What We’re Thankful for

What We’re Thankful for

  From the entire Boaz team: Happy Thanksgiving!  Life has been heavy for most of 2020, so I thought it would be fun to focus on some positives. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I asked our team what they’re thankful for this year. Here are the responses: Family...
Meet Our Newest Child

Meet Our Newest Child

We are pleased to introduce Chandu. While Chandu’s father was dying from Tuberculosis, Chandu’s mother had to work. So five-year-old Chandu took care of his father. Once his father passed away, Chandu was locked in the home, alone, while his mother worked her...
Time to Celebrate

Time to Celebrate

  Over the last 21 years, God has used your generosity to show Christ’s love to nearly 5,000 orphans. Today, many of those children have become loving mothers and fathers, selfless teachers and government employees, as well as effective pastors and evangelists....
How to Struggle Well – 7 Lessons

How to Struggle Well – 7 Lessons

Suffering. Few of us would welcome it, yet nearly everyone faces it. It’s a topic of theological debate and one of few certainties of earthly life. It’s a common theme of nightly news broadcasts and late-night conversations. Our souls long for freedom from it. Of...
Meet Leeza

Meet Leeza

With her husband constantly deployed on Army missions, Leeza’s mother just couldn’t handle parenting on her own. So, Leeza was left at a state-run orphanage in Russia. Sometimes her grandmother visits her or even brings her home for a weekend, but then it’s back to...
Whose Lives Matter?

Whose Lives Matter?

  Whose Lives Matter? The world is aching, divided, chaotic. A global pandemic and economic crisis have taken a backseat to discussions of systems, power, and injustice. Prejudices are being dissected on TV, social media, board rooms and living rooms. The...
A Prayer for Justice and Healing

A Prayer for Justice and Healing

  Oh, Lord, we’ve made a mess of things. You created a beautiful world and filled it with children you love, children you designed with variety, intentionality, and purpose, children deserving of a voice, of dignity, of value. But we’ve constructed systems of...
The Grace God Extends to You

The Grace God Extends to You

Over the years, The Boaz Project’s short-term teams have been blessed to work with fabulous interpreters. In Russia, where the language barrier would be the greatest without them, they are an integral part of our Vacation Bible Schools.  Their command of English is...
What to Pray Right Now

What to Pray Right Now

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I’ve felt at a loss for what to say in prayer during this Covid-19 pandemic. Oh, I have plenty of requests: keep my family healthy, provide a cure, halt the job losses, provide for our children’s homes, bless our supporters…I...