Happy children & thankful mothers and fathers in Lozova

This afternoon we were thankful to see how the room of the house were we gather in Lozova, filled up with many people. We had brought some extra chairs and praise God, all of the chairs were occupied. After a welcome, some songs and a short message, it was time for the children to pick new clothes. We had put the clothes in a small room and so one after another the families entered and picked shoes, jackets, trousers, gloves, socks, sweaters etc. etc. Some of the families that came were not on our list that we had from the major but they had heard from their neighbors about the clothes for children and they decided to come also.
Many children were a bit shy but after a short time many of them got excited and at the end they were smiling and thanked us with a big smile.

Seeing some of the parents made us realize that also they could use some good clothes and so when we saw that some of the bigger clothes were left over, we decided to bless also the parents in need.
For example, Julia is a 7 year old girl and she just started in class 1. Julia is blind at one eye and so this means that it costs her extra energy to make her homework and often she is teased by others. But despite her situation, she convinced her father and mother to come and so as a family they came to church. Both of the parents don' t have a job and looking at their shoes and clothes, we could see that they also needed help. After 10 minutes the whole family was dressed: Julia was very proud of her new jacket and sweater, father was content with his new shoes and mother didn't want to take of her new shoes and coat anymore.

We invited all the people to come back next week and for some of the children who didn't find the right clothes or shoes we will try to still buy something so next week we can make them happy too!
We praise God for the way all worked out and we pray that the words that were spoken and the deeds that were shown will be a reminder of Gods Love for all!

Julia and her parents

Mihai is 9 years and although he was very shy, he was quite happy with his new clothes!