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From Natasha Kirillova and children of Russia: have a wonderful and blessed Christmas!
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Natasha and Lena introduce graduates at Sjasstroj: their needs... medicine, shoes, and Christian love and fellowship
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| Natasha and Lena with graduates in Sjasstroj |
Several of
our graduates went to live and study in
the town Sjasstroj, and we decided to continue their support.
During our first visit we met 20 orphans from that college – young boys and
girls without relatives in whose eyes we saw
just one question – will you come again or will you forget us as
many did?
They start their own life, and the life is not easy. They need someone
to help to take right
decisions, to learn to go to the church where they can find answer to their
questions all lifelong.
So, I want to
introduce you to our new graduates project – Sjasstroj College.
Their
needs are soap and shampoos, medicines and snacks, new shoes and coats.
Their
big need is Christian fellowship which we want to bring them, with God’s will and
your support!
--Natasha Kirillova
LifeLine Missions team from USA visits to Luga orphanage: new friends and unforgettable memories!
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| Karen Jones with Luga children and team from USA CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION ABOUT MISSION TRIP TO TAKE PLACE ON OR ABOUT MARCH 17, 2015 |
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| Steve from USA with Luga boys |
All 4 days of their stay was full of interesting events – craft lesson where everybody made gifts to the children who are in the hospitals, outing to St. Petersburg when children played 4 hours in the amusement park, two wonderful days of week-end with Biblical stories, fellowship and soccer. Attention, care and love were so touching.
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| New friends: Natasha, Luga, and Tanya, USA |
There was a lot of fun but a lot of tears when it was time to say good-bye!
Join Karen Jones and LifeLine Missions in 2015 to visit Russian orphanages and baby houses. Next trip at the end of March. Learn more here: www.LifeLineMissions.org .
This book is for your friends and loved ones who do not believe in Jesus Christ: free copies available now while quantities last!
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| Free copies of HOPSCOTCH available while they last |
Have a friend or loved one who has not accepted God's plan for salvation? Will you consider giving them or letting me send them a free copy of my recently published book, HOPSCOTCH?
I'll provide the free paper cover book (retail $10) if you will pay the postage ($3).
You can have the book sent to you... and hand or mail the book personally to your friend or loved one. Or, if you wish, I will send the book directly to your friend or loved one... just be sure to include their address when you donate $3 to pay for the postage.
Get your free copy now while the quantities last (one free book per household please). When you click on the donate button, you can donate $3 to Big Family Mission to cover the cost of the postage, using your credit card.
You may also, if you wish, send a check to Big Family Mission, 83 Boy Scout Rd., Kutztown, PA, to receive your free copy.
If you are a Christian, you know how God has made his plan of salvation so simple that even little children can understand it. In a world that is so full of information, it has always amazed me that most people who are not in God's family have no idea how they can "get in" to heaven.
If you are a Christian, you know how God has made his plan of salvation so simple that even little children can understand it. In a world that is so full of information, it has always amazed me that most people who are not in God's family have no idea how they can "get in" to heaven.
In HOPSCOTCH, little Myra lays out the good news of the gospel as a very logical and easy-to-understand hopscotch game.
If you have interest in buying copies of the book, you can find more information on Amazon here: Hopscotch on Amazon .
Hopscotch is a little book about LIFE, about life after DEATH, and about BELIEFS. Although Hopscotch takes on the appearance of a children’s book, it is very much a book for every citizen of planet earth.
Please consider taking advantage of this opportunity to spread the good news of the gospel. I have a limited supply of the free copies of the book available.
-- Ken Dockery, volunteer and co-founder, Big Family Mission
Please email me with any questions: kendockery@bigfamilyministry.org
Please email me with any questions: kendockery@bigfamilyministry.org
Jumping from LIFE to DEATH: Where is the HOPSCOTCH of life taking you?
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| In HOPSCOTCH, Myra tells her friend Michael, in a simple, child-like manner, how anyone on planet earth can get to heaven. |
If you have a friend or loved one who has not accepted God's plan for salvation, consider giving him or her a copy of this book.
