Opportunities here are ministering to Russian orphans and their caretakers by doing crafts, playing games and developing relationships in Belarus and Russia at children’s camps in the summer and orphanages in the winter. Summer trips are usually in June and July in coordination with other area churches. Winter trips often are in January.

Russian Camps were used by the Communist Government to indoctrinate the Russian children with the Communist Agenda. For some seventy years it was mandatory that the children of Russian families attend camp. After the fall of Communism, children still went to camp but there was a need for curriculum. Mark Browne, an Episcopal priest, was approached concerning this need. He developed a non-profit organization, Mission Russia Outreach, which was the beginning of Christians taking the ‘Hope’ which is in them to the Russian children through camp ministry.