Summer 2025
DEAR FRIEND, I PRAY THAT YOU MAY ENJOY GOOD HEALTH AND THAT ALL MAY GO WELL WITH YOU, EVEN AS YOUR SOUL IS GETTING ALONG WELL. THE BIBLE 3.JOHN 1:2 (NIV)
Spring 2025
WHAT OUR CHILDREN WISH FOR… Over the past four years, the wishes and prayers of Ukrainian children have changed. In addition to expectations and dreams, which they share with many children around the world, the longing for peace is a wish that we hear time and again in our daily work. Unfortunately, we cannot fulfill…
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Autumn 2024
How much bad news can a person cope with? Over the past few weeks, I’ve repeatedly come across headlines like this on the internet. These headlines are often followed by detailed explanations about how, with all the crises and bad reports we are confronted with daily, we should take enough time for our own mental…
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Spring 2024
Prayer is the breathing of the soul. As a wise man once put it. When I think about our new life after February 2022 and what gives us strength and hope, it is most likely the regular breathing of our soul. In the following lines, we would like to share with you what we have…
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Autumn 2023
EVEN IF I KNEW THAT TOMORROW THE WORLD WOULD GO TO PIECES, I WOULD STILL PLANT MY APPLE TREE. Martin Luther (alleged quote)
Spring 2023
QUO VADIS LIVING HOPE? “What’s next?” “What are your plans for the future?” “Will you continue to work in Ukraine?” -These and similar questions have been asked by many friends and people we know in the past weeks and months. In this newsletter we want to give a short report on what we have done…
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Annual Report 2022
WAITING WITH LIVING HOPE … Surrounded by such true and gentle powers Surrounded by such true and gentle powers. So wondrously consoled and without fear, Thus will I spend with you thesefinal hours and then together enter a new year. By gentle powers lovingly surrounded, with patience we’ll endure, let come what may. God…
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Annual Report 2021
Behind every number hides a destiny… On 12.01.2001, the doors of our Day care Centre on Dneprpetrovska Street in Odessa opened for the very first time – at that time for 12 children from families facing great challenges due to poverty, illness, housing shortages and addictions. Since that time, not only has the name of…
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Summer 2021
JOY AND SORROW GO HAND IN HAND IN LIFE There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. The Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1,4
Spring 2021
Remember this. I can do something you can’t do and you can do something, I can’t do. But we both have to do it. Mother Teresa