Myra lays out the good news of the gospel as a very logical and easy-to-understand hopscotch game.
Although this book is available on Kindle for only 99 cents, it is probably more effective as an evangelism tool if you buy a copy of the paperback to give to your loved one or friend.
You can find more information about buying the book on Amazon here: Hopscotch on Amazon .
Hopscotch is a little book about LIFE, about life after DEATH, and about BELIEFS. Although Hopscotch takes on the appearance of a children’s book, it is very much a book for every citizen of planet earth.
Where is the hopscotch of life taking you? One thing is for certain: all of us will someday be jumping from the LIFE box of “hopscotch” into the DEATH box.
When we take that jump, what happens? Does it matter what you and I believe?
In Hopscotch, Myra lays out, in child-like fashion, the logical argument that what you and I believe is critical for deciding what happens to us when we go from LIFE into DEATH.
What happens to you and to me after we die? Just ask Myra!
-- Ken Dockery
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| Take the Light and Love of Christ to Russian orphans! |
Please let us know of your interest in visiting several Russian orphanages and baby houses in the Saint Petersburg, Russia, area . We will send you more information via email. Thanks for your interest!
Follow us on Facebook? Will you click on "LIKE" to help us bring Light, Love, and Encouragement to Russian orphans who have no chance to ever be adopted? Thank you!
Other helpful information on Families for Orphans:
Volunteer to help with orphan ministry at Big Family Mission! We need YOU to hand out our brochure!
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Other helpful information about Big Family Mission:
Will you "LIKE" Big Family Mission on Facebook to help Russian orphans who have no chance for adoption? She asks: "Pleeeeease?"
Will you please help us spread the word about Russian orphans who need our love and encouragement? Your "like" on Facebook will be a wonderful blessing for orphan children in Russia! Thank you!
If you have already "liked" Big Family Mission on Facebook, can you help by clicking on SHARE to help spread the word?
Other helpful information on Families for Orphans:
BIG FAMILY MISSION is USA partner for Help for Children ministry to Russian orphans. Your "like" will help us spread the word!
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| Cake, candy, and special treats for the children at Luga orphanage. Hot tea is favorite beverage of children in Russian orphanages. |
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| Natasha Kirillova with the girls at Jukki orphanage |
- Give children special treats like fruit, tea, and cake when they visit;
- Provide games, craft, and sports items for orphanages;
- Supply special medicines and vitamins for children;
- Celebrate children’s birthdays;
- Give clothing items like socks and underwear.
The need to help orphans in
Russia is great: over 3 million orphans
and children at risk. Without help, an orphan’s
future is bleak: prison, violent death, drugs, alcoholism, prostitution,
suicide.
As a partner for the orphanage ministry team, you will receive:
- News about the team you are partnering with (photos, etc.)
- Information about the orphanage you are helping
- Photos and occasional videos about the children and ministry to the children.
- Information about how you can send cards, letters, small gifts to children if you wish.
We need your help in 2014… will you join with us?
You can start with a monthly
donation of as little as $5. A donation
of just $15 per month provides full funding of ministry to one child. If you decide to discontinue your partnership
at any time, for any reason, you may do so.
You can donate securely online
or through the mail, using your credit card, debit card, bank transfer, or check. Just click on the GO TO button to go to our
donation page.
We are praying that YOU will join with us in 2014!
Other helpful information on Families for Orphans:
Other helpful information on Families for Orphans:
20 ways to help your church become "adoption friendly". How many adopted children in your church?
Paul Golden, director of admissions for Baptist Bible Seminary, writes and speaks on the topic of making your church "adoption friendly".
Want to get involved? Here are Paul's 20 ways to help:
20 ways to make your church "adoption friendly".
Have you joined our World Prayer Board for Orphans? Sign up here:
Join World Prayer Board for Orphans.
Other helpful information on Families for Orphans:
Want to get involved? Here are Paul's 20 ways to help:
20 ways to make your church "adoption friendly".
