New 2009 started with trips to orphanages and congratulations with Christmas. This is a blessingful ministry at the beginning of the year, you can reach many people during this time.
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Christmas holidays in orphanages
Girls fromn an orphanage came to have a dinner after a Sunday service.
I helped to buy boots for these girls, and they very glad
Festive lunch at my home
A Thanksgiving day in our church
A supper at a Thanksgiving day
I gave a sheet set to Angela, and she was very happy
A game teenagers like to play at my home
My Christmas tree at home
We went downtown before making a home celebration to see beautiful ice sculptures
The strong frosts allow the beautiful ice sculptures to stand even to the beginning of spring
It was fun spending time and wathcing different unusual sculptures
A tale lion
The central sculpture shows new 2009
Presents the orphans found for themselves under my Chtistmas tree
A Christmas celebration
Part of the toys we bought for Christmas
Olya has first time seen so many toys at my home
The board I gave Olya for making Sunday school lessons in her former orphanage
Testing the present
I alway like when the toy shop moves at my home to get ready to bring joy to children
More presents for children
Alexey and Julia have no parents and their new family became their new home, they came out to lift blessings prayer for their daughter
The road to remote village. This year it is more clear as there's lots of snow around, but still you need to drive over an ice
Shurely, there are some dagerous places along the way, our brothers came out to see them
This is for shure a dangerous part of the way with the melt on a beckground, we left a snow drawing there
First village we went in during our way. We congratulated with Christmas and gave Christian calendars to some of the people there
Our group in the Nanai village
I like to visit such villages in winter. In spite the road is dangerous, Lord has blessed us to have a car to be there
Local transport some people use to travel along rivers and taiga for hunting and other needs
Children gathered the same night to see a Chritian movie at a "House of Prayer"
In spite of our work on heating the building, it was rather chillt inside and the boys hesitated to take off their clothes
A little girl received a shining present and was very glad
A mornig meeting at the "House of Prayer" on where children and older people came to glorify Lord
Our brothers gave out fruits to everyone who came to the service
Everyone gathered around the table to have some fellowship and discussion
An orthodox church made and icon-bearing procession and put a cross in the midst of the village
On our way back we could see many tracks of unknown creatures, here's one those tracks. Possibly that was some small creature.
The team that went to Ulika and Pobeda at the beginning of the year
While the bears are sleeping, there's is a chance to get closer to their habitat place
