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Transformation At Summer Canp

Kiev, Ukraine - (click for June newsletter)  When someone risks their life in a sport such as skydiving, they are placing their trust in their parachute. If it does not open, they die. It is entirely different, however, when someone else places your life at risk. By someone else's behavior, your life is in danger.

Yet this is the tragic situation in Ukraine and other countries today. The lives of young people have been placed at risk due to abandonment by their mothers, fathers or both. Children living with at least one parent have a fighting chance, though slim, toward healthy development. That is where Mercy Projects U.K. steps in. By providing support to at risk young people in those critical years, sponsors are able to turn a bleak future into a bright one. We call it transformation. God calls it redemption. Click here for the full story.

In the midst of hardship

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Hope Remains

For needy families and children in Ukraine, the support of a sponsor is vital to their survival as a family. Mothers do not give their children up to an orphanage in despair, simply due to the love and support of having a sponsor. In this newsletter we learn about Luba's story and how sponsors make a difference. Your sponsorship will help keep a child together with their family. Learn more about sponsorship here.

Hope Remains - Sloshing through the muddy snow covered road, it felt surreal, like a scene from the Boris Pasternak novel, “Dr. Zhivago.” The small, weather-beaten wooden home looked like it could be 100 years old.

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Fly To Ukraine For Adventure At Summer Camp

Service Opp - Ukraine Summer Camp
July 27– Aug 8 (see video here)

Mercy Project is pleased to announce the dates for our service opportunity at a summer camp in Chernigiv, just three hours from Kiev.  We invite you to join us this summer for a life-changing trip as you experience what it’s like to reach out to at-risk children during a busy camp packed with fun activities. As you serve as a camp counsellor alongside our experienced Ukrainian team, whether you’re playing games, teaching crafts, sports, drama, dance, you’ll quickly get to know the kids.  This will also provide plenty of opportunities to share the love of Christ with the children, along with daily small group Bible studies and prayer times.

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Mercy Mission Team Updates

The future purpose of this area will be a place for mercy mission teams to update their supporters and home churches via a daily blog style trip update. The MPI site is still under construction, but it is our desire that when people join us in mission that they will be able to keep their supporters "up to date" with their ministry.