Aid to Children, Youth and Families (New Hope International)

Provides Christian training, orphan care, education (marriage, family, AIDS, STDs, alcohol and drugs) and other aid to children, youth and families in orphanages, schools, camps and conferences in Eastern Europe.

Why do we exist?

Christ wants us to “bear one another’s burdens”. (Gal 6:2)  In 1968, this verse of Scripture made an impact on Hank Paulson, our founder, when he traveled to Eastern Europe for the first time.  At a secret meeting of believers in the Soviet Union, Hank was the first Christian from the West they had ever met.  With only two Bibles for more than 200 people, they asked him to return one day and “bring God’s word.”  As a result, Hank began smuggling Bibles into Communist Eastern Europe and three years later founded the organization that today is “Aid to Children, Youth, and Families”, also known as New Hope International.

What have you accomplished?

Aid to Children, Youth and Families has run dozens of Christian training seminars, camps, vacation Bible schools and leadership development conferences to train thousands of children, youth, families and pastors throughout Eastern Europe.  Over 100 staff and thousands of volunteers minister to children-at-risk in such areas as orphanages, public schools, foster care programs and to street kids.  By the year 2008 we anticipate teaching 150,000 children about the Christian faith through a four year curriculum taught by their local Christian leaders.  

To make this ministry possible, Aid to Children, Youth, and Families has become the largest publisher of Christian resources in Eastern Europe.  Our translations are read and passed on from one person to another, thus multiplying the good that comes from one book.  Our accomplishments can be noted in more detail on our website: www.newhopeinternational.org.

Oksana is our Ukraine Orphan Care director under whose leadership we developed a program that takes orphans our of the institutions and places them with loving Christian families within their country and culture.

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