Our partners are organizations and staff that we work with in country.  Over time we have built relationship with them via e-mail, phone and personal visits to work with them.  Partners are centers that are actually working with the kids in some capacity.  Day-centers offer the kids a place to take showers, eat, change clothes, get medical help and some loving attention.  Christian based centers also offer pray and Bible lessons.  Some centers are set up for permanent housing and several are developing foster families.  The going is extremely tough for these workers who are on very limited income themselves.  Resources for the centers must come from private donors or organizations like Shepherd's Purse.  As a partner we are trying to raise awareness on an international level thus producing needed supplies and funds.  As a partner we try hard to encourage the staff with support and prayer.

Note: Our partners are independant/non-denominationally based ministries.  We did not start these ministries, nor do we control them.  We simply support them in any way we can.

We do have 1 staff currently.  Lisa Gootee works in Kiev, Ukraine.  She works independantly, yet with the full support of Shepherd's Purse.