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The founder of Air Mobile Ministries will be taking more cases of portable water purifiers to Ukraine as the war rages on. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — For the fourth time, Air Mobile Ministries will be heading into a warzone to drop off supplies that people in the region need.  The founder of the nonprofit, Joe Hurston, said that they will be taking cases of portable water purifiers so people can drink safe, clean water in Ukraine as the invasion by Russia continues around them.  6/22/22

Former Brevard County resident, Joe Hurston is packed up and ready to make his third trip to Ukraine to deliver water purifiers to people trapped in the war zone. "The strategy of the Russians is to cut off large groups of people from clean water,” Hurston said. 5/15/22

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — For nearly two months, Joe Hurston, has been bringing water purifiers to those in desperate need in Ukraine. Hurston returned to his home in Hancock County earlier this week following his second mission to the warzone and he’s planning to go back to Ukraine very soon.  For Hurston and his team, discretion is the name of the game when it comes to delivering the machines. 4/27/22

Air Mobile Ministries currently have 19 water purifiers operating in Ukraine. A humanitarian group focusing on water relief in Ukraine returned back to the United States Saturday after its second deployment, and says after so many requests for aid, they are already planning their third deployment.  Joe Hurston, who is the founder of the humanitarian nonprofit, Air Mobile Ministries says there is just too much work to be done.  “The requests were desperate,” Hurston said. “They were saying, ‘Joe, please get back here immediately.’” 4/24/22

IAMI (CBSMiami) – Local efforts to help the people of Ukraine continue.  “People are dying, so we dropped everything and we’re bringing in 11 units,” said Joe Hurston, the founder of the nonprofit Air Mobile Ministries.  Hurston says his organization is stepping up their effects to help the people of Ukraine by providing water purifiers to areas that no longer have access to the basic necessity because of the war. So, Hurston and his group packed up the supplies and flew out of MIA to go help.  “Huge areas are cut off from any sources of water. I’ve heard some of them are drinking water out of radiators – not the car radiators but the heating radiators. People are desperate. When you get thirsty you get desperate,” said Hurston. “Our little machines can take that dirtiest water and make it pretty much make it surgically pure.” 4/11/22

SNEEDVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A Hancock County man is back at home but not for long. Joe Hurston is packing up again for another mission to Eastern Europe sooner than expected.  Hurston says he received a call early Tuesday morning about the need for more water purifiers in Ukraine.  “Now instead of a week-and-a-half home, I’m spending a couple more hours at home before I head out again,” he said. “And the Russians are looking to kill people so you’ve got people looking to save people and people looking to kill people.”  The former NASA pilot and his team with Air Mobile Ministries are determined to save as many lives as they can with the delivery of their homemade water purifiers. Hurston hopes to bring an additional 10 machines to Ukraine.  “As an American, it would be a bit difficult for me to get to the front lines so if that’s where God leads, that’s where we’re going,” he said. 4/6/22