The operation this year, called "Black Gold" is over! We are glad that we were able to buy and distribute 57 tons of coal to needy families! We are glad that we did it before frosts! Thank God for every dollar donated to this good deed!
This is statistics of the Christmas marathon in the zone of military conflict, which we held from January 7th to 16th. This year, our children took an active part and helped us in all these Christmas events.
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Christmas is coming! Now we are in Germany where we collect Christmas gifts from churches, schools, and kindergartens.
Gift collection is over! Instead of the expected 9000, we got 9606! Thank God!
The first ten tons are delivered to poor families, big families, churches with "dining rooms" where they feed the old and children.
This year the Music Camp was held in our Christian Spiritual Center "Hope” for the first time! We have dreamed about it and prayed for a long time, and so this day has come. In early August.
“Believing for Living” was the slogan of the camp for children of 8 to 14 year-old who live in a zone close to military actions. This slogan sounded throughout the week from July 1 to 6.
“Don't Forget!” is the name of our new Russian CD. Finally, we did it - we recorded a new disc! Fifteen songs of different styles in Russian and Ukrainian languages! What are the songs about? It will be available in fall of this year. The presentation of the new disc is scheduled for September-October when The Ark Singers will be in the USA! With the help of God we will do it!
Before the active season of children's camps, according to the tradition, the whole week (from June the 24th to June the 29th this year) the sounds of a wood saw and hammers were heard on the territory of the “Hope” Christian Center.
The church "Rock of Salvation" is the church about which we dreamed and asked God. Most of the attendees are refugees. Some of them lost their homes because of the war; others left their native city because of war fears. "Rock of Salvation" is a place where everyone can feel at home, where all are always welcome.
"Blessed is he that considereth the poor, the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble" Ps 40: 2
Since December, five days a week, a feeding station has been working for people in difficult life circumstances. It was organized based on a local church of Avdiivka. Different people come to this station: homeless, old people, unemployed. Someone of them lost their homes, someone lost his family or had health problems or addiction. Among them are former teachers, people who visited the church in the past but felt that they cannot find the strength to rise. Their life stories are bitter and dismal.
Recently we have recorded a new “Answer me album with songs of different music styles in English.
Simultaneously with the English album, we worked on Russian and Ukrainian songs. Now the work is in full swing! Fifteen songs are ready for the disc now. The recording was scheduled for June, and in the autumn, you will be able to get the new disc.
From March 22nd to 24th, on the basis of the Christian Center “The Hope”, a training seminar on Christian camp service was organized and conducted by the Ark Singers group together with the staff of the Christian Youth Camps in Ukraine mission.
Helping with food, clothes, medicines, or special help to needy family and children who are in difficult life circumstances is the main goal of the project. However, most importantly, we want these families to receive a spiritual bread as well as daily bread, so that these families would know that there is the Lord who gives salvation and hope for eternal life!
Winters in Ukraine are frosty, windy and cold. Many families heat their homes with coal, and most of them cannot buy it. We had a dream - to help at least of some of the poorest families to buy it. Thanks to the participation of many churches from Germany and the HTO Mission, this dream has come true.
During the spring holidays, a three-day daytime camp was hold in the town of Avdiivka. Avdiivka is a front-line town: just 4200 feet are to the line of fire and 9000 feet to the famous airport. Children hear the sounds of war every day here, but in despite of all this, they remain children and need games, communication, and attention.
Four months have passed since our last trip to villages located in the military zone. At the end of September, we had the opportunity to visit this area again.