God's plans are the BEST!

We are so and so excited!Oh, how merciful and generous our Heavenly Father!!!! Our hearts are full of joy, sing and praise Him!

Only for a week we have raised $1,300 to help with personal care items teenagers and young adults in institutions!It's unbelievable!Praise God! Praise God! Only 4 people made it possible!Oh, my!

We are sooooo grateful to all, who made it possible not only by donations but prayers and telling others about this exciting fundraiser! Million times THANK YOU friends!!!!!

We are so thrilled to bless these 240 precious souls by these amazing gifts!Wow! Please, pray that God help us to organize this all. Thanks.

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So, since this need has been met very fast and so unexpected. Our Saviour is amazing!

My beloved  friend Brianna, would love to help BOM with other fundraising. She is so lovely , (who always inspires and amazes me ;0) ) Christian very young lady, who has such big heart to the orphans in Ukraine. She leads blog CoverUpForChrist, and is very talented the owner of the Etsy shop, who supports BOM.

Brianna, wanted to help in Project with Care Items to Teens. This week she contacted over eighty Etsy shops and businesses.  Isn`t she amazing? :) Many people replied and said that they wanted to help,  over forty items have been donated! Wow! This is fabulous news!

Since God already has provided needed funds. God has the BEST plans! Does not He?  :)
So, this precious girl already has started another fundraising to help raise $3000 to hire caretakers for other 6 months in mental Institution, whom BOM hired recently.

If you would like to join in this new exciting fundraising. Please, follow this link HERE to find out more details how you can help and pray. We are soooo thrilled to see God's loving and caring hand in it! ;)
Thank you so very much for your participation!May God bless you!

This may encourage you :)

What a miraculous and awesome God we serve, Who still does miracles today! It blows my mind!  Is  something impossible for Jesus? :) Incredible story what may encourage you :)

http://cornishadoptionjourney.blogspot.com/2013/11/happy-adoption-day-aleksa-and-her.html

Gotcha Day of little princess!

Oh my! I can not describe to you how happy we are! Sometimes I think my heart will jump out right now because of  GREAT joy! :)))

Do you remember our BOM story on ABCnews? :)

                  

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/helping-ukraines-children-15234283

Do you remeber when "our" little star Masha was airing on television as well?

Do you remember our conversation with director of orphanage about adopting this precious little soul? :)

God answered your prayers, dear Friends.
Today this little girl is out of the orphanage and has FOREVER her loving family!Praise God!!!
She is became such cute and beautiful in new outfit. :)

The Watckins are beautiful Christian family, who adopted one more precious little girl Charity and both girls are not orphans any more.Awesome!

They brought teddy bears, bracelets, scarfs to girl.Girls all were overjoyed!

I love my sister! :)

Saying goodbye to all BOM

and even to her friends

Masha loves her family!She waited all morning when they come take her out.When they left orphanage she took hand of her daddy and did not want to leave him.It was such a precious moment...

We are so happy Masha is NOT orphan any more and is on the way to her loving home and family in USA. We are super excited she will have bright future and will blossom near those, who loves and adore her :)

Photo for memory

We rejoice and praise God! Our hearts and souls sing song of praise to our powerful and awesome, loving and merciful God, Father of orphans and our Saviour!

This darling and sweet little soul is second girl with Down syndrome, who was adopted through BOM. Can you believe it? It`s AMAZING what God is doing! Our hearts are overwhelmed and humbled...

"...My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. 

(Luke1:46-47)KJV

12:2Behold, God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH [is] my strength and [my] song; he also is become my salvation. 

12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. 

12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. 

12:5 Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this [is] known in all the earth. 

12:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great [is] the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

(Isaiah 12:2-6)

Tears of joy

Dear our beloved Friends, our God is awesome and soooo good!It`s just amazing what He is doing here and it brings tears of joy and praise and glory to the Lord Jesus.He is worthy of praise and adoration!!!

We have huge blessing which I would like to share with you all.

We have one orphaned teenager Misha.He accepted Jesus Christ 2 years ago and joined our Church. All this time he prayed and wanted to find his older brother Sergey, whom he didn't see 10 years.

Here is a short testimony.

After orphanage graduation, Sergey couldn't find the brother many years. People humiliated and offended him, because he is not such as all, other... Mocked and sneered on him. He had difficulties with work. The head promised him to pay 1200 hryvnias($150US) per month. He sometimes paid to him 1000 hryvnias($125US), sometimes 400($50), sometimes 100($12.5) and sometimes 10 hryvnias($1.25US) per MONTH!!! How to live?! Problems with dwelling... The loneliness, disappointment, misunderstanding, isn't present friends etc. He started to drink alcohol and smoke with despair.

 As the result, several days ago, Sergey, brother Misha, wanted to commit suicide because of many problems and trials in his life...He thought many times about it before.

Once he climbed up the 9th floor of a building that to bend down and to commit suicide. He didn't see sense in life, it turned out nothing, why so to live and suffer, he thought. And already made a step forward to make this awful decision, but something stopped him.

Days later Sergey accepted Jesus Christ in the heart and understood what it was and Who stopped him from this awful decision.Lord Jesus stopped him by his grace and mercy! What a miracle!

And literally in SEVERAL days Misha and Sergey met!!! Oh, my!After 10 years!But it is not so simple as relative brothers, but as brothers in the Christ!What a GREAT joy!

