The Least Of These

I thank Rich that he was hard to us in the discipline and in other times soft. In this camp I was helping Vitalik (leader of The Least of These in Ukraine) and was living in his room. Now he is an example for me of ministering to God. I hope that God will lead me to this point some day.

I thank you for those who were praying but didn’t see what happened here. It is a big blessing for everyone to minister to the children. I saw how God was coming to the children but not everybody was able to let Him come into their heart. But this ministry had meaning even if just one of the least of these would be saved.

to pray for them, to talk about Jesus. My heart was so full of these children. I am very thankful for this camp. You are helping do a very big job. It is very important. We children of God need to love them and teach them.

Let God bless you. God very much likes sacrifice. Thank you for the organization, Rich and Sherrel. They are very good. They are making us stronger soldiers in this world. They are very good father and mother for us. Thank you Jesus for them. Thank you Vitalik, Lori and whole team. He is keeping us in team. I too learned from them to be joyful, purposeful, sincere. They have much of it. This time is very important to do God’s work in this world. All what we did here kid’s will remember because world will not give it for them. You are doing big job. Your sacrifice financially and time. Big thank you that we can minister to these children in the camp.

We love you and appreciate you and remember you in our hearts. Through you all this happened. Hallelujah.

Thank you. Thank you, God!!! God taught us love. How He loves with His covering love, show how to make friends!

You know I heard some children’s stories how they got in the orphanage and I don’t know how they could live through it?! I get shocked but they forgive the people who hurt them. I asked “why”? (I was interested in this). They answered, “because God taught us to forgive”. It touched me. Praise God!

whole heart, because after that children started to change. Many of them quit smoking and talking with bad words. Many of them were coming and asking about Christ, church and what they need to do in their lives. The rest of the time we were helping children to be on good path. The day we say goodbye to them they are crying, hard crying, although we will have relationships with them.

Very big thank you to you and Jesus for this opportunity to fellowship with children and save them. I, with my sister, are very glad for this opportunity and thanking God for all He does for us.

This camp showed me real life with problems. My problems seemed to me so small. When I saw how children were coming to God my faith was growing. Before I never thought that I could work with kids even with those who need more of God’s love. But God takes weakness to praise Himself. First of all, I want to say thank you to the people who were praying for the camp, because prayer can do everything. One more thank you for sponsors of this camp. Without you camp never would have happened. Thank you for this pleasant time

I love you all! Amen! I am very glad God changed my life and please pray for me!

for help more than I ever experienced before. Your support was one of the strong reasons for our success here. Thank you for financial support. I just cannot say thank you enough for what you are doing for our ministry. We appreciate the fact that you exist and are obedient to what the Lord tells you to do. God bless you and have a wonderful victory of God in your life.

Blessings,
Vitalik

Hello. My name is Daniel. I was caregiver of older boys. Camp went without big problems. We had hardships with children and in the team but the difficulties had passed. The Holy Spirit was touching children and team, repentance went very good. The hearts were opening. They were crying, praying, asking for forgiveness. Thank you for this time of growing in Spirit, for devotions in the morning and for love what I was sharing with children.

Hello. My name is Phillip. I am 13 years old. Camp was very good. Children are glad and don’t want to go away. We are going on hikes and to the mountains. The best day was the day of repentance. All the children were weeping.

Summer 2011 Camp Hope

Allan

Greetings to you, my dear brother! I want to say thank you one more time that I was able to minister with you all these days. We are still living with memories from camp, team and children that we befriended. As Rich had promised, after such victories the time of troubles came and on the way home we had a flat tire and then a second one. We were driving more than one day to get home, but all of this fades in comparison to the victory that God did in the children’s hearts. We were the participators of this victory. Leaving the camp I really lived through that feeling which the disciples were talking about after meeting with Jesus on the road to Emmaus, "does not our heart burn when He spoke to us." I understood how it was burning in my heart during camp from His presence.

Ok, now the letter about camp:

In the first day when we arrived at the camp I read on the gates the name of Camp HOPE. I joked last hope, but it appeared that for many children this camp was the last hope because they were almost 18.

What I want to say about my helplessness. Not my criminal past, not my 19 years of faith, not 7 years being a pastor didn’t help me in my relationship with these children. I understood that I need to forget all my experience and ask for God’s wisdom for ministering to those kids and show them love and character of God. Actually I never saw so much rebellion and indifference and disrespect in these teens. They saw in each person an enemy.

The result of the teamwork driven by the Holy Spirit you can note with one phrase which one teenager, Ruslan said, ”You are my family.” I was weeping when he said these words.

I want to say thank you to Rich and Sherrel for this example of ministering and strict but correct and gentle mentoring.

I want to testify before the Lord and the people who invested in this ministry that every cent was an investment in the Kingdom of God.

Pastor of church “Gates of Heaven”

Beslan, Russia

Allan Bedoev