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Meadow of Hope Center for War Widows & Orphans

Help provide a Christian camp and retreat center where war widows and their children can find emotional healing, spiritual care and restoration, and a renewed path forward.

Watercolor illustration of the Meadow of Hope Center, featuring several cozy yellow wooden cabins with dark roofs scattered across a lush green lawn surrounded by pine trees.

The Need

Elena and her five children were forced to flee from their home to western Ukraine at the start of the war. Elena’s husband stayed behind to defend their land. Just as they were starting to adjust to new surroundings, Elena received the devastating news that her husband had been killed on the frontlines. When asked how she coped, Elena said the children gave her strength and she had to be strong for them.

More than four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, more than 100,000 men have been killed in battlefield action or as a result of Russian airstrikes, leaving behind tens of thousands of wives and children.

Now, these war widows like Elena have become the sole providers for their families, responsible for raising children alone as well as providing for their food, clothing and shelter needs. War widows also feel the stress and strain of keeping their children safe.

These war widows and their children have significant spiritual, emotional and physical needs and are desperately in need of support, love and care.

You can help expand this refuge into a year-round sanctuary.
Give a gift toward emotional restoration
Or read below to see how Phase 1 is coming together.

The Opportunity

Through our deep partnership with local churches and counseling ministries in Ukraine, Mission Eurasia has been serving war widows and their children through the Refuge of Hope initiative, which began in 2024.

This initiative started as a children’s camp and then grew to see their mothers joining them. Our leaders realized the need for a permanent location to ensure the ongoing and regular provision of services. Today, through this initiative, families receive emotional and psychological care, spiritual support and pastoral guidance, food and basic assistance, children’s programs for healing and development and medical and legal support.

To further respond to the devastating impact of the war in Ukraine, Mission Eurasia is developing Meadow of Hope, a Christian camp and rehabilitation/emotional restoration retreat center in the peaceful mountains of Transcarpathia, near the Hungarian border in western Ukraine, removed from the horrors and reality of war.

To allow us to reach more people in need for Christ and support the young leaders who run this initiative, Meadow of Hope will expand the Refuge of Hope initiative into a year-round semi-residential center where widows and orphans can stay for two weeks at a time, allowing for deeper impact as they interact with and connect to other suffering families victimized by the war. This is more than a campground – it is a dedicated place where war widows and their children can find emotional healing, spiritual care and restoration, and a renewed path forward.

Services provided will include:

Professional Christian counseling to process trauma and loss.
Spiritual support and encouragement from experienced ministers and pastors who will walk alongside them.
Specialized trauma-informed programming for children such as special camp activities, learning, creative activities, and friendships that restore joy and hope.
A supportive Christian community through which they will encounter the love of God through real care and real relationships.

The Project

The Meadow of Hope center will be developed on land already secured in Zdenievo, across the street from an evangelical church. Phase I includes:

Construction of 10 residential cottages, each housing 3-5 people at a time.
Construction of a central meeting and ministry activity center for 60-80 participants that will serve as a dining room and an indoor space for recreation, prayer, and community activities.
Essential infrastructure, including septic systems, water, and electricity, and wood-burning stoves installed in each cottage and activity space for winter heating.

Local Ukrainian teams will build the cottages, ministry space, and infrastructure, allowing us to keep this project on schedule and within budget and providing vital jobs for Ukrainian displaced people. In the short term, the center will offer safe shelter and care for widows and children.

In the long term, it will become a sustainable ministry hub for discipleship, leadership development, and outreach across Ukraine and beyond. National and local leaders from Mission Eurasia’s School Without Walls (SWW) and Next Generation Professional Leaders Initiative (NGPLI) will provide long-term leadership to ensure sustainability and growth.

Fund a Full Cottage

$15,000 Sponsors a Full Cottage

Sponsor A Cottage

Share of Cottage

$1500 Sponsors 10% of a Cottage

Co-Sponsor A Safe Haven

Any Amount General Infastructure

Any Amount Helps

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The Request

Each cottage will cost $15,000 and we need an additional $50,000 for the central activity center and remaining infrastructure. To launch Meadow of Hope/Refuge of Hope for widows and orphans, Mission Eurasia is seeking $200,000 to allow us to complete Phase 1.

Help Build a Sanctuary for Healing

Every cottage built is a safe haven where a grieving widow and her children can step away from the shadows of war and find a renewed path forward. Your gift directly funds Phase 1 construction, providing a warm, secure space for emotional restoration, community, and hope. Join us in bringing peace to these resilient families—make your gift today.

DONATE

If you are located in Canada, please go to: missioneurasia.ca to make your donation. Thank you for your generous gift!

For more informtion please contact:

Sergey Rakhuba
President,
Mission Eurasia
(615) 435-3720
sergey@missioneurasia.org

Other Ways to Give

Send a check by mail

If you prefer to mail a check, you can send it to:

P.O. Box 496
Wheaton, Illinois 60187

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