"It's not about having goals of our own. It's about having God's goals as our own."
Ed Dickson
HELPING ORPHAN CHILDREN
It’s easy because the passion and love involved is overwhelmingly stronger than the difficulty of the task! Loads of Love has been «blessed» to be leading a phenomenal group of local workers and volunteers who are completely pumped with the task!
In 1996, I was working as an international consultant in Ukraine, when a friend came from Canada with a suitcase full of gifts for the orphan children. I did not know, until we stepped into the orphanage that day, that there were a large number of children living in deplorable conditions in institutions around the country.
On a cold December day in 2001, I was in Ukraine and wondering, "What am I going to do for Christmas?" That's when I got an idea that would eventually change the lives of thousands of orphans!
When the COVID-19 lockdowns hit the countries we serve, we felt the Lord saying, «Give the people something to eat.» We started targeting families that we knew were ...
Every summer now, for several years, Loads of Love has put on wild Bible Camps for over 3,000 children in Ukraine! That’s right! That’s not a typo! THREE THOUSAND CHILDREN!!! These camps are literally changing the next generation of this nation, one child at a time.
Sergey and Anya Bajenov.
Since those days, Sergey and Anya have developed an impressive web of people and programs transforming orphanages, hospitals and seniors homes. For me, it’s been a great honor to personally witness the miracles that they have been a part of in their beautiful homeland. Several churches and organizations have partnered with us to see that the miracles continue!
In 2004, I made the first of many visits to the Gaza strip. My wife and I went because her sister had married a doctor from Gaza who had studied in Kiev, Ukraine. When they were showing us around Gaza City we ...
I first visited Uzbekistan in 1996. During my second visit, in 1997, we began helping in an orphanage for disabled children, had several mission teams from Canada serve there, and later extended our work to include 'forgotten' seniors. I became aware of the plight of abandoned ...
In Ukraine, for example, there are over 10,000 villages that do not have any churches at all. Working together with existing, on-fire churches overseas, we have been able to plant over 500 new churches and build more than 20 new church buildings! One of our partner churches, in Krivoy Rog, Ukraine, has started over 300 new churches!
Loads of Love in Ukraine has hosted over 100 teams of individuals (for up to two weeks) who wanted to join with our team to change the lives of people in Ukraine. The teams primarily focus on ...
Loads of Love began helping the men at the Buriy Oogliy Institution (just outside the city of Krivoy Rog, Ukraine) in 2006. When we first arrived, we found many of the men in an uncovered cage behind the main building. When we offered them bananas, through the bars, they began eating without peeling them. We quickly realized they had never seen bananas before.
Over the past 25 years we have noticed that some children are blessed with an amazing summer camp experience, however, many children, and especially special needs adults living in institutions, do not have such an opportunity ...
Using simple but inspirational lessons, amazing crafts and really fun games, we have seen a tremendous move of God in the orphanages, boarding schools, villages and even in families with special needs children ...