Valentyna was born in 1983 in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, to a family that did not practice religion due to the pressures of Communism. Yet from an early age Valentyna felt a strong desire to know God. She was deeply affected by her grandmother, who taught her the Our Father Prayer as a child. Valentyna’s mother entered her name in the U.S. Green Card Lottery, thus at 18 she left Zaporizhzhya for Medford, Wisconsin. Far from home and knowing little English, she went through a very difficult period. She then remembered the Our Father Prayer her grandmother taught her and this helped sustain her, leading her to a deeper love for God as a Merciful Father. About that same time, Valentyna began to feel powerfully drawn to the Catholic Church, which she would enter in 2007. This awakened a burning desire to become a missionary, a desire which would find fulfillment in the founding of the nonprofit organization Chalice of Mercy. Mission which will present God as a Merciful and Loving Father and trough concrete deeds will protect all life and its dignity from the moment of conception until the natural death.