God draws these precious children even when the world rejects them
Sergei G.
SGA-Supported Missionary Pastor in Belarus
It is a great privilege for me to serve God by proclaiming His Good News to the people around me. Sometimes the results of ministry are seen immediately, but at other times the blessings of ministry are not seen until years later.
About 15 years ago, I met a girl named Tanya. At that time her story simply shook our hearts. From birth, Tanya appeared doomed to suffer because she was born an unwanted child in a family of alcoholics. The situation came to a head when her mother’s cohabitant went into a drunken frenzy, put little Tanya in a wastebasket, and threw her out the window. It was good that they lived in a one-story house. In the morning, their neighbors heard crying in the garden—it saved Tanya’s life.
By the will of God, this girl ended up in a foster family with our church members, who sincerely cared for her and showed love to her as their own daughter. A little later, they adopted her brother. For a long time, the children attended Sunday school, getting acquainted with the Scriptures, and every summer they attended our Christian camps. Eventually, the family moved to another city. Here is where we met Tanya years later.
She is now a young girl who is in college, studying leatherworking, and has a passion for leather crafts. She loves the Lord, attends a local church, her life is full of enthusiasm and plans for the future! It is impossible to imagine what would have happened to her if she had not had people in her life who had once repented in our church, dedicating their lives to taking in orphans and raising them in the fear of God!
At times like these, we keenly realize how important it is to continue the work of showing people the way to salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ!