BIG news!

Oh, my goodness!It`s such exciting news!!!We are soooooo extremally happy to know a family who is going to adopt our sweet and presious Masha!We are so happy to know they chose her to give their love, care and bright future.Wow!We are so excited to know and pray for this family!Our hearts are full so many emotions and full of joy and it seem that my heart will jump out. :)))

Their blog is http://thisgiftofmine.blogspot.com/
Please, follow their journey of adopting, pray and help if you can.They still need a lot to raise.You can go to their family support page on Reece's Rainbow and make a tax deductible donation. Thanks, Friends!Thank you so much for support and love!God bless you!

Outside of an orphanage

 Let's return about three weeks ago.I wished to write this post earlier, but couldn't because of a lack of time. But anyway, I rejoice that at last I can make it :)

So, at this time the Lord gave to us the chance to have a meeting with teenagers, outside of an orphanage.We had picnic.It was wonderful and blessed time with children! Also the Lord blessed us with a wonderful and sunny weather despite a rain forecasting, because these days were rainy during this period.It was great gift from the Lord at this day!

We sang songs. Children love a guitar! I think it is the excellent tool to sing songs about the Lord outside. We are so blessed that brother Misha can play a guitar, and the Lord bestowed him with this talent.

Brother Misha preached and gave instructions to teenagers, prevented of that, what can wait for them in not of the orphanage etc.

We spoke about that, that they steered clear of a sin and which consequences can happen.

We prevented them of premarital purity of the relations between the guy and the girl.We showed an example on a fresh and beautiful rose.

As the rose without lobes isn't granted and it is an unacceptable gift. It is pure, fresh and wonderful. That they would take care also that gift of the marriage relations what the Lord prepared for them. That they were pure and wonderful as this rose and keep out of a sin which is popular today among young people.

It was funny when I tore off rose-petals, girls very much asked: "Please, don't tear off lobes, the rose is so beautiful! Please, it`s so a pity to us". It was the remarkable example and the moment! I so think. :)

Also we distributed Christian literature to teens.

At the end of meeting there was a completing fine moment. We could have shish kebabs or barbecue with children. It was great and so delicious!Wow!
While Nadia cooked we could play with children and have fun.

 

Several guys were interested to help.It was great too!

Fun time

So funny :)

Everyone was excited to shoot arrows!

Photo for memory. Children were very happy! I am sure they for a long time will remember this meeting! These children anywhere and never go outside the limits the orphanage.We had such blessed and wonderful time with children.Everyone was so excited that they did not want to go to the orphanage when their teacher called them. They were rejoiced and very much asked a photo for memory. What we also made today. Yes. Today the Lord gave the chance to us to see them last time, say goodbye and granted gifts. But about it later.

  We exchanged addresses with children to correspond and to save the relations that were created throughout time. Today spoke with some children and they don't want to leave orphanage, because of fear and the indefinite future. Many don't know where to go and what to do.So sad...

   It was our dream and desire to spend time with orphans outside of orphanage. What to diversify and pour sunlight of God`s love in their bored and routine daily life. Children often run away from orphanages, in search of freedom and variety. The police catches them and returns again. Our desire to take them on picnic, a zoo, to any city to bring them joy, pleasure and mass of emotions.

  We could have this picnic thanks to your support and love to these children. Thanks friends, for your generosity and care of these orphans!

Please, pray...

   Our dear Friends, brothers and sisters in Christ, with the broken heart we ask you to pray for the father of our pastor Misha and director of BОМ. He is dying. Three months ago the Lord made a real miracle! We asked you to pray. The Lord heard many your prayers and prolonged life not only to the father of brother Misha, but also saved one of his relatives.We told you how the Lord answered on prayer (in the end of the post) and blessed brother Misha this very day that he could visit his beloved father.Nobody expected and didn't think at all that he will live still!

   But hard days came again... Tears, a grief, the broken heart, sorrow, pain, loss... It is so heavy to leave those whom you love and who is so dear to your heart. It`s so heavy to say goodbye to those you love so much...It`s breaks heart, there simply no words, eyes are full with tears...

   The father of our pastor and brother Misha doesn't stand up, doesn't eat, breathes by means of an oxygen mask. Doctors don't want him to admit to hospital, they speak that is useless, because some parts of  body already die off and his time came to leave life...

