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Monday, March 16, 2009

Gifts, gifts, and MORE gifts!! THANK YOU!!!

In February and March we went twice to the place for the kids from 3 to 8 years old who are in the TB group of risk. Most of them are orphans or kids from homes where parents are drug and/or alchohol addicted. Right now there are 20 kids. When we went there the first time we delivered the Christmas gifts collected by the churches in the States. I want to thank again everyone who participated in the Christmas gifts project! We made many kids happy (about 300 gifts were collected, wrapped and delivered to 4 orphanages). Thank you again! In March we went to deliver them some of the things they asked for: underwear for the kids, clothes (special thank you goes to Sharon and Pat Paterson who donated some of the clothes for the kids), toilet paper, detergent and soap enough for two months (special thanks goes to our Ukrainian friend who donated money to buy that and chose to stay anonymous). Our friend donated a lot of childrens books and videos with cartoons that they will use to entertain the kids. We are very blessed to be in a team of all these people who donated in this way or another to we can bring some good and useful things to the kids.



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The U.S partners of this organization are Jeff and Tonya Filleman and family along with our Ukrainian friends, Sergey and Julia Yarovoy. The organization was derived to facilitate the ministry to orphans and youth in Odessa, Ukraine and the surrounding areas. Our story begins with a missionary that we are in close contact with that works at Internot #4 in Odessa, Ukraine. A plea from her went out the middle of 2005 that informed us of an female child in the orphanage that was soon to turn 16 and would not be able to be adopted in the U.S. after that. Through an intervention of God we decided to make an attempt to adopt this child. As circumstances would have it, we were not able to complete our paperwork in time. We then decided to see what we could do to support this child in the Ukraine in the highly likely event that she would never be adopted. Given the circumstances, we decided to support this child in Ukraine no matter what it took. This in turn led Jeff to a trip to Odessa, Ukraine for a one week trip in March of 2006, where the world as we "Filleman's" knew it would change. Jeff spent the majority of his time at Internot #4 meeting and trying to relate with these children. Surprisingly enough, the majority of these children were "normal" given the circumstances that they had undergone. Other than the language, you would never know the difference between these children and those in an U.S school. Also included in the trip for Jeff, was the opportunity to meet with Sergey and Julia Yarovoy. They are a local missionary couple that were born and raised in Odessa, Ukraine, that have over 10 years experience ministering and mentoring to the orphaned and homeless youth of Odessa. Jeff was sincerely touched by their proposed ministry and their results (as they had been the ones helping us out with our girl after we were unable to adopt her). In turn, we have offered to return the favor of their lifelong committment to these children, by offering to finance their ministries in their entirity. Which leads us to where we are today. Creating a sponsorship programs for these children and developing fundraising programs for their benefit. If you feel that you may be interested in donations or the Sponsorship program or would just like more information about it, please browse our site for further information or contact us.

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