"I have lost my baby..."

"I lost my baby..." crying, called Zhenya today. The precious baby, who had to be born in January, is in the Heaven today. It is such very sad news for the young family. We comforted poor girl how we could. It was hard to see mommy crying and grieving.

She will have a surgery tomorrow morning and stay at hospital for 5 days. Please, remember this young souls, Kolya and Zhenya in your prayers. Thank you!

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!

More babies?

More babies? What?! We will have more babies in 5 months! Surprize! Zhenya and Kolya are expecting one more baby :) They are very excited by this beautiful blessing. So, we are growing. We hope it will be girl in January. We have lots of boys and want a girl so much! Ha ha! Please, keep praying for this sweet family. Zhenya is feeling sick always. Thank you!

What BOM is doing

If you have not seen yet. We posted a video what BOM is doing on Facebook and YouTube. So, enjoy, pray and feel free to share! :) Blessings!

What a beautiful day!

Suuuuuper excited! We have such a wonderful blessing! These 3 beautiful young ladies have been baptized few days ago! We are sooo happy for Stella, Lena and Zhenya they have desire follow Jesus! Can be a better blessing, when young souls want to praise Jesus in their lives and live a Christian life?! How awesome! 

(For those, who don`t know yet, Lena and Zhenya accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour recently.)

We had sermon, singing on the river. It was wonderful time! It was such a blessing when unbelievers could hear the Gospel as well!

Then young people have been baptized :)

This is a very special event in our church! So, we congratulated young ladies with flowers...

 ...and the pictures with Bible verses.

Pictures, pictures, pictures... everyone wanted make pictures for a memory :)

Zhenya and her neighbours. It was such a blessing to see them also!

Our growing babies :)

Andrew loves water! He was so screaming, when Olga took him away! Ha ha!

After Baptism we had tea and fellowship at church. It was so sweet time! Look at adorable Diana! I just love those chubby cheeks!!! ♥

A gang, who always make you busy! Aren`t not they cute?! ;)

God provided just a perfect weather and such beautiful day!We rejoice and so happy our local Baptist church is growing! To God be the glory!

10th Anniversary

We had a wonderful day celebrating Bible Baptist Charity Church 10th Anniversary last month! It was a blessing to see those who were still there from the beginning, those who had returned to celebrate the special day after being away for a while.  To God be the glory!

We decided to have a picnic!Yay! It was a amazing day and we have had soooo much fun!

But before it we had some adventure.

When we were driving to a place where we had to picnic. Our van for no reason stopped and did not want to move! Brothers tried to find a reason what happened. But could not find. We started to unload all baggage as we thought we may call for a recovery vehicle. Oh, no! It is too expensive! We will not have picnic? I was thinking, God what plan do you have for us? For what we have to be ready? Do you want protect us from something?At this time rainy clouds were coming and became a darker. We started to pray. Do you know what? 

 The vehicle breakdown was found and thanks this trouble, other breaking what  service men in different car services could not find before, it was found and fixed! How wonderful! 

Romans 8:28 works always! :) "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose". 

We decorated a little bit to make more celebratory. After all it is Church Anniversary! Bible says Church as Bride. :)

Our shelter shed looked little bit nicer. :)

 Everyone was busy by their own work

 I just love how mommy and kid interact!

 Look at this precious Andrew`s smile!

 Babies, babies...

Even they were busy their own "work" :)

 Sophie loves Andrew. So sweet.

 So, while chicken shashlik were cooked...

 everyone played games.

I love this cute dirty face!

 Archery is my favorite sport! I just love, love it! So, everyone who can not do it, had the opportunity to learn. Some thought it is easy. But if you ever shot from bow, you know the truth ;)

Like a mommy, like a son

Edick wanted to learn also! :) He tried to copy and always asked or it is right. So cute.

Then we had shashlik, vegetables, fruits and cake! It was delicious!

 Also we played our favorite game.Everyone in our church likes it very much.

This is what happens if miss out balloon with water :)

This day was chilly and rainy a little bit.We had perfect shed that we could place fire and everyone could keep warm. Fire was so helpful!

Even it was rainy, we had roof. So, we could continue to have fun! It was so awesome!

And we were singing a lot. At this place there are several shelter sheds where people celebrate different parties, Birthdays, Wedding and so on. So, people around could hear Christian songs and we were so happy God's name was glorified. They looked at us like at strangers :) But doesn`t Bible says we are strangers or fools for this world? (1 Corinthians 4:10) "We are fools for Christ's sake..."

 The day was simply fantastic! Even it was cold and rainy, thank God not all day long.  It was sad that many were not able to come and celebrate this special day.But we had so much fun! We laughed a lot and enjoyed our fellowship.

But most wonderful blessing for us was when Zhenya said she wants to accept Jesus Christ! God granted our church with this beautiful gift at this day. How awesome! We were sooo happy for Zhenya!Our joy was no end! Praise God!!!!

 Our church is different a little bit than many others. Because our pastor Misha and about 70% of church members, old and young people are former orphans. Can you believe it? How wonderful!God is soooo good!!!!