Sasha and Olya Skripak

I will be joining Pastor Sasha and Olya Skripak from the Almaz Church in Kiev on their mission in Vorzel. The men who are on the mission will be working on the buildings and the women will be attending to the children. I will be training Olya and the mission workers on early intervention techniques. God brought us together last summer over the children in 'the forbiddden house' after meeting two of their mission workers, one of whom had ben raised in Vorzel. Sasha was instrumental in getting us into the House and helping us get some photos of the children. Olya, his wife had been wanting to learn what to do with the children to stimulate them and that turned into an opportunity for me to do some training with local woman who were interested. Hopefully, I will be able to do more trainings and these women will be able to go in and support new families so the children don't end up in the Baby Houses!!! Every summer Sasha, Olya and their three children Liza, 5, Gera, 4 and Martha age 2, spend six weeks at the Sanatorium ministering to the orphans in Baby House 12. And Olya is blessed to be pregnant with Skripak #4 this time!I'm not sure where else they will go this summer but last year spent time in Sri Lanka at an orphanage there!

Why do they do this?

Reason 1. God adopted us when we were orphans. Jesus promised: I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. (John,14:18) Blesses the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spirituaal blessing..., just as He chose us in Him...He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will (Eph.1:3-5). reason 2 God commands to serve the orphans and we want to obey Him. Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan,...(Isa. 1:17) Pure and imdefiled religion in the sight of God and Father is this: to visit orpohans...(Jas.1:27).