The first and basic dream that people in the rehab center in Kulikovo pray for is to develop youth ministry that would attract young people of this village and the nearest ones.
Ahead with the leader of the center Grigoriy Bondarenko the people on rehab picked up the premise and pray for opening of the Church of Good Changes there. Children, teens, young people and just inhabitants of the village will be able to go there to have fellowship, to get to know God, to pray and different youth events are to be held there. They talked about it with the village authorities and the chairman of the village council who in his turn fully supports the idea and is ready to help in this good beginning.
Within couple years since the opening of this rehab center the brothers built good relationships with the locals and with the authorities of the village. The local newspaper “Rodnoye Priazovie” has published couple times the articles about the success of the rehab center.
Grigoriy Bondarenko, the leader of the rehab center inKulikovo vill.:“ Nowadays young people of this area has no place to go but bars. As an alternative the Christian entertainment youth center can be helpful to spread the Gospel. We also dream to start the affiliated Church of Good Changes in Novoazovsky area as well as Street Outreaches for the inhabitants of the villages around.”
And now the rehabilitation is actively held, the young people pray and learn the Word of God and work hard to provide them with food. The economy of this center is on quite a high level: they bought hens, ducks and geese for their ministry. Beside two huge green houses with the total area 4305 sq Ft they plan to purchase one more to grow seedlings. The finances they get from their economy they invest in their ministry. The guys also often donate vegetables for the kinder garden in the village and bring some food to “Republic Pilgrim”.
Grigoriy Bondarenko:“We love hosting guests and that is why their friends from Adaptation center of Mariupol and rehab center in Chervonoe come to see us. We invite everybody and will be glad to see everybody”.
Recently, in the "Republic Pilgrim" took place the election of a new government. The race was quite tense. A few new guys have declared themselves as strong candidates and presidential elections were difficult.
Adoptive father of 32 children, pastor -pilgrim Gennady Mokhnenko and his family live today in a fairly cramped conditions. The house they live in consists of two rooms for 13 people. Recently, the adoptive family, with a charitable donation, was able to purchase another small house. Both houses need a lot of repairs, however, both parents and children are happy - they are now having more space where they can live.
At the end of 2011 in Italy, in Sassuolo, a second charity exhibition and sale of "ARTE solidale" took place. It was organized for the financial support of children center "Republic Pilgrim", in Mariupol, and for the African Mission in Burkina Faso, where for 40 years working missionaries Lisa and Umberto Ladder.
I was holding my little young son, rocking him and singing a tune. In this sweet, wonderful time inside me clearly and distinctly sounded a verse from the Gospel, which you probably know...
In the center of children's rehabilitation "Republic Pilgrim" in Mariupol, were guests of the British Liverpool. Jennifer and Marc are already familiar with pilgrim children. They were together at last summer camp in the Crimea: played football, went on hike at the Grand Canyon, and now they came to visit “Pilgrim” again.
In a large-scale project "Crystal Heart" workers of "Pilgrim", the adoptive parents Eugene and Svetlana Isaev, that have adoptive children with HIV-positive, have won first place the "Big Heart".
Pastor- pilgrim Gennady Mokhnenko going into another trip to Africa, Kenya, scheduled for mid-January of 2012. Pastor has a desire to see the same desperately dedicated travelers, who will spend 10 days of the mission in one of the poorest regions in the world.
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