| Shore of Hope supports the needs of the Russian orphans and children, deprived of parental care, in the orphanages and shelters in Far East Russia. |
May 16 Hello Everyone, We are now 1 week into our trip and have visited many children. We wish you could be here to see the appreciation on their faces for your kind gifts. We have attached a couple of photos for you to share with the Sunday School children.
Words can not fully express our feelings of thanks to you for your generosity.
Best wishes,
Natalie and Randy
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Teaching faith in orphanages |
May 3 Our volunteers Vicka and Kostia are teaching children to know Faith and God in Russian orphanages 
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East Russian Mission Trip |
April 14 Shore of Hope EAST RUSSIAN MISSION TRIP is scheduled for Mid-May 2009 and would like to ask for your help. Natalie and Randy Smith want to take toothbrushes and Beanie Babies (or small stuffed animals) to give to the Russian orphan children during the trip. Shore of Hope supports about 300 children in the area. If you can assist, please contact Natalie and Randy Smith. They will need the items by May 3. Our projects |
Maslenitsa celebration in Lansing |
March 24 Maslenitsa Pictures Maslenitsa celebration was great! We had russian borsh, bliny and many other good american and russian food. Even the small accident with fried bliny and fire alarm did not frighted anybody. Someone said: "Now this is a real Maslenitsa - we will newer forget about the smoking bliny!" Children sang songs, danced and played games. Then Winter, Spring and Maslenitsa visited us. We had very friendly international community with - Ukrainians, Russians, Americans, Armenian and Bielorussiana people all celebrating together.
We want to say thanks to everybody who helped to organize this party, cook the food, clean up after, and of course to everyone who came to have fun with us!
We collected $467, and spent for food $218, so we were able to put $249 towards the purchase of matrasses and pillows our russian orphans.
Thanks to everyone!
Natalie Smith Maslenitsa Story |
What do we need more in life than love, caresses, care, attention and kindness - this is what an unloved child’s heart searches for. Now, out the window, it is wintertime. Snow is falling. Quietly it lies on our shoulders as we walk. A boy wakes up at home, to a warm bed and happy smiles. Mama is cooking breakfast and to his room comes the delicious aroma of something frying . . . I know, unfortunately, that very often this is only a dream or a wish to a child from an orphanage. I would like to tell you one story, which was told to me by a child from an orphanage. We’ll call him Vanya. Listening to the boy, I cried. The story was sincere and touching. Here it is - I have called it: A Winter Love Story |
Thank you everyone the children loved their new shoes |
Simple toys bring smiles to our children |
Blankets for the Little Ones |
Nikita is home from the hospital |
Nikita is home from the hospital and wants to say thank you to everyone who helped secure the finances for his surgery and medical treatments. This is the first of two surgeries Nikita will have. The second surgery is schedule for early this summer and doctors expect Nikita to make a full recovery. The members of the Shore of Hope organization in both the US and Russia would like to express our special thanks to an anonymous donor, who without their help Nikita's treatments would not have been possible. Nikita's Story from 2007 
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Dear Friends: The photos here are from the Shore of Hope Christmas celebration at our orphanages with the birth of Jesus story and of course a gift package of sweets for every child. For many of the new children this was their first present in their life. We thank our Russian team, Vicki and Kostiya for creating the party for the children and all of you whose generous contributions made this possible. 
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Basic medical supplies for the orphanage doctors and nurses are always at a critical shortage. In September 2007 we started a new project providing some of the most needed items; such as vitamins, allergy and cough syrups, Tylenol, bandages and anti-bacterial ointments. |
All of the children at the Mirnoe, Karsokova and Topolevo orphanages received new shoes in June. In July the remaining orphages received. This year delivered 500 pairs of shoes. We would like to send a special thanks to some of our sponsors, INCAT, AAA of Michigan and the Lansing Michigan Russian School. |
Shore of Hope works to improve the lives of orphans from Far Eastern Russia in the Khabarovsk Krai. In this region over 3,000 orphan children are living in 37 orphanages. We have just completed our June meetings with the area orphanage directors. Many of the building are in deperate need of repairs and children beding upgrades are high on their priorty list this year Learn More |
| | Please help! Our major project for 2009 is to replace all the mattresses and pillows at our orphanages. Learn More 
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Simple Gifts and Great Joy |
Have you ever seen such joy over a simple give of new underwear? |
Enabling the teaching of life skills is an important aspect of our work. At Nekrasovka the goal was to establish a basic wood working program. The orphanage director had a local craftsmen to teach the boys and we provided the tools. |
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