Face the Future™ Foundation was created in 1996 with missions to Ekaterinburg, Russia, where the focus was on treating children, many of whom were orphans, with cleft lip and palate and other major traumatic and congenital facial deformities.
In 2012, missions to Kigali, Rwanda began followed by Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2019, Kathmandu, Nepal in 2020, Ivano-Frankivisk, Ukraine in 2023 and Accra, Ghana in January 2025. Due to the tragic conflict in Ukraine, the Russian mission has been indefinitely suspended. New mission sites are also being explored in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. It is the Foundation’s goal increase the number and impact of annual missions.