  The heavy for us that now we need to visit graduates, we have two more orphanages. The heart is simply tears asunder...Every day is dear for us not to miss graduating children. Otherwise we won't see them then...

  Please pray that we could meet graduates of two more orphanages and say goodbye to them also. That the Lord would solve everything and helped with it.

  We ask you to pray for brother Misha, cover him in many your prayers, God give him peace and comfort.Please, pray God will send enough for brother Misha to say goodbye to his father and by his own hand to close his eyes.Our pastor have no idea where to find finances to get there and back, he has no one kopecks...Please, pray God will provide...Only God can do a miracle.

Thank you so much for your great love, many prayers and support, sweet friends.We know God hears your prayers and He will do what is the best.Thank you for your Christian love and kindness!We love you all!

A half of the project is done

  I am so excited to tell you how is good the Lord and how greatly He blessed our trips to graduates even in our hard and heartbreaking days.(I will tell in the next post). A half of the project is already made. We could visit 2 orphanages where are graduates. It was wonderful time! Time of different emotions in one day. Time of joy and tears, heartbeat and fear before the future,  time of sweetness and sadness.It`s exciting and so sad day.

   Normally it is joyful day for a graduate, his friends and relatives. But not for these children, whom parents left.It was so sadly to see that around 90 children of this orphanage and only 2 parents came to rejoice with them.Can you imagine it?Only 2 parents!Oh, it so heartbreaking...How it can be?

Why they are so indifferent to these children? Why they don't rejoice of their joys? Why they left there?There can be so many questions "Why"? Even one of teachers of a graduation class shared memories at ceremony of the Last Bell. As some children grasped a skirt of the mothers and with tears didn't want them to leave, when mothers left them in this orphanage.There so many responses and it is very sadly and heavy to see them left...

 When we only arrived, children were so glad and ran to our van. It seemed that all orphanage gathered. How they rejoiced and were excited. 'Why you didn't come? We always wait for you. What happened? We missed you badly."It was so sweet  and heartwarming to hear and see them all!We were not there only several weeks. :)

Here are some photos and videos of ceremony of the Last Bell of this orphanage.

At the beginning of ceremony two graduation classes(grades) come out to all children and all greet them welcome to the applause and solemn music. Here on video is one of classes.

Then best of pupils of a graduation class solemnly under the hymn carry the Ukrainian flag. Thus the ceremony  opens.

Here the director of BOM and brother Mischa, gives the last instructing to graduates, from the Bible.

 

 Yes, there were many tears.

BOM provides gifts to teenagers. Here graduates sing the song about that, that a orphanage for them is the best house of their childhood. :(  Each time I watch this video and each time I cry. It is so heavy to say goodbye to darlings. It is so heavy to tell bye, whom you know for so many years... It is not easy to say goodbye to those with whom spent much time to sharing about the Lord, listening their joys and worries. They, are our  beloved children about which heart and soul hurts.

I spoke to you before, that we are going to present to these children not only kitchen utensils and blankets.

God blessed this project SO generously and greatly this year, more than we could even think.His hand was so open-handedly that we are in awe!

God blessed and we could present them the treasure, which is capable to console and bring the peace, to save their souls and to grant eternal salvation. Yes, it is the Bible, the God's word!

 Also we could present books to children, directions to young men, by name"Thoughts for Young Men". It`s wonderful book for them too!

 We are so glad of this blessing and are so grateful to the sister in the Christ, Aidan from Canada who blessed orphans with these books and the Bibles.Isn`t it the blessing? Also the part of Bibles we could find absolutely free of charge! This is REAL miracle because today to find free of charge the Bible, simply it is not impossible. But God made impossible, possible!

Graduates thank for support for all years and these gifts also.

 

 They presented to all of us flowers. It was so lovely and heartwarming. :)

On photo are sisters, team of BOM and on the right side, Valya who accepted Jesus recently  and becomes the young and beautiful lady. :)  Her a bit story here.

 

The last bell is the main part of ceremony. Where one of graduates takes on hands of the smallest kid which of all forces tries to ring the bell. It also was the last bell for graduates of the orphanage.
The kid was so happy and admired,  that he has such part to ring by bell.He was so cute!

Ceremony is closed also as opened. Under the Ukrainian hymn, graduates carry the Ukrainian flag.

It is so sadly and heart-breaking. Ira the graduate of this orphanage, was graduated last year.She came to see her brother, who graduates this year. She still doesn't study and doesn't work.For her, the girl with special needs to find a work is not impossible, and especially somewhere to study...

