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December 2020

Training Young “Shepherds” to bring people to Jesus

December 26th, 2020|

Training Young “Shepherds” to bring people to Jesus It's been such a blessing to train and equip many people in personal evangelism, in the Odessa region over the last 3 years. This has paid off with these humble local people leading so many effectively to Christ over the past 10 months. We recorded a Christmas video with an encouraging Christmas message based on how God chooses to use people in His service those who are weak, lonely, broken and discarded, like the youngsters and leaders at the House of Hope. It’s to these valiant young people, and to you as well, that we dedicate this blessing. Please enjoy some of the kids and staff of the House of Hope singing a well-known Christmas hymn, and thanking you for meeting their needs. Not all of them could be there – some were working, some were

October 2020

Odessa Rescue Mission #3 – October & November 2020

October 18th, 2020|

Odessa Rescue Mission #3 – October & November 2020 We want to thank you so much for your kindness and generosity to the Orphans we support in Ukraine. Over the last nine months we have been able to help so many orphans in Odessa survive a horrendous ordeal – being displaced from their Orphanage Boarding Schools with nowhere to live. It’s so precious to see these children full of joy at the thought that someone is looking out for them and their needs are being met in spite of impossible circumstances. We know that their own faith is growing when they hear that people from afar, whom they don’t know, are helping them, in Jesus’ name. We want to thank you for your faithfulness and your faith. In days of old, in Bible times, I understand that the words “faith” and “faithful” were synonymous. If a

Andrey at the Berdichev Orphanage

October 18th, 2020|

Andrey at the Berdichev orphanage We are reaching and helping a huge number of orphans, but here is a personal story of interest of the special needs of particularly needy children. In the winter of 2004 in Berdichev, a small town in north west Ukraine near the Chernobyl zone, an unknown young woman was pregnant with a child that was unwanted. This child would complicate her life more than she liked. She wanted to be “free” to get back to a life of alcohol, drugs, partying and stealing. Her birth pains brought her to a small hospital, where soon after arrival, she gave birth to a small baby boy. There was no one who welcomed this skinny baby with a smile, except God, who had a plan for this child that said, “I have plans for your good, to give you a future and a hope.”

Odessa Orphans Rescue – Back to School

October 1st, 2020|

Odessa Orphans Rescue – Back to School Our Motivation ~ Deuteronomy 24:19 “When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the poor, the orphan, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.” Deuteronomy 24:19 has an instruction from God that is followed by a blessing. You have been such a blessing to many hundreds of needy orphans, homeless children and destitute people in the Odessa province over the past 6 months. During this time of worldwide crisis, the temptation is to preserve ourselves at the neglect of others in need. But you have done the opposite. You gave sacrificially to help so many needy youngsters and poor families survive, be kept in health and come into a relationship with Jesus. Institutions

September 2020

Start of the Poor Children’s New School Year in Odessa Ukraine

September 15th, 2020|

Start of the Poor Children’s New School Year in Odessa Ukraine We trust you are well and enjoying God’s blessings and protection, at this time. We want to bring you up to date with special news about the Orphans and Destitute Children we support in Ukraine. With your wonderful help over the last few months we have been able to help the Orphans in Odessa survive a horrendous ordeal. Now starts the rebuilding process in these poor youngster’s lives. Just recently we were asked by the Child Protection Services in Odessa, to provide school requisites for 200 very poor children from destitute families, for when the schools reopen in September. The schools will soon be opening for lessons but not boarding accommodation. These are children and families we’ve not previously met or ministered to. The harvest into God’s Kingdom is getting bigger. As our

July 2020

Overview report on the work in Odessa Oblast

July 11th, 2020|

Overview report on the work in Odessa Oblast Report from Sasha Kohen our manager in Europe: For many long months the attention of the world was focused on the plague named COVID-19. Country by country, like a falling domino house, went into the lockdown, sealing the borders, cancelling travel, closing schools and dramatically slowing down economies. No one could have imagined such drastic and sudden changes. As of today, almost 5 months into the “New World” over 525,000 people have died because of this unknown virus, leaving a bleeding wound that will take long time to heal. Probably the world we knew before COVID-19 will never recover to its full extent. Possibly things will never be the same again. Today, with light at the end of the tunnel and the brief hope that the pandemic is controlled, countries are cautiously lifting the

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