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Every Tuesday together with our team we went to orphanages to see the children we miss all the time. That’s great that we have good relationships with each other. Very often we mark the importance of these relati
ons and that’s why since this year we decided to talk about it in details. Our moral lessons this month were conne
cted with the topic “Relations”. We brought up such questions as: there is nothing more important than relations, what Jesus told us about relations (the first commandment of the New Testament), the questions of priority in relations, relations are much more important than money and any other deals… All this was done for these children to have the right picture and viewpoint abou
t relations, because usually they see relations as consumptive values or something simple and usual, though relations demand great efforts from the two sides. I’m happy that these lessons showed them a completely 
different view about relationships, changed their mind to a different side and they started appreciating more and more our coming to them and friendly, family relations we are trying to build with them. We desire to talk about this further for our children to develop into strong personalities, to be able to build strong families, raise up children, becoming a full unit of our society and country.
We are happy that you all contribute to this common cause with prays, resources, material help and a encouraging words about us…
May God bless you!!!
The month September was filled with many events in orphanage so that we visited the orphanage in October. 
Over the summer and months September children were missed us very much so that they gave us warm welcome. Life of orphan children is not as colourful and joyful as the children who live with their own parents. The children are very happy to see us i
n the orphanage and give us many thanks and warm welcome. Our visit the orphanage is a colourful even for the children.
It is an old saying that “when you are in trouble, help another individuals and you feel better”. It is true and when you live and help other people it brings you joy. The orphan children appreciate activity and with great pleasure take part in our programs which we offer them. They enjoy sing a songs and take part in Bible lessons.
This month we have share
d a story about Jonah and about God’s love towards us. We also have said that God would never abandon us. God always gives us the second chance and hope. God is merciful and in spite of our disobedience gives us a hope and redemptions. We spoke with the children on following the
mes “more than carpenter” and Jesus as our Messiah, God and Saviour.
I am always asked myself what I am going to give the children why am I going to the orphanage. Am I ready to be a tool in God’s hands? What God does wants from me? How can I help the children and how can I share my love to the children. Whenever we depart the orphanage my heart is filled with worry for the children and their future. I am always under the impression of the orphanage visitation. My heart is filled with desire to taking part in children’s li
fe. While the visitation I embrace the children, give them my love, smile and listen them. The children are in need of love, support and relationship. They want to be loved and accepted.
We consider our ministry as a high priority to serve the Lord and children. For us It is more than ministry it is a close connection with the children and strong desire give them comfort and joy. The ministry helps us to ponder our own life and find our own troubles insignificant. The ministry teaches us to understand other people, love and forgive them.
God blesses us abundantly in the ministry and He always available to support us and encourage for the ministry.
On October 12, 2013, we are planning to hold an annual Christian conference dedicated to the service to orphans. The conference is called “Belarus without orphans”.
This month, we organized not only games and sport events for children at Rudenskij orphanage, 
but also communication one on one. Besides that, we saw that children are ready to meet us and listen to Bible lessons. For this reason, we had first Bible topic this academic year.
Obviously, more boys participated in
sports. Some of them played soccer, others volleyball and tennis. Girls were ready to have personal communication. They have missed us after 2 months summer break! We are glad that children have learned to communicate not only with us but with each other. Previously, we had to motivat
e them to talk. They are expressing their emotions freely, so they were willing to share about the past summer. Some children told us that they got to meet their parents, others were worried abou
t argument with a friend, and others passed finals successfully and spend summer vacation abroad.
Both boys and girls participated in other games. We love those moments when we can observe children and see their characters. W
e see how they react to winning and losing, what is their attitude to each other.
During our first meeting we had topic: “Friendship.” As the Biblical example, we used friendship between Jesus Christ and Peter. We tried to explain how important is to trust each other, spend time with each other, and to forgive. We hope that it will be useful for their lives!
Next month, we plan to emphasize human relationships. We will try to show how important is to be faithful to a friend, and how to build proper relationships between boy and a girl according to the Bible. We hope to be able to visit this orphanage new month as well.
-Sasha, look how fast I can run, – bragged a young boy named Nikita before the new member of our
team and ran away disappearing behind a corner. He is running so much to and from, from nowhere to nowhere. I do not know why he runs so much but it seems that there is no any better occupation for this boy. Because it is the only way not to think about his own life – the life one wants to forget about. All other orphans in the same way take “paints” and paint the day in their own “bright colors” – the most important thing is not to think about own life. Of course, who wants to think about the fact that nobody wants them?
My impression is that even when we say to orphans that they are dear to us, that we love them 
and want to help them, they still do not believe us. They do not know how to behave with us, with a person with whom they do not need to defend themselves, the one who says to them that they are precious. Thus when we communicate with orphans we have to deal with their double personality, one is public and the other is private.
The whole September we dedicated to personal communication with kids. To tell the truth I did not even expect that the kids would be so happy to see us after long summer ho
lidays. During September we wanted to become closer to the children, to become their older friends who they can ask for an advice during hard times. We wanted to show them God.
It was sad not to see some of the boys and girls who graduated from the orphanage. They stepped out into the sea of life to look for their own harbour. It is sad because I did not have enough time to say everything that I wanted to say to each one of them, that I did not have enough time to befriend each one of them. But I am glad that some of them are going to live in Minsk – we will have an opportunity to meet them.
In the orphanage I got closer to a girl named Vika (the 
author is a girl too). I like her understanding of life. She knows what she wants and she works hard to get there. I want very much that our relationship grow stronger. But simple fellowship and helping them is not enough and it is not the primary goal of our team. I really, really want for Holy Spirit to use us here so we would be able to communicate to orphans the real truth, that they do not need to run from nowhere to nowhere, that they can stop and realize that with their limited hands they can hug Unlimited God and know and feel that they have been adopted by Him!
LOVE 4 THE CHILDREN 