Сердце чистое сотвори во мне, Боже, и
дух правый обнови внутри меня. (Псалтирь 50-12 Russian)
Серце чисте створи мені, Боже, і
тривалого духа в моєму нутрі віднови. (Псалми 51-12 Ukrainian)
Most Holy
God, our dear Father in Heaven ~ we give you thanks for the fresh hopes we
anticipate realizing on this new Lord’s Day. Give all faithful Christians a
right spirit of love for our glorious Savior who reigns in majestic splendor at
your right hand. Help us to cause the pure light of truth to shine from your
Church which gathers in various communities around the world. We fervently pray
in the precious name of Jesus, Amen.
As we certainly anticipated, our experience with the boys at
the Boys Home yesterday lifted our spirits and boosted our hopes. Two of the
boys were out sick, one didn't come back from time with relatives (AWOL), and
one was with his Mama for the weekend. The boys who have family look forward to
this time even with troubled families.
All
boys were very well prepared with their memory verses that were from Exodus
chapter 20. It is their time to learn more details about what God considers
sin. Each boy made some small comment as usual about his verse and we had a
discussion. They will study more and we plan for deeper discussion in the days
and weeks ahead - God willing. We were very pleased to observe the progress of
Vadim. Natasha has appointed him as the class monitor. He even had the
responsibility of assigning the memory verses yesterday. He quoted 3 verses
instead of his usual one yesterday.
We
had the joyful privilege of presenting the boys with warm sweatshirts (hoodies)
that were sent from Christians which meet on Tuesday evenings as one of the
small groups of the East Cobb Church of Christ in Marietta, Georgia. The boys
immediately scrambled to put on their timely gifts and went out to see us off. We
also have some of the little toy cars on hand and each boys eyes lit up to
receive this favorite gift.
Many
thanks to several partners who help us allow these boys to realize that they
are not alone in this world. They have the opportunity to learn truth and to
experience the joy of God’s love while learning the blessing of giving.
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