Greetings brothers and sisters. I want to tell you how our trips to the Rudensk boarding school went. The 
first thing I want to note is that before our arrival, the guys wait for us on the street every Wednesday. Despite the frost and snow, each of the older children is looking forward to seeing
us and help with the bags. As one of the guys said, I like this time, that we can help you to carry bags with equipment and most importantly, just talk to each other. When we went to the school this time, the children talked about how God helps them when they turn to Him. The guys also said that they like to sing Christian songs.
This month we discussed the themes of pride, revenge, envy. Why we chose these topics is that we talked to the administration and saw how the guys communicated with each other, and we decided to take these topics. The theme of pride. When we asked what pride is, only a few people could define it, but during the meeting many children were able to see and understand how pride can ruin people’s lives. Bright pictures on
the slides and simplicity of explanation helped the children understand the main point, and even after the lesson, and later, while returning to the car, the children said: – I am a proud person. Other teenagers asked to pray for them, so that God would give them the strength to change and not offend others. The next topic was revenge. And for many children, if not all, this topic is relevant. One child said: “When it’s difficult for me to forgive, I begin to take revenge.” And we understand that there is pain, which can sometimes move children to cruelty and they 
start take revenge. Our goal was to show how revenge can destroy people’s lives, how lack of forgiveness leads to revenge. There were many questions, how to forgive your parents who left you? How to forgive a friend who betrayed you? All this shows an inability to adapt to difficult life circumstances. And speaking on this topic, we were able to give answers to all the concerns of teenagers. We see that even the children’s prayers were completely different this time. We believe that good seeds were sown. We believe that this is a process and in this process we all need prayer support. When we came for the third time, we talked about envy. We can immediately
say that many teenagers saw themselves in examples. The guys said that they often envy and often dream about what other people have. Often because of envy children admit that they took things without asking. We talked about 
the fact that there will always be consequences for such actions. We said that envy destroys people’s lives. Envy is like a growing snowball; if you don’t work with it, then life will be difficult and not easy. Dear friend, as you noticed, the topics we discussed this month were simple and relevant. Typically, parents help children overcome every stage of adulthood. But since these children do not have parents, we, as mentors, help them learn to overcome bad habits and already formed reactions. We are grateful to God for the opportunity to minister to these children and also to speak about God’s love this month. Thank you so much for your prayers and for your participation. May God bless you!
October turned out to be very warm and colorful this year.
even more enjoyable. Every time I come to the boarding school, it’s nice to understand that the guys are looking forward to us, tell us all their news, hug and just don’t take a step away.
we were playing games. We tried to maximize the involvement of these children who did not fully understand the rules of the game. One of them is Maxim.
and not quite fast! How happy he was that he could run, that he was together with everyone and not on the sidelines! For us, this moment may mean nothing at all, but for Maxim, these actions are a manifestation of love for him! He may not hear or understand the words addressed to him, but love and acceptance do not need loud phrases. Love is an action. And Maxim felt it. This month the topics of the talks were: “Bitterness of resentment”, “Envy”, “Betrayal”. We tried to fully disclose each topic and make it as accessible to understanding as possible. At the last meeting there were sports relay races, where all the children participated with pleasure. We pray for every child so that understanding of the Word of God becomes real for them, and Love to be in every action!
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.
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.
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.
This month we told the guys about the miracles of Jesus that he performed during his life on Earth. We have repeatedly told them about the resurrection of the daughter of Jairus, as well as about the resurrection of Lazarus. But every time new guys come to us, for whom these stories are new, and those who hear them not for the first time, learn more and more to admire God, for whom anything is possible!
We devoted our other meetings with the guys from Rudensk to Easter. Unfortunately, in the modern world many children and adults are limited only to associations with cakes, eggs and rabbits! That is why we try to talk more about Christ at this time, about His crucifixion, death and resurrection in order to convey to the children the true meaning of Easter.
We invited a puppet theater to one of the meetings, where the characters told about Easter – starting with the story of Moses and the Egyptian plagues. In addition to the theatrical performance, we held games, where both older and younger children could participate and get sweet prizes. And at the last meeting of this month, Dima held a bible lesson, where he also talked about Easter, but already telling the children in detail about the importance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ for each of them personally, as well as about the love of God for people, Who sent His Only Son into this world so that everyone would have the opportunity to be saved and spend their eternity with God! We thank everyone who supports our ministry and wholeheartedly congratulate you on the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ!
opportunity to serve in boarding schools. In March, in Rudensk, as in Smilovichi, we also passed stories about how: “Jesus heals 10 lepers.”, “A wonderful saturation of five thousand people with five loaves.” and “The Healing of Bartimaeus.” we tried to explain Scripture to children in a language accessible to them with examples from life and explain how these truths relate to their lives. Thank God that He brings children and they have a desire to attend our games and our lessons, usually about 15-20 children come. We are glad that we can make friends with children through communication and games, as well as sing songs together, but the most important thing for us is that they listen to 
the Word of God and answer our questions, through this we see that they learn something and understand, that the Word sounds to their hearts – it is very encouraging in the ministry. As in other boarding schools, we ask them a passage from the Bible so that they would read it and retell it to us when we come next time, we also teach a lesson on the same passage and this allows them to think twice more and understand the Word. I am very grateful to God that there are children who regularly read the passages that we ask them, for example, Petya and Polina, several other people have also recently started reading regularly.
Petya always opens us a classroom in which we can put things and take tables and chairs from there for games and for the lesson.
We are also grateful to God that we can help the children financially within our means, for example, Polina’s gums are bleeding and the doctor told her to buy a special toothpaste and a means for rinsing teeth. Petya asked simply to buy them 1 pack of sugar for the class and that their electric kettle was broken. Sometimes someone’s glasses break, and sometimes the guys just need to buy socks or sneakers. We decided to buy all this and help them at least in a small way. There is still a time ahead when we will have to pack things for graduates, so there will still be an opportunity to serve them.
LOVE 4 THE CHILDREN 