American missionary returns home after fleeing Russian invasion of Ukraine
March 4, 2022 | Alabama
After being startled from his sleep by the rattling and shaking of his apartment as explosions erupted, Alabama Pastor Mark Posey said that he knew he had a choice to make last Friday: flee from Ukraine or face potential death.
As a minister of the Winfield Church of Christ, Posey had been in Ukraine for nearly a month doing mission work. For the last 30 years, he has traveled back and forth from the U.S. to Ukraine. He was scheduled to return home on a flight out of Kyiv, but Russia’s invasion of its neighboring country caused plans to change.
Upon hearing the erupting noises of warfare stemming from Russia’s invasion of its neighboring country, Posey said during a press conference Tuesday upon his return to the United States that he knew he had no other option but to take the full-day journey west from the southeast of Kyiv to the Polish border on that frigid morning.
As Posey traveled by bus, he was the only American on board. He remembers the bus passed by thousands of Ukrainian men, women and children who were walking to the border in an attempt to escape the devastation of war-stricken areas.
After making it to the Polish border, Posey said he could leave the country on Tuesday because he had his American passport…. (Excerpt from the Christian Post)
