Exciting day

What an exciting day we had yesterday!We are so rejoicing and praise the Lord Jesus!
 We had special meeting in Kiev with already special friends. :)
 I will tell to you little. But first would like to tell you before the meeting by the way to Kiev we could visit several orphans at hospital.They are sick by bronchitis. :(

Ukrainian ambulance

 
We had Bible lesson last Saturday at an orphanage where  from are these sweet kiddies.I will tell you and will post pictures later about lesson.So,some kids were sick and they coughed much, some could not be on Bible lesson and several of them are in hospital.We decided to visit those who are at hospital.

When we came in to their ward or hospital room, we were shocked.Because there are nothing except several empty bed tables and beds.The bed`s clothes are such yellow and wear from reusable and washings that looks awfully and is already unsuitable for use.There are nothing for kiddies to play, games, toys, books or anything that help them to be busy while they there.On walls is nothing hanging, only dyed by paint many years ago and it is need to renew already.

 Hmm.I thought or a person can quickly recover, being in this hospital room only looking all the day at these walls and lying in awful bed`s clothes?Only being there and seeing this condition of hospital room you can get sick more... :(
Awful not because medical staff or workers do nothing for a condition of hospital room. Because the hospital has no enough finances that care about of patients and to help them to recover quickly.

So, when we went into the room oh how kids were happy and surprised!Oh, how they were excited much!

God has blessed and we could bring special gift to them fruits, bun and drinking yoghurt.As orphans never ate yoghurt they asked what is that?You may inquire that these kiddies never ate yoghurt?Yes, it truth, they NEVER ate it!And they were amazed and soooo happy to get it, thanks God!

 We praise God He sent us blessing gift in time and we could to bless these poor children!

Some orphans are sick in orphanages.It is cold here and children catch cold.Please, will you pray for their health and quickly recovering?Thank you!

After spending time and prayer with these precious we went to have another meeting.

 Well, we have a family who was a huge blessing in our ministry, who blessed many times poor orphans here.Now they adopt 2 nice girls with Down syndrome.We knew they will go to Ukraine and we wanted to give our special personal thanks and give them our hugs. What an amazing, sweet and lovely is family Kimble!What a blessed family with such sweet God`s spirit!

Please, follow by their blog and support them by your prayers, encouragements, comments, donations or whatever God will put to you on heart.Thank you!

 What a surprise was for us to meet one more beautiful family who adopt 2 precious girls too by Reece`s Rainbow also, the organization that helps families to adopt children with Down Syndrome or other special needs.The family Eubanks are so sweet and kind!With such inspired and sweet spirit! Please, follow their blog, in their journey of adopting.Support them by your prayers, encouragements and even donations, as they need.

 What a blessing to know those people who chose God`s way, obeying him and follow Christ.What a blessing we had speaking about orphans, christianity and many other.We had such blessed and amazing day!Even God sent us nice and sunny weather at this day.Now here it is cloudy, windy and cold.

 We were able to share a meal together, traditional Ukrainina food. :)What an amazing gift of Christian fellowship God blessed us! We had such sweet and peaceful feeling of being with them.It seemed as we knew them for a long time. :)

 And we could to see little a beautiful places of famous city of Ukraine.

 We are so and soooo exciting God blessed we could to see our special friends, to make new ones and had such blessed Christian fellowship!We came back to home late but we were so happy and blessed and praise the Lord for His mercy, many blessings and wonderful day!

In next posts I would love to share with you a blessed 3 visits of orphans we had last week. Come back soon! :)

Absolutely amazing!

I`m so much impressed that I decided to share with you all absolutely amazing 10 years old blind and autistic boy who has wonderful gift from the lord to sing!Wow!
Really I was going to share with you what an amazing blessed trip we had with orphans with special needs recently.And I already began.
 But I decided to share with you first about this little boy who inspired my heart so much! :)
 I`m absolutely blown away and I can not believe!Please, listen what a wonderful gift he has from the Lord!His singing brings tears to my eyes...And one more thing, this little boy named Christopher was adopted by his parents before they realized God has gifted this young fellow with the gift of music!Is not amazing?!
How great and incredible are God`s ways!

On YouTube he has lots of videos.Search just by his name Christopher Duffley.

Smallest ones creation of God

God is so good to us! We were able to visit special orphanage for girls where we have regular Bible lessons. We had amazing time with kids! 

Most of all we rejoicing by special blessing for us that finally we could to separate all orphanage by two groups(older and smaller) and we had Bible lesson with smallest kids.

Why i say finally. Because we think and pray about that for a long time. Yes, smaller kids were on Bible lessons but not all time. For many different reasons they just could be with us sometimes. Our hearts were hurt and sorry about them too.Because they are needy love, attention, care and know Jesus too. they are so precious and how we can leave them!? They are beautiful and so sweet creation of God!

