WHAT OUR CHILDREN WISH FOR… Over the past four years, the wishes and prayers of Ukrainian children have changed. In addition to expectations and dreams, which they share with many children around the world, the longing for peace is a wish that we hear time and again in our daily work. Unfortunately, we cannot fulfill…
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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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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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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
LIVING HOPE IN TIMES OF CRISIS By loving forces wonderfully sheltered, we are awaiting fearlessly what comes. God is with us at dusk and in the morning and most assuredly on every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer in december 1944
Since one week springtime has finally come to Odessa. At warm summery temperatures the kids already spend lots of time playing outside. Every ever so long and uncomfortable winter is followed by enjoyable spring days that bring out new life in nature. This fact also describes what we have experienced the past three months.
“Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be comforted as to comfort, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. We only receive when we give. “
