“I love the children so much and the way they have responded to me has been amazing.”
“We hadn’t experienced anything like Kompas Park before, but it was a great first time.”
“This has been one of the best weeks I’ve ever had. I’ve really loved being here….”
This is what some of last summer’s volunteers said about their time helping at Kompas Park, the superb facility established and developed by Hope Now. Everyone who came was richly blessed as they served alongside Ukrainian Christians to give children, teenagers, widows and widowers ‘a week to remember’ at Kompas Park.
Volunteers are needed again for the Kompas Park 2011 Summer Programme. We have opportunities for individuals, church groups and families from May through into September.
In May we need helpers to prepare Kompas Park for the season, and through the summer adults and young people to help run camps. Children’s Camps, English Teaching Camps, Football Camp and Widows/Widowers Camps are all planned for 2011.
Volunteering at Kompas Park is a great experience and you are making a very real difference in the lives of our campers – young and old. It doesn’t matter if you have never been on mission before and there is no upper age limit.
Maybe your church Youth Group is looking to be involved in mission. Kompas Park is a great place for young people to use
their energies and talents in serving at one of our children’s camps. Or perhaps you have thought about overseas mission, but never quite got around to it. Well, Kompas Park is a perfect place to come. We make sure you are fully briefed before you travel and are on site to help you integrate easily with the friendly Ukrainian team.
As a first step, email us for more information, or call Jon Budgell at the Southampton office, to find out how you can apply to be part of Kompas Park 2011.
Frank and Lin Collier Kompas Park UK frankandlin@hopenow.org.uk
Walk through any village in the Ukrainian countryside and you will see little single storey houses each with a bucket and rope well for a water supply and surrounded by vegetable garden.
Last summer I spent a week at Kompas Park on one of the children's
summer camps. I'd like to share with you three instances which shaped
my memories and challenged my expectations.
Plans are well underway for summer 2010 at Kompas Park
Imagine you are nine years old and live in a cramped apartment in a
crumbling tower block in the poorest part of the city. You long to be
somewhere where you can run outside, play games, go for picnics and
swim.
01.05.2012 Pray for the music group Zozulenka, and their teacher Natalya, as they busily practice for their return tour here in November
02.05.2012 Pray for preparations that are being made for the cycle tour this summer, and for opportunities for the participants to share their faith as they cycle around the villages
03.05.2012 Pray for Brenda and Ksenya as they speak today at the meeting of the Oasis Group at Locks Heath Church
04.05.2012 Pray for Jon and Ali as they attend the Baptist Assembly annual meeting in London until 7th
05.05.2012 Pray for our students at Universities and Colleges as they complete their studies for this semester and take their end of year exams
06.05.2012 Pray for all those who receive food packages through the feeding programme, that no needy person/family is overlooked
07.05.2012 Pray for David John as he completes his preparations for the teaching sessions at the Pastor’s Conference next week
08.05.2012 Pray that we will have full teams of volunteers for all the camps that will take place this summer at Kompas Park
09.05.2012 Pray for the young people from Rainbow House in South Africa, and for Margaret Ferguson as she supports them in their studies
10.05.2012 Pray for the work of the mobile medical unit, and for Dr Doreshenko to fully recover following his recent illnesses
11.05.2012 Pray for the ongoing support of the Mission Fund, which undergirds all the various projects that we have, that adequate funds will be received each month
12.05.2012 Pray for Larisa and the work she does with the family support group, which encourages mutual sharing and prayer
13.05.2012 Pray that the Humanitarian Aid system that we use to send money to Ukraine becomes quicker and more efficient
14.05.2012 Pray for Anastasia Vovk as she plans camps in various villages around Cherkassy, and pray she finds a team of helpers to assist her
15.05.2012 Pray for safety in travel for Jon, David Reddaway and David John as they travel to Ukraine for the Bible School Graduation and for Ksenya as she returns to Ukraine to help Alla at Kompas Park
16.05.2012 Pray for the ongoing work of Cherkassy’s first sheltered accommodation, especially now plans to renovate the house have been drawn up and the costing received
17.05.2012 Pray for the Church twinning programme, that more UK Churches will offer to twin with a Ukrainian Church for mutual support and encouragement
18.05.2012 Remember before God all our children in cottage homes, thanking God for the security and love they receive from their foster parents as they grow up in these Christian families
19.05.2012 Pray for the work party travelling to Ukraine today, to prepare Kompas Park for the summer season
20.05.2012 As Jon, David and David return to the UK, pray for the newly graduated students as they take up their responsibilities back in their churches
21.05.2012 Pray for the children in the orphanages we support, and for Larisa and Misha as they oversee our work in them
22.05.2012 Give thanks for all our volunteers who come in and help with the monthly mail out, and do other jobs so willingly, often without being asked
23.05.2012 Pray for Jon and Ali to be refreshed as they take some time off together and have a break
24.05.2012 Pray for ex-prisoners who are now leading churches and serving in their communities that they will be faithful to what God has called them to do
25.05.2012 Pray for the young people in our pre-independence homes, that they grow in confidence as they study and plan for their future
26.05.2012 Pray for Vika Lavrenko and Stanislav Dyachenko, sponsored children who celebrate their birthdays today, also for the quiz at Ashley BC this evening in support of our work
27.05.2012 Thank God for our Board of Directors, whose support of the work of Hope is so encouraging; pray especially for the two new Directors to become more familiar with Board matters.
28.05.2012 Pray for Alla Kostyunina and her team as they prepare in detail for the planned camp activities at Kompas Park during the summer
29.05.2012 Pray for Misha in
all the work he does at Alpha House and in the Ukrainian Office of Hope Now; pray also for the plans he and Lena have in using Alpha House as a summer day camp in August
30.05.2012 Pray for Vlad Serdyuk, one of
our sponsored children, as he celebrates his birthday today
31.05.2012 Pray for Cyndee and Darrel Knight and the Hope Now supporters in America, especially in their plans to visit Kompas Park this summer
