February 5, 2009

Piece and blessings to you, Charles and everyone by your side!

Hello, my dear. It's time for me to share things that are happening here. The new year has started off well enough (if not to count my disease). I mean that everything goes well at the project. The New Year's celebration and Christmas celebration went just marvelous! Lots of presents, laughter, joy, competitions, surprises, lots of promises and new goals. The presents went to different parts of our Ukraine.

It's a present for Yana - new boots and lots of sweets in the box, she is in the rehabcenter in Dneproderzhinsk city. We call her from time to time, it's moving, hardly though. It also was a present for our Ella - she got lots of sweets too. Our Ella is serving as a pastor's helper - praise the Lord. They have a ministry, from their community, in a nearby village, so she goes there with the pastor, helps him to lead the service. I am so happy for her. Than we sent boxes to 3 of our boys who are in prison right now, they are also in different towns.

So, praise God for those who sow in our ministry. May God bless every hand that is giving. The boys from prisons write nice letters of thanks.

Life at the project is full. God creates all new things. We opened another interesting thing for kids - video filming and editing. The guys are so much interested. They like doing it.

Another good news- we've been invited to work at the camp again, so you can be sure to come. I will write the detailed prices and dates at the end of April or May, due to the uncertainty that takes place in Ukraine right now - you can't say anything for sure. So this is how we are doing. Right now I am getting the programs for the camp ready.

I had a study session at the institute, I passed all the exams with "4" and "5" - that's very good. I still keep the treatment, thank you very much for your help. I will write more soon.

Love to all of you, Galina.

December 15, 2008

December 15, 2008

Charles and everybody there – piece to You!

I thank you very much for your care about me and the project. Konstantin Vladimirovich told me your words, thank you for not forgetting. Tears came to my eyes when I heard about your attitude, your understanding, specially in those days I need support and I need to know that I am not alone, that there are people that are not indifferent about me. You are so close to me at this time, that I can feel it. Thank you. I believe that soon I will be able to serve my Lord with the new strength! Amen.

We'd like to do something special at the project, for the New Year is coming soon – the year of 2009! We will come into this year with new victories and God's praise! Our president said that this year is the year of youth. We expect something new for all of us.
Nevertheless, this year has also been very fruitful. I can say that we've done a lot – looking at what has been done! We praised our Father in Heaven! Konstantin Vladimirovich will send you all the reports, but I'd like to mention some specific cases.

Many kids started coming to us after the camp, they all are from families at risk. But slowly they eliminated by themselves. There was Nadya among them, she is 10 today. Her story is very sad. Her mom died of AIDS when she was 22 years old, Nadya was 1.5 years at that time.
Her grandmother was alcohol addicted and her grandgrandmother took the girl to bring her up. Right now that lady is 81 years old and Nadya is staying with her. The girl is very difficult to work with, she smokes, curses, she is very easy-tempered, she doesn't have friends, just 2 girl-friends who are also missing from school. We started talking with the grandmother and it turned out that Nadya has also got AIDS, that's why her reaction to life is like that. We started working with the girl too. The school started, we went to school, home. Nadya was not coming to school with her friends. She didn't want us to get close to her, but slowly she got adjusted to us and now she is getting better.

She's been put to the psychiatric hospital a while ago, she gets some treatment there from time to time, we are looking forward to see her back, to help her get around in this world. The grandmother calls us all the time, she feels so safe with us. She thanks us for the help, which means she thanks you!

The next good example is – it's a big family with 12 children in it, mom is bringing them up alone, there is no father (he's been killed). We met only three of them in the camp, afterwards three more of them started attending the project. So totally 6 people. Of course, the mother can't watch them all, not even to talk about good upbringing. Today these children are praying to God. They have thankful hearts. We help them with clothes, feed them, after school they hurry to us. It's so great to see their happy faces!

