How much bad news can a person cope with? Over the past few weeks, I’ve repeatedly come across headlines like this on the internet. These headlines are often followed by detailed explanations about how, with all the crises and bad reports we are confronted with daily, we should take enough time for our own mental…
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Prayer is the breathing of the soul. As a wise man once put it. When I think about our new life after February 2022 and what gives us strength and hope, it is most likely the regular breathing of our soul. In the following lines, we would like to share with you what we have…
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EVEN IF I KNEW THAT TOMORROW THE WORLD WOULD GO TO PIECES, I WOULD STILL PLANT MY APPLE TREE. Martin Luther (alleged quote)
QUO VADIS LIVING HOPE? “What’s next?” “What are your plans for the future?” “Will you continue to work in Ukraine?” -These and similar questions have been asked by many friends and people we know in the past weeks and months. In this newsletter we want to give a short report on what we have done…
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WAITING WITH LIVING HOPE … Surrounded by such true and gentle powers Surrounded by such true and gentle powers. So wondrously consoled and without fear, Thus will I spend with you thesefinal hours and then together enter a new year. By gentle powers lovingly surrounded, with patience we’ll endure, let come what may. God…
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Behind every number hides a destiny… On 12.01.2001, the doors of our Day care Centre on Dneprpetrovska Street in Odessa opened for the very first time – at that time for 12 children from families facing great challenges due to poverty, illness, housing shortages and addictions. Since that time, not only has the name of…
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JOY AND SORROW GO HAND IN HAND IN LIFE There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. The Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1,4
Remember this. I can do something you can’t do and you can do something, I can’t do. But we both have to do it. Mother Teresa
ONE COMMUNITY – THREE PLACES – MANY STORIES 2020 is coming to an end. A year very different from what we had all planned and expected. Suddenly everyone realises how little we humans actually have in our hands. Basically nothing, because none of us can, as it says in the Bible, “prolong our life even…
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LIVING HOPE IN SPITE OF UNCERTAINTY The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible. Prayer of Corrie ten Boom