How many hundreds and thousands children with special needs simply disappear and exist to survive. How many hundreds and thousands tears it was spilled... How many it will be still spilled bitter tears about the destiny and about the future?We have to do something....

   Here are pictures of second orphanage where we presented gifts to graduates.It`s smallest class of graduates this year.The Lord gave the chance to us to have a meeting with teens, where we had fellowship, sang etc.

   When we rang in a orphanage and agreed about a meeting, decided when to us and for the orphanage it is better. It was very pleasant to hear when the director told: "For the sake of you I will make everything, even lessons I will cancel". Wow! It was so sweet to hear that the director, administration of a orphanage and all children so wait. When we only arrived there, children started to run and cry out loudly: "Uncle Misha goes! Uncle Misha goes!"    :)))  All orphanage met us. It was so lovely and with such joy to see them again, to hug and kiss. They were all such darlings and sweet!

  Brother Misha is singing solo.

 

                                 

Nadya shared her testimony

Brother Mischa gives the last instructions to teens.

 

 And at the end of meeting we provided them gifts.

 

All these meetings were simply great and wonderful!Graduates and administration of orphanages were amazed by gifts!It was gorgeous and priceless gifts!

Thanks to you, our dear friends, these orphans received these magnificent gifts, brought so much joy and delight to children and workers of orphanages. Your opened hands and hearts not only covers needs of children, but  expresses glory and gratitude to Jesus Christ.Your love spills in hearts of orphans and workers of orphanages that brings delight and praise to Jesus.Thank you so much!!!

We are ready!

We are so excited!We are ready to go and to visit graduates!We are so thrilled and so overwhelmed by your amazing love, Friends.Wow!I simply do not have words!How your hearts are opened to help these kids in their need.We appreciate each donating and prayer, each spreading the word and any, even a bit helping.

You are amazing friends and we are so blessed to have all of you!Thank you SO much!!!

I would love very much to share with you about some wonderful and great blessings we have in this project to graduating teens.

  The first.We were ready to finish this project because time expired and there were very few days. Despite that, that we didn't have 30 blankets, it is for one more orphanage. Because this week we already are going to visit graduates. 

But our God-almighty and so good! He thinks and makes not as we. The Lord sent us enough for 30 blankets!As you remember we bought only 50 of them. We were shocked and so happy!Wow! Really we did not expect that!It`s such amazing blessing!

  The second.So our plans changed and we immediately went on the same bazar, on the same place, to buy more blankets. We were soooo excited!

 

  The third. We packed and already prepared gifts for all 80 graduating children!Yay!!!They are simply beautiful!We love them and how it looks! :)

 

  The fourth blessing. We raised IN TIME as planned and ENOUGH that to bless each orphan those gifts that we wanted.It`s simply amazing!!!

We thought and worried a little. Will we raise enough fund? Will we raise in time? Will bless the Lord as last year He blessed? Our Saviour and Heavenly Father is mighty and great!He never is late and sends just in time! He blessed even MORE than we could expect or thought.All glory to the Lord Jesus!!!

 The fifth. Tomorrow we are going to visit the first orphanage with graduates.What a blessing!

Your love is so great and wonderful!We have so many magnificent blessings thanks to you, sweet friends!!! We love you and praise God for you!Can not wait to visit our teens tomorrow and share with you about our trip.  :)

One more soul

  The part of our ministry consists in that to help graduates of orphanages on how many as we can. We share with them our food, help with clothes or footwear. We share our houses, with those who stayed on the street. We help them to solve questions that to us under force, or simply we give advice. We help and teach life skills how to wash clothes, iron, how to cook and much more.

  In orphanages children are often left and not taught important life skills. When they finish orphanage and begin "adult" independent life. They don't know from what to begin, also what to decide, where to go and to whom even to turn to a simple council. They a lot of things be afraid to begin or do. Feel uncertain and unsure. In the social environment them often neglect and humiliate. If an orphan are with special needs, a work it is impossible to find.It means those orphans who receive school education at orphanages.Orphanages where children with special needs are very different. And as a result, the broken life, loneliness, emptiness, fear, emptiness that turns over time into indifference and disbelief by all and to all. As a result life on the street or where they find a place to live...

   Here is only little part of life former street boy, without special needs.You can imagine how it`s more heavy for orphans with special needs...It`s scary.