When they were together with older girls, it was very hard for them and for us too, because of age, their ability etc. We had understood very well we should to separate and have 2 groups.

We are blessed finally we could do that! Will be it more easier? For children, yes.But for us, no because a lot of children there. We have not other way.Our decision was that 3 members of team will have Bible lesson with older girls.The rest 2(sometimes 3) will have Bible lesson with smallest.

Yes, it will be hard for us.But is it problem to bring a joy and happiness to these precious creation of God?Is it problem tired much bodily and emotional?I do not think so. :) Yes, we are worry little bit how it will work in future. We worry a little or will we able to do that?We pray God will help us, give strength and wisdom.

 So, this time we arrived to the orphanage will have Bible lessons with 2 groups. We have found that older girls can not be with us because they were busy by cutting of apples to make it dry, make ready for winter. Well.We took smallest kids.I thought we will have 15, probably 20 kids. I was wrong. We had about 40 girls in class! What a blessing! In the room were small and older girls too.Those who can not work.
And we had amazing time! Praise God!

 

Here girls and caretakers are cutting apples.After that they put it somewhere outside where is sun. When it will dry, they use it for drink in winter.We call it compote (stewed fruit).

This sweet girl does not speak, does not react on any action, does not pay attention on anything, can do nothing. We try to teach her elementary things.But really it is very hard if you do not see her every day. All these things have to do caretakers. But they are not able because there many children.And they just have not time for each child. So, these children with special needs suffer there.
This time when we arrived she saw us and began to smile, her eyes were shine, she clap up by hands and we noticed she was exciting by seeing us.So, she began to react! We were so blessed to see that! It is very heartbreaking we are not able to teach them what they necessary, vital things, make their life easier. :(

Girls who had Birthdays. They were VERY glad to get these gifts!
As we began to teach small kids, we decided to learn Bible from the Genesis. Older girls who already know it, they could to recall and solidify knowledges. As they forget often and can not remember well. It was good for them too.

For object lesson we used toys(animals) and fruits(bananas). In the end of lesson we wanted to give them these bananas and also melon. But administration of orphanage did not let us to give rockmelon to children. They were afraid that children will have a trouble with stomach. So, we did not show them it that will not upset them.

 

Here we showed them different animals and explained that God is creator each of them etc. It was funny when they called rabbit by dog.We think it is because of his ears. But real it is sad they even do not know many animals.

 

Lemur they called by cat. It is because they did not see animals  except dogs and cats on territory of orphanage. That is why our dream and prayer to God is take these children to zoo. I`m sure it will be the best day of their life! What a blessing would be for them!I can only imagine!



This time we showed to them children cartoon about creation of God. They were excited so much, like they watched cartoon for the first time ever! Who knows, probably...

 

We have played games, stickers.
                  

The next game was puzzles.We divided all children by 7 groups, as 7 days a week.

  

They did it real good! But some children they do not know how to play by puzzles.

 

The next we learned Bible verse "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Genesis 1:1

Girls needed to play by ball and say this verse.Not many could do that.

After that we left small kids at class to make a craft but older girls have gone to play by ball with our sisters.

Until we decided who stay at class, small children had pause. Director Misha did a video.They just loved to see themselves and waved their hands. They are treasure of God, are not they? How they are precious and sweet!

We were blessed a caretaker stayed with us and helped with crafts. It was real blessing from the Lord! Because it was very hard with small children in this time.They asked every 2 minutes what will use color, how to do that or that.Some of them call you just to be sure or right color they use. They called us every 2 minutes to ask anything.Even we explained to them before how to do a craft. Ah, really we tired very much. We understand these are special children, they need attention. And God teach us patience through it.Really we tired. But we enjoy by it and happy to be with them and get tired for the lord! :)

At this time sisters have played game by ball. They let us know, have found many girls do not know how to pass a ball over zephyr. But they were happy and excited sooooo MUCH when they could to pass a ball to some one else!

Well.We  have one more idea, dream and plea to God. That will do a playground for them and teach them how to play by ball and other games. Imagine here girls 5-35 years old and they DO NOT know how to play by ball.

 

In the end we gave to them piece of banana.

 

They LOVE it very much!

We were glad during a meeting with children 2 caretakers could to be with us and heard about creation of God etc.Also we were glad they helped us much.It was such great blessing and joy for us!Thanks God!

We were very glad we finally began a class with smallest of this orphanage. We need to learn much and study with children God`s way and His will for us here on earth. We need to learn and to know each child in orphanage even it is not easy when usually in class 40-45 children. We need to learn to be observant to each child to consider their special needs and their character and behaviour. We need so much yet to serve these treasures of God and His precious creation! Please, pray for us! Thanks so much for praying!
 

