I met Eugene and Rita in 2017 when we moved the ministry in Omsk. They were one of the first married couples with whom I started the premarital counseling. Eugene came to God not long ago from a very unfavorable environment. Rita visited the Sunday Services since childhood but was never able to put her trust in God. As a result, her first marriage collapsed, and she lost her twins during pregnancy. The doctor had to cut them out with the uterus. In her second marriage, Rita survived violence and miraculously escaped from it. She almost all her bones fractured. And now Rita and Eugene are getting married in the church for the third time.
We worked hard and as a reward God blessed us, we became friends. Since they could not have children, they began to pray for adoption. One day they were offered at the hospital to take an abandoned and sick child. The boy Alex had a head injury. He was six months old, but Alex is a very beautiful and cheerful child, and quickly entered their heart. A month after adoption, they learned that he had cancer in both eyes, and metastases from the right eye had spread and the child could die at any moment. The doctors could not decide what to do, and Eugene and I started knocking on all the doors. We called the elders for prayer.
There was one person in the administration who was able to send quickly him to Moscow and get an urgent surgery, their right eye had to be removed and they are fighting to save the left. He already did a chemotherapy, but it did not have a positive impact. They are now in Moscow now, and need our prayers and, of course, material assistance.
In the near future I will fly to them with support. Rita cannot imagine losing another child. I believe that God loves them and has mercy and glory!
Ministry in Omsk – Alexander Melnikov