LOVE 4 THE CHILDREN

Greetings to you. Thank God that we have the strength and time and desire to attend boarding schools, tell children about the Lord God Jesus Christ, pray with them and for them, play and make friends, communicate and know their needs and their lives, as well as sing Christian songs, which carry the truth and which you can croon during the week and music that is easily remembered.

This month we covered topics about different types of soil, explained to them what dangers they can expect in life and that they should strive to be a good soil that accepts the Word and does not stop to bear fruit. We also told them about the Pharisee and the publican about the fact that if we do good deeds and exalt ourselves and are proud of it, it is not pleasing God and that the heart of publican saw his sin and humbly asked for forgiveness and that it is such a heart that pleases God. There was also a story about how the Pharisee invited Jesus to visit, but he did not love Jesus, and a woman who was a sinner poured expensive oil and wiped Jesus’ feet with her hair. She humbly came to ask God for forgiveness and loved God greatly because she saw many of her sins and knew that Jesus was able to save her. We tried to explain to the children how it relates to their lives.

Also, God blessed Nikita and Dasha to make documents and take Alesya, 19, and Bozhena, 17, for patronage for the weekend. When they came to pick up the girls, the children greeted them joyfully, the girls asked to take them to the hairdressing salon, after that they ate, showed them the apartment and went to a teenage meeting at the Bethlehem church, but since it was canceled, they had a great game of volleyball with the local youth. On the way, they talked about various topics, including Christ and the Gospel. In the evening before going to bed, they decided to show them a Christian cartoon and were worried that they would not go to bed in time, but when Dasha went to turn off at 22:15, the girls had already turned everything off themselves and were already asleep, apparently the sleep regime in the boarding school had done its job. In the morning after breakfast they read the Bible together, Nikita drew them on the timeline briefly about the general history of our world, creation, flood, Moses, Jesus, our days, the second coming of Christ, the millennial kingdom and eternity. And they also read the last chapter of the book of Revelation, because it’s interesting to find out how everything will end. After the Sunday meeting, they went to a teenage service at church Resurrection, where they had a great game of volleyball, talked, listened to the word and sang songs. After that, at home, the girls and Dasha baked cupcakes, (they turned out delicious by the way) and took them to boarding school. Before coming back to boarding school at sunday evening they visited the local church in Rudensk for a very short time, and now they know where there is a church in their city. In those 2 days they visited 5 churches, I think they could compare them. The teachers at the boarding school asked: were the girls behaving well? Nikita was glad to honestly admit that everything was fine. Thank God that He gives such an opportunity and strength.