I find life keeps going and sometimes I wish it would slow down a bit so we can have a rest. We continue to see amazing things happen to people we are talking with and trying to help. It is amazing that we can seem so insignificant at times but then out off the blue you see God do a miracle and even sometimes chooses us to do the miracle.
We just had the D.T.S.( the course I was helping to run) come back from doing there 3 month practical phase. The stories they shared makes me feel very jealous that I wasn’t there. They split into 3 team 2 went to central Asia and 1 team went to China.
Well now we are back we are full on into stuff. It is school holidays here now and the kids get 3 months off here for summer so the programmes are starting up. The ministry Christy is involved in is starting a camp this week in the orphanage, where they will go into the orphanage every day and run a day programme. They are doing a great job there and seeing many kids lives changed. These kids cannot leave the orphanage and they some are very ill. Last week the team were able to take a pony and a donkey for the kids to ride on. (thank you to those who generously gave to this venture). I wasn’t allowed there but my kids went and they played well with the kids. This is the first time they have been able to go to the orphanage and see where their mum works. She will write more soon.
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1st year of russia gone and we survived
Written by Garry, Christy, Jessie, Ella and Zac
Thursday, 05 June 2008
Hi all. We have been talking Christy and I and we just cannot find the time to do a full on web page every two weeks which was our goal so now we decided to try and write blogs maybe this will be less time consuming and easier for us to maintain so we aim to update once a week or if we can twice a week. Thank you for your patience....
Hi I thought it was about time I wrote to everyone and shared what I have been up to.
My work with Touch Ministries who works with abandoned children here in the city of Perm Russia.Just to share a bit about ourselves and what we do....Currently we work in two orphanages for abandoned babies and children.There are 4 of us on the team and we go once a week into one orphanage and run a crafts program for a group of 2-4 year old kids that have already in their short life suffered more that they should have.They are so cute and love us coming each week.We always end with them asking us to come back again.It has been a joy to watch them grow and develop and to show love to these precious children.
As you can tell we are very excited to say goodbye to the snow. Although today is a cool 8 degrees it feels like summer is coming. We have had temperatures upto 15 so then the ice and snow does melt very fast.