Shoes and clothes

With big burden and sadness i`m writing this post. I told you about orphans in camp before but not all... Because i was going to tell you about that in this special post and it is not only about orphans in camp but about ALL orphans we minister.

We saw the big need of orphans have with shoes and clothes. It is terrible what shoes/sandals they wear!
 Same is with clothes. But i would like to stop here and say about shoes.
Their shoes too big 2-3 sizes more or too small.Also it is broken, worn out much, it hurts their foot or soles, makes callosity or wounds on feets. Boys wear girls sandals and girls wear boy`s.Because they have not other shoes.They wear what they have. Some of them generally have not shoes and they wear shoes of their friends or classmates.

Here are few pictures

 Can you imagine yourself in shoes like these?

Would you like wear sandals like this? Me, no.

Can you imagine yourself in their shoes just in a moment? Imagine they have to wear these shoes all time, because they do not have a choice.They can not buy, they have not parents or relatives or friends who can present a new shoes for them.They just do not have no one, nothing...They can not run and walk in cold or wet weather.They have to suffer and bite the bullet. It is terrible!

An one girl shared with me her little story that she does not have a shoes and she wears shoes of her friend.Her shoes she can not wear because it is already worn out and unfit.Can you imagine you wear shoes of your friend?..

Just in moment I recalled myself  when i was in orphanage. I was about 14-15 years old in this time, the same age as this girl(sorry have not her picture). I was talking with her and did not think to make a picture.
An one person stole my winter boots.It was winter and was very cold. For several weeks I had to wear slippers, because I had nothing. Yes, it was snow outside and frost but I did not have a choice.It was good that buildings is close one to another and I just did run or walked very fast to them. But I could not to play outside at this time.

You may ask but where was caretaker?

Do you know who stole your shoes?
Yes

Did you tell about that your caretaker?
No
 
Why?
I was afraid

Did caregiver see you did not have boots and needed it?
Well. I can not answer on this question, saw she it or no.I do not know.

 Did you tell her about that?
 No.

But why?
I was afraid.

Why?
I was afraid to tell everyone about my this need and others.I was afraid to ask any one to help or ask something.And I was afraid to tell her who stole my shoes.I was frighten very much.Because my mom beat me up often in childhood.

After that I was afraid everything.I was hidden all pain and suffers inside of my soul.This caregiver did beat children also.I was afraid to tell her that I have not boots or shoes.I thought she start to scream and beat me because of that.I remember it very clear like today.Sadly that some moments of our life we can not forget...So, I suffered physical and emotional in this time.

But praise God my aunt gave me autumn shoes for me.Yes, it was several sizes bigger than mine and I looked funny. :) Yes, it was cold in my foots and I knew I should to give back her it when season will finish but I was glad.

This is just very simple example.But i`m sure there are many children who suffer much more.There are many children who have not parents or relatives who can help them.Even they have relatives, they do not take care about these poor kids.These children are abandoned, neglect and forgotten...

We ask you to help in this need.Please...We are Church of Christ, we are Christians we should to show the God`s love and care to these children.

These children like this sweet kitten, who need food, care, attention and love.And these children are beautiful like this sweet girl.Let`s together will not let suffer these precious children!

 Lately I like these verses and love to read it again and again.


"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 
Here I think can be children with special needs, who can not speak
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy." Proverbs 31:8-9
 And second verse without comments.

So, we open our mouth in our prayers before the Lord and plead Jesus to help orphans, these poor kids in their needs, clothes and shoes. 

And please,we ask you to help.Probably you, your children have clothes or shoes which you not wear. Need sizes 4-35 years old, for small boys and girls, teens and adults(in mental institutions).

If you, your family have not it.Please, tell your friends, relatives, neighbours, even Church will  help orphans in Ukraine.It even can be used clothes or shoes but good.

Please, will you help us to show these kids God`s love and His care? Please, will you open your mouth in prayer together with us before the Lord about need of these orphans?With heavy heart we plead you to help.We appreciate any little step in it. Thank you! God bless you!

Huge blessing and amazing time with orphans!

Well.Here i`m going to share with you the next blessing we had yesterday.As i told you before, we were going to visit orphans in summer camp.
 Yes, we has done it!We had such blessed journey! Thank you each one for prayers!It is something incredible what God has done yesterday and how He has blessed!

So, what we have done in camp with orphans?
We brought to them the Gospel. The good message, that says how God loves, cares about them and wants to save from the hell and give eternal life in the Heaven.

 

                       During the program we had puppet show for smallest kids.

                             We sang several songs with children.They liked them!

