LOVE 4 THE CHILDREN

Grey and cold November came to an end. But in spite of weather we were getting a lot positive emotions from the children from Rudensk orphanage throughout the month. The children were so happy about our meetings that this month they began to prepare the place for meetings beforehand; they put the chairs and turned on the hardware. All this done because they treasure each minute of time spent with us!

This month we finished to speak about friendship. In conclusion we could discuss with the children such topics as ‘Loneliness in friendship’, ‘Not like others’ and ‘Value of friendship’. Besides, we had an opportunity to watch a film about sport, motivation, friendship and unity. And, of course, we arranged their most favorite meetings – boys’ and girls’ time! Boys discussed how to be winners in life and how to set goals and work hard in order to achieve them. Girls had a private talk about beauty and womanhood.

This month I could talk to one person who came to the Rudensk orphanage with us for the first time. He was a little bit embarrassed because he plunged into such atmosphere for the first time. When I asked him what was the hardest in communication with the children he answered that he rarely heard so many foul words throughout one evening! Especially, he remembered Sveta, the girl who has always tried to look like a boy and used bad language a lot. This situation helped us to see that God has done great work in these children’s hearts. Earlier Sveta used to pronounce hundreds of bad words in an hour, was rude to the members of our team and offended smaller kids. And God has changed her heart at present. If she uses bad language now, she tries to ask for forgiveness. Besides, she is one of the first who helps with smaller kids. Last time we had an open-hearted talk about her worries.

I would also like to remind of Alesya’s story who had suffered from nightmares for a long time. We had previously put her story on our site. I managed to talk to her and she was quite open. Now Alesya tries to read the Bible and pray for God to keep her sleep especially before she goes to bed. So she said with joy that nightmares had left her! Thanks God for his mercy and love!