Caring for
ORPHANS
Our work is focused on showing the love of Jesus to orphans in Ukraine. We work with orphanages to meet children's basic needs while building loving relationships with them.
Renewing
FAMILIES
Most Ukrainian orphans we meet are connected to relatives who often live in challenging circumstances. We try to engage with them to renew their faith, by providing practical and spiritual support.
Growing
COMMUNITY
God wants us to live in community. We connect children & families with local Cherkassy camps, schools and churches so they can build a relationship with Jesus and the Christian community.
Wedding Bells, Air Raid Sirens and a New Family...
Oksana’s childhood dreams are beginning to come true. And it all started during the war. Indeed, God works in mysterious ways.
For behold, I am making all things new. Isaiah 43:18
For behold, I am making all things new. Isaiah 43:18
One of our ministry partners is a husband-and-wife team in Cherkasy. Their names are Dima and Katya, and their mission is to feed and help the desperate people of Ukraine.
Hope Now has been supporting Dima & Kat and their team financially since Ukraine was invaded in February. Due to the generosity of many donors like you, we have been able to provide funds for Kat to buy a used transit van. This little white wonder has been driven all over Ukraine picking up humanitarian aid, buying groceries and household supplies, and bringing food to starving people. We help by supplying money for diesel, sending lifesaving medicines from America, and for providing funds to buy food to make food bags to give to people still stuck in hot spots where there is nothing left. Recently, Kat used the funds we sent to make a trip to Eastern Ukraine, in the heavily hit area of Donetsk. Here is Kat's report:
Hope Now has been supporting Dima & Kat and their team financially since Ukraine was invaded in February. Due to the generosity of many donors like you, we have been able to provide funds for Kat to buy a used transit van. This little white wonder has been driven all over Ukraine picking up humanitarian aid, buying groceries and household supplies, and bringing food to starving people. We help by supplying money for diesel, sending lifesaving medicines from America, and for providing funds to buy food to make food bags to give to people still stuck in hot spots where there is nothing left. Recently, Kat used the funds we sent to make a trip to Eastern Ukraine, in the heavily hit area of Donetsk. Here is Kat's report:
Ukrainian soldiers are always very happy and relieved to receive lifesaving tourniquets, medicine and IFAKs (Individual First Aid Kits) from Hope Now. With God’s direction and your help, we have been able to provide over 3,500 pounds of medical essentials to Ukraine since the war began.
Letters from Ukraine - Cyndee's news from Ukraine!
You probably remember, that when the war started on February 24, 2022, the orphanage was ordered to release all of the children and send them “home” to their guardians. This was due to the fact that nearby military targets had been bombed and therefore the government needed to rehouse those affected residents. They needed to use the orphanage to house displaced families, so the children were sent “home” and became scattered all around various small villages in the area. Many of the kids were sent back to the very people who caused them to be taken to an orphanage in the first place. Some went to poor relatives, who can barely afford to feed themselves, let alone additional children. Our team has continued to do everything in our power to maintain contact with the children, and to help them survive by making regular visits to check on them and to bring them food and essentials.
Hope Now Ministries in Ukraine - Sponsor Orphans from the US
Hope Now Ministries is a USA based Christian charity focusing on the orphan community in central Ukraine. We continue the work that our founder and missionary Rev. Vic Jackopson started in 1992. Again and again, God shows His deep abiding love for widows and orphans throughout scripture. In everything we do, all of us at Hope Now aim to bring glory to God while serving His most precious ones. Our attention is centered around orphans, families and community.Over the years, Hope Now USA has a developed a special relationship with Shpola Orphanage – including the Directors, as well as the 140 children who call Shpola home. We partner with the staff, in their own words “to help them realize their dreams for the orphanage.” Together, we have improved the physical living conditions of the children by sponsoring several building projects and implementing a school uniform program. Our teacher training curriculum was greeted enthusiastically and continues today. Our volunteer teams are welcomed anytime, especially for our regular Sunday School Days and numerous camps. Our child sponsorship program offers Hope Now donors a unique way to connect the love of Christ to His children in Ukraine.
We all need a loving family to thrive. Frequently, Shpola families have been broken apart by life's challenges, but some of these families can be renewed. Hope Now cares for many families of orphans who struggle to live a full life. The Lord guides us to mothers who desire to raise their own children, but who need the loving support of Christ, a mentor and a hand up.
Children graduate from Shpola at the end of 9th grade and their life at the orphanage comes to an end. Hopefully, with encouragement, most continue on to Trade School education but this means moving to a new city, living in a public dormitory and being assigned a social worker. With the help of several talented and dedicated seminary students, Hope Now Ministries has developed a thriving Youth Group for Shpola graduates that meets each week in the town of Cherkassy, where many graduates relocate from Shpola. They can relax with familiar faces, share each other’s burdens, form relationships with Christian mentors, all while learning about God’s great love for them. Here, they are eased into a caring Christian community.
To facilitate our efforts, Hope Now USA partners with local churches and charities in the Cherkassy region. Each organization offers opportunities for orphans and families to connect with their local community. Christian leaders are active in the organizations we support and they bring the strength of community to the lives of the lost.
