and practical, hand-delivered aid into Ukrainian communities near the front — village by village, box by box.

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A smiling older woman holds an aid box with a loaf of bread on top in one arm and a bundle of Bible literature in the other.
A woman heads home with all she can carry — an aid box, a fresh loaf balanced on top, and a bundle of Bible literature.

Real ground covered.

Years into the war, the cameras have moved on — but these families are still waiting, and the need is still real. We were able to go. So we did. And in 2026, we’re going back.

field projects since 2024
2
villages reached near the front
21
aid boxes placed in Ukrainian hands
1,500
Good and Evil books given out on UGO trips
1,000+

What is UGO?

Ukraine Gospel Outreach is a ministry of Euro Team Outreach, based in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. From there, small teams make short trips — five to ten days — into cities and villages across the country, including places the russian army once occupied. We come to do two things at once: meet urgent physical needs with hand-delivered aid, and share the reason for our hope, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Along the way, we build real relationships with the people we meet.

And we speak the language. When we preach, we preach in Ukrainian — directly, in the language of the country these families love. There is a particular trust that forms when the person bringing you the Gospel can also sit at your kitchen table and talk.

If you’ve walked with us for years, you’ll recognize the heart behind it. From 2006 to 2023, our Carpathian Mountain Outreach sent thirteen projects into the mountains of western Ukraine. The war closed that chapter, but not its purpose. UGO is its spiritual successor — the methods have changed to meet a harder moment, but the message has not.

Nathan Day stacks cardboard aid boxes into the back of a van.
Nathan Day stacks the van with aid boxes before the day’s run — every box headed for a family near the front.

“They departed not only with freshly baked bread to nourish their bodies, but having heard of the Bread of Life.”

— from the first project, Mykolaiv region, November 2024

The Gospel and a box of food

In each village, word goes out and people gather. We share the good news of Jesus, and everyone who comes goes home with their hands full — a box of food in one hand, a bundle of Bible literature in the other. The Gospel and the aid arrive together; that is the whole idea.

For most of our years in Ukraine, we held to one task: preaching the Gospel and teaching the Bible. We were wary of handing out aid alongside it — afraid it might blur the message, or gather a crowd hungry only for what was in the box. Then came the war, and a scale of suffering we could not preach past. So we went back to Scripture. “If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,” James asks, and you offer them only words — “what doth it profit?” We could no longer tell cold, hungry families to be warmed and filled and do nothing. So now we come with both: food for the body, and the good news that outlasts the war.

“If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?”

— James 2:15–16
Joshua Steele preaches to a crowd pressed in close around him.
Joshua preaches the Gospel in Ukrainian to a crowd gathered in close in Zhytomyr.

Gospel

At every stop, we preach the good news of Jesus directly, in Ukrainian — the language of the people we serve. Every family also goes home with a bundle of free literature: Gospel tracts, New Testaments, Christian calendars, and Good and Evil, a picture-Bible overview in Ukrainian that has opened more conversations than we can count. They take printed lessons for Bible First, our free Bible course, too — paper copies that need no smartphone or signal, which matters where phones are old and coverage is thin (anyone who prefers can enroll and study online instead). UGO is how all of it reaches the field: the books into people’s hands, the lessons into their homes.

Team members hand out aid boxes from the open back of a loaded van as villagers queue.
The team works from the back of a loaded van, handing out aid box by box as a village gathers close.

Aid

Each family receives an aid box — about $20 of non-perishable food and household essentials: flour, cooking oil, beans, rice, canned meat. Wherever we can, we add fresh bread, baked locally that morning. It will not undo what the war has broken. But it is real food in real hands, and it carries a message of its own: you have not been forgotten.

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A team member opens the side door of the van beside a shell-damaged house with a Ukrainian flag on its roof.
Beside a shelled house still flying Ukraine’s flag, the team opens the van for another village stop.

We're going back

The next UGO project runs October 17–26, 2026 — the same core team, the same long drive south, into the de-occupied villages of the Mykolaiv region and beyond. These are the places where the war came closest, and where help is now hardest to find.

In one village on an earlier trip, a woman told us the larger aid organizations had mostly stopped coming once the early years of the war had passed. We can’t speak to anyone else’s work — much of it did real good, on a scale we will never match. We can only tell you what we have seen with our own eyes: the families are still there, the winters are still hard, and the need has not eased. So we are going back.

