Serving the Lord together

"I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 

Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 

For we are labourers together with God..."

(1 Corinthians 3:6-9) KJV

Someone donates, someone prays, someone serves, we are God's labourers. Every one shall receive his own reward. 

We have been so very happy to meet our sweet friends last Wednesday! They did not know we were going to meet them at airport and it was a sweet surprise :) I was so nervous and my knees were trembling that I thought I would pass out!!! Crazy. Ha Ha! I was sooooo very happy to see this precious family Morganti, who barely knew me but hosted in California and treated like a princess for what I`m so grateful God and it was wonderful and unforgettable experience in USA :)

The next day we have met our dear friend, brother Kevin, who has such a generous heart to Ukrainian orphans working very hard to bless them.I lost count of how many hundreds of packages he sent  from USA to BOM for several years. :) God is good!

All together we had a sweet time of fellowship.

We visited boys in a mental institution.  I have a wonderful news for you. But about it later :)

We had a Bible lesson with girls, talking about Rahab and Jericho.

We had a lot of fun!

All our church congratulated and celebrated Birthday of our guest from U.S.

Everyone received a special gift from bro.Kevin at church. Everyone was so happy and it was so sweet!

While our van was being repaired on Monday, we walked around the city. It was a hot day and all were wet! Oh. But we had a wonderful fellowship with young people.

Stella invited to the church her friends, who are former orphans as well. They loved to be with children of God! Both young ladies, Anya(in red on the picture) and Sveta(in grey) are not Christians, very interested continue to visit church services. We would be so thankful if you pray please for their salvation. We are so excited to see more and more young people join and interested to hear the God`s word! What a blessing!

On September, 1th the BOM visited kids for First Bell and 20 backpacks have been delivered to the orphanage. Kids were so excited! Yay! Director was so happy and greatly thanked for this beautiful blessing. Thank you! Thank you very much to all, who blessed these precious children with this awesome gift! You are amazing!!! Really. Director says, now all village(orphanage is in village) will speak what a beautiful gifts children received. :)

The name of Jesus is praising and glorifying far away! Awesome! Thank you so very much, who made it possible!!!

We have found a cafe-museum recently! Where you can have the Ukrainian delicious meal for about $3.00-5.00 and see old stuff what people used many years ago and still using in villages. We loved it! If you come to visit BOM, now we know where to take you ;) Ha ha!

 This week we had an awesome Bible lesson with boys! We talked about 10 Egypt plagues and had so much fun!

Also BOM had a chance to visit young adults at a trade school, who graduated this year. They are not very happy they have to study at this school and cannot choose, where they would like to study and they all are very sad.Young people just don`t have a choice. They will get stipend about 270 uah( about $12.00) per month.It is enough to buy food for few days.

In room there no socket. I have no idea why. So, they can not plug in any electric device. :(

 We gave them personal care items and had sweet time of fellowship.

 About 140 kids live in a dormitory, where only 2 showers.

 Boys and girls live on one floor. If you go first in line you will take shower with a hot water, then next, sorry, only cold water.

The toilet room is closed during a day, administration opens it after 6-7.00pm. They have go outside to use a rest room.

We watched how they learned to use ATM and get bank card at a bank first time in life.They felt lost filling out a documents at bank.

Each of teen has their own struggle and problem. After school they wander and don`t know what to do...And I would say it is depressing. They feel alone and that nobody takes care of them. Please, pray for this young people God protect them from a sin and troubles. Pray God give us wisdom how to show the love of Christ and care. Of course, they were so happy to see us and said, "please, come oftener." 

Thanks for taking time to read the blog post. It means so much for us :) Please, come back. More to come!May God bless you!

Friends since childhood and God`s grace

Last week we could visit girls with special needs. We had a wonderful time with them!
We spoke about Heavenly food, how God cared and sent a food to Israelites in wilderness.(Exodus 16)

During the Bible lesson we gave girls honey with  flavorless cookies.
(Exodus16:31)"And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it [was] like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it [was] like wafers [made] with honey". They were glad!

As Manna was white. Girls played a game.Who the first and more will pick up manna blindfolded.It was lots of fun! Many wanted to play!

So grateful for the help...

At the end we made a craft with a Bible verse. Everyone enjoyed and it was nice time.

