LOVE 4 THE CHILDREN

So October has come to its end, and with it the second month of our service to orphans this academic year. This month had started with one great event! Several children from the same family, who had been in the orphanage for a long time, were finally able to return home. The decision on their case had been postponed for a long time, and the children became sadder and sadder. The elder boy, whose name is Maxim, was particularly sad, because he understood more than his younger brothers what was going on in their family’s life. Seeing the changing mood of the kids, our team offered to pray together that these children would be taken home as soon as possible. Arriving a week later, we learned that they were no longer in the shelter! It turned out that God answered the prayers of the kids and they were sent home to their family. Unfortunately, we could not say goodbye to them, but we know for sure that it was an answer to our mutual prayers and it was a testimony both for this family and for those kids who stayed in the orphanage, because the kids themselves told us about how God answered, and how Max and his brothers went home!

We held our next meetings for two guys. For the elder teenager Arseny and for the girl Ksyusha, who is about 8 years old. Interestingly, despite the age difference, the children perfectly perceived the Bible lessons that we conducted. Perhaps this is not surprising, because we talked about resentment, betrayal, pride, as well as envy. All these negative feelings and emotions are familiar to people from early childhood, it’s just that someone encountered them more in their life, and someone less, and everyone had their own circumstances. Each topic was given a separate lesson. We talked a lot about the destructive power and the consequences of envy, resentment and betrayal, but we also tried to show the guys that all these problems can be solved and that there is a way out in God and His word, because He came into the world so that people would have life and have it in abundance. That is why it is important for every person to cope with their negative emotions, so that they would neither destroy themselves, nor other people. At the very last meeting of this month, four more children came to the orphanage. We are just beginning to get acquainted with them. I hope we can become friends, mentors or older brothers and sisters for them, to support and direct them to Someone who loves them with a special love.