Misha is in a white T shirt at the left on a picture. Sergey is on the right on the photo and he is the big brother.

Sweet Friends, all our church cried and rejoiced to this huge blessing, listening to this short testimony how our God is a miraculous and wonderful. What can be better when sinners accept Christ Jesus finding in Him forgiveness of sins, salvation, the peace, rest and hope. Hallelujah!!!Praise the Lord!!!

  Now Sergey wants to accept a baptism in our Church which shall take place this Saturday August 11, if the Lord allows. Also some orphaned teenagers wish to be baptized and join our local Bible Baptist Church Charity. I cannot describe the joy we have on seeing this!

Our dear friends, it is simply amazing and God's love and mercy is so great and so good. Tears, tears of joy, run on my cheeks and such perfect joy fills my heart. Prayers are capable to work wonders. We are so glad for our brother Misha how the Lord miraculously responded to his many prayers. He is sooo happy and so excited for his brother!

 Also our dear friend and the brother in the Christ Vova, also found his mother, whom he did not see many years. Vova is very happy!What an awesome blessing for our brother!!!

We would be so thankful, if you will pray for the forthcoming baptism in our Church which shall take place in 4 days that the Lord send good weather and everything arranged. Also for our dear souls, which wish to execute a  commandment through a water baptism.We are so excited!
 "The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:" (1 Peter 3:21)KJV

Also please, pray for our pastor Misha, for his health. He has now troubles with health and suffers a lot. If he will not be better, we should postpone a baptism and all events that makes inconveniences and some problems and it decelerates all ministries.Many thanks, sweet Friends!

Miracles in life of Valya

WOW!It`s simply amazing!It`s real, real miracle!!!I can hardly believe my own eyes that a goal has been met for the repair of Valya's home!I just wish to scream from a joy!Two days.We raised $3500 for two days!Can you believe it?!God is so good and mercy!!!Our God is AWESOME!

Look what prayers can do, Friends!!!We are so grateful to all of you for pouring out your love on our dear Valya.Thank you soooo much for ALL your gifts of love small and such huge!Thank you for your open hearts and such amazing magnanimity and generousity!Thanks a LOT for all your prayers!It`s so greatly to see how God uses His children for His glory!So wonderfu!Tears, tear of joy!

"Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?" (Jeremiah 32:27) KJV

 We just can not wait to start to repair the house of our sweet friend.We are so thrilled!

 We very hope that this amount will be enough to do everything.Please, pray God will lead and bless.

 One more great blessing I would like to share with you.God greatly loves our dear sister Valya. ;) It`s amazing to see how God leads and bless her in all her needs.

Valya wanted to find her mother and tell about that, what the Lord made in her life. But Valya didn't see her some years, she at all didn't know or mother is still alive. All she could to do, it to pray. She often asked the Church about it. That the Church prayed that the Lord would help to find her. She already was going to write application that the police would start to look for her. But prayers are capable to work miracles!

It was emotional day for our sister in Christ. Joy, tears, hope, pain, grief, helplessness... All these emotions filled her heart.

Tears causes and pain of heart, looking at these pictures. It is simply awfully and breaks heart...
Yes, this lady is mother of Valya...

It is difficult to imagine, how it is possible to live and work here for 6 hryvnias($0.75US) a day. Yes!You are reading correct.She earns 6 grivna($0.75US) a day.She works hard since early morning to the darkness.It is simply awful. Without hope, without any help, protection, alone, in poverty, without the future.It so and so heartbreaking...Tears, just tears of sorrow...

 But it broke our hearts more, when we have found she is former orphan too...She was at orphanage...and now she lives on the street.

It`s reality, Friends.That is why so important to pray for orphans, share the Gospel with them, that there is hope and future, there is way and life."Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me". That is why we pray, we can build a Transition Home for teens after graduating orphanages, that to protect and save them from this horrible life.

We helped with food to Valya's mother and shared with her the Gospel of grace. We think it there would be such huge blessing when we will finish house repair that mother would come back home and started to live new life.
Please, remember in your prayers the mother of Valya, salvation of her soul and Jesus will help her in needs.

We want to wash her, to give clean clothes, to feed and take to the doctor. She awfully coughs. I am afraid that she can have tuberculosis. It is not surprising. If to live and work there with barehanded, without gloves, it is possible to get any awful illness.

Despite that, that it was impossible to breathe, while we communicated with her, because of awful a garbage smell. Despite that even our clothes were smelled this awful smell and people looked at us strange, looking back. We rejoiced for Valya, that she found the mother! We rejoiced that she could hear that, while she is alive, still there is a hope and she can have new life.Praise God!!!!What a joy!

MIRACLE!

  I`m so excited to share with you that God made a great miracle!It is inexplicable! It is such big joy and such thrilling!!!

Many of you prayed and still pray for the father of our brother Misha. We are so blessed to know and see that hearts of each of you were heavy in hard minutes and time of our director BОМ. We were so happy to see as many of you had spread this news when Misha`s father was dying and nobody expected that till this day he will be live. Here we could tell to you the latest news about the father. That he is still alive, but lost his mind and became mental sick. It broke our hearts, brother Misha very much suffered as couldn't help the father and he did everything that was in his forces. All of us, Church of alive God could only pray and ask Jesus to make His will in life of the father and our pastor. It seemed,  better to leave in the heavens than so to suffer here... It caused all pain.

