The orphanage for the children is located on Chicherina Street,
which is in downtown Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Our team of children’s workers
were invited to this orphanage by Stephen Bokach, the regional superintendent
of Baptist churches. When we went to the orphanage we brought presents and
aid from their Switzerland friends. This time the principal of the
orphanage allowed us to hold a special program for the children. We used a
puppet show to tell the kids two stories - one from the Bible and another about
real life. After this, our team distributed the presents. The children
opened up for the conversations and fellowship so much that (by the permission
of their pedagogues) we were allowed to spend an extra hour with them. Some
children invited us to their rooms, where we learned that there are other
children at the orphanage that cannot leave their beds and we gladly visited
them on every story of the 3-story building, we gave them presents. Also,
for the adults, we had a different type of gift - large format calendars with
Bible verses printed on them.
We spent several hours in the orphanage and the people who
were impacted the most ended up being the older children from our Sunday school
who were with us. After this trip they sincerely thanked God that they have a
mother and a father, that they have a healthy body, and they know God who cares
about them.
Mikhail Lozovoi,
Director for EGM-UA,
Director of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine FBC Sunday school
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