Moving to Families
Child Sponsorships are Moving to Family Sponsorships
A few changes to the sponsorship program have been requested by our Ukraine office. In Ukraine, our staff has always worked with the parents, mother, or adult in the family for all program services, ministries, groceries, camps, medical… Read More...
Video: Sasha’s Story
Sasha’s mother brought him to the “Hearts of Love” Centre in Konotop, Ukraine where he received love and support like nowhere else. Doctors said he wouldn’t talk or progress but the centre has been a life line for his family! Watch this touching story of… Read More...
Family Sponsorship – Sidorchuks
Family ID: 42213 Ukraine: Now just four of the family live in a three-room house; older children some married, some moved out for studies. The parents, Galyna and Yuriy, have two children of their own, Olexiy and Anastasia, and three – Anna, Petro and Daryna… Read More...
Family Sponsorship – Komarenkos
Family ID: 42185 Ukraine – Valeria and her older sister Anastasia live in a small town Ivankiv, a place which is sadly known as Chernobyl area after the accident of 1986. Girls’ father was a volunteer in war in Eastern Ukraine for 19… Read More...
Hearts of Love Kids Visit UK
Recently we had the opportunity to take ten children (six boys and four girls) from the Hearts of Love Centre had the chance of a lifetime to travel to the United Kingdom. Hearts of Love is a long-time Mercy Projects supported special needs centre in… Read More...
The Story of Father Frost
The Soviet Father Frost And How They Changed Christmas
In Russia, Santa Claus is known as Father Frost. He is usually illustrated with his granddaughter, the snow maiden, Snegurochka riding with an evergreen tree and presents in a traditional Russian troika
The original Russian gift-giver… Read More...
20 Years of Ministry in Ukraine
Chernobyl plant in 2004
October 1994 Kyiv, Ukraine – Twenty years ago this month the Lord lead us to hire a national director, Irina Skrypnik, and officially register Mercy Projects in the newly independent country of Ukraine. We desired to begin a new ministry to… Read More...
Lives Lost in Eastern Ukraine
Funeral Procession in Slavyansk late July.
KYIV, July 18, 2014 – After five weeks of anxiety, the families of the four men were notified that they had been killed by the so-called “Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
On June 8th the Russian… Read More...
As Kyiv Mourns, Crimea Caught In the Crossfire
Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 28, 2014– As of Friday February 28th, funeral processions continue to take place here in Kyiv. Orthodox priests carrying large crosses followed by friends and family members of the deceased wind their way down Institutskaya Street, through the barricades past piles… Read More...
The Maidan Movement Drives Ukraine Toward Freedom – Or Not?
Protesters camped out in government buildings
Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 27, 2014 – The battle in the streets of Kyiv continues but it is no longer violent. Last night on Independence Square, amidst the flowers for those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, we listened as… Read More...
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