Every aid box has to be bought and packed before the team can hand it out, and each gift helps prepare the boxes for a trip south. $20 fills one box: food for a family, and the Gospel placed in their hands.

If you would like to stand with us in this, there is a place for you. Here’s how.

A hand-painted red sign at the edge of a field reads "Stop — Mines" in Ukrainian and russian.
“Stop — Mines,” lettered in Ukrainian and russian at the edge of a village field — the danger that still surrounds these communities.

Three ways to stand with us

Pray

We need God’s blessing, protection, and intervention. “Except the LORD build the house…” Please pray with us for safety on the roads, for open doors in the villages, and for the families who will hear the Gospel on the next trip. As the project draws near, we’ll send you specific things to pray for.

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Go

God wants you to go and share Christ with the world. Over the years, dozens of young people have joined us in Ukraine to learn first-hand what it means to be a missionary. If you’d like to find out what it takes to serve on a UGO team, reach out — let’s talk.

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Give

$20 puts one aid box — food and the Gospel — into a family’s hands. Give once, or give monthly to help us prepare for the next trip.

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Fill a box for a family

A single gift becomes food on a table and the Gospel in a family’s hands — delivered in person by our own team.

Give once, or give monthly — a recurring gift quietly adds up between trips, so the boxes are ready to load when the team heads south. Every gift directly purchases supplies, hand-delivered to Ukrainian families in need.

Here is what your giving does:

$20
1 aid box
$100
5 aid boxes
$200
10 aid boxes
$500
25 aid boxes
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Your gift goes to the UGO aid-box fund.

From the field

Short updates filmed on the road, and photos from the villages.

UGO 2026

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UGO 2024

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A crowd of villagers in bright coats queues beside a trailer of aid under a blue sky.
Under a bright autumn sky, a whole village turns out for aid handed down from the trailer.
Ben Sargent crouches to hand a book to a small child in a winter coat.
Ben Sargent crouches to put a Good and Evil book into the hands of a cluster of bundled-up little ones.
Villagers gather around the team's van at dusk while a team member preaches.
At dusk a village gathers around the van to hear the Gospel before the aid goes out.
Villagers walk toward the camera carrying aid boxes, with a crowd behind them.
Neighbors head home with aid boxes in their arms, the line still forming behind them.
The shell of a school building, its walls and roof torn open by shelling.
A village school gutted by russian shelling — the children who once filled it are long gone.
Close-up of Nathan Day's hand passing a book to a villager's outstretched hand.
Nathan hands a Good and Evil book across the crowd at a village stop.
The team poses with a group of local bakers, several holding loaves of bread.
Our team with the local bakers who gave their time and ovens to bake bread for the villages.
Oleksandr Ilchenko speaks to a village crowd, with an open box of books in the foreground.
Oleksandr Ilchenko preaches to a village crowd, boxes of Good and Evil ready at his feet.
Ben Sargent hands a loaf of bread to a mother holding a young child.
Ben Sargent passes a fresh loaf to a mother and her little one outside a village home.
Team members talk with a family standing in front of their destroyed house.
The team stops to listen — the family that lived here stands before what a russian missile left of their home.
Three team members stand behind a row of smiling children, each holding up a book.
A row of grinning kids holds up their own copies of Good and Evil after a village stop.
Ben Sargent and Nathan Day hand out bread and literature beside a row of open aid boxes.
Ben and Nathan hand out bread and literature from a row of open aid boxes.
At night, team members load large sacks of bread into the back of the van.
Late-night loading — sacks of fresh bread go into the van for the next morning’s deliveries.
Joshua Steele and an older woman in a headscarf smile for a selfie as she holds up a book.
A village grandmother with her new copy of Good and Evil.
A crowd of villagers, many holding up copies of the same book.
Hands go up across the crowd, each holding a copy of Good and Evil — the Gospel in pictures, a whole village at once.
The team and a Ukrainian partner pose in front of the blue-and-yellow Kherson Oblast border sign.
On the road with Ukrainian partners at the Kherson Oblast line
An elderly woman walks with a walker past a ruined house.
An elderly woman makes her way to a meeting on her walker, past a house the war left in ruins.

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