  But will of Lord perfect, good and acceptable! The Lord makes miracles as well as thousands years ago. He is a  strong God! He is amazing!. He is all-powerful. He is good and Holy. Which else god can make miracles as Jesus Christ, alive and raised God. Praise God! 

  Dear brothers and sisters in the Christ, dear Church, the Lord made the REAL MIRACLE about which anybody even to think and couldn't! The Lord completely healed the father of our brother Misha. The Lord on favor, returned his  mind. Today he is completely healthy as physically and mental! What is a joy and delight! Doctors make a helpless gesture and can't explain that occurred. But there was miracle! The simple miracle! Is it possible to explain a miracle? That, what not under force to people, our Almighty and Omnipotent God is capable to make miracle. Praise the Lord!

  Dear friends, look what can make prayers, what God can make miracle, when all come together in one spirit  and ask about His favor.How our God is wonderful and great! My heart rejoices and the soul sings and exults! God used each of you to make this miracle. He heard your prayers! The heart of bro.Misha is overflowing with gratitude to every of you.He is so happy and amazed!He is speechless and overwhelmed.It`s AWESOME blessing!!!

"Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. 

Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 

Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 

Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 

Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD." (Psalm 150)KJV

The five loaves and the two fishes

Do you believe in miracles? I do! I do believe that Jesus does miracles as thousands and  thousands years ago. Because "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." (Hebrews13:8)KJV People change, friends, job, time, circumstances, life, location, home, everything changes. But Jesus NEVER changes!!!He is faithful! He is Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace!

Many of you is known history about the five loaves and the two fishes. (Mark6:34-44)How Jesus multiplied it, made a great miracle, having fed five thousand people. There was only five loaves and the two small fishes! How it is possible to feed such great number of people, having only such smallness? I don't know how it is possibly. But I do believe. I simply believe, what tells the God's Word. It was simply a miracle! If we could understand by our mind, it any more wouldn't be a miracle. ;)

I like it:"And they did all eat, and were filled.And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes." (Mark 6:42-43)

Well. I have to tell you something.Something great and amazing!
God "multiplied" our means and we can help much MORE to orphaned girls, not only by mattresses and pillows! Throughout the long time we looked for mattresses at the acceptable price and that suited to beds of girls. Their beds still an old sample, from period of Soviet Union. We looked for so, that wasn't expensive and it could serve long. We found for 125 hryvnias($15.6) a piece. We were glad! As mattresses of the first-rate quality it is very expensive and they don't suit to beds of girls.

 Having raised funds, we needed to organize everything that to acquire and provide these wonderful blessings that our dear children could have sweet dreams. But HOW we are happy and also delighted! How God miraculously suits everything and makes! God took us to the right people and a place, where we can acquire mattresses for 75 hryvnias($9.37)! Wow! We are so glad! We ordered, as this is large number. Here it is necessary to order everything, differently you won't find. And now mattresses sew at a factory, for our lovely girls. It means that we can buy now not only 90 mattresses, 90 pillows, but 84 blankets for the same girls! Oh, my!!!!!It`s awesome blessing! Isn`t it?
 Interestingly and funny that we just were going to begin our following project in some weeks that to bless these orphans with soft and warm blankets. As their blankets are in an awful status too.But God ALREADY blessed and sent to buy enough blankets!Great!

I can't believe that we can already buy such large quantity of blankets!!! And we don't need to begin this project already. It is already in operation. Lord Jesus so miraculously suited everything and increased, caring of orphans. This is miracle! So, for $2.206 we can buy 90 new mattresses, 90 new pillows and 84 blankets!(For other $60 we are going to buy mattresses covers, as we have little more). Do you believe it?! This simply is HUGE blessing! In some days we are going to get and provide blankets to girls while mattresses and pillows are sewed at factory. We are so excited!We are sure that the director and administration of an orphanage will be shocked. ;) What  awesome God we serve!!!

How we got in ABC News

Many of you probably think how this very small volunteer mission team got in ABC News?How it could happen?When? How these Ukrainians could get in world news?and many similar questions...

We could not say before because it was private and we did not know the end of these all things. :)

Maybe it will be interesting for some one and will bring encouragement how God works in Christians lives. Here is our testimony, incredible blessing, adventure,worries and much more... 

As many of you know, we do not have enough support and we do what we can to help ukrainian orphans to bring joy and hope to these precious and sweet kids.
We pray, and our dear friends, followers, donors and everyone who knows about it.We fasted so many times also...It is very heavy to describe by words what we feel when we see and feel so helpless. It breaks our hearts. We cried many times and pleaded the Lord to help.

One day(on February 2011) God has spoken to my heart through His word very clearly (Isaiah 66:9-14)
 I will say beforehand Jerusalem it`s BOM.

 "Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: 
That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. 
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees. 
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 
And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies."

I was shocked and could not believe and began to cry.I weeped and thanked God.I was overwhelmed and amazed.I even do not know how to say right.I was so much impressed!I thanked God.But had many questions.When God? When you will do it?When it come true?

I think many of you will agree, most of all it`s heavy to wait and you do not know end of that.We did not know when it will happen...

Well.About in a WEEK we received e-mail from Abbie Boudreau who was interested in our ministry, especially about kids with down syndrome! Wow!
In the beginning we thought some one joke with us.Correspondent from Americaaaaaa?What?!Is`t joke? Really! We did not know who is she.We do not have ABC News in Ukraine and how we could know her?  :) We did not believe for a long time.

