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July 2010 letter
Hope Center in Albania Brings People of All Ages to the Lord
Addie O´Connor, Mission Possible´s ambassador, writes about her recent visit to Albania. The Hope Center operated by Mission Possible is full of people attending courses and Bible studies. The Center brings people of all ages to a Christian environment where they hear the Gospel and see Christianity lived out.
> Read the story
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June 2010 letter
Divine Appointment on the Street:
Homeless Slave Girl with
a Newborn Rescued
Nina, now 19 years old, had been working as a slave
in a coffee shop for nine years without pay and
without days off. She ended up on the
street with a newborn baby, without money, documents
and means of survival. Through a divinely orchestrated appointment, her hopeless situation changed in a moment.
> Read the story
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May 2010 letter
An Unexpected Graduation
Addie O’Connor, Mission Possible’s ambassador, writes from Krasnoyarsk, Russia, where one of our seven shelter homes is located.
Polina, a 19-year-old girl rescued from the street, is preparing for her graduation. Some years ago this girl with a very traumatic past wasn’t sure she would survive to ever see this day...
> Read the story
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April 2010 Letter
What Do I See?
Addie O’Connor, Mission Possible’s ambassador, writes from Ekaterinburg, Russia.
"I am sitting writing this letter to you looking out of the second floor window of the new home we dreamt about!
I hear some of the children going downstairs to eat breakfast before heading off to school. Would they be eating at all today if they were still living on the streets? God’s light is spreading!"
Read the story
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March 2010 Letter
A Soup Kitchen That Proclaims the Good News
One of our six soup kitchens in Bulgaria is in a town called Ihtiman where nearly 10,000 Muslim gypsies reside.
The kitchen is in a newly renovated space in Ihtiman’s only Christian Church. The soup is for children but the kitchen also reaches out to their families.
Read the story
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February 2010 Letter
Little Boy Rescued to Our Home from a Windowless Basement
“I will stay here forever”
Sasha, a five-year-old boy from the streets of Odessa, had become an independent survivor who found food and shelter in harsh winter. Now in our shelter home he can be just a little child.
Saving just one child like Sasha would be a sufficient reason for this ministry - and there are many of them.
Read Sasha's story
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January 2010 Letter
Greetings from chairman of board Harry Schmidt and the team in service of Mission Possible in USA
Our Mission Possible family just concluded celebrating the 35th anniversary of our founding. Many of our board members, MP staff, and a host of friends gathered in early December in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to mark the occasion.
Remembering our past is important. Transforming our future is strategic and imperative.
Read the letter and meat the team |
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December 2009 Newsletter
New Shelter Home Opens in Yekaterinburg, Russia
One of the highlights of 2009, MP's 35th anniversary year, was the opening of a shelter home in Yekaterinburg for homeless children and teen mothers from the street.
On the inauguration day, a baby was born to one of the teen girls in the home!
Read more in our report! |
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November 2009 Newsletter
Preserving the Fruit
Yaroslavl, Russia:
A Farm and a Rehabilitation Center
Winter has come to the farm. But the yield – a record amount of potatoes, carrots, and beetroots – is safe in the storage bins.
We have 40 to 50 rehabilitants at a time. This past summer we baptized over 20 former drug addicts!
Anya, a former heroin addict, was one of them.
Read more in our report! |
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October 2009 Newsletter
A Grandchild is Born to our Ministry!
Former street children become parents
Lena and Roma were rescued from the street and drugs to our shelter home in Moscow.
They and the little Anastasya who was born in May are a living testimony of God’s ability to change impossible
situations and to heal the broken.
Read the story here! |
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September 2009 Newsletter
Ministering in Albania to Kids from Muslim Backgrounds:
A Former Troublemaker Becomes
Youth Camp Teacher
Wonderful summer camp was the highlight of the year for kids attending the Bible groups that operate in our ministry center.
Alfred, a former troublemaker, was one of the teachers!
Read his enthusiastic report here! |
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August 2009 Newsletter
A Boy and His T-Shirt:
The amazing turns in a life of a boy rescued from ruins
Alexey is a boy from our shelter home in Moscow, Russia. Things could have taken a much different turn in his life.
However, the psalm printed on the back of his t-shirt was perfectly fulfilled in his life:
"The Lord is my fortress and my deliverer, my shield, my rock, in whom I take refuge."
Read Alexey's story here!
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July 2009 Newsletter
Hero Brothers in Bulgarian Gypsy Slums
Our soup kitchens bring relief to neglected Gypsy children who live in extreme poverty.
Meet Toshko and Rayko, two young boys who try to take care of their little siblings, bring them to the soup kitchen and to the Church to be prayed for when they are sick.
Thank you Nasko and Renee!
