Dear friends, we are so very grateful for your interest in our mission, your encouragement, support, and prayers. God knows well what an essential part you play in the work that we do.
There is one powerful way that you could multiply what you do with us. Would you please consider and pray about asking your parish to be a sister parish for our work in Russia? It would help us enormously, and would also bring great blessings to your parish as well. A parish reaching out to a poorer parish always attracts God's attention, and He never fails with His hundredfold. It would be a definite way that you and your fellow parishioners could answer the Church's critical call to evangelize.
We could use St. John Paul II's idea of the two lungs – with one lung your parish is evangelizing and breathing new life into your town, and with the other lung it is evangelizing another part of the world desperately in need of the Faith. What can we share that is more precious and brings more blessings than the Faith?
If your parish would like to become a sister parish, please contact us.
Your dollars help us fund a free meal for poor children every Saturday which greatly helps their families. Also, your money can help us with our monthly "day with the sisters" during which the children do crafts, eat a snack, play games, pray, sing, and spend time with the sisters learning about God. Each summer, we host a five-day summer camp for children ages five to fifteen years old. This camp includes meals for 60 people once a day for five days, plus breakfast and supper for an 18-member mission team of religious and young adults who serve the children, craft supplies for the children's activities, and money for transportation for the mission team's 12 hour travel to Lesozavodsk and back to Vladivostok.
You can also help us keep open the newest pro-life center in Lesozavodsk, which helps prevent poor mothers from choosing abortion, gives out supplies for mothers and their little ones, and invites the moms to join the parishioners for mass. The mothers have been joining the parishioners for mass! This is an excellent opportunity to evangelize the family. Your dollars help supply diapers, formula, clothing, medicine, baby food, clothing for the mom, and clothing and toys for her older children as well.
It would really help our work in Lesozavodsk if we could buy one or two more apartments. The last time we checked, they were priced at $10,000 for a one room apartment. So far the parish owns two apartments, but the space is not sufficient to house a large group of volunteers, and often our volunteers lack proper sleep and sanitation while doing the summer camp.
If you prefer your money to be spend on this project, please let us know. Donate
Frequent flyer miles help us get to and from our mission in Russia. Any amount of Capital One frequent flyer miles help us. Other types of frequent flyer miles should preferably be 25,000 miles or more at a time. It costs approximately $2000.00 per sister to fly roundtrip from Kansas City to Vladivostok.
If you have frequent flyer miles you would like to donate, please let us know. Contact Us
Beds were shipped from Kansas City, MO to Vladivostok which provided the sick elderly poor a way to sit up while they are being fed. However, until the electricity in the facility can be updated, the beds cannot be used. If you would like your money to be spent on this project, please let us know. Donate