When the team working at the orphanage saw the children using wobbly orange boxes, tipped on end as desks, they contacted Hexham Community Church, who then held a coffee and cake sale after a service raising enough to have new tables made. Euan Patterson took on a project where he transformed an old building into a community centre and sports club. Through the day it will house the new pre-school. The opening of the second community sports facility build by Mercy Trucks. We also undertook earth works on a school project. Read More...

The Mercy Trucks Ukraine project is extremely busy under the wonderful guidance of Stephan . He is in need of help with a very full schedule of taking the mobile dental clinic around the Ukraine helping street children and working in prisons and orphanages. Also in the Ukraine, but near the borders with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania; we are planning to help build a 12 bedroom mother and baby unit for a large gipsy community to encourage young women who have accidentally become pregnant to keep their babies. This new facility will also provide vocational training and support, enabling the young mothers to seek employment and become self sufficient once they leave this new home. We are also hoping to take a double decker bus from the UK to Eastern Europe later this year. (Please email RoyDixon@MercyTrucks.org if you would like to come along on this adventure) This bus has been converted into a computer training school and we are hoping to provide a mobile IT education facility to help increase the job prospects of many living in disadvantaged areas. Read More...

Members of Hexham Community Church have been hard at work fundraising with a variety of events enabling various Mercy Trucks projects to go ahead. The photo left shows one of these events with members of Hexham Community Church in their blue Mercy Trucks T-shirts hard at work at Tesco in Hexham where they raised over £800.00 with a bag pack event. A big thank you to all who helped! Catherine Wraith, Catherine Hardcastle, Avis Duncan, Dale Dawson, Susanna Dawson Margaret Nealis, Ian Hardcastle, Ian Mason, Vera Cafferkey, Kate
Armstrong, Jan Mason, Vicky Amyard, along with Alan Smith and the staff of Tesco and Micheal Cafferkey for organizing a number of these bag pack events at supermarkets. A big thank you to all who have volunteered either in the UK with fundraising or come and served with us overseas.Thank you to everyone who has given generously in finances and prayer and turned what was once a vision into reality. Read More...