SOAR International Ministries in Kenai is trying to stuff 850 Stockings on Giving Tuesday for Ukrainian refugee children.
This project is a unique opportunity to make a difference in the life of a child in Russia, Abkhazia, Moldova, or Ukraine. In order to offset the increasing expense and red tape involved in importing gifts and aid, gifts are purchased and stockings filled on location.
Wendell Garrison, Assistant Director of SOAR International Ministries explains the project mission;
“We’ve come across this need for Ukrainian refugee kids that have gone into Moldova, and they are in need. And they are in crisis right now and so we’ve been invited to bring 850 stockings into Moldova for those kids this year.”
Across Russia and Abkazia, millions of children are in crisis. SOAR is asking you to share JOY this Christmas through the Stuff a Stocking project, reaching one child at a time.
Garrison explains how you can purchase a stocking;
“Well you can contact SOAR here at 907-283-1961 or go online to soarinternational.org and you can click on our stuff a stocking project. You can give to stuff a stocking, it’s $40 per stocking. That includes a Bible in the Ukrainian language or Russian language whichever the Bibles are going too. And you can write a letter to those kids, you can actually wirte the letter online to, too these kids and then Ms. Becky will get these letters translated into their language and distributed to the kids and then hopefully we’ll get a letter back from the kids and send it back to you”
SOAR plans on taking a local group of ten people in the first part of January 2023, to stuff the stockings in Moldova for a almost two weeks. They may also might have the opportunity to go directly into the Ukraine to deliver stockings.
Since 2002, SOAR has used the Stuff a Stocking project to help with needy Russian and Akhazian children at Christmas, and provide a doorway for local Russian churches to begin and cultivate relationships with orphanages in their region. In response to the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, SOAR is expanding the project into Moldova and Ukraine to minister to Ukrainian refugee children.
To Learn more about the project visit StuffAStocking.org.