We decided to search and find information about her on internet.We were shocked! She is real person from ABC News!Oh my goodness! My knees and hands began to tremble.I could not sleep all night.In the morning when I waked up my hands were still trembling. Hundreds questions swirled in my head.God!What that is? What do you want we do?Is that from You? What we should to do?and many similar questions...It scared me VERY much!

After many prayers we very carefully answered on questions, etc. during our correspondence.Really we did not want to be involved in it.We did not want to have troubles, stresses, many nerves, nights when you can not sleep because of thinking in your mind, we did not want that will bring any trouble for our ministry or to any person.We did not want to receive crazy calls or e-mails with threatens etc. We were scared much.And it`s because from famous television in US.

Honestly I`m a weak person who afraid to do or begin many things even it is something good..I know that is not right.I should to trust to the Lord.I`m very thankful to the Lord He is my Heavenly Father who keep my hand and never leave me lonely.He is next to me and any one person can not comfort you when you afraid something, only He alive God can give His perfect peace in  heart and calm.

We prayed very much and asked the Lord to help us, protect us.We beged God if it will bring any trouble that He will stop it.

But in same time God gave us peace in hearts and calm.And we began to think what if it`is answer to our prayers?What if God has His plans and He wants to make it real?What if He wants to do something special in lives of kids with special needs? What if is God`s will and we reject it? and many "what if" we had in our heads.

In same time it was fun to have new adventure and experiense! :)

Well.After some time Abbie and her producer Sarah Netter has let us know, they would like come to Ukraine.What?! Are you serious???
While they both were in Ukraine we had a wonderful time!They both are such nice, kind and very sweet ladies!Children loved them and they excited very much to see foreign people.We had such AMAZING fellowship!We enjoyed and praised the Lord for that!
 Some kids still ask about them.Why they do not come to us?Isn`t sweet?

Here are several pictures

A little lunch or picnic after long traveling to orphanage and mental institution.Abbie with tears in eyes after seeing orphans in a mental institution.They both are such kind ladies, as many of you we believe!

My horrible interview

Saying goodbye to friends 

And the rest of story you already know. :)

 A one more detail.Many of you probably watched ABC news 26/12 and noticed that we were not on television there. :) We believe Abbie and Sarah did a great job!They do their work very well and just perfect!
When we watched it, honestly we were upset a little bit.But in same time God gave us peace in our hearts.Next day we have found out a reason of  that. Dear friends, I want to say to you honestly.We absolutely are NOT upset! We believe with all our hearts it was God`s will!We were so much excited and it brought so much joy to our hearts!
But there is a link to our website and video what we believe many of you already watched.If no, please, follow to this link.
But we were so much happy to see a beautiful story about adoption a small cute girl from Ukraine.I think many of you will agree, the story is even more than beautiful!!!

I thought yesterday also why it happened.Also about television and these all things.I opened involuntary a Bible and it opened self at this place.Hmm!I decided just to read and continue to do what I wanted before.But when I read tears began to run on my cheeks.God told me in His word: "For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD:but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word." (Isaiah 66:2)
I was amazed and overwhelmed!I thanked and praised the Lord!
It brought so much joy to my heart and God gave me more peace in my heart than I had before!It is amazing!

Also these last days we had huge traffic on blog and website!We were excited to see it and amazed!It was something!What a blessing from the Lord!We do believe it was miracle from the Lord!

I`m so sorry if it took you some time to read.But I would love to add some details in this incredible adventure and wonderful blessing from the Lord.More details why we believe it is from the Lord.

      1. A while time ago God opened our eyes about kids with special needs, especially about kids with Down syndrome.We were blown away to hear all information.At same time God gave a vision how minister to these kids.We understood God wants we do something for them!

     2. God had lead us to a conference more than year ago where we got HUGE knowledges about these kids!We were shocked and so thankful to the Lord!We were very much impressed and struck because we knew nothing about them, only little bit!

     3.  After conference we decided to change a program for these kids, teach them more deeply etc.And God bless each journey much, even more than we expect each time!

      4. An one little girl with D.S. has found a family in America through our ministry.It was the first adopting in this mental institution(where we minister) during whole their life!We hope more children with D.S. will find families.More read here and watch video here.
      5. We began Bible lessons more than a year ago in orphanage where are children(only girls) with special needs.God bless much!We are so exciting!We had before only program there.

     6.After many prayers we began Bible lessons to kids(only boys) with special needs in one more orphanage too.There we had only program too.Is not amazing miracle?!

       7. God blessed very much our journeys to orphanages to kids with special needs, when Abbie and Sarah from ABC News have been here.

       8.We have piece in our hearts about it.

      9.God blessed us in doing website.We saw many blessings during this time.Abbie found us through the website.

     10. We made a lot of videos in different orphanages that will edit a special video and will place it on internet, social network  etc. and leave a link of our website.Abbie and Sarah did same video what we did, even in same some orphanages and even same ideas and same places!Wow!Each time We were speechless and amazed!We could not believe by our eyes!We only did not have a time to make like a one short film-video about 5-8 minutes and place it on the internet. Is not God`s way?
But it was not on television news as I said above.But that is ok for us. :)

      11.Well the next it will seem crazy but truth. :) I all time joked and told to the team.I would like do everything I can that all world will know about orphans here.I did mean many countries. I will not surprise, if you will think crazy girl. :) Really as every person.What I can do???NOTHING!I`m dust of earth and sinner of sinners!!!And I do crazy things sometimes...
Did I know it can be real?ABSOLUTELY NOT! I even did not think about it. I only joked and did not think it can be sooo real! I even did not pray about that.It would be crazy to pray about it! I only laughed!
All glory and praise belong only to ALIVE God!

