Our mission produces and distributes Christian literature and magazines in the Kazakh language. Four times a year we issue the magazine AKIKAT TANI for adults and six times a year the children's magazine SHARAPAT.

Our magazines and books are spiritually uplifting and evangelistic in nature. In addition we publish songs and audio books. The literature is sent to different churches in the whole of Kazakhstan, and the churches put them to use for their church members and for outreach. Well before the end of the year we print 4,000 calenders in Kazakh for evangelistic purposes. At Christmas and on New Year's Eve Christians give them to their non-believing relations, neighbours, colleagues or to people working in state institutions.

We hold children's camps which are attended by very many children from non-believing families. Through our youth clubs we reach non-believing young people who meet once a week to talk about a social problem or a secular topic. Afterwards we play games together. In this way we make contact with young people and tell them about Christ.

The mission takes part in smaller-scale social projects which for example enable large families to buy school uniforms, or blind parents to buy shoes for their children. Sometimes we buy water dispensers for medical facilities in dry regions of Kazakhstan, and such like. We are involved with camps for people with handicaps and they receive Christmas presents.

In our mission there are seven members of staff: The director of the mission, two magazine editors, a studio manager, a person in charge of dispatch and house maintenance, a bookkeeper and a designer. There are also volunteers who help out when needed. All co-workers are brothers and sisters who love the Lord and are active in their respective churches.

They are also involved with the camps, at young people's meetings and with preaching.

Children from completely different kinds of families take part in the children's camps. Through this, a great deal of contacts can be made with non-believing parents, who tell of positive changes in their child when we visit them after the camp. That is then a good opportunity to tell them, too, about God. One team member tells us:

"My niece was at our camp. Her parents are non-believers, but her mother knows that our family believes in Jesus Christ. This did not stop her sending her daughter to a Christian camp. When we visited her after the camp, she told us with shining eyes: 'For the first three days my daughter was very excited and talked non-stop of everything she had done there and of the new things she had learnt, and that she now loves Jesus. She also found new friends there. Next year she definitely wants to go again.' "

The HOUSE OF HOPE has at the moment four full-time and five part-time members of staff as well as many volunteers.The whole team has different groups of people in mind with their own particular needs: the unreached; socially underprivileged segments of the population, especially handicapped children and their parents; people in times of crisis who have been thrown off course by things such as poverty, illness or problems in relationships, or who have a problem coping with life; large families or just people with questions. Through our areas of ministry we try to help on different levels: spiritually, socially, materially and personally.

We distribute food, clothing and shoes; there are various projects: warm boots and schoolbags for children, coal for heating in the winter; we provide medical assistance und distribute wheelchairs; poor, handicapped children are given speech and language therapy and physiotherapy; we have a prison ministry.

We hold seminars on coping in general with life's problems and special seminars for teachers, educators and prison workers. Besides this we hold language courses: English for children from needy families and Kazakh lessons in prisons.

People who come to the HOUSE OF HOPE are seeking help. We talk personally with them, visit them at home, hold discussion groups and classic home groups.