But here I would like to share with you our huge joy. We are so excited and so extremely happy!!!

  Once at the cold night, one of graduates of an orphanage stayed simply on the street.

 Imagine, one at night on street, very cold, you have to remember how cold was last winter and how many homeless people died...
This orphaned girl had no place to go, with worries and fear in heart.Tears, lonely, unloved, hungry, unprotected... Where to go? Where to live? What to do? to whom to address for the help? Hundred questions were twirled in the head during this moment.What could she feel during this moment if she simply stayed on the street???

God loves and cares about orphans, as He promised in His word.

"Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless." (Psalm 10:14)

 This cold night when we learned about this girl, by name of Valya. We found a temporal place of dwelling for her and helped her how many could and how many it was in our forces...She lived in home of Christian sisters.

  So, a week ago Valya expressed desire to ask Jesus to become her personal Lord and the Savior!Wow!What a great blessing!We were so thrilled!

  This is not all. The same day when she asked Jesus to saved her and to change life. Someone called and authorized to live her in a social hostel or dormitory. Valya was so happy that she takes place where to live! She cried out the whole time: "This is miracle!It`s miracle! Only God was able to do it!"

 This is small hostel on 4 rooms for poor people. Where in each room there can live 3-4 persons only 3 months. This rule of a hostel.

Dear and sweet friends, this real miracle! Because it is very difficult to get to this hostel and not each poor person accept.

We are so grateful one more soul is saved!We are so happy one more soul found a peace and calm, love and protecting in Jesus Christ.We are so thrilled one more soul found a hope and sureness, Father and Saviour in Jesus Christ!We, so rejoice that one more soul wasn't lost in this world.We are so extremely happy!!!

We would be so thankful if you remember Valya in your prayers.She has so many physical and spiritual needs.Thank you so much!

I`m going share with you one more huge blessing. Coming back soon! :))) Thank you!

A Family found Masha!

Wow!We are so thrilled!What a great joy and happiness!I can not find words to tell you HOW we are happy! It seems our hearts would jump out! A family found our little princess Masha!

I have told you before we spoke with director of orphanage about her to find a family.He gave his permit.Now she is on page Reece's Rainbow My Family Found Me .We are soooooo exciting and can not wait to find out who is this family.There simply are no words!We praise the Lord they chose this precious little girl to get her and care, give a future and their love to her forever!What awesome God we serve!He is soooo good and worthy of glory!He is exalted and He is mighty!

Became friends

What great blessing, to know when someone prays for you and for the ministry. What a wonderful blessing to know someone who uplifts their voice in a prayer in unity of spirit about orphans. What huge blessing to know someone who is with you in one spirit and loves the same Jesus, as well as you.What a joy to know someone at whom the same heart in regards to that, what God commands to Christians to do on all earth.What a pure joy to have fellowship with this person!No matter also this person lives near you or in the distance, in other hemisphere of Earth, the Lord gives unity of spirit.

And what if this person(s) wants to see you?A person you never saw, prays for you and wants to see you personally!Isn`t it a blessing?Wow!

So, the Lord blessed us with wonderful fellowship with Ashton's family.Their blog is http://headoptedusfirst.blogspot.com/

We communicated, laughed, spoke about the Lord, about our ministry, had a lunch in small cafe.It was such lovely and unforgettable fellowship!

Also we could show them a little bit the capital of Ukraine.
On picture below are sisters and Jamie.

Brothers, Misha and Tyler.

They both are such sweet and lovely, have such big hearts to orphans.We were so excited to communicate, had fun timewe AND became forever friends! :)

Ashton's family adopt two precious and sweet boys. But right now they have a financial need. Please pray and help, if you can... They really very much appreciate it. Here you can learn more about this need.We know God hears your prayers. Thanks!

But what surprise was for us next day when we learned that one more family would love to meet us! Yay!!!It`s was soooo exciting to know that!So, in several days we met Reeves family! Their website is http://anothertexasfamily.com/

We also shared about our ministry, spoke about the Lord, had a lunch and had so much fun time!

As they are Texas family, we learned a little bit about Texas in USA.It`s so funny as it is such big difference between Ukraine and this state. But it is really interesting to learn and know something new.We laughed a lot!

We really enjoyed our spending time with them and had one more wonderful and blessed day, gift from our Heavenly Father.