Join World Prayer Board for Orphans.
Other helpful information on Families for Orphans:
Help! To "go into all the world" you've got to have WHEELS! Pothole "ambushes" Russian orphan ministry volunteer. Can you help?
If you would like to make a donation to help with the car repairs (estimated at $1100), you can do so on the donation page of Big Family Mission located here: Big Family Mission donation page . Thank you for considering to help!
Host an orphan from Latvia or Ukraine summer 2014
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| Celebrating July 4th in USA! |
Quick facts about the orphan hosting program:
- Not an adoption program, but many of the Latvian and Ukrainian orphans who come to the United States can be and will be adopted by families they meet during visit;
- Families who host may be interested in adoption, but are under no obligation to adopt a child who is hosted.
- Latvian orphans and Ukrainian orphans, ages 5 years to 15, will live with host families for about 4 weeks, beginning late June, exact dates to be announced.
- Hosting husband and wife must be of the Christian faith and attending a church. (Single mothers may also host.)
- Submit the form above to receive more information.
Please "like" our page on Facebook? Thank you!
Other helpful information on Families for Orphans:
Call to Love
By Marla Summers
In sixth grade Sunday school, I learned about the Millennium, the thousand year period when Christ will rule on earth in the final days. Something about this has always fascinated me, and I often catch myself wondering what the world will look like then. What will His government be like? How will he confront the needs and problems of the masses? And then there was one more question that would soon spark a great thought within my mind: What would the world’s orphanages look like?
Empty.
It is not news that Jesus loved the poor, the alone, and the forgotten. The truly amazing part is how. Not only was our Savior always going places, but he was in constant interaction with people. In Mark 2, Christ enters a house in Capernaum and huge crowds gather and there was no longer any room. Later in the chapter, he goes to the sea and is pursued by “many tax collectors and sinners” who proceed to share a meal with Him. When Christ stepped out of the boat in Mark 5:2, “immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.” Not necessarily the person you want to meet when setting foot on land. After sending the demons away from the man, Jesus was back in the boat and crossing over to the other side of the sea where “a great multitude gathered to Him” and He began to do miracles among them once again.
So what’s the point? Christ was intentionally open to people, not the popular or the famous, but the regular people. People that were hurting. People that were tired. People that might never have the chance to return the favor.
In fact, He did that very thing for you as well.
Oftentimes, we feel that adoption is only the dream of orphans. Yet according to the Bible, it is the dream of us all. While we were poor, enemies, and sinners before God, He opened His family up to us. 1 John 3:1 puts it this way: “Behold what manner
of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!” It is in this very manner that Christ now calls us to intentionally open up our lives to “the least of these” to feed, share, and nurture them much as He did toward us.
of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!” It is in this very manner that Christ now calls us to intentionally open up our lives to “the least of these” to feed, share, and nurture them much as He did toward us.
So how are you living out this calling? Maybe it means stepping out of your comfort zone and making an effort to love someone you wouldn’t normally associate with. Maybe it means giving your time to volunteer, or maybe joining a ministry that allows you to use your gifts in a way you wouldn’t have otherwise expected. If perhaps you have not stepped out to intentionally love on one of God’s children, Big Family Mission has some great needs this year you might prayerfully consider supporting such as funding a Russian orphan’s stay at a Christian summer camp, sending an orphan a card for Valentine's Day, or opening your home to orphan for the summer.
The Millennium may still be many lifetimes away, but I believe that dream may not be. For if I were to return to the question, “What will orphanages look like in the years to come?” the answer and that reality might just be up to you.
Loved.
Want to learn more about adoption? 10 Great Websites Here
Help for Children & Grace Center: blessing God’s special children in Russia
“We see that if we give children in need the whole world, but
their soul will not be saved, it will not do any good for them.” …Natasha
Kirillova
By Marla
Summers, Big Family Mission Volunteer
Help for Children operates in the St. Petersburg
area of Russia with the goal of preventing social orphan hood, while nurturing
the mothers and children already affected by it. A social orphan is defined as
a child who has at least one living parent, but is forced to live in an
institution because the parent or parents have lost or given up their right to
care for the child. This epidemic is largely fueled by the alcoholism and drug
abuse.