     12.But most of all important for us, God told us in the Bible about it in middle of February.We only did not know what it is?In a week after God told us it, we received an e-mail from correspondent of ABC NEWs as I said above.

 Well I think of these points are enough to understand is it God`s will.

So, for today we do not know what will happen in future.Will it bring any blessings to our sweet precious kids?We do not know the end of these all things.Probably it`s only beginning?or probably it is the end?You never know.We do know NOTHING. But one thing we have and know.We have absolutely perfect God`s peace in our hearts.And we are amazed by it!We are thankful to the Lord for this thing for most of all!

We thank ABC News and especially to those who was involved in this project, to help orphaned kids in Ukraine to have a better future.

We thank God for everything He already has done!It was incredible and awesome!God showed and  taught us what He can do!God is sooo good!!!

And we thankful for your prayers.It`s would not be happened without all of you!
 Please, will you pray with us about God`s will and that He will do what is in His plans?Thank you!

 One more verses what God told to my heart yesterday.Hope it will bring you blessing too. :)

 "He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen." (Deuteronomy 10:18; 20-21) KJV

 Director of BOM, brother Misha would love to share with you a Bible verse too and to be part of this ministry.

"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."(Proverbs 31:8-9)

 Thank you, that you found a time to read it!Blessings! :)

 

Urgent prayer

Our life sometimes remind me of zebra, who has white and black strips or lines.In our christian lives we have blessings big and small and have worries and trials big and small too.

Sometimes you are so happy that you think heaven came down.You want to sing and glorify God! You worship and grateful God for all things He does in your life, even bad too!You want to praise God and tell whole world about mighty and amazing God you serve, because you are happy!

 Sometimes you feel yourselves not so good when you have such big trial and sometimes it is heavy most of all, when you think sometimes, it never will finish...And you do not see the end of it...

Dear sweet friends, with worries in our hearts we all BOM team beg you to pray for our pastor of Baptist Church and head of BOM, your brother in Christ, Misha.

He has a big trial in his life right now.His health is very bad, he has bleeding gastric ulcer, big trouble with gaster.He can not sleep at nights sometimes because of it, he vomits with blood. He suffers sometimes, when we go to orphanages or he does any work at church.He has this trouble for a long time.But every time it become worse and worse.Because he eat not well and not eat enough. And he does not get a medicine because he is not able to buy it...

Recently his health status scared us to the death, when he nearly hasn't died last few days. A doctor says he should to get a medicine immediately or it can be too late...

• He is a person who loves his church and ministry to orphans much.

• He is a person who devoted all his life to Jesus Christ with full heart.

• He sacrifice a lot of things that to be faithful servant of God.

• He is  pastor who ready to help you spiritually and physically when you needs it.

• He is pastor who ready to help you in any time of a day or even at a night by ride of hundred of kilometers far away from home that to help someone.

• He is pastor who has Christianized hundreds of souls to Jesus Christ.

• He is pastor who had lead several dozens of persons to Christ before the hours, day or few days or several weeks or months of their death.

One of these person is my dad, with whom our pastor prayed prayer of sinner, before the almost a day of his death few weeks ago...
And he is pastor who needs much our prayers and God`s miracle!

Please, we beg you with overwhelmed hearts pray for brother Misha.We even can not imagine what will happen with church or ministry to orphans if something worse will happen... Please, pray for his healing.Pray for miracle.Please, pray for his daily needs and medicine he needs  that God will provide.

We know God hears your prayers!We love you all and thankful for your love and faithful support!God bless you!

 You can send your encouragements to brother Misha to his e-mail glazovm@mail.ru

We appreciate much your love!

Dear sweet and beloved Friends,thank you soooo much for your prayers and encouragements!We appreciate it VERY much!

We would like to let you know, today our dad has gone on the Heaven to His Saviour.

Yes, he asked Jesus to saved Him!We are distress and with broken hearts.We are overwhelmed and crushed.It is so HARD to tell good bye to someone you love...Just tears, pain and broken heart...

But in same time we have peace and calm in our hearts that our dear and beloved father is in the Heaven with Jesus.We still can NOT believe as it happened so fast, just for a few days.He suffered physical VERY much.He was in crisis care centre because of his very bad condition.He had big trouble in his brain, because accident happened with him.It was so HARD to see how he suffered from his a lot of pains in his body.And it is more hard when you understand you can not help him and only beg Jesus to be merciful to him and take away his pains.But God called him to the Heaven.
It is still hard to accept his death.We were shocked to receive this news, as we did not expect it will happen today... But God gives us a peace, because of YOUR prayers.HUGE thank you!

Funeral will be this Thursday.
We would love to thank you for a lot of your prayers and sweet emails, comments and encouragements again.Your blessing e-mails, encouragements etc helps us go ahead and live for Jesus.You are light of Jesus and Church of Christ!