We had object lesson.We have kept a balloon above fire. It did not burst, because the water inside of the balloon kept from it.We explained to kids.The same way water is like the faith in Jesus Christ, fire is like fire in the hell. How water inside helps to keep balloon from burst and burn.Same  way is our faith in Jesus Christ saves us from the fire in hell.

After that we told a Bible story to children about 3 men whom God saved from  burning fiery furnace.Daniel 3

      Kids loved this story and some of them helped us!They enjoying of it!

Also we explained to children that God can and wants to save them from fiery furnace, it is like hell. And He can save us from different troubles in our life(they have a lot), what sometimes are same like fire for us. God can save if we will be faithful to Him like these 3 men and etc.

During the program we had fun time also and we have played games with them.They all wanted to play!
They were so excited by it!We had wonderful fun time with children!

                                              Game with balloon

Here is the game to learn a Bible verse. The 2 teams needed take off paper bricks from sheets.The team who first will open a Bible verse, do victory.

But most of all we all were so amazed and shocked when Director of BOM and pastor Misha did invitation, about 25 orphans asked Jesus Christ to saved them! Oh my goodness we did not expect it! It is amazing and great!!! Our Lord such good, mercy and mighty God! We are overwhelmed and shocked! Do not have words...
All Heavens was moved and Angels rejoiced and sang and praised the Lord in this time! What a HUGE blessing we have! We are sooooooooooo glad!

"I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." Luke 15:7

Sasha prayed with boys and counseled them how to live Christian life.

                                      Oksana prayed with girls

When we needed to go,children did not want to leave this place and wanted to fellowship with us.
 But we were hurried because we needed go to Annya, bring a wheelchair to her and see orphans in this orphanage.This special orphanage for girls is far away a little bit and we needed to go, because staff work before 5.00 pm and we did not have the time to be more with kids here.

We told goodbye many times to kids but they were still here.Sasha and Misha gave last instructions to orphans.

Untill we had fellowship with kids, the other were writing words on our van.The van was dirty because of the rain in the morning and dust on roads. On the right side of the door it says "God loves you". On the left side "God loves people". I think it is good testimony for drivers behind us on the roads. :)

                      Pastor Misha gave Gospel tracts to children.

                                                    Reading the Gospel tracts

Children asked us books or any Christian literature to them.We are not able help them with it. It would be great blessing if someone will helps us with Christian literature, little books, Bibles to kids! Please, can you help us with it? Is not it a blessing orphans want to know more about Jesus? We pray God will provide this need to orphans too.

This is what love orphans, just hugs, love and attention. How is sweet!They do not have that someone do it for them. :(

                                        Kids still did not want to leave us. :)

This time we have learned more their needs and it is more heartbreaking and sad... As i told you before they often feel bored here . They suffer of that, because children do not have any toys, games, nothing to play.They do not know often what to do...
Also children undernourished often. Even they eat here 4 times a day, they still hungry often.Probably it is a little food they get here. Fruits they almost do not eat.If they get a banana, it is half of that or  even a third part.They do not have hot water to wash clothes or take shower.

Their clothes is worn out much, shoes broken or too big size. They do not have change clothes. They are lonely, suffer and afflicted. All this is horrible and heartbreaking!.. :(((

Because of that children run away from the camp.If children run away, the police catch them sometimes in other cities of Ukraine far away, even in Russia. Children like to "travel".
Often children bring any disease, they hungry, dirty, they steal different things because of hungry, clothes, shoes and etc. and can get in any trouble.They street kids in this time.
So, next time we want to help if only a little to bring sport games, different things to make them busy, will save them from troubles and bring a joy and blessing from the Lord. Also bring to them fruits, bananas, oranges and maybe something more.But WE NEED YOUR HELP! PLEASE! We can provide all these needs only with your helping! Please, can you help these afflicting and suffering orphans? It would be good if someone will help with clothes and shoes to send them.These kids will be in this camp to the end of summer.

Ok. It is not the end yet!We have one more blessing! Coming back  from special orphanage to girls where we brought huge blessing to Annya(yesterday), we visited one sister in Christ. In this time Lyuba(member of BOM team) began to witness to a grandmother on the street. Pastor Misha finished it and when he gave the invitation, she asked Jesus Christ to save her from the hell.

Grandmother asked us to help her with a Christian literature to read  and learn more about God! WOW! What a blessing!Praise the Lord!

So, we had amazing and great day yesterday! It is  incredible how  God has blessed us! We are so rejoicing these blessings, wheelchair to Annya, amazing and wonderful time with orphans in camp, about 25 saved orphans and one more soul-grandmother! It is fantastic, great and wonderful!

"Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth." Luke 15:10