3:00 AM Logistics

It’s 3:00 AM, and I’m sitting in my office surrounded by chaos for the third night in a row.

On my main monitor, the German Amazon website is open.
On the side screen, I’m comparing prices from a Polish vendor.
My tablet is running Telegram in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and English.
Google Translate is working overtime on my phone.

Why am I awake at 3:00 in the morning?

Because Europe is seven hours ahead… Its 10:AM there, and because Amazon locked my account.

Apparently, shipping expensive equipment to Poland while your billing address says Texas is enough to trigger a fraud alert. So now I’m trying to navigate German customer support, hoping to find someone—anyone—who speaks English.

Before the travel, before the deliveries, before the frontline churches receive the equipment—there are nights like this.

Nights filled with translation apps, international websites, logistical headaches, and a hundred small obstacles standing between the need and the solution.

Because getting help where it is needed most is rarely simple.

I am trying to source battery banks that will help churches in Ukraine keep power during blackouts—so they can hold services on Sunday and serve refugees throughout the week.

But the products we need are difficult to find.

I have to locate vendors across Europe.
Find trusted contacts in Poland who can receive pallet shipments.
Convince suppliers to ship expensive equipment to an address that does not match my billing information.
And because most vendors only have a few units available, the full order must be pieced together through six or seven separate shipments.

I suppose that explains the headache.

International logistics are difficult.

But living without power in wartime can be life-threatening.

So sleep will come later.

Today, we practice my very limited German.