Even in this hard trials of our life we see God`s hand.God has blessed and covered all our needs we needed for medicine our father and now for funeral.Also God blessed us by good doctors and nurses, who cared about him.And we saw God`s love in many little things He has blessed us in this trial.
We would love to hug you ALL that to tell thank you but we are not able.But some day in the Heaven we will do that.

We love you ALL and so THANKFUL to being with us in this hard moments in our life...

P.S.I do not know when I can post again.Because some questions and matters I need to do after this what has happened...We have some good news for you.I will try to post as soon I can.Thank you!We love you ALL!

Special day

Yesterday was a special day in our ministry and my personal life too. :)
Because a year ago we have been on conference in Kiev (capital of Ukraine), where were speaking about children with Down Syndrome. This conference has changed our ministry and our personal lives too forever!
I`m exciting much about that! I just am awe-struck by God's amazing timing!I am just awe how our Lord Jesus great, wonderful and amazing God!Only He is admirable alive God!

We received  a HUGE information about children with DS! We are so thankful to Meredith, who a year ago invited us there!

Meredith(on the left), me and Shelly(friend of Meredith).



Today we minister more to children with special needs.Yes, we need to learn sooo MANY things yet!
But we are happy much for what God has made a year ago!It has changed our minds and hearts.God has opened our eyes on sooo MANY things! We just HUGE grateful Him for that!And it is amazing!

If you are interested. Here you read what God made in my personal life.And here what God has made an amazing thing in our ministry!Thank you!God`s blessings to you!

Surprise!

We are so blessed and amazed how our Lord Jesus is mighty, good and great! We have all $350 to help Anna! WOW! Really we even did not expect that we will get all donations so fast and it came for a week! :) Praise the lord!
We are so grateful for all your donations to help Anna to have a new wheelchair! Thank you to show the God`s love to this orphan! Really we are thankful to you very and very much you opened your hearts to help this poor girl! She suffers so much and I can only imagine how Anna will be happy to get a new wheelchair! Oh, my goodness!

We hope to the end of this week to bring to Anna a new wheelchair, if God`s will! It is fantastic and great! What a blessing! We are so glad!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you very much on behalf of Anna!

Gifts to graduates

As i promised to show you pictures of presents we presented to orphans which are going to leave orphanages.I`m so sorry i did not do it yesterday as i told to you.God is soooo good to us we could to visit 3 orphanages  not 2 as we thought!We got tired much.Some of us even missed a ministry at Church what we had yesterday in the evening. Yesterday was heavy much and day  of blessings for us. We are much happy!

I will let you know what we did yesterday and all our blessings in next posts.Here we would like to show you gifts to orphans.

As i told you earlier we were able to buy gifts to all kids!We bought a small saucepan, 2 dishes, 1 cup, and 1 spoon and fork to each child.

Yes, we could not buy what we wanted but we are so glad we were able to buy these things.Thank you so much for your blessings to ukrainian orphans! Really we are so happy!We are so blessed!

When we bought all these things we decided to cover of plastic special paper to make a gift that it will look nice. When we gave it to kids they were glad much and workers of orphanages were surprised!All directors of orphanages were glad we could to help a little and they were thankful to each of you!

Here are some pictures.

                                                  Many utensils :)

                                                Here is a gift for each child

                                                Gifts to 2 orphanages

                                                       This is how it look

Some of you we know already but some we do not know but we really so thankful to each of you!
Thank you to show the love of Christ to orphans, thank you for their care and helping them in their needs! Thank you to show God`s love and His care in acting about vulnerable and abandoned in Ukraine kids.We really appreciate it much!Thank you so much for your blessings! May the lord bless you!

"He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again." Proverbs 19:17

PS.in next post i will tell you more blessings what we have.

God breaks our plans and dreams that to make what He wants for His glory!

  My name is Alla.This is my personal testimony how God has changed my life for last few years and months.
I know English not perfectly well but i hope you will understand dear Friend my heart and about what i`m saying.I would like to share a story how God works in my personal life and what He still does.Hope this story will be encouragement for any person who had trust all life to Jesus Christ.
Bible says: "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." Romans 28:8
   It really works because God whom i have trust all my life He is alive God and still makes a miracles!
I`m not marriage yet and do not have a family.About 6 years ago i wanted to adopt a child.You can ask: "Why i wanted to adopt"?I can marriage and have my own children."

  Well.Here is my answer.I`m a teacher of Sunday School at local Bible Baptist Church Charity.About 7-8 years ago we had 2 kids who visited our Sunday School for children.I noticed they wear dirty and worn out clothes, looked skinny.Later i had found they do not have a father and never seen him, their mother was a drinker.They often were hungry, did not know where is their mother.Oh, it is very hard to describe what i saw and felt it this time...
  I decided to feed these kids and wash their clothes in my tub.I had not washing machine at this time.When i washed their clothes it was hard some, it was so dirty that my mop were more clean.Imagine that your clothes was not washed on during few months.How you will feel yourself?
 I loved much these kids!They were so good, loved much to hear God`s Word, forgave other kids very fast, were friendly and many other.i I wanted to help them much as much i could.
  Very soon some man had killed a mother these kids.Killer and she were drunk at this time.Oh, it was more heavy, it had break my heart, brought many tears.I had start to think to adopt a girl, she was 7-8 years old.The boy i could not, he was 16 years old.Very soon i had found they have folks who took the girl to their family.It was a shock for me!I never knew before they have a folks! Well.Sometimes it happens...
About a boy.His life is not very well.The government took him to half way house(we call it shelter). After that government took him to an orphanage.He was run away many times from the orphanage, he did not want to be there much.We could not help these kids...It is very and very hard.I saw many tears on faces these kids but i could not help.It tears much my heart.Many nights i could not slept, just pray and wept, pray and cry and wept...
This little girl has changed my life, my heart, my thinking, everything in my life.

