News from Ukraine February 4, 2023

February 4 (Day 346)

Dear brothers and sisters,

We had a quiet day yesterday. The snow is gone, it is sunny and warm. I had a relaxing day, I did some studies and reading. Now when we live in my parents house I have a reunion with the books that I read in my youth, they are still here. I still love them and as I open them a lot of good memories come back.

Sergey and I are getting used to live in a house after living so long in the apartment. We have plans to do some changes here, we think of doingo some renovation when the war is over.

Our counselors met in the evening in Zoom for our weekly meetings yesterday. We had a good time discussing many things and it’s nice to see that our group is growing. George and Nastya joined us last month and yesterday we had a new woman Olga. She was Vika’s student at the Christian university and after graduation she worked with children doing art therapy and pottery, she had good results working with disabled children and children with mental problems. Now Olga is in Austria and she works with refugee children there. They do pottery and she watches the children and says that work with clay is a wonderful way to express emotions. It helps children to calm down.

George is very excited about the opportunity to start the work with veterans and he visited several organizations that also work with veterans. It’s good that they are open to cooperate. But as we discussed it Vova, who has experience of working with veterans since 2014, said that we also can be open to cooperate with others but we should be careful because those organizations are not Christian.

At the end of our meeting our counselors from Odessa disappeared from Zoom because the electricity there was turned off. The situation with electricity is very unstable and they want to have the internet connection with fiber optic cable, that does not depend on electricity, but the company that does connection with this cable has many orders now and they have to wait.

Please, pray for our work and ministry.

In Christ,
Lyuda

P.S. Our counselor Tanya drew me :)