What does love look like? Sometimes, it looks like plain old hard work. Here are a few inspiring photos to show you what your love looks like in Belarus! (I ...

“Social distancing” ... That’s where many homeless people live all year round. Now, we can’t even invite them in for lunch anymore. But our team in Minsk has...

Greetings! Tomorrow is the big day ... when our dear Lydia Danielevna turns 80! Because of the 7-hour time difference, I’ll email her tonight so she’ll get t...

Remember the boarding school at Zelva, Belarus, near the Polish border? It's "home" to 120 children with medical vulnerabilities, where nearly 80 workers pro...

Starting nearly a year ago, we planned for this to be a month of celebrating life! Our dear Lydia Danielevna, who originally brought our U.S. New Thing and B...

As we continue to grieve the loss of “The Great Kozovaya,” I bring you this photo of the little church in her home village, near the Russian border. She sing...

Liudmila Petrovna Kozovaya February 25, 1948—April 22, 2020 We awoke this morning to the terrible news that the woman we lovingly call “The Great Kozovaya” d...

Greetings! I hope you’re doing well today, staying safe and healthy. I promised to keep you posted on the progress of our project — and here it is: Every ye...

Off to college ... It can be stressful. Especially if you're an orphan in Belarus. You leave the "Children's Village," where you've spent all or most of your...

Greetings! Once in a while, you do a good thing, and long afterward, you discover just how good it really was. When you help a young orphan, and then find th...