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There are approximately 1,000,000 children classified by the Russian government as orphans. Some are actually orphans who have no living or known parents and some are social orphans who have been either given up by or taken away from their parents. Many of the orphans are handicapped with physical and/or mental disabilities.

Since 2002 LifeLine Missions International has been leading groups of volunteer short term missionaries to serve in Orphanages, Shelters, Summer Camps and Adult Facilities in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Lomonozov, Peterhof, Murmansk, Chelyabinsk, Pushkin and Pavlovsk. These trips occur three or four times a year and typically last ten days to two weeks.  LifeLine Missions International (LLMI) is a Christian missions sending organization dedicated to the facilitation of short and long term mission ventures among peoples and children of the world with the specific intent of extending God´s Kingdom, changing the face of nations one heart at a time.

LLMI mobilizes, trains, deploys and provides pastoral administration to short and long term individuals and mission teams in the Youth Camps, Special Needs Children´s Homes, Orphanages and Hospitals.

Many of the orphans we have visited since 2002 are now adults, it became evident that a mentoring program for these orphan graduates was the obvious next step. We have partnered with the Grace Center and Hope for Children in St. Petersburg to provide mentoring services for some of our graduate friends.  These programs provide guidance and life skill classes for grads who are now living independently.

Fall of 2012 we began the process of merging the Association for Nurturing and Development of Orphaned Russian Children (ANDORC) with LifeLine Missions International. ANDORC was founded by Christina Peterson to sponsor Americans interested in spending 3 to 4 months giving daily care to special needs orphans in Russia.  They have sent several young ladies to work at orphanage #4 in Pavlovsk and orphanage #16 in Saint Petersburg.  We are hoping to continue the work Christina started.  If you have interest in this project, please contact us using the information on our contact us page.  The Andorc program has been indefinitely suspended due to current conditions.

In 2014, Reflections of Hope merged into LifeLine Missions International, making it possible for us to provide more humanitarian aid to orphan grads in St. Petersburg and Chilyobinsk.  We now support Lucya Subbotina through this program as she continues to be our contact in both Russian cities.  Lucya also visits a children’s cancer ward in St. Petersburg several times a week providing love, care and activities for these children.