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How can you help?
Give - We have an ongoing need for crafts
supplies, hygiene supplies, and finances for special ministry projects
to the children.
Go - We offer very reasonably priced trips to
help with summer outreach programs. Pray about going and helping in
these exciting outreaches.
Send - Be willing to help send people you know
who have a burden to minister to the children.
Support - As a non-profit organization we depend
on the generous support of our contributors both financially and in
prayer.
Please send your tax deductible gifts to:
The Least of These 914 SW Coast Hwy, Suite 101 Newport, OR 97365 tlot@theleastofthese.org 541-265-5501
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Camp
Gorney Summer 2006
Camp Gorney
Summer 2006 Report
By Vitaly Dudukoloff
Not by might, nor by
power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord.
How
can we do the work of God that the results would be the most effective? I
always think about that each year when we get ready for our outreaches in
Crimea. Our time with children in the camps is limited to less than two
weeks but the results we are expecting to get would affect the children for
eternity. So how to make this short time a life changing experience?
We
start from the strong emphasis on team work. Year after year we become more
and more confident that our efforts as a team increase the effectiveness of
the ministry multiple times. Each trip we gather like-minded people from
different towns, countries and backgrounds. And what brings us together,
like one person, is the purpose to see the life saving presence of Jesus in
each child's heart.
A
well-organized program is another powerful means by which we expect to
influence orphans' lives. Many times and in various ways the team stresses
the importance of personal relationships with God, the need for repentance
and the blessing of having healthy life. Skits, puppets, songs and crafts
are meant to leave in children's minds unforgettable impressions about God's
truths.
So,
do our teams always look like one man? Unfortunately, not always. Sometimes
we have hard time meeting together on time. Do our programs always run
smoothly? Not always. We are people and we do make mistakes. So what is
making the ministry of The Least of These so effective and incredible (as
well as any other ministry)? This year God gave me this scripture from
Zechariah 4:6 to strengthen my faith as well as of the team, Not by might,
nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord. Exactly, the Lord Himself
plays the key role in changing children's lives. He exposes our sin, He
heals the wounds and finally He gives salvation. Without Jesus we can do
nothing (John 15:5).
This
year in our trips to Kerch, Belogorsk and Sevastopol regions we had
wonderful teams. I want to thank God and all team members for high level of
unity and dedication. The Lord had done many miracles, many lives were
touched. Something new in the ministry is happening every year and this year
is not exclusion. I want to mention just major ones.
This
year for the first time while in Kerch region we had people from the local
church participating with us in the ministry to children. We wanted this to
happen for several years. And although we were cooperating with local
churches in Kerch, we seemed never were able to get a response from
individual church members to go with us on the outreaches. This time we had
four stable participants from Arch of Salvation Church. Their testimonies
about what they have experienced during 10 days of ministry in the team of
The Least of These were full of joy, encouragement and fire. In fact after a
recent phone call to Kerch we found out that two of them continue to go and
visit children at the camp where we ministered. This gives us a big joy in
our hearts because it is one of our purposes, to envision local churches to
take responsibility for orphans in their regions.
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The
ministry in Camp Gorney located in Sevastopol region also deserves all high
remarks. By God's grace the team was able to minister not only to young
children but to the older children as well. In previous years older kids
just were not interested in fellowshipping with team members and knowing
anything about Jesus. But this year the doors got opened. Some of the
toughest boys 14-15 years old, who went through all possible hardships, who
are considered to be criminals were coming, talking to us and asking to tell
them more about faith in God. One of them was Sergey. He almost drowned in
the sea drunk from alcohol four times, tried to hang himself out the window
on the second floor but slipped out of the loop and fell to the ground with
his head down. Another boy, also named Sergey, tried all drugs and used to
be drug addict for two months. He has hard time to believe that a drug
addict with several years of drug use can be freed and live a new life, but
he still comes to listen to God's word. Another boy is Aleksey who was
convicted of a crime and put on probation for two years, loves Christian
songs. Sasha was always around to hear more about Jesus and said that he
began to pray every evening before going to sleep. Boy by the name Roman
prayed salvation prayer on a three day hike. A girl Anna started to read her
Bible and promised to go to Church regularly when they go back to school in
September. And so on.
In
this short report I am not mentioning what changes God had made in the
hearts of stuff workers in these camps. And of course the members of The
Least of These teams have received much spiritual blessings and growth for
being obedient to God's calling. There are miracles we have seen and there
are those that we have not seen, but all of them were done only by His
Spirit. Praise the Lord! What a wonderful time of sowing, time of reaping
and time of growing did we have this summer!
Abundant God's blessings to you.
Vitaly Dudukaloff
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July, 2006
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