This April the orphanage Belynichy had a cha
nce to hear what our God the Creator has done for us, about his plan of salvation as we celebrated Easter. I was so excited to see all these familiar faces and to see how they congratulate each other on Christ’s Resurrection Day. We told the orphans about how Christ came into this world for us because of His great love He’s got for us and He came
to show the way and to give a chance to every person to hear about Him and b
e saved, get a new sense of life, joy and fulfillment in God. The orphans were sitting calm and thoughtful which happens quite rarely. We hope all that they have heard will help them in the future to choose the way among other different ways which leads to Christ, and they will be able to avoid the mistakes and sins remembering all they know about God.
We also ran a sport competition at the orphanage this month. Playing sport games really joins kids together: t
he leaders and the orphans, the orphans among each other. The kids compete with each other, they can sometimes argue or shout the odds but they are sincere in this. They are genuine, they don’t pretend. We don’t convince them they need to participate, they are very active. I like communicating with the orphans, seeing their friendly smiles and joy they have when we visit them. Wewould like the orphans to have real changes in lives.
This month we continued to minister to the orphans of the Rudensk orphanage
In April together with children we have celebrated the wonderful Holiday of Easter. And we have celebrated it in a very unusual way. 
Because the roots of the Easter go to the history of the Jewish nation, we have invited a Jew so he would show and explain the origins of Easter and what does it mean for the whole mankind.
At another meeting we spoke on the subject of betrayal. Nobody loves when he is betrayed therefore the subject was very current. 
At this lesson we helped children to look at themselves and to try to remember how often they have betrayed other people.
Yet at the other meeting we talked on the subject of success. Every person is worried about what is going to happen to him in the future. Are they going to be winners or losers in this life? Are they going to succeed in this life or are they going to have nothing. We have discussed who is “an agile person” from the book of Proverbs and how many times you have to lose to become a winner.
Helpful lessons are not the only activity that we do, we also play games with children and it is a fun way to help them develop physically. 
Carrying water in a spoon to a glass, cutting balloons with closed eyes and building giant letters from their own team –
these are just a few examples of fun games we play with kids. Through these games they learn to trust each other, to be united in a team, sometimes they learn to loose but at the same time to never lose hope.
At the last meeting we told children that they have to serve each other. On the example of the story of the Good Samaritan we have discussed what compassion is.
We also had an opportunity to give children a little bit of clothing. We thank those who provided the clothing!
We are glad that we have an opportunity to minister in Rudensk orphanage!
This time we are going to tell you about our work with little kids. 
I couldn’t tell you about it, 
because I work with older kids. There are three people working with little children, they are Olya, Anastacia and Veronica. I asked them to write a little note about their ministry, so here it is: Hi everyone! I’m Olya and this is my first letter to you. Children from Vileyka boarding school are always happy when somebody visits them. When we walk along the hall, we always hear “Hello-s” from everywhere. Myself, Nastya and Veronica are involved in work with the second grade students. They are very talkative and easy-going, they like telling how they are doing, they show pictures they draw, they enjoy playing drawing. 
They listen to Bible stories with a great interest and ask a lot of questions. Once it happened that there were 4 weeks between our first and second trip, 
and we were surprised that children remembered the topic we were talking at our first meeting. It is so amazing to see how God works in these little hearts, how they change gradually and become well-behaved. We were pleased to hear when kids asked us to bring Children’s Bibles. Now everyone has his own Bible and tell us stories from it even before we talk about them. We praise God for the opportunity to spend time with these children.
This month we had one visit more to the Smilovichi orphanage. At the mome
nt, there have become 
more children again and there are still more boys. Many children went to new families or permanent orphanages. But some new children also came, who are are in abeyance. As these children are from different age groups and the make-up of children often changes, we made a decision to discuss with them the most significant and at the same time simple for their perception topics. In March we discussed such themes as: ‘Prayer is a talk with God’, ‘God accepts us just as we are’, ‘The Bible is the word of God’, ‘God’s features’. Some children heard about God for the first time and prayed with us.
The reason fo
r our special joy is the attitude o
f governors to the children and to us. They gather the children and bring them to our meetings. We see their love and care for the children. Glory to God! It is revealed in the children’s behavior. They always try to take part in all our activities and don’t just listen to the stories during biblical lessons, but participate in dialogues and even learn the lessons. We have also noticed that the children in this orphanage are keen on crafts. So, we devoted the whole hour to the crafts during one of our visits. We printed the photos and the children made frames for them. It was a good time becau
se each member of the team was able to devote his/her attention to 1-2 
children and not just help them with crafts but communicate with them closer.
Next month the children and we are waiting for the Easter day. It is a good opportunity to tell the children about the feat of Jesus Christ. And it will enable the children to know more about God and develop their artistic abilities, because we are planning to make ornaments for the holiday together with them.
It was a special month working with the kids from the orphanage in Belynichy! The team was 
participating in the lives of these kids by p
rayer and seeking solutions of problems many of them face, especially those who graduate. Sowing God’s seeds in them is not in vain. Many of them a thinking about continuously seeking God in their lives – praise the Lord! Our prayer request is for the hearts and their future lives: when they leave the orphanage, they won’t be lost but found for the kingdom 
of God.
This month we’ve been learning “The Prayer” unit, and also we’ve told children bible stories about Lazer and rich man and about Kind preacher. Through these sto
ries we wanted to show children how to make a right choice and also we were trying to show how much our Lord loves every one of us and shows His care. Younger group learned the story about Abraham and David. They also had an opportunity to watch good Christian cartoon about the gift Jesus gave to us.
Also we managed to order tables, chairs and developing games for defectology class. Now children will be able to have classes in well-maintained class, using developing games and stuff like that. Praise the Lord and thanks to everyone who takes part in this ministry!
LOVE 4 THE CHILDREN 