Atanas 'Nasko' Lazarov and his wife Renee are leaving our United States office to serve in other areas.
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June 2009 Newsletter
“I Was Like Dead but Now I Have Come to Life”
A Poem by a Rescued Street Girl Who Found Faith
Our street patrol in Moscow, Russia, has been going to the streets five times a week for fourteen years!
Ruslana is one of the street girls our team helped to begin a new life. Read her encouraging testimony here! |
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May 2009 Magazine
Celebrating 35 Years of Ministry!
Mission Possible celebrates 35 Years of Ministry this year! You can read President Ignat's historical overview and then explore the exciting ministries Mission Possible has in the former Soviet Union, Albania, and Bulgaria. You can read the PDF version of our Special Edition here...
Also, you can visit and read our Annual Report with ministry and project details about our work here... |
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April 2009 Letter
Teenage Mother and Baby Saved
Mission Possible’s fifth shelter home for street children and youth will soon open its doors. The construction
is in its final stage, and the first residents have already arrived! This is Zhanna’s story... read more here...
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March 2009 Newsletter
A Desperate Mother Finds New Hope
Nina was a sweet girl who did well in school and made her parents proud. Sadly, her friends eventually coerced her into using drugs. In order to pay for her addiction she began to steal. Nina’s drug use continued, as well as did her relationships with men. Heroin, scraping together enough money to buy the heroin, and... read more here... |
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February 2009 Newsletter
Masha - A Survivor
Masha wasn’t even expected to be born, but she survived an attempted abortion. The first seven years of her life have been lived in unimaginable conditions, and an accident she suffered
has left her deaf in one ear. Read the story of how Masha and her sister and brother found a loving adoptive family here... |
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January 2009 Newsletter
Yes, I Love Him!
These children are special. They don’t care about the financial crisis or gas prices that consume the world’s attention at this time. From the very first days of their lives in the ghetto they have endured their own crisis; a game of survival which they cannot merely
walk away from and have little hope of escaping.. ...read more... |
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December 2008 Newsletter
A Royal Family
Dasha came to our shelter home an year ago – a small girl with large and tender eyes. The child appeared to love life just because it existed! She would rejoice for the smallest of things and was sincerely happy about everything that happened to her, sharing her joy with everyone. She trusted people, and when she’d make friends, she was willing to share every last thing with them. ...read more... |
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November 2008 Newsletter
A Special Prayer Issue
Mission Possible Albania has local projects in Bathore, a poor Muslim community near the capital city Tirana. Many other projects are administered
all throughout the country of Albania.
We continue to pray and have vision for ministry to people of all ages. We love them and we know God has a great plan for both this community and the entire country!
Please pray with us! ...read more... |
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October 2008 Newsletter
Can You Help My Son?
Gennady’s phone rang, interrupting our talk. “My son is a drug user. Can you help?” I heard a mother share her pain. Gennady’s calm, deep voice encouraged the troubled mother, as many others before: “Come on Friday. Everything will be OK.” read more... |
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September 2008 Newsletter
Christian Libraries to Siberian Prisons...
Our street ministry center in Yekaterinburg (located in the Ural Mountains) was able to distribute 25 “libraries” this past year. (A library consists of a set of roughly 100 Christian books.) Local Church prison ministry teams took them to detention centers, including youth and women’s colonies... read more... |
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August 2008 Newsletter
A House From Heaven...
In Bulgaria there is a serious need for a Christian shelter for abused mothers, children, and young girls, especially ones from Gypsy ghettos. Another important need is a career education center for Gypsy youth. The building can be used to meet both these needs, as well as many others.... read more... |
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July 2008 Newsletter
Bringing Hope in the Midst of Hurt and Revenge...
Imagine being afraid to go outside due to the fear of “a blood feud.” Unfortunately,
this is the harsh reality for many families in Albania as “blood revenge” is common practice. Yet, our Mission Possible team brings hope, healing and practical help to those who are huring and are in need... read more... |
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June 2008 Newsletter
A Tragedy and a Second Chance In the Same Time...
“As the tragic day was ending, I understood more clearly than ever the fragility of a street child’s life: life can be shattered at any moment, or a new life can bring hope to a troubled one. Some unfortunate circumstances reminded us that God does use Mission Possible to help young people and save lives.” . read more...
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May 2008 Newsletter
A Cross Cut Into the Ice for Baptism of Twelve
Would you be baptized in sub-zero temperature? What a testimony - the living power of our Lord Jesus Christ, working in the lives of drug and alchohol addicts, transforming them for eternity!
Addie O'Connor writes and shares about her recent trip to our farm in Yaroslavl, Russia... read more... |
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April 2008 Newsletter
Missions Trip - Who Is Changed the Most? Preparing to go on a missions trip. High expectations. Fervent prayers. Dynamic preparation. Pre-flight excitement. Arrival. Meeting the reality - who is changed the most after a short missions trip?
