 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
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 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
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 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
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 A tale lion
|  The central sculpture shows new 2009
|  Presents the orphans found for themselves under my Chtistmas tree
|  A Christmas celebration
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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