Good news

 Thanks to all who have been praying about the problem of some of the boys in the program having to report for the the draft into the army. Yesterday Garry was talking with Max Rudei and found out that the army came to interview them and was reported to have said that they don't know why anyone would have given them their names because they are not suitable to serve. So the guys are still safe in the village. Please keep Vlad (and all the soldiers serving) in your prayers. He's in the photo above with Garry, taken in November, he's a former student who joined the army. 

Garry is planning a trip in mid- March. Max says that he'd like to pour more concrete and build a better shed to replace the small dry cow sheds that are falling apart this spring. It gets very muddy in the barn yard where they are. 

Happy New Year

 Here's a photo from the celebration that they had in the village.

This week they had snow, we had snow... Victor tells us that he was talking to them and some of the boys that do not have papers saying they have a disability received draft notices, however Oleg is working to keep them out of the army. 

When Garry was there in March, there were three graves in the village of men who were in the army, in November there were eight. We heard about the death of one of our former group home parents who was serving in the army. He and his wife Ira were with us at the boys house until 2015, they went to work with Dorcas International. He also is survived by their young adult daughter.