Overview of Ministry Activity Russia: We evangelize and make disciples through support for a network of national pastors and missionaries working with teenage prisoners and orphans in different areas of both Russia and Ukraine. We also sponsor two-week Summer Bible Camps for hundreds of children each summer.
Moscow Based Prison Ministry: We support 8 Russian pastors and missionaries who serve as outreach chaplains full time to 56 different prisons including 20 Youth Prisons throughout Russia.
Ukraine: The EEO Child Sponsorship Program started in 1994 with emphasis on children suffering from the after-affects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Our goal is to be “pre-emptive” by providing direct support and opportunities to the 620 needy families who have been pre-screened and accepted into the program. Over 60% of the 900 children in our Ukraine program come from single parent homes or live with grandparents. Over 70% of the children come from nominal Orthodox or unbelieving homes and have no access to a Bible believing / teaching church.
We believe that sponsorship support which helps keep the child at home with a mother or family member, helps to keep that child out of an orphanage and off the streets. Keeping them out of an orphanage is what we mean by being “pre-emptive” - - reaching them before they are turned over to the State. Children raised in a home have a much better chance of responding to, and growing in, God’s love. Once they are on the streets, in an orphanage, or in prison, the discipleship process becomes much more difficult.
FOSTER FAMILIES: We now support 14 Ukrainian Foster Families. These 14 families represent homes for 128 orphaned children.
HANDICAPPED CHILDREN: We currently support 32 physically and mentally handicapped children with special and customized support, depending on their handicap and unique needs. This happens within the Child Sponsorship Program.
Jan 2008 NEW UKRAINE CAMP - Village of Hope - We have partnered with a Ukrainian association of churches led by pastor Viktor Kulbich, and together with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, to help renovate and run camp ministries at the Village of Hope Ministry Center in Bucha, Ukraine.
This site is also being used to house Foster Families in addition to a year round facility for camps and conferences. We hope it may also develop into a jobs and skills training center for at risk young people.
Student Scholarships: EEO has begun a ministry of offering scholarships to dedicated Christian young people from Ukraine. The priority is on providing higher education opportunity for young people graduating from the EEO Child Sponsorship Program. The 2008 school year has 52 students receiving scholarships ranging from $250-$800 per student.
Kosovo: Church planting, Aid for needy families, and development assistance are our primary outreach methods in the central Kosovo region of Malisheve. This is the poorest region of the area and many Muslim young men have come to Christ. | 
