September 22, 2007 by Sheree.

Today was our first day back in Kids Club. We had 11 kids which I think was pretty good for the first day. Most of them were our regulars but one kid was new. His mom read an announcement that was posted somewhere about our club and she came with her son. The boy was shy so he just watched most of the time but his mom participated in everything and seemed to be having a good time.

This evening we attended a party for one of our friends at the YWAM base. Before it started many of us were just standing around talking in the front entryway. My friend Tamara who visits the baby orphanage with me came with a smile on her face to talk to me about my babies. She talked with one of the workers at the orphanage and got lots of good news. The first thing she told me was that Aleona is healed. I started crying like I’ve never cried before. People were wondering what was wrong with me and Nathan came over to see if I was okay. I could barely stop crying to let everyone know I was happy and that they were good tears. Nastia, another baby girl, was in my group before she was placed in another group when the new babies came several weeks ago. She is almost 3 years old and I’ve known her now for almost 1 year. Never have I seen her move around besides waving her arms and moving her head. She is now crawling. Praise God for these good reports. I hope to hear many more like these.

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September 17, 2007 by Sheree.

We have had a break from Kids Club for the summer. Kids keep asking when it will start again. Even kids that we don’t know are coming to our building to ask when it will start back up again. We plan to open our doors for another school-year of Kids Club this Saturday. Kids can come and have a safe place to come off the streets, have fun, get something to eat, and get to know God more.

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September 1, 2007 by Sheree.

I went to the baby orphanage the last couple days. On Thursday I walked in to the room that my group is normally in and thought for a moment that I was in the wrong room. It was full of new babies. A baby orphanage in another city was closed down and the babies were sent to other places. Instead of putting a couple new babies in each group, they took all my babies and split them up into different groups and gave us all new babies. It’s hard just learning about one new disabled baby but even harder with a whole group of them. It was difficult to get them fed each night plus we had ladies from the other groups coming in to ask how to get a kid that was in our group to eat. Many times the ladies would give up and hand stuff over to me and ask me to try and feed a kid. The kids were pretty bad. One kid had a huge head, others just laid there like vegetables, one girl was standing on her head and doing other wierd things, they were all not normal at all. When we were changing them we had to totally strip them down and inspect every square inch of their bodies. In Russia they use something that is green and is litterally called “green stuff”. Most people see our pictures of kids with green dots on them and think the kid played with a marker but in fact it’s kind of like iodine that they put on any soar or bug bite to keep it from getting infected. Any little dot on a baby was covered with green stuff and I went home that night with green hands that will be green for a while. Even though it may not seem like it, most of these kids have a lot going on inside their brains. Many of them are smart and know what’s going on around them. Some of them must be feeling scared now in a new home with new people caring for them. I was glad that I could be one of the first faces they saw and could comfort them and welcome them to their new home. I know that Jesus is there in the room with them.

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