  Well, her folks took her to their family.It is means i never can adopt her...Trust me it was very and very hard for me that i lost her.Lost this small and very smart girl.I had fed her, washed her clothes, spent much time, she was coming to my apartment, we played together, i gave her my heart.We were happy to be together.I dreamed all time she will be with me but....
   Since this time i start to think about other adopting.I did not had a child whom i wanted to adopt but i have ministry at 10 orphanages, there are many kids whom need a family. So, i did not worry about it.
I was thinking and praying about it on during 6 years. I was hesitate.Is God`s will in it? Than more time has gone than more i was thinking and praying.Every year i had more and more desire to adopt a child.
   Most of all i was worry much about my ministry.How i will continue to visit orphans in orphanages, how i will be do this and this and this if i have a child.I understood i have to spend much time with any child.But in same time i did not want much my ministry suffer because of it. I prayed much and did not know what to do...

  Well a year ago i decided to make document for adoption.I did it for very fast time.I was glad!Just a one document the goverment still did not give me.I prayed and waited, prayed and waited.
One day a lady called me from center for adopting in Ukraine and asked me to come and visit her.I felt in my heart something is wrong, my heart was beating much, i had not piece in my heart, i was worry much, could not understand what is wrong with my feeling.
   When i came to center for adopting, they told me i can not to adopt.Reason was because i was study at orphanage, i had not a family, so i can not foster a child. When i start to explain i`m a christian, Jesus has changed my mind, heart, everything.It did not help...Oh, no Lord, please!I could not believe!I could not believe i will not have a child...With tears on eyes, with crush my heart i came back to home.All my pilow was wet from tears.I could not understand why God does it!
It is second time!Oh, no God, please!It is very heavy for me!I won't endure it!
Yes, it was hard for me to humility with it.In this time God has crushed my other dream about what i prayed 9 years.Oh, no Lord!What are you doing! It breaks all my heart, all my dreams.Oh, no....
  I prayed much, could not understand what God wants i do for Him?!Finally some later i prayed:"God, you did not answer on my prayers about what i asked you for a many years.Please, show what You want i will do in ministry, in church, in my all Christian life.I`m a tool in your hands, i accept all what you doing in my life.Please, just show me what you want i to do.I do not know...Use me for 100% for your glory.Use me like you want not like me." Just tears and tears was running on my cheeks.I have a ministry to orphans but i wanted God will show me a vision in ministry, something more.I wanted to do something more...I prayed much what i have to do.

Here i have to say i think.We do not have a support for ministry.We decided to register in social network to find a support.We do not know HOW and WHAT to do.We just do what we think it is right. Hope you will understand us.
I decided find a friends who love Jesus.Very soon i liked a profile in facebook one lady Joy McClain : "I am a very ordinary woman who has a God-given passion for the orphans of our world who desperately need a family." I liked it much and decide to invite her to be my friend.She answered i was glad!In first letters i was in big shock!She adopted a children with  Down`s syndrome?! What!? In my country many lady make abortion, kill these kids, many people think they are not human, many leave at orphanages.Just very few people who decided to not kill but love and foster a child.I minister in some orphanages where are these poor children.It was a shock for me what did a Joy.I was interesting much how she teached them, discipline and etc.I never heard like it! Here is her blog http://www.livingwithouradoptionoption.blogspot.com/
Believe me or not but Joy not ordinary woman!She is very sweet and nice lady.She encourage me often when i need it.I`m blessed and thankful to the Lord to know her!

   Very soon Joy gave me a address Meredith Cornish.She was a coordinator ministry for kids with special needs in Ukraine.I was interesting to know more people and decide to write to her.She was coming to Ukraine sitting in airport at this time and reply me very fast.In first letters we have found we both know a orphanage where we have ministry.Surprise! Meredith invited me and my friends to conference what had to be in Kiev, for kids with special needs.I was worry much, i felt like my heart burn of fire, i did not know what happened with me but i was happy to come there.In this conference we got a lot of information about kids with special needs.We did not know sooo many!We were so blessed to be there!God changed our mind and vision how to minister this orphans!We are so thankful to the Lord for it!
Also big surprise was for us to met Meredith there and her nice friend Shelley.I never imagine i can meet Meredith someday or somewhere so fast in few days when we were correspondence!Tell you what, she is very nice and sweet lady and Christian.She is a tool in God`s hands what He use for His glory.
She told me all story about Aleksa whom she could not adopt and gave a photo her family.

  In few weeks we have gone to an orphanage.Lord gave us a disire to speak with director and told him about familly of Cornish.It is intersting we called to many orphanages for many reasons they told us we can not come this week, maybe later.So, we decided go to this orphanage.Is not God`s work?
  I was not sure director will be agree or no to give them second сhance.But when he said ok, let they make a documents, will come, i will speak with them and we will see.I said myself, "Hmmm, there is a hope!"

