Marina Adams- I had hope!

Marina Adams is a young lady, now sixteen and a student at StoneBridge School, who was adopted from the Ladizhin orphanage at the age of ten. She wrote this letter out of her heart and offered it to UCP to help her friends remaining in Ukraine.

Dear Friends of Ukrainian Children,

Have you ever heard of UCP? Do you even know what it stands for and why it’s important? UCP stands for Ukraine Children’s Project. It’s important because it shows us that not all children are living an abundant life as seen here in America. I’ll share a little of my story in a Ukrainian orphanage because I want to ask you to help my friends.

I experienced the effects of living in an orphanage from birth and having no schooling, no nurture, no love from a family, and living the terror of loneliness. Now God has given me the blessing of being adopted into an American home with a family. I am learning about God and being loved by the parents God chose for me. I’m going to school and getting the medical care I need in order to live a life for God.

But every now and then, my heart hurts to know that I’ve left my friends and other children behind. The children at my orphanage, a “level four”, had no school. They didn’t know about God. They were sick and some died. Today they feel hurt, forgotten, unloved, and lonely in a big world. They want desperately to be treated the same as everyone else and to have a family.

I want to be the best that God has made me to be no matter what my abilities or disabilities might be. I want to help my friends who can’t help themselves. You can help by praying for them, and maybe going on a mission to meet them and show them care. Some of you may even think of sending money to help them. I will never forget the day Ukraine Children’s Project came into my orphanage at Ladizhin and I began to hope.

It’s a big job to reach across two continents to help heal broken lives and hearts. Ukraine Children’s Project sends medicine, equipment, clothing, and tools to thirty-seven orphanages in Vinnitsa oblast, Ukraine. Girls learn to sew. Boys learn to use tools. But most of all, they learn that someone remembers them and that there is a small opening in the door that seemed tightly closed for all their lives. I hope you will find a way to help children in Ukraine who are hoping to be noticed and remembered.

Please join Ukraine Children’s Project in making a difference in the lives of the children of my homeland. They need your help.

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You can join our team at work in Ukraine by helping support one of these vital projects:

• Help a child get an education….by giving towards our scholarship fund.
• Support our medical projects to provide medicine, vitamins and medical care or surgery if needed.
• Bring clothing, food and supplies to our 37 orphanages.
• Provide orphanage children with a TEACHING AND TRAINING RESOURCE CENTER by helping us purchase a building in 2007.
• Keep supporting our teachers who work with orphanage children.
• Sponsor a camp for graduating orphans.
• Continue to give towards our puppet ministry, sharing the gospel through Christmas and Easter stories.
• Give a Bible or Bible story book to each child we serve.
• Help send a medical or dental professional to work with children and orphanage staff.
• Provide a child with a much needed pair of eye glasses.
• Speak into their hearts by committing to pray for them.

Please help Marina and Ukraine Children's Project extend love to the children of Ukraine by helping us meet one or more of these needs. The life changing results can transform a nation to Christ.

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