April is over now. What can we say if we sum up all that we’ve had for this month. I frequently meet the kids with a low self-esteem, kids who don’t believe they can reach any success in life. 
Kids from orphanages often face insults that prevent their personalities from developing and improving. Living life like this they often have a distracted image of what real life is. 
I sometimes come to an idea that orphanages produce the generation of so-called “consumers” and everybody owes them. Kids have difficulties with time management and keep on living without making any effort just because they have no family and as if only the government is charged to take care of them.
This month we’ve read the book of Daniel. We’ve had 4 classes: “The lost childhood”, “Daniel’s trials”, “Daniel and lions”, “ The words on the wall”. 
We discussed that Daniel also was an orphan. Daniel had a lot of trials and troubles and God helped him out. Another problems between the kids is betrayal. The example of friends Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego was very vivid for kids. The story of a miraculous salvation of Daniel
from lions was a good one to remind that God can help to overcome all the difficulties. The discussions encouraged kids to think over their lives and show them the life full of victories and deeds with God. When the discussions are over and we start removing things to leave some kids sometimes come to me and share their impressions about the Bible studying. It’s great they get hope for a better future. They start at least setting goals for life and looking for the ways of achieving them. Let’s pray so that the Word they’ve heard could produce a great fruit in their lives.
Hello! I would like to share my concerns about the kids’ ministry in the Smilovichi orphanage in the past month. This month we continued to share Bible stories from the Old Testament with the kids. At the end of each story we made some practical conclusions that they will be able to use in their lives.
This month we talked to them about Ruth’s faithfulness, about how she made the decision to stay with her mother in law, leaving everything for her. We also talked about kind deeds. When I was spending time with the kids, talking to them, observing their behavior; how they treat one another, I saw a lot of cruelty and rudeness in their relationships with one another and I wanted to tell 
them and show them what are kind deeds and how important it is for us to be kind to one another and respect each other. Also, as many know, kids this age especially need attention, support, and care. That is why we are trying with our team to show these kids the kind of love and care that God fills us with. The kids really enjoy doing various interesting crafts and making cards with kind words for their friends, playing games and singing. They really love to sing! Often they sing so loud that it seems that the walls could collapse! These are our kids and how we spend time with them.
The March is nearly over but it is still winter outside with a snow layer of about a meter high. Well, even if we don’t have a spring mood still we are always in the right mood to visit Grozovo orphanage. During the whole month we have made trips to the orphanage and had personal contacts with the kids and team members. 
When communicating in small groups or face to face, kids are more likely to open and talk about their pain and fears and tell what they would like us to pray about. 
That’s how you actually make friends with the kids and become their older brother or sister, someone they would listen and look up to. You begin to pray fervently for those kids and see the ways you can help and bring comfort to them. Praise the Lord for those wonderful relationships.
This month I have also managed to motivate the teens from my church to come to the orphanage and play football with the kids. 
They were so happy to play against a new team as they had got really bored playing with each other all the time. The game was a thrilling one and as the orphans lost they asked us to come again so that they would play back. 
There is a big chance to make friends with the kids by playing sports with them and doing things together.
During the spring holidays our family had a chance to invite some of the kids for a week’s stay. We are having several girls staying at our house now and yesterday we went for a church meeting altogether. We’ll tell the stories about our holiday guests in our next report. Meanwhile we thank everybody for your kind prayers and support. God bless you all!
This month we had a few trips to the Rudensk boarding school. Our visits to the orphanage are always filled with joy, because there are our friends. God richly bless this boarding school, and the lives of many children in the boarding school change by Him. 
At one meeting, we watched a film on the name “The Butterfly Circus” with Nick Vujnich. An example of this man’s life has left a deep imprint on the children’s hearts. The vast majority of children do not believe in themselves, they need someone who will tell them “I believe in you.” 
And this film showed them that you can fight even when there is nothing – even when there is no arms and no legs. This film showed them that you can fight even in a desperate situation. 
After the film, we made a small conclusion that each of the guys sitting in the room, is special and can achieve a lot, if not to give up, when he will fight to the end. We told them that we believe that they will reach the best – get a good education, will have a good job, and strong family. 
The main thing is that they will not give up, the main thing that they have chosen the right path in life – the path with God. At one meeting, we decided just to play games with the kids. Each of them has received attention and was able to participate in active games – run, jump, and most important, to win.
It is great happiness when you can help the children from the orphanage, mentally, physically, and spiritually. And so happy to see a change in the lives of children. When they cease to smoke, swear, insult the other guys, but begin to help others and to protect others. Of course, the fight for guys’ lives do not stop for a minute, but the victory is – in the hearts of many children God has settled himself. We thank everyone who supported us in prayer and financially. God will reward you all for your concern for us and the children orphans! God bless you!
Here came a long-expected spring month. Although it doesn’t differ from winter months at all, I am glad that we can visit children in the orphanages, even when it is cold. I would like to tell you about the devotion to the children in Grozovo orphanage. 
As usual we had an opportunity to spend time with the children, tell them something new and important, play with them and just converse with those who needed it especially. The program of this month was very eventful and diverse. We had following topics: “kindness”, we also told about lives of some biblical heroes such as Ruth and Elisha. 
Besides, we decided to diversify our meetings by watching Christian animated films.
There is one boy among the others, whose name is Kirill. It is always difficult to deal with him. He often interrupts, makes noise, when we organize our meetings. However, this month I enjoyed the fact, that although he tried to make noise, he listened to the things he was told about. Moreover, during all this time he became more tolerant to others and this fact makes us happy.
We believe that the life of each child can be changed with God!
LOVE 4 THE CHILDREN 