New Board Members We Welcome
New Board Members:
John & Janice Anderson
David & Carol Carlson
Jane Gordon
Lauri Smith
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Past & Present Partners 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.
Lisa Gootee-Staff Lisa is working in Odessa, Ukraine. She is working with abandonded babies and youing orphans. In February, 2007 she came on staff with Shepherd's Purse as a missionary in country. We are pleased to partner with Lisa in her current ministry and hope to be an encouragement to her. She will also let us know supply needs. Lisa has her own support base but we hope to help in keeping her on the field. Her page. |  |
Viktor Karplyuk Pastor Viktor works with a handful of volunteers in five orphanages and one street kid center. He pastors a small church in Zhytomyr near Kiev. Once a week they visit an orphanage and once a week they visit the street kid center. Our teams travel to this area and buy supplies, encourage the staff, spend time with kids, and see Viktor's work first hand. |  |
One Hope Ministry Our good friend Peter Billingham (from England), and the organization he works for in Ukraine have started a ministry called One Hope. Their hope is to find mentors and homes for orphans in Ukraine. Peter is the former pastor who hiked the Himalayan Mountains and raised $25,000 for street kids in Ukraine. This is a great ministry. They have also started a new internet television station called ZAZAZU. This will use secular and Christian programming to reach the lost in Russia and Ukraine. |  |
| The "Ark" is located in Kiev, Ukraine. Jane and Barbara went to Kiev ten years ago to feed hungry kids in the streets. They ended up staying and now have a twelve acre center with eight buildings. About half are remodeled to serve as: girls dorm, guys dorm, office, school, guest quarters and their home and a really nice cafeteria meeting hall. We visited them with a team in 2006 and the team has now gone back on their own to help. They have rescued twenty-one kids so far and plan to make it at least fifty. Read Jane's blog. |
 | Love Ukraine, a nonprofit Christian organization, helps meet the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of abandoned and disadvantaged children in Dniprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine from birth through teen years. Carolyn McMurtray is a lady from America who has organized a staff of volunteers that work with the babies and children. We send them periodic supplies and have spoken of their ministy on televisin and radio. |
 | House of Hope is located in Kherson, Ukraine. Galina Kuleshova is the director and the center's executive director is Dr. Andrey Revtov. We have supplied them with clothes, tents, sleeping bags and numerous other supplies. We have even brought then to our area and set up speaking engagements. |
Love's Bridge Love's Bridge is located in Perm, Russia. Jered and Christina Markoff pioneered three centers. In their late teens these two American kids were touched by the kids of Russia. Check out the CNN and CBN videos. They are doing great work. |  |
| The Kind Road Christian Church is a new group in Odessa, Ukraine. John and Ira Murphy began the work in 2004. John is from the U.S. and Ira is from Ukraine. They are located in the same city as Lisa and Michelle. |  |
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