June 2020 Project Update:
Delivering food to doorsteps
Nikopol, Ukraine:
Hi …. Just a quick note to update you on Hope For the Children. We are so grateful to God for your prayers and financial support. May the Lord bless each one of you richly.
Due to the quarantine we are still not able to get together in the church building. Every Tuesday we make a hot meal and pack it up in plastic containers so the kids can take it home. The kids come to the church and we hand out meals outside by the front sidewalk. Then the kids run back home to enjoy their hot meal. We are getting more kids every week, we started with 10 and now we are up to 15. Often they ask for an extra container for their little brothers and/or sisters. The kids are so happy because they know that they are being cared for.
We tell the kids to come every Tuesday to the church at 3pm, but they started showing up at 11am because they don’t want to miss out on the meal, plus they also want to hang out with their friends. So we use this time to fellowship with them and we pray with them together. We try to show God’s love to these kids. Even the kids themselves are participating in the prayer time. For the new kids that are coming, and for the kids that come from very difficult family situations we provide food hampers for the families. Now we are starting to visit the families of the new kids, just so that we can get to know the kids and families better. We also tell them about our program and to invite them to join us once it gets back up and running after the restrictions are lifted. We continue to plan for our summer camps, so when the quarantine is lifted, we will be ready to go.
We share with the children that there is a group of believers from Canada that help provide for these meals and programs. Very often the children will pray for your team and they send their thanks and greetings. We as a team here are also very grateful to the Lord for your support.
Please continue to pray for us here and for all the kids and families that we are trying to help through this difficult time. God bless you.
sincerely,
Team of Hope For The Children.
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