Sarah Jonshon, co-leaders of a team that went to Bulgaria in March to minister and serve, shares her thoughts after the trip.
> Read the fresh perspective on missions trips here... |
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February 2008 Newsletter
Creation Seminar Boosts Faith
More then 80% of sunday school teachers in Bulgaria have been trained by Mission Possible. Keeping our commitment to assist the local churches in their ministry towards society and individuals, we responded to the need of training in defending our belief in Creation.
> Read our interview with Mr. Chris Ullman, professor from Christian Life College about his recent trip to Bulgaria and teaching the Bulgarian teachers the scientific facts behind Creation! |
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January 2008 Newsletter
Young prisoners and girls from the streets of St. Petersburg, Russia, heard the Christmas message and real-life testimonies by former convicts and drug addicts at the celebrations organizes by our ministry team.
Children as young as 12 years of age are detained to Russian youth prisons. |
A 12-page survey of Mission Possible's projects
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December 2007 Newsletter
- Bulgaria: Bozhura, 6, grew up in one of our soup kitchens.
- Russia: "I was like you, just worse!" Our rehabilitation center is run by former drug addicts
- Battered and abandoned: Krasnoyarsk shelter home and street patrol rescue children in desperate situations
- Albania: Prayer from nations rising from a youth group in MP's ministry center
- What does Mission Possible do today? |
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November 2007 Newsletter
Saving Lives, Not Just Teaching Seminars
Mission Possible organized a pastors' seminar on local church governance
in Odessa, Ukraine – at the right time for the churches who have a young leadership. A ladies' seminar was a part of the event.
Read how a lady named Nadia helped save a friend's life
by sharing with her some of the things she learned at this conference! > Read the story! |
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October 2007 Newsletter
A Long Road from a Street Child
to a Law Student!
Diana, who had lived in our Moscow shelter home for ten years, had a big day in June: High School Graduation! She received a scholarship and is now a law student.
Ten years ago, our street patrol rescued Diana and her brother from the streets of Moscow where they lived with there mother in a desparate situation.
> Read Diana's story! |
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July 2007 Newsletter
Bringing Hope to Broken People in a Broken World
Jennifer Schmidt, a graduate from Bible College, spent the first part of summer doing her internship with Mission Possible, visiting Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Albania.
> In her first letter she shares her experiences and feelings from her visit in Russia and Ukraine. |
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June 2007 Newsletter
Good News and a Challenge:
A Shelter Home in Yekaterinburg!
Mission Possible has been ministering in Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountain area in Russia since 2004.
There is no place to go for street children and teens who are substance abusers. - This is why a shelter home is so needed.
> Read more about the new project in Yekaterinburg! |
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May 2007 Newsletter
Reaching out to the Muslims
in Albania
Mission Possible has been ministering in Albania since this former totalitarian Communist
country opened up – one of the few countries that was claimed by the president to be a fully atheistic
country.
Today, in addition to other activities, Mission Possible Albania operates a Christian center in Bathore, a slum suburb of Tirana. 500 people
a month participate in various activities.
> Read Ignat Ivanov's report about the possibilities and results in Albania! |
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April 2007 Newsletter
Preaching the Gospel and Proclaiming Release
Since 1998 Mission Possible has been feeding and teaching neglected, illiterate children in Gypsy ghettos in Bulgaria.
But we don't want to stop here.
> Read how we help these these former soup kitchen children to finish their school and to gain a profession.
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March 2007 Newsletter
Prisoner of the Tunnel
Kolya is one in a group of homeless boys who live in an underground pipe tunnel. He had a terrifying experience when he woke up and realized that the hatch of the tunnel had been welded shut and he remained inside!
> Read this story that takes you with our street patrol to the streets
of Odessa, Ukraine to see the undergound life of homeless children.
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February 2007 Newsletter
Reaching the City of Asbestos
on the Ural Mountains, Russia
Asbest, the city with the largest open asbestos mine in the world - is also a city with a lot of alcoholism, drugs, sickness - and many homeless children and families.There however is a lighthouse for them: a shelter home that recently joined the Mission Possible family.
> Read how this home has been a place of life change and salvation for many people |
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January 2007 Newsletter
"Help! She is Giving Birth!"
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December 2006 Newsletter:
"Jesus, I am hungry!"
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November 2006 Newsletter:
The Battle Continues
Meet one of the oppressed churches in Eastern Europe today. |
| 2006-10-16 |
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October 2006 Newsletter:
The Harvest
What do a carrot harvesting machine and
a drug rehabilitation center have in common?
