By Ronnie Mosley, CapturingGrace.org
There are some stories that begin with strategy, planning, and a polished vision statement.
This is not one of them.
Last Bell began much more simply, and much more painfully, with people who kept coming back long enough to notice what others were missing.
Long before there was a ministry name, before there were staff, programs, buildings, and all the beautiful layers of care that now surround this work in Zhytomyr, there were orphaned children, frightened teenagers, summer camps, and a growing realization that for many of these young people, adulthood was not a celebration. It was a cliff.
Photographer and storyteller Ronnie Mosley visited Last Bell for three and a half intense days at the end of March. He conducted several interviews with our clients in order to tell their stories. For this story, he also talked with Liz Zubko and Andriy and Oksana Pankyeyev about Last Bell’s earliest years. Discover the story behind Capturing Grace and how the life of Ronnie’s daughter Christina continues to inspire this work at capturinggrace.org/about-us.