New Hope Center

Will you help Ukrainian children and families recover from the trauma of war, build healing friendships, and envision a future with Jesus at the center?

Multiply’s Ukraine Team is involved in evangelism, discipleship, leadership training, Church Planting, and emergency relief - all supported through our Ukraine Ministry project. Much of the frontline ministry happens at the New Hope Center in Zaporizhzhia, founded by Multiply Ukraine leaders Maxym and Anya Oliferovski. Since 2011, New Hope Center has been providing vocational training to aged-out orphans and other youth-at-risk who are highly vulnerable to sexual exploitation, homelessness, and substance abuse. Summer Camp ministries were launched in 2016, bringing transformation to families in crisis, children, youth, the elderly and the marginalized. Neither pandemic nor war slowed the ministry down, which birthed God’s Family Church in 2018.

While the newest outbreak of war in 2022 brought challenges, it also opened doors for an expanded vision. Staff of New Hope Center have devoted themselves to delivering food kits, relocating families, and responding to requests from municipal social services for emergency relief for the poor. Multiple partnerships have been formed to strengthen emergency relief efforts, including with the MB Churches in Ukraine, Austria and Germany, European office of Multiply in Germany, the European Mennonite Relief Organization (EMRO) and Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), with whom New Hope has partnered to provide short-term shelter for more than 1,000 displaced and needy people. 

Today New Hope Center serves people in Zaporizhzhia, both displaced and local, who have suffered both mental and physical trauma as a result of the war. They minister to children and adults experiencing the effects of high stress–fear, anxiety, depression, sleep deprivation–and provide them with professional counseling and physical therapy. Those who come to the Center gain strength and hope for the future, through learning about a God who loves them and a local church that cares.

Here are two of many testimonies: 

“When we came from our city, which was already occupied, our children were stressed, moody, and afraid. We had many difficulties communicating with them. At this moment, this problem no longer exists. My children have changed a lot. Thanks to your professional psychologists and the warmth of your approach and the atmosphere here, our children have started to feel much better. My life has also changed. Your program and the relationships I have formed here have brought us all closer together. I am always happy to come to you, always happy to come back. I have stopped being afraid to move forward. With your help, our healing has gone much faster–our thinking and our attitude to life has changed.” (Daryna D.)

“My child and I sat at home–we did not go out, we were always afraid. My son had problems finding a way to even communicate with others; it was as if they had no common language. After group and individual therapy with you, he now seems to glow! A displaced child must learn everything in a new way, because they leave a familiar environment, leave everything. Thanks to you, it is easier for us to cope with this challenge. When I come to your classes, I feel encouraged and lifted up. We were at the bottom. You pulled us out.”  (Yulia M.)

Your donations to the New Hope Center help provide both immediate emergency relief and the eternal hope of the Gospel, bringing transformation to broken families and communities. Together, we can help heal Ukraine.