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| Girls at Jukki Orphanage Home |
Since its beginnings in 1994, Grace Center, located
in St. Petersburg, has been reaching young Russian mothers with a success rate
of 96% of prevented abandonment of children among its focus group, graduates
from government-run orphanages.
Grace Center provides an apartment in which up to
four families (mother and child or children) can stay without expense.
According to Natasha Kirillova, Help for Children ministry leader, each mother living at Grace Center “gets the
knowledge of life in the family, learns to take care of her child, and gets
encouragement in how to overcome the future difficulties.”
Train
up young mothers and introduce them to God
The facility is partially supported by the local
church, Novodevichj Covenant. The vision of Grace Center is to train up these
young women and introduce them to a relationship with God, where, as said by
Natasha, they will “learn to ask for strength and help when we are not near.”
All graduates of Grace Center are have successfully begun their work and
studies, equipping them and their children for a brighter future.
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| Uliana with her daughter |
Along with working to meet the physical needs of
mothers such as Uliana, Grace Center provides women with the tools they need to
raise their children to be grounded in the gospel. As well as offering personal
counseling to pregnant mothers, joint meetings are held to support families and
graduates of the Grace program. While each family has a very individual “plan
of assistance” says Natasha, they also attend seminars together with topics
ranging from child development to motherhood. The families are regularly
visited, for according to Natasha, this helps the ministry to get a look into
their lives and “attract sponsors for the material support of the family, if
necessary.”
Reaching out to orphans in government-run
orphanages
Lessons of family values and Christian morality are
not limited to the ministry at Grace. Through Natasha Kirillova, Help for
Children also reaches out to children living in government-run orphanages at
Luga, Jukki, Gatchina, and Tomlachevo. While Grace Center assists mothers and
prevents their children from ending up at such orphanages, a huge focus of Big
Family Mission is reaching children that have already entered the system. Lessons
are given during visits with the children on topics selected monthly such as
“Purity”, “Kindness”, and “What Is a Family?”, lessons which fall upon the
eager ears of orphans who need to hear them the most.
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| Luga children during visit to ostrich farm |
“When it was time for the children to go back to their orphanage,” said
Natasha, “they said, ‘Thank you for arranging this day for us. It’s so boring
for us to stay at the orphanage!”
The volunteers who had continually sacrificed their time for the
children promised they would return, knowing that their efforts were truly
bringing joy to these young lives.
Providing
a refuge during the critical summer months
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| Girls learning how to cook at Bolshevo |
Along with the children, the mothers from Grace
Center also enjoy the stay at Bolshevo. The women who are unable to stay the
full three months are able to keep working and be able to provide their
children with economical and supervised summer camp. The ones that do stay are
blessed with personal and group counseling along with practical lessons such as
cooking. Those who desire can also go through the course of smoking
rehabilitation. The ministry of Help for Children has allowed the children and
mothers alike to be able to “experience the light and love of Christ in these
summer camps,” according to Natasha.
Finding themselves by serving others
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| Luga children and volunteers at church camp |
Through
the years of the partnership between Help for Children and Big Family Mission,
the ultimate focus of the ministry is the saving of souls. Each project has the
goal of bringing individual hearts closer to the Lord. At Help for Children,
the full weight of this responsibility is felt and volunteers strive to plant
“seeds of faith” in the hearts and lives of the children and orphanage
graduates. As the few Christians that their focus group will likely ever
encounter, this ministry is at the forefront of the mission for Russia and
approaches the orphan situation in a unique way.
This beautiful ministry
built through sacrifice, dedication, and generous sponsorship all boils down to
one clear mission. Natasha put it this way: “We see that if we give children in
need the whole world, but their soul will not be saved, it will not do any good
for them.”
How can you help Natasha and her team? Learn more here: Help for Children.
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