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Save the Date for the Pankyeyevs
 Get ready to welcome Andrey and Oksana Pankyeyev to the States! They will be in the Indianapolis area March 9th – 20th meeting with Last Bell partners and friends.
Here’s the information to put in your calendars:
March 19th, 2016
7:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 1207 Conner St., Noblesville, IN
This event will be a gourmet fundraiser dinner featuring classical jazz guitarist Steve Newby. Oksana and Andrey will be sharing their vision for Last Bell. The cost is $50 per person.
They will also be sharing at Genesis Church (Noblesville campus) on March 20th and at Trinity Church (Indianapolis) on March 13th.
If you’d like to host the Pankyeyevs at your church or small group, please contact Megan Hershey at 317-375-7903 or megan@lastbell.org. Oksana and Andrey would love to see you and share about the good work God is doing in Zhytomyr!
Coming Soon: the New & Improved Lastbell.org
Get ready – the new Last Bell website is coming! We have partnered with Fishhook, an energetic, talented company in Indianapolis that works specifically with churches and nonprofits. We’re excited about the way a new website will help us better share what we’re all about: bringing life and hope to orphans in transition.
We hope to launch in mid-February. We’ll keep you updated!
A Fresh Look for our Newsletter
This will be our last traditional-format newsletter. After the new website launch, our stories about Last Bell’s work with young people in Zhytomyr, and any announcements, will first be posted to our blog. Then, once each month, those stories will be “curated”: collected into a newsletter.
Don’t worry – you don’t have to be tech-savvy to read the new newsletter. Just wait for February’s edition to show up in your inbox, and click on whichever stories interest you the most!
For our hard-copy newsletter recipients: If you have an email address, we highly recommend switching to the e-newsletter. Just drop us a line at info@lastbell.org to let us know. However, we’ll continue sending out hard copy versions of the newsletter to those on the list.
10 Years of Helping Kids Survive & Thrive
 August will mark Last Bell’s 10th Anniversary! We were incorporated in August of 2006.
Over the last ten years, thanks to the many friends who have partnered with us, we have seen our organization grow from one small transitional home to an organization reaching hundreds of young people.
When we first began working with teenage orphans in Zhytomyr, we were often literally saving lives: preventing overdoses, suicide, or violence. As Zhytomyr’s orphanage graduates saw we would be faithful to them, they began to accept help with housing difficulties, job hunting, trade school studies, relationships, lost legal documents, child-rearing, court dates, and more.
Today, our hard-working staff serve these young people through five robust programs: Educational Outreach, the Support Center, Stop the Cycle, the Restoration Project, and the Shelter.
Ultimately, we want to see the post-orphanage youth of Zhytomyr in stable, healthy families, using their gifts and passions in fulfilling, sustainable work.
Over the next year, we hope to share a story each month to celebrate ten years of God’s abundant blessing to the staff and young people of Last Bell!
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