Please pray that the Ukrainian ministry You Will be Found will receive enough funds to host a training conference in Ukraine with guest speakers who have professional counseling experiences directly related to adopted and fostered children as well as professionals with experience in treating child trauma victims. A similar conference held in April 2010 provided parents with practical training on how to deal with cultural biases towards adopted children, how to tell their children that they were adopted, how to better relate to their adopted and fostered children, what to do when biological parents are still alive......January 24, 2012

Kateryna is a teenager in the Ukrainian Christian orphanage Father’s House. She loves to laugh and has a good sense of humor. She enjoys learning English, playing the piano and singing. She attends a music school and is also a member of the musical band and worship group, The Singing Hearts. Her dream is to become a famous stylist and hairdresser. Join her in praying that a loving Christian family would adopt her before she "ages out"....January 17, 2012

Please pray for future possibilities for expanding the outreach of the Directory: (1) The editor of one of the largest Christian Women’s magazines in Russia is interested in publishing an article about the Directory in her magazine, which could greatly increase its outreach! (2) The CoMission is in touch with a number of other ministries in Ukraine and Russia that are interested in distributing the Directory. (3) The CoMission is partnering with a team of Russian and Ukrainian specialists to develop a ground-breaking web technology that will allow the CoMission to disseminate the Directory and other orphan care resources like never before!...January 10, 2012

The Directory continues to expand -- its primary researcher speaks Russian, Ukrainian and English and has discovered a number of high-quality Russian resources. For example, Christian organizations in Russia and Ukraine have begun to concentrate on identifying and then translating the best English resources on orphan care into Russian. Many national organizations are also developing original training and other types of resources from their own experience. The Directory has now been formatted into an easily-printable, online PDF version that can be simply downloaded and printed by churches and orphan ministries across......January 03, 2012