{"id":2149,"date":"2013-08-10T14:23:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T21:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2013-08-10T22:40:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T05:40:50","slug":"seattle-team-color-me-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/seattle-team-color-me-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Team: Color me Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kylan\"<\/a>Living the story is always better than hearing it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been hearing about this story for several years now. My girlfriend, at the time, talked about visiting Russia to work at an orphanage. She talked about every kid and the love she had for each. She talked about happy stories but also sad and heartbreaking stories. She was living out a good story and her emotion and enthusiasm led me to want to one day experience it with her. Move ahead three years to now and that girlfriend I had is now my wife and that story she told is now one I can live out with her.<\/p>\n

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These kids we serve are all in limbo. They wait in the orphanage \"IMG_8647\"<\/a>for a month to a couple of years waiting for the documentation to keep them in the country, a family member to pick them up from the center, or be moved to an orphanage closer to their hometown. Something consistent is so far and few for these kids, who have little in their own name. But our team\u2019s presence doesn\u2019t make us knights in shining armor coming in to save the day. Nor are we a fix to such a large problem. But with a lack in those areas, we are strong in this: being present and being consistent. And it\u2019s starting to show.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_8007\"<\/a>We\u2019ve been seeing these kids on a daily basis now and they are starting to know our names, or sometimes, make up names for us. The older kids all want to be a part of our day, which is still an amazing surprise to me, and the younger ones all want to be a part of our love and affection. Each kid, young and old, has found the person(s) God has tied them together with \"alana\"<\/a>while our team is here. It\u2019s beautiful really. Even with a language barrier in place, an understanding of the other is still formed. A notion of \u201cyou are important to me\u201d is beginning to be drilled deep into some of the kid\u2019s hearts and minds, we pray.<\/p>\n

We still have two weeks here and there is still work to be done. We still have plenty to prepare. But when you do the work, God seems to have a way of making it work. So we march onward under a blanket of all of your prayers and run the race God has asked us to participate in. Because when we follow God, He doesn\u2019t ask us to hear about all He has in store, He asks us to be a part of it.\"IMG_8000\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Written by Kylan Frost, Team Member<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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