{"id":959,"date":"2011-05-26T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergosorphans.wordpress.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2012-03-27T23:26:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T06:26:22","slug":"cbu-novgorod-finishing-up-the-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunergosint.org\/blog\/cbu-novgorod-finishing-up-the-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"CBU-Novgorod: Finishing up the camp…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The Lord has been blessing our team in amazing ways.\u00a0 Not only are we sharing our faith and the truth with the teens but we can also see a marked difference in the actions and reactions of the children.\u00a0 It is obvious to us all that our team was put together for a reason because we work so well together.<\/p>\n

The group working with the little kids, Theo, Matt, Lauren and Sarah have been making amazing progress in changing the attitudes of the smaller children. After putting on a Good Samaritan type of skit the kids were asked what they thought about being kind to each other and they were challenged to do something kind for the staff of the orphanage.\u00a0 The next day, when asked what they had done none of them had any\"\"<\/a>thing to say.\u00a0 They were asked why they hadn\u2019t done anything kind and a boy replied with, \u201cI don\u2019t know how to be kind, no-one has ever been kind to me.\u201d\u00a0 That statement stopped the team in their tracks.\u00a0 The concept of not understanding kindness had never occurred to them.\u00a0 It really just shows how lost these children are and we ask that you will continue to lift them up in your prayers, that God helps them to find value and truth in what we\u2019re sharing with them.<\/p>\n

With the teens?\u00a0 Wow. God has opened to door so wide it\u2019s impossible not to stumble through it with the Gospel.\u00a0 Chris, Danny, Bekah and Jackie have been accepted into their group so intimately\"\"<\/a> that yesterday they attended a Russian HS graduation for one of the girls.\u00a0 She had no family attending and when she saw them there the joy was evident in her face.\u00a0 On Monday, while walking by the river and doing their best to work faith and God into a conversation, one of the teens blatantly asked if they were Orthodox or Protestant and that led to an hour and a half conversation.\u00a0 It is a beautiful thing when God takes control.\u00a0 The teens are open to sharing and talking and the team hopes to be planting seeds.<\/p>\n

Thank you for praying for us.\u00a0 We need it.\u00a0 Pray for team unity as we finish our trip.\u00a0 Pray that God will guide us and that we will continually seek His glory.\u00a0 See you in a week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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