Village of Hope

Bill Mason, along with his wife Marie, was visiting from America to encourage the church and to make more plans for further expansion on the Village of Hope Orphanage. He is a construction engineer and has been a great blessing to the church in organizing teams to come and help build the orphanage. Bill has been challenged with various physical difficulties in recent years and yet he is faithful and continues to come and devote himself to this project. The Lord in heaven will have a sparkling crown for one like him.

The Village of Hope is an orphan ministry of the Bethany Baptist Church of Bucha, Ukraine. We have three families living on the grounds with almost 20 kids. This darling picture are 4 of the 6 boys from the Maltsava family of 8 kids. They all recited poetry in church for our New Year's service. The father provides all the shopping for this family with a scooter, which he cannot ride now because it is winter. Please pray for them that the Lord will supply their needs.

The Great Race

That's the name of a group of amazing young women that came to Ukraine on the last leg of their 11 month world mission tour. They traveled to many continents and lived in many conditions as they helped in different mission situations. We were blessed to have them pitch in for one day at the Village of Hope. That is the Christian home for street kids that used to be on old Soviet Pioneer camp where children were indoctrinated into soviet ideology.

This is Leah, our daughter, who worked with and translated for the girls the day they were here.

This is Misha the administrator of our camp and one of the girls. Misha has done a great job of restoring the old dormitories and overseeing the clean up of the many acres of grounds. I also included this picture so you could see the beauty of the forest we live in.