LEARN about ORPHAN'S B-DAY CELEBRATION

This is a very special project for us, as the primary focus from the very beginning was to come visit orphans and celebrate their birthdays because their biological moms and dads never come to them on this special day to pray and play with them, share the Father's heart, sing worship songs, etc. This is a cool outreach to the fatherless in our community that helps orphans realize they HAVE the Father who created and loved them to death! Since 1995 Olga and I and some other people from our congregation have been doing this project to provide salvation, spiritual and financial care, birthday gifts, and encouragement to orphans in Cherepovets and rural towns that have been affected by poverty. It is such an 
 amazing joy to come spend time with kids not just in their time of distress but also their joyous times and bless these little people with Gods healing LOVE! We usually spend $10 to $15 per kid to buy him/her a birthday gift. If you feel like participating in the project and in child’s life send your love gift to BCC. (see Pray and Support page)

LEARN about ORPHANAGE PLAYGROUND project

Dear friends, because you sent your massive prayerful and financial support to us, we were able to buy playground equipment for a couple of village orphanages this year. Village orphanages in Russia are very poor and cannot afford to buy good quality playground equipment for children! We buy good quality units and spend around $700 per piece of equipment! If you want us to bless more kids with playgrounds please contribute to this project sending your love gifts to BCC (see Pray and Support section on your right)

LEARN about BACK TO SCHOOL project

Another extraordinary evangelistic effort we undertake is a back-to-school project that helps Russian orphans get the eternal life in Jesus and best quality school supplies for the academic year. We do this back-to-school project every year on September 1. In Russia back-to-school celebration is real huge! Parents take their children to the school market and buy the best quality, colorful, and nice notebooks, pens, pencils, pencil boxes, crayons, pair of compasses for drawing, watercolor paints, brushes, and all the child needs for the whole academic year. Also they spend time with their kids encouraging them to study and do well at school. On September 1, everyone in the family dresses up and parents walk their children to school.

Kids that we support do not have their fathers and mothers available for them, therefore, the Lord laid it on our hearts to come visit orphans and share the Father’s heart with them, encouraging them to invite Jesus, the only begotten Son into their hearts to obtain God’s wisdom and Christ’s mind that help them do well at school. We also raise funds and buy the best quality school supplies for each and every orphan so that kids who have their moms and dads could not laugh at our kids saying: Look at your ugly pen? Ha-ha-ha! Which dump did you go to get it? Our little orphans feel shame of being different from their more fortunate classmates who have their moms and dads available for them. The truth is our kids get the best school supplies we can find in the city! We usually spend $30 per child to buy everything he or she needs during the school year. We enjoy being there for kids on September 1 and walking them to school. You should see their happy faces when you take them by their little hands and walk them to school!

By working together with our supporters and government agencies we are able to support 100 children both spiritually and financially. Orphanage and shelter directors Elena, Tatyana, Valentina, and Olga always thank me for helping support this back-to-school project and I am proud to share their thanks with our supporters, people who once believed in Igor and Olga and continue to bless us until this very day. You, people, are giving children thousands of miles away something greater than school supplies; you are giving them hope for a brighter day…and hope for a better life. Friends, thank you for contributing to a project! You are part of an ongoing effort that deserves our support!

LEARN about ORPHANAGE CHRISTMAS project

Olga and I appreiate your prayerful and financial support for this powerful evangelistic effort! Since Christmas is huge in Russia, we take the initiative and come to orphanages we support to celebrate Jesus' Birthday with the children there! Usually we bring church kids with us and they perform a Christmas play, I, then share the Christmas message and give kids a chance to give their hearts to Jesus on His Birthday! I know that the Lord rejoices every time He sees kids coming to Him and giving their lives to Him! We truly believe that the gift of the Etenal Life is the best Christmas gift you can think of! In order to do this project and do it well, we raise and use funds to buy Christmas gifts for each 'n' every child and orphanage worker so that no worker would steal from kids - a total of 80 people! We try to spend no more than $20 per person. Christmas is always a blessing for everyone of us and, of course, our kids! If you would like to help a child, you can do so by sending $20 to BCC. (see info under Pray and Support) Even though you never sent support to us before, you may send a special love-gift for this project. We are sure God will thank you for that, BIG TIME!

LEARN about PBS project

The Productive Bible Study four-day seminar gives pastors, cell group leaders, missionaries and Christian workers a fresh and clear understanding of powerful Bible truths. We travel throughout Russia, the fromer Soviet Union, Israel and India and America, bringing the Productive Bible Study seminars to spiritually hungry people. We equip pastors and church leadership with inductive Bible study tools that help church leaders study the Word of God verse-by-verse, chapter-by-chapter, book-by-book and teach through the Bible in their congregations that enables people of God know and do the perfect Will of God. PBS seminars are designed to teach participants how to impact the world by applying the Word in their practical lives. Since 1993, PBS seminars have been a breath of hope and encouragement for thousands of believers in various parts of the world! Our vision is to (1) equip pastors, cell group leaders, missionaries and Christian workers for service, (2) revolutionize their study of God's Word through the inductive Bible study method (we train and equip 1200 ministers each year), (3) motivate them teach through the Bible. It costs us around $1000 a month to do the PBS seminar. It includes traveling to the seminar site (by bus, train, plane, car), printing PBS materials (we give materials away to participants as a gift), office supplies, meals, conference hall rent, accommodations, means of communication (internet, cell, regular phone and fax services), financial blessings to PBS teachers, etc.

LEARN about our VALUES

• Values are like glue. They hold our ministry together.
• Values are like a ruler. They set the standard for a team's performance.
• Values are like compass. They give direction and guidance.
• Values are like magnet. They attract like-minded people.
• Values provide identity. They define and identify the team.

It always helpful when I reinforce values to explain who we are and what we believe in as a ministry. Therefore I decided to articulate the following values:

1. Personal growth. It is the responsibility of each individual to grow personally, but it is the leader's responsibility to help facilitate that process. I understand that I can grow the ministry only as much as I grow my people.

2. Making a significant contribution. I believe every person ought to do something that he or she truly believes in making the difference.

3. Living and working with passion. I do not know about you, but I want everyone around me to love what they do as much as I do! I have no desire to motivate people I work with and to get them passionate about life. I would rather beg them to find another job or ministry.

4. Commitment to excellence. I believe each of us should set the bar higher for ourselves than anybody else will.

5. Team leadership. The only way to build a successful ministry is to develop a great team around us.

6. Living a life of integrity. Without this, everything else is meaningless.

LEARN how you support us through GIVING

Giving out of love is a core principle of Christian faith! Igor and Olga Prokopyev and their missions’ team have relied on generosity of their friends and partners who believe in them since they had been called into the full-time ministry in 1993. In truth, all who participate in Igor and Olga’s life and their evangelistic projects in Russia, support them through prayer and sincere effort to provide financially for missionaries, orphans, and Russian Jews in the former Soviet Union. Lives have been changed, empowered and replenished through this ministry through the years! "There is no better way for you and your church to invest in eternal things than giving to missions that all peoples may know Him." - Jerry Rankin. Here are several ways one can provide support:

Contribute to a project

Give one-time and regular financial support

Donate to support a missionary

Volunteer your time in a project

Will you be involved knowing that 100% of your gift will minister to people in need?! See details under Pray and Support section on your right!