But most precious and sweet time was when Stella with her darling son could visit her friends since childhood...Yes, most of these young ladies were together with Stella at one orphanage many years.But then they were transferred to another orphanage, where they will be till 35 years old. After they will be transferred to a psychiatric institution for adults, where they will spend the rest of their life...It`s so sad.

These beautiful young ladies never will have a future, never will get marriage, never will get an education, never will work where they would like, never go to a store to buy what they would like, never go to any park, zoo, lake, their dreams never  become real and so on and so on...Here can be many "never"...

It was so lovely, when Stella showed them how to change a diaper for a baby.

Oh, yes, they never saw it... It was their first sight and experience.They watch with such interest. Where they could see the baby?

These beautiful souls with a great interest watched how a young mom dressed her adorable son.

Honestly. We were shocked, when Stella said, years ago I could be at this place too. I just strived and battled for myself. I knew how bad to be there...I proved that I can stand up for myself and can live independently.

Oh, my!How horrible! Can you imagine this lovely young lady being there? Can you imagine how many beautiful and precious moments of life she could lose? Hear the first cry of her sweet just born son, enjoying his first tooth, dandle and loving him, have a loving and caring husband, feel loved, walk on streets with her family, enjoying a friendship with Christian friends, having a fellowship and spend time in McDonalds with dear friends...

...just a simple thing, skype with a lovely friends over ocean every week. And so on and so on and so on...

When I think about this beautiful girl what could happened with her, how she would feel lonely, unwished, neglected.., I am AMAZED by great God`s grace and love... HOW good, mercy and astonishing love of Heavenly Father to this precious soul!

Can you imagine Stella in this orphanage and then to be transferred to psychiatric institution for adults?..

How sad and disappointed about these beautiful young ladies, who, some of them may live independently but never will have this chance...

(Hebrews12:28)" Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear". 

Gifts to boys

We are very glad could to visit our precious boys!
Thanks to your lovely donations, we were able to buy diapers and  very good britches to all boys!Yay!What a blessing!Thank you so much dear Friends!

For those, who does not know yet.

If you would like to be part of the ministry and wonderful blessing to these orphans, showing your love and care to the needy ones.Only $15.00 for a month can be VERY helpful to Monthly Sponsorship for Boys Institution. You can send your monthly gift  on the right side of the blog, at the top.Thanks a lot!

Also we could spend some time with kids.

But most of all we are very happy to see that our caretakers LOVE these children!We could meet the lovely caregiver E. in working time.She was dressing children.

And she changed clothes of wet boys.

This lady has so soft and lovely heart.What is SO important to these abandoned children! E. said, these children are as my children. It was such a blessing to hear it.She is as a loving mother, who are worthless for the world, pour out her love as much as she can.

And one more precious blessing was hear from caregivers.

Some MORE boys receive a special formula, children`s food, what BOM brings there!Yay!

Love this smile :)

It was so nice to hear.That organism of this sweet boy with such sad eyes, began to digest a food much better. Our caregiver said, when she started to work several months ago, he vomited after every meal.Poor boy... Now he does it not so often, when they began to feed him special formula for kids.Such a progress!

Andrew demonstrated to us his muscles.He stays a guy! :)

Thanks everyone, who reads our updates! Many thanks for all your daily prayers and wonderful support!You are such a huge blessing to orphaned children in Ukraine! :)

Update in pictures

Hello everyone!I feel so and so sad that I`m not able to update for every visit or something special and tell you in details.I would love so much to do it! I`m very excited  always to tell you what the Lord is doing in BOM. But for now very short just in pictures, about main and previous visits of orphans and events what happened for last weeks.I`m so and so sorry... :(

So we had...

A wonderful time with typical teenagers in an orphanage.

 Awesome visit of precious girls!

One more great meeting with teenagers in another orphanage.

A support and visitation a young and poor living pregnant teen.She gave birth a little son several days ago :) We are going to visit her and congratulate her and her husband very soon.

Bible lesson with sweet souls.

Sharing our love with another dear kiddies and deliver special gifts.

Taking care and supporting of another our precious graduated young adults.

Purchase of beautiful gifts to graduates of orphanages that we are going to provide to them soon.

So many adventures going on here.I very hope I did not forget to say about general events . :)

Also next week an one wonderful family from USA is going to come, stay here and spend several days with BOM. We are so thrilled!

Our love to you all!God bless you!