A few months ago a guy came out of prison, he used to come to the project 2 years ago, his name is Lesha. So, he started coming to the project. He lived in the street. First we found him a shelter, he came to eat and bathe. Than he started coming to church. Than he found a job – selling phone cards. He is working now, renting an apartment, he's got a mother somewhere, she is alcohol addicted and he doesn't want to get back to the past. I believe that there will be a tme when he will forgive his mother and will be praying for her, one day he will come back to her and they will have a good life.

Those are some examples of our daily life. How many more of them here???? The souls who are walking in the street and don't' know about salvation. But we will try harder and work harder to praise our Lord.

Right now is the difficult time for all of us, but God doesn't leave us. We pray that this situation wouldn't touch children who are in the streets. Yes, they have mothers and fathers but they have no food or clothes, no joy and happiness. Let's protect our children together. If not us that who will? Math. 10:42.

Our dear bothers and sisters! We bow down to you for your prayers, your financial support, the Lord has already prepared rewards for each one of you. Be blessed.

We love you all.
Project Team.

November 14, 2008

Chales and everyone who is with you there, hello! Piece to you from our Lord Jesus Christ!

Here I decided to share news from the project.

Everything is super great here! God is with us, He doesn't leave us during the hardships. There are a lot of kids coming, sometimes up to 20 per day and all of them with difficulties. There is one family, coming to us, they have 12 children (6 of them come to us) and they only have a mom. They come to eat at least once a day. This is a very poor family.

Recently I opened new boxes with clothing and I'd like to express my gratitude. Thank you to everyone who is trying hard to help us. I felt tears coming to my eyes when I opened the boxes, I just could feel the care that people took to gather those things. I bow down to all of you! I dressed up almost all of the children. At least I was able to give them everything, except for shoes. We can't buy them shoes. But I think that the Lord will also take care of that.

Then, more good news. We sent 2 guys to the rehabs and found a job for another one. We didn't send anyone to the rehab for quite a while. We sent a girl to Dneproderzhinsk and a boy is here, not far from Simferopol.

We have a good time here. We are a very active organization! We also decided to make a tour through schools where our children study. The tour has already started and of course, we are not very much excited by the information that we get from the teachers about the families and parents. As a rule, the parents are drunk addicts, don't pay any attention to the children's upbringing. That's why children come to our project. We work every day and so don't have much time to get to this matter. But we are trying.

We also had a disco at the project, though we danced with the TV, but everyone liked it. Now we are thinking about Christmas party, what would this party be like? Well, this might be all for now. Write, when you have time. We love you and look forward to see you, blessings.

Respectfully, Galina.

November 8, 2008

Charles, hello!

Piece of our Lord Jesus Christ to you. Sorry for my long silence, I just didn't know what to write about, I could write something and just in an hour everything could be changing and information wouldn't be useful, but now I just decided to write you, even though the situation in our country isn't getting any better, we still trust our God. We pray and thank Him for all of you, that notwithstanding the difficult time, you don't forget about us and don't leave us.

Our faith has become stronger when the difficult times came! We know that God will not leave His people, and I'd like to encourage you that God has got everything under His control. He will not give us more than we can carry. Thank God and you all, our dear.

A little bit about us. Though our staff is 2 people short now, we are doing good, we have a lot of kids, up until 20 children. Konstantin Vladimirovich is leading a photo activity the kids love it.

We also make birthday parties for children, we pray for the birthday guy, play games. We have a Saturday day in town today, so we are going out with kids to work. We also have a lot of work at the project, it's getting cold and street kids come in big numbers. Just a few days ago we sent one guy to a rehabcenter, looking for a job for another guy, for now we found him a place in the shelter. The difficulties come when we have children that have no paperwork and we don't' know how to help them.

I correspond with 4 guy who are in prison, they are thankful for hearing the word of God at the project, their faith helps them greatly now. I hope they will change, God also can use this way to change people. School time has started and we give lessons at schools for prevention of bad influence among youth. I don't' know how we manage it all, but with God's help we can do everything.

That's our life is now. Write us what's new in your life? God's blessings on you, dear, we love you, pray for you and bless you.