BERDYANSK - I thought you might enjoy a first-hand report from the field. This was written by one of the workers in one of our Training Centers in Berdyansk. It’s a little glimpse of the day-to-day work that goes on there:
There are courses provided in the center and 40 kids attend them systematically. We are thankful to the Lord for our kitchen. The cooking course became very popular as the students attend it with great pleasure. There were two meetings the last week, so we learnt to make a tart “Earl’s Ruins” and cooked a dessert “Ice- cream with Fruits”. All girls and boys were active