Sisiters and Tiffany

 

Brother Misha and Justin

We really enjoyed our spending time with them and had one more wonderful and blessed day, gift from our Heavenly Father.So,we became forever friends!What a joy and blessing from the Lord!

Tiffany and Justin are couple with such pure hearts, such wonderful couple.They also in process of adopting a little cute girl.They would be such thankful for your prayers while they bring her home!Thank you, friends!

We would love to see you all!We love you and cherish your prayers and support!We thank the Lord for each of you. I`m going to tell about one more great day with orphans we had recently. :)

Purchases to graduating kids!

I`m so thrilled to tell you how our Heavenly Father and God of all gods, blessed us incredible!

We believed that the Lord will bless our trip. But how, certainly we couldn't know.And anybody can't know it. But we rejoiced that at last we can make it!

A day before our trip I saw this picture and it so encouraged and blessed my heart.

 This day was so beautiful and sunny, when we did purchases. A warming came to Ukraine very quickly. This day was near 30`С(86`F). Wow! We were so glad of the sun and warm. We rejoiced and thanked our Creator who has created Earth and all what is on it and this wonderful sun.

With your help we raised up $1.135.Wow!That is great!Thanks everyone!

So, for $750 we had to buy kitchen utensils to all 80 teens. And for the rest $385 we were going to buy blankets. We  were not sure up to the end how many we can to buy blankets because we didn't know precisely the price. We assumed probably 28-30 things. We calculated that 1 blanket will cost about 100 hryvnias($12.5 USA) Well, probably 80 hryvnias($10). And that we even drove away such thoughts because in our city, blankets which we wanted to buy, 1 thing costs 140 hryvnias($17.5). Anyway we were very excited and hoped that the Lord will provide and bless.

At the beginning we looked for a place where we could buy blankets to orphans.
 Where we bought, this is that place.

 Can you believe that we bought here blankets by 65 hryvnias ($8.12)??? Imagine our shock when we asked the price for blankets. We asked again several times or it is the real price, probably was heard. "Are You serious?"we asked. Believe friends. We couldn't believe our ears! NEVER, never in life we couldn't think that we can find blankets so cheap!!!WOW!

I would like to add that all we bought wholesaled. It`s cheaper than at retail.

 Can you imagine how we were excited and were amazed by God`s leading us to this place?!!!Praise the Lord!!!So, we bought 50 blankets!It`s not 28-30 as we thought!Oh, my goodness!What incredible blessing!We could not believe!

Such happy and amazed, we laded and carried to our transport.

And there was still small blessing. Workers who works there, helped to bring up to the van. Not in every place you can get help and service.

Oh, dear Friends! Your blessings were SO great that we had to look for other van. :))) As in our van it everything wouldn't be placed. We were very glad that our friend agreed to help us free of charge with transport. We were so glad that to us wasn't necessary to pay for van rent!What a joy!

Then we bought kitchen utensils.
On this photo, saucepans are packed and brothers are ready to carry.

 

 The seller is packing cups for our children.

 It`s how looked the complete van when we bought already all necessary for graduates.It`s looks impressively!

Tired, but with full heart of pure joy, we went home.We were so glad to God's blessings and guidance of the Lord that didn't notice fatigue!  :)

As we were hungry very much, we stopped in the small town on picnic, near the small castle. We often stop here to have a meal and go further as the long road awaits.

This place very beautiful and romantic. :)
The fresh air, sunny heat, green grass, quiet river. A wonderful place for small rest.

 

 Other side of this castle.

Gate

 

 O, I thought probably that you will be interesting to look how the Ukrainian villages look. Here is a short video. I`m very sorry that it very much shakes. It everything because of the road.

  Dear our beloved friends, faithful sponsors and all participators in this project. We would love to thank you warmly for your many prayers and support. We had a successful and blessed trip. The Lord kept us on the way and granted many blessings. All glory to the Lord! Thanks a lot for each cent and dollar!
  Thanks to you for your open hearts to these orphans to help with their needs, we could have such great trip. Thanks to kind people from several countries of USA, Ukraine and Canada, we could make reality of this purchase! We are so exciting that people from other countries join to this ministry and take part in lives of orphans in Ukraine!God expands limits! What a blessing!We appreciate each your help and prayer!We cherish your  support VERY much!

It is not all what we are going to present to graduates. I will tell you a bit later when I be ready :).

One of these days we will pack gifts to graduates and I will surely share a pictures with you. :0)
Lots of love from all from BOM!