{"id":359,"date":"2010-06-29T07:31:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergosorphans.wordpress.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2012-03-27T23:52:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T06:52:54","slug":"a-different-take-on-summer-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/a-different-take-on-summer-break\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Take on Summer Break!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Over 30 students decided not to stay at home for their summer break, but to go across the ocean and meet children who are abandoned, abused and orphaned.<\/p>\n

For the past two months SunErgos hosted five camps with the help of four Ministry teams from USA and Canada.
\nCulture and language differences did not stop these students from pouring all they had into the lives of these children and teens.
\nTears were flowing, arms wrapping tightly and words – “will you come back?” Hard goodbyes for both sides…<\/p>\n

These students took a leap of faith and answered God’s call to come and serve in Russia to the fatherless.\u00a0 Lives were changed forever.<\/p>\n


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\nHere is a Glimpse into their LIVES…<\/strong><\/p>\n


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my father is in prison for killing someone and my mother drinks to forget everything and everyone…<\/em>
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\nmy step father raped me when I was a child and my mother did not stop it…she was too high on drugs…<\/em>\"\"<\/em>
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\n<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>my parents died, I was shipped to grandma’s…soon grandma died…then my aunt and uncle took me in. After a year, they grew tired of me and to my shock they just dropped me off at an orphanage and left…\u00a0 what did I do wrong?<\/em>
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\nI know that people <\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>stare at me as I am wheeled around the city in a wheelchair… I can’t go anywhere by myself, not even to the bathroom… how I wish I had legs that worked…<\/em>
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\n<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>my uncle gave me TB… now I’m at a hospital for 4 months… my mom doesn’t care, she just left me and found a new boyfriend…<\/em><\/p>\n


\nwhy should I care about a God who just looked on while I was raped, abused and left at the orphanage…<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over 30 students decided not to stay at home for their summer break, but to go across the ocean and meet children who are abandoned, abused and orphaned. For the past two months SunErgos hosted five camps with the help of four Ministry teams from USA and Canada. Culture and language differences did not stop these students from pouring all they had into the lives of these children and teens. Tears were flowing, arms wrapping tightly and words – “will you come back?” Hard goodbyes for both sides… These students took a leap of faith and answered God’s call to \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87,78,79,82],"tags":[10,94,32,33,38,41,51,98,57,62,66,68,71,97],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbu-teams-2","category-novgorod-ministry","category-st-petersburg-ministry","category-sunergos-ministry","category-teams-2","category-vanguard-teams-2","tag-cbu","tag-hiv-orphanage","tag-ministry","tag-missions","tag-orphans","tag-russia","tag-st-petersburg","tag-summer-missions","tag-sunergos","tag-tb-center","tag-teams","tag-transit-center","tag-vanguard","tag-volunteers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j3in-5N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}