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PROJECT HOPE UPDATE 2007/2008
For more information and updates on our Great Gift ExChange project, click on the "Hope and Joy for the Needy" link at the bottom of this page. Visit this CBN webpage to see a short video report.
"Don't you know who was born this day?" asked a young Next Generation Christian leader to the group of children gathered for the Christmas celebration at an orphanage in Salekhard.
"All we know is that it's the year of the rat," replied one boy.
That is why, at Christmas time, churches across the former Soviet Union were filled with Christians as they gathered to celebrate Christ's birth, and then went out to tell the good news that: "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord" (Luke 2:11).
- This Christmas, 30,000 gift boxes and Bibles were distributed to needy children and youth. For many national believers, Russian Christmas, which is January 7, is a day for sharing the good news of Jesus' birth to children in orphanages, shelters or special gatherings in community halls.
- Next Generation Christians in Salekhard handed out more than 100 gift boxes in a shelter and tuberculosis hospital for children. Tuberculosis mainly affects the native population of the region, and children are placed in hospitals for months, not seeing their parents for at least six months. The Christmas visitors were a welcome break in the cold, dark winter.
- In Moscow alone, there are more than 150,000 street kids. This Christmas, Next Generation Christians teamed up with a local ministry and held a winter camp for 60 street kids and orphans. Each camper also received a gift box, that included a Bible.
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