This story started in 2018. God put in our hearts to visit the children’s shelter of Gorodok village (Krasnoyarsk region). There we met a gypsy family with of children. Our love for these children led to more frequent visits to the Minusinsk children’s home where they eventually ended up.
The story of these children is not simple. Their fathers are different, they don’t communicate with them at all. The mother dealt drugs and was already sent to prison for the third time. At that time the children lived with different stepfathers. The older ones raised the younger ones, they cooked for themselves. Unfortunately, in prison, the mother did not change her thinking. The children stopped going to school. They mostly had to do household chores. And some were born in prison, and spent their first years of life in the orphanage. We started to be friends, meet and invite the children to visit us in the children’s ark. There, together we cooked, read books, watched movies, talked a lot, told them about Jesus, and played games. We developed very close relationships with some of the children, and that’s why we are able to take them with us.
In doing so, we demonstrating what a Christian family is. And it helped the fact that in August 2022, two of the guys, Rimm and Ruslan wanted to stay in the Christian family forever.
Their lives started changing for the better: they gave up harmful habits, had goals for the future and an interest in studying. Ruslan likes to attend church… This story is just beginning and there’s a lot more interesting in store for these guys in life. Thank you, may God bless you!
Childrens Ark – Jack Kerbs