  Also in this time we start a new ministry at one orphanage.We start a Bible lessons, come more often to these kids.There children mentally retarded, special needs and children with a Down`s syndrome.Dear Friend you need to see their faces how they are happy when we visit and spend time with them!There are many employers who like to hear the Gospel.We are blessed to come there!
Also God bless and we more often start to visit other orphanages, where we have Bible study and other.
We are so blessed! God has turn around everything in my mind and heart for last year in ministry to orphans!I have like other eyes, heart, everything is difference!

 Here is video what familly of Cornish says about their adopting.The tears running on my cheeks each time when i watch it.How is amazing our Lord!It blow my mind how He does what He wants!

 

After many prayers and efforts Aleksa found a family who had try to adopt her almost 3 years ago.
  
I`m so blessed to know she found a family who prayed and waited for her on during these all years!I`m blessed to know her new mommy and daddy love much and will give her new life not like in orphanage.I`m blessed to know she has her personal toys, her own and new clothes, she has a brothers and sisters who loves her.I`m blessed to know she is doing well now!

I often think.What would be happened if Lord did not give a wish to registered on social network?What would be happened if Lord did not lead me to find Joy?Tell me how i could to find Joy who knows Meredith in 500.000.000 people in social network? Is not a miracle what Jesus has done? What would be happened if Joy did not give me the adress of Meredith?What would be happened if i and my friends did not go to conference and did not meet Meredith?What would be happened if Lord did not give us a desire to speak with director of orphanage? Most of all what would be happened if i have adopted a child?..
If i would be adopt a child.I`m sure i would be not have a time for these everything what i have and do in ministry.

Dear Friend, tell about others, pray, think, spread the word about your friends, folks and others, help others.You never know how God can use you for His glory and it will change your heart and your life!

I believe it is not the end this story.God will prepare something else.Something else has to happen...

I understood all these thing Jesus Christ has done and all glory and praise just to Him!He is alive God Who still makes a miracles like 2000 years ago!We just tools in His hands.If you trusted all your life He can make a miracle in your life too!Maybe already has done!
I`m happy can continue the ministry what i have.On during these time we had MANY blessings!We are so happy and thankful to the Lord!I`m so blessed what God has done in my life!I`m thankful Him for it, praise Him and glorify Him!He is alone alive God Who is worthy honor and glory!

"O give thanks unto the LORD; for [he is] good: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. 
O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. 
O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy [endureth] for ever. 
To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy [endureth] for ever." Psalms136:1-4

Read the miracle story about first adopting for all life of the orphanage!

 This is the testimony for those whom the Lord gives a desire to adopt a child, whom God induces to it, who prays, searches, worries.Who has a burden to help orphans in the world, does not mean where live a orphans.

The Bible says:
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world." James 1:27 

This is testimony of encouraging how the Lord works through the social network.

  We have ministry at an orphanage, there are girls age 5-35 with special needs, Down`s syndrome and many other special needs.There over 85 children.Usually we come sing songs, tell Bible story, they like much puppet show.They like to play with you, hug, that you stroke on a head.They do not have a mommy or dad who can do that.Who can play with you, teach you do something, playing and etc.

   These children never saw cities, villages. Never were on the nature, never were in park or lake. Never bathed in the river splash in the water. All that they see it some buildings in territory of this orphanage. Yes, they have a beautiful garden. But they can walk there only in the summer and when warmly.But they do not play there just sit on a grass or bench.These children never were in any shop, they all even don't know what this is. They don't know how to play toys and what to do with.

What they do all throughout day? They sit and watch TV, sometimes not good movie or program.They sitting and being swung on rigid bench. In one group where 20-25 children, only 2 of the working woman. Which have no education and have no concepts  how to work and how to be engaged and  teach and  develop these children. And how 2 women can learn 25 children at one time? It is very hard work for these lady there.
All these children are with special needs,  many of them the need individual approach. Many of them don't know as to remove a wrapper from a sweet. Therefore each time when we come there we remove wrappers from sweets.

Children are very glad when someone comes to them and spends time! They very much appreciate it.

For all time of existence of this orphanage anychild has not been adopted... Many of them already aren't present in the alive.

   But our God is alive, surprising and wonderful God! In  2010 in a month of December God has made a miracle! Almost 3 years ago an one beautiful  and lovely family haven'ted one girl Sasha. They called her Aleksa.

Today she is 8 years. Almost 3 years ago Family Cornish wanted to adopt this nice girl. They prayed much, all made for this purpose that  to adopt her, but to them have refused it. With the broken hearts they have come back home. Yes they cried much, prayed, couldn't understand what God wants.
 Later they have lost the information where is this girl Sasha, how she is, how is her health, how she feels herself, maybe someone has adopted, maybe she  has found a family, or maybe she isn't present already in the live. Almost 3 years they knew nothing all this time about her and couldn't learn is she  alive and is still there a hope!

  Today this girl Sasha or Aleksa is the daughter of this nice family! Praise the Lord! How they have met the lovely and lovely girl again, how they have met her again without knowing about her absolutely nothing is she still alive, how the Lord has answered their prayers! You can read more on their blog to enjoy together with this family and to glorify our wonderful Lord Jesus Christ!

Read more HERE

Meredith blog
http://cornishadoptionjourney.blogspot.com/

This is the first adopting from this orphanage!!! It is amazing! We hope and believe director let to adopt other children whom need a family also. Praise the lord!

This is Meredith Cornish with her nice 2 kids, Sasha is in pink blouse

                                  Is not it a miracle?