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Your support of these summer camps will bring hope to orphans like Inna.

Inna would have wound up another orphan statistic that plagues Ukraine and Russia, but as a young teen, she was invited by School Without Walls students from Rovno, Ukraine, to one of the evangelistic summer camps they organized and led.

When Inna’s father died almost ten years ago, her mother was left with five children to raise on her own. And it proved to be too much.

“My mother started to drink,” recalls Inna of her early childhood days. Eventually, Inna’s mother sent her two older brothers to an orphanage, and at the tender age of seven, Inna didn’t begin school, but began to care for her two younger sisters.

One dreadful day, Inna watched her mother walk out and lock the apartment door behind her, leaving behind three little girls, ages seven, five and three, all alone and with only frozen potatoes and cabbage to eat.

When local authorities discovered this gross neglect, the three sisters were quickly removed from the apartment and placed in separate orphanages, where Inna has lived for the past nine years.

It was at one of Russian Ministries’ evangelistic summer camps that Inna discovered hope.  “For the first time, I began to feel peaceful and calm,” says Inna.

God is using School Without Walls students and other young Christian leaders to reach out to helpless children and teenagers like Inna, and a new generation is discovering hope in Christ.

“There is joy in my heart in spite of everything that has happened in my life. I feel God’s love for me. I hope to attend many more camps like this one,” Inna states happily.

A donation to our evangelistic summer camp ministry will help School Without Walls students reach at least 5,000 needy children and teenagers at evangelistic summer camps in Russia and Ukraine, and especially significant, in the ever-turbulent Northern Caucasus, including North and South Ossetia, Chechnya, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.

Each $50 gift will help send one camper to a life-changing week of camp and help provide a Bible and/or Christian literature for that child or teenager.

• $100 will help send two campers to camp and provide Bibles and Christian literature for them.
• $200 will help send four campers to camp and provide Bibles and Christian literature.
• $300 will help send six campers to camp and provide Bibles and Christian literature.

Perhaps  God is prompting you to help send eight or even ten campers to one of these evangelistic summer camps, so they can hear about God’s love for the first time, and discover new life and hope in Him

Peter Wooding, Europe Bureau Chief for ASSIST News Service, reports on our Summer of Hope campaign for our evangelistic summer camps.

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These images of the town of Pripyat, Ukraine, are a stark reminder of the devastation that still exists today.

Follow this link to the tragic story of the village of Stary Vyshkov, Russia.

Pray for Russian Ministries’ School Without Walls students as they share the amazing truth that Christ is risen!

•This Palm Sunday weekend in Belarus, a Christian theater troupe from Ukraine will perform at three different churches. Pray for the young people at each performance as they are exposed to the truth and reality of the Risen Lord.

•School Without Walls students in Kharkov, Ukraine, are busy rehearsing a play they’ll perform at the end of the month. Students will also give away New Testaments at the end of each performance.

•In Rovno, Ukraine, School Without Walls students plan to partner with a local public school to distribute Gift of Life boxes this Easter. The students hope this Easter event will open the doors for year-round involvement in the school. “Our goal here is for School Without Walls and the church to be integrated into society in order to better share the good news,” explains Alexander Chubay, School Without Walls coordinator in Rovno.

•The School Without Walls students in Pochaiv, Ukraine, have a similar goal at a public school in their community. “We want to begin ministry in a local school,” relates Ruslan Mandzuk, the School Without Walls coordinator in Pochaiv. “We’ll begin with the distribution of [Easter] gift boxes, and continue to hold regular events at the school. Please pray for this.”

•This Easter month, puppet teams from the Resurrection Church in Minsk, Belarus, will hold puppet shows in a number of orphanages in the area.

An online gift today will help these School Without Walls students and other Christian leaders develop and grow and reach out to a new generation this Easter. Make a gift to Gift of Life today.

Peter Wooding, Europe Bureau Chief for ASSIST News Service, caught up with Russian Ministries’ president, Sergey Rakhuba, after his ministry trip to TransCaucausia. Read Peter’s article.