Read the report from Yaroslavl, Russia,
and rejoice with us for the harvest! |
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September 2006 Newsletter:
Pastoral training in Bulgaria:
Passing on the Passion and the
Experience – Not Just the Knowledge
“We are committed to the success of the local churches in Bulgaria and want to see them thrive and grow.
Their success is our success, their loss is our loss, too.”
Read how Mission Possible in Bulgaria equips the Church through training programs and seminars! |
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August 2006 Newsletter
People with a Vision
People with a vision break through a rock, if needed. They don't count their working hours or their troubles. They give up their comfort, even endanger their health for others.
Natasha Ivanova, the street ministry leader from Ekaterinburg, is such a person.
A Happy End - And a New Beginning:
Lena and Roman, two young people who were rescued from the street and drugs through our ministry, said “I do” in a wonderful wedding held at our Moscow shelter home in May. |
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July 2006 Newsletter
“A Church Is Born!"
In two years, 8 national church planters in Udmurtia, Russia, started 40 churches in unevangelized territories, visiting 5-7 towns and villages per week.
Hundreds became church members, thousands heard a clear Gospel message - a wonderful result of a joint project of the local church, Mission Possible and you, dear friends!
This summer marks the completion of our 2-year support to these church planters in Udmurtia. But the project does not end here.Read a report of a home meeting that reminds of the Apostolic times!
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June 2006 Newsletter
“The Mission: Reaching the young generation in Albania”
Besa Shapllo, a university professor of English, became the leacer of the newly-established Mission Possible in the Post-Communist Albania 15 years ago. Today her team reaches thousands of children and youth through magazines and Bible clubs.
Read a report of the opening of a new Bible club in Tirana, the capital of Albania! |
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2006-06-13
 May
2006 Newsletter
“I
love you, Uncle Ignat!”
A
phone call from Natasha - a girl who was rescued
from the stret and lived many years in our Moscow
shelter home - brings back many memories.
Read
Natasha's story in our May Newsletter! Even
if she was the only child we were able to get
off the streets in the past 10 years, all the
work and effort would have been worth it! But
there have been hundreds more!
2006-04-09
 April
2006 Newsletter
“Go and Teach!”
In the post-Soviet territories, the most churches
are less than 10-12 years old. There is a great
need for training for teachers and leaders.
To meet this need, Mission Possible for over
10 years has been offering the churches a large
study program IEF(International Education Fellowship).
Read IEF Director Vadim Taran's report of
this largest Bible school in Russia and Ukraine
and the current plans.
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2006-03-16
 March
Newsletter
Double
Celebration:
Mission Possible Bulgaria turns 15 year,
Bulgaria ministry leader Roumen Ivanov 50!
"Everything began at the collapse of Communism
in Eastern Europe and the inexpressible jubilee
of freedom in 1991! The dream of a whole generation
of Christians came true overnight!"
Read Roumen Ivanov's interview on the 15 exciting
years of ministry!
Natasha's testimony:
Something happened that changed the course of
the Bulgarian Gypsy girl's life!
2006-02-14
 February
Newsletter
"I
Survived but Wondered How They Did"
Street
patrols help children regularly also in exreme
cold.
Mission Possible's president Ignat Ivanov tells
about his visit to our Russian street children's
ministry locations and life of homeless children
at -49F!
Hopeless
father pushed baby carriage day and night.
Encounter with street patrol changed everything.
A wonderful testimony from Moscow of how the Lord
touched two desperate lives: baby girls was rescued
from the street, father found faith in Jesus!
2006-01-28
Several
new children taken to the Moscow shelter home
During
November-December 2005, new children were housed
in our shelter home in Moscow. There are now 22
children.
New
articles from Moscow:
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The hearts of Gennadiy and Marina beat for children
> Where is she today - Lena
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boys at drug rehabilitiation in Ekaterinburg
Mission
Possbile's street patrol led by Natasha Ivanova
has placed several youths from the street to Christian
drug and alcohol rehabilitation. The results are
very promising. The first boy, Sasha, has become
a Christian and is planning to soon start studies
in a Bible school when hie rehabiltation year
ends. He has been helping the center in taking
care of the newcomers.
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Read more about the work in Ekaterinburg!
Shelter
home building purchased in Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Mission
Possible runs in the cold Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk
a shelter home for street children. It has been
operating in two small apartments. In 2005 we
found a suitable building, but the paper work
took over six months. Now wer are finished with
the purchase project and can prepare the new facilities
for childrens!
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Read more about the work in Krasnoyarsk!
January
2006 Letter by Nasko Lazarov: Rich with many
things
Dear friends of Mission Possible,
Few days ago I was
challenged to describe the ministry of Mission
Possible in two sentences. The challenge was
not so much to say in a concise way who we are
and what we believe in.
Read
more!
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