Dear ones! Its Wednesday again, and youre reading Lets Love ministrys news update. This issue is about my recent trip to ATO zone. This time i visited the small town of Schastie (meaning happiness) which is located right at the front line. I was there with my friends, volunteers from the Maidans Shpital (Maidans hospital). This city is located at the distance of 16 km from the occupied city of Luhansk, right on the firing line. God was merciful towards us. On the day before our arrival the terrorists heavily shelled the city. Then within two days we spent there there was relatively peaceful (we could occasionally hear the distant gunfire and the bursts of machine guns from where Luhansk is located). Looking ahead. In two hours after we left the shelling was resumed. Resulting in the deaths of several soldiers as well as civilians. God hears our prayers when we travel, and protects us! Love, DG 1. Roadblocks On our way to Schastie we had to pass more than five roadblocks. Roadblock is a special enhancement on the road. All the passing cars have to go through the passport control. When we stopped at the roadblocks we handed to soldiers packages with medicines (cough pills, antibiotics, ointments). At some roadblocks we gave them cards from kids from the boarding school for blind children. Kids congratulated them on Christmas. Soldiers thanked for these gifts, and some of them even gave praise to God! 2. City of a relative happiness In comparison to the city of mines Uglegorsk where the mine was shut down, and its residents do not get their salaries and pensions, the city of Schastie is relatively prosperous. There is a working power station in this city which provides light for a number of nearby cities and villages. Ita a strategic object, and the government is seeking for funds to maintain it and pay the workers their salary. But this city is only relatively happy as it is periodically being bombed from occupied Luhansk. The atmosphere in the city is also tense because of the huge number of armored soldiers. You wouldnt see many people in the streets. We visited local mayors office, and handed them baby nutrition and medicine for needy families. 3. Hospital We stayed overnight at the local hospital where we also handed the medicine needed for the treatment of soldiers and local people. Before we arrived there two seriously wounded with splinters militiamen were brought to hospital. They were given the first aid and urgently sent to the city of Kharkiv to have a surgery. In the evening we got out to the courtyard along with the military doctor who kept calling me pastor. He told me: See pastor, this is the life. Here we are standing, and there might be a sniper hiding in the distance of 450 meters from us. Only a few seconds to reach us. At war life is measured by seconds not by minutes. 4. Village kids On the next day i got to meet with the chief doctor of the regional hospital. She said there are many more villages, small towns which are located even closer to the area of hostilities. There is no more happiness there. There is no work, salary, gas or electricity there. Even before the war started there were many poor problem families loving there. Over 40 women are going to become mothers in this area. This doctor is having more than 3,000 kids under her jurisdiction. They have no clothing or food, or medicine. Local soldiers are providing for 46 orphans. When asked what kind of help they need, she gave a short but comprehensive answer: There are only kids there - and nothing else. 5. Heading back Heading back we took twenty year old wounded guy with us. He was heading to Kiev for a treatment of his fractured knee. Shy and rather quiet young man. Accidentally he shared his terrible secret - for many hours hes been in terrible pain because of his leg. We would have to stop for him to have an anesthetic injection. But he was afraid to cause unnecessary trouble. Hallway he slept on my laps. My feet gone numb and hurt. Which was rather unpleasant. But then i thought of his fractured leg, remembered that military doctor who said that the war is sweat, blood, urine, feces, open flesh. You can spend in all this from a couple of hours to days. From then on i decided to pray about warriors protecting me, my family and my church every day. P.S. We plan to have our next trip in the beginning of February. We plan to visit kids in this region as well as bring them clothing, food stuff, medicine. We need your prayers and help! Its working - you can see it with your own eyes!
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:56:51 +0000
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