January 19, and we are still celebrating birth of our Saviour. Kind ogf late, you might think, but there are so many poor children outside of the city that haven't got their Christmas present yet.
This time we came to Sychavka school by Yujniy town. Even though it was a weekend, 57 kids were happy to come to school on Saturday morning to see our Christmas program. They made a right choice, because there were many games, riddles, presents, and the most important, a warm atmosphere and love at the party.
The kids from the Foster home in Sychavka presented a musical program to the children.
 There were all ages included in the games and all kind of activities.
 There was an interesting Cristmas play presented by children and adults from church "Bethel", Yujniy. The children specially liked the characters, and the story itself will probably keep the excited memories for a long time.
 Ballons were very popular in many games. Specially the kids and adults liked the super effects of popping the baloons on the chair.
The bubbles added a lot of colors and excitment as well.
 What, do you think, a question can a teacher ask so to have all the kids raised their hands? The answer is very easy - RIDDLES!!! The kids love them and very eager to answer to any of them!
Sinsere gratitude we would like to express to the Russian church in Connecticut for financinal support to buy the presents.
Dear friends!!! Your help and blessings brought a lot of joy into the hearts of the kids in Sychavka.
Continuing a wonderful celebration we went to another village the same day. It was 20 km from Odessa? the village Novoolshovka.
It was very cold in the village club we gathered, but the warm atmosphere cheered us up. Someone might think, 'may be it's about to stop with Christmas presents, but not for these poor children in Novoolshovka. There were so many kids come from another village as well. They read a poster about the coming Christmas program and they were so excited!
The woman who does some activities with all the kids in the village told us that she was surprized by the amount of the children that came. There were much more than she had expected. Praise the Lord.
When you look at the picture bellow you might think that the camera is not good, but it's not the thing. The gray color is because of the smoke in the room from the coal stove they had on in order to warm up the place. It didn't do anychanges except for the smoke only.
 Alyona told the Max Lucado story about Christmas and then we realized that the kids have no clue about the Christmas event at all. It gave us an idea to come there more often.
 The games were fun!! The bubbles were so colorful and cheery!
 What a balloon!
 As we have promised, every child got Christmas gifts. There were shoe boxes from Samaritan's purse, candy boxes and a Christian children magazine. It seemed like that was the best day in their lives.
These three heroes we met on our way back home from the village. They were running to the village club in order to make it for the program. They missed that. They were too busy. No wonder, their mother just recently died. And may be these three boys have to become the adults too early, and have no time for fun, kid's activities. Too sad.
Special thanks we express to Sergey Tyulenev and Daniel B.Terenko, Slavik and Lena Nosachenko for donating the shoe boxes and Candy boxes.
Dear friends! We want you to know that you made the kids day!!!
Stay with us and keep us in your prayers.
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