From Julia and Sergey

For many years it was on Serjey's heart to go out to the streets of Odessa, meet the kids who live on the street and talk to them. Usually he tries to find out why a kid is on the street and if he has a place where he can go back (an orphanage or home). If there is a place like that and the kid wants to be helped he offers to take him back and talk to his parents or supervisors at the orphanage. Some of the kids end up on the street because they were looking for an adventure and often they left with an older sibling or older kid from the orphanage and then are afraid to go back. We wrote on the blog about few cases like that and today I wanted to let you know about Vova - a 15 year old boy from an orpahange several hours drive away from Odessa. Serjey met him at the McDonalds and had lunch with him, he found out that he ran away from an orphanage with an older classmate and that he wants to go back but is afraid. So, Serjey took him back by bus (it took them about 7 hours to get there) he met with the director and the director and the staff were all really happy to meet Vova. The director even wrote a special "thank you" paper for Serjey and it was really special! They showed Serjey around the orphanage and it seems like a really good one. Many of the kids there are really into sports, they win a lot of competitions. Serjey got Vova an inexpensive cell-phone to stay in touch with him. Please pray that Vova will study hard and stay at the orphanage (get involved into the sports team of some kind). Please pray for the street kids of Odessa - it got really cold here please pray for special provison from God for them and for all the people in Odessa who try to help the street kids. Please pray for Serjey as he goes out in the evenings to meet them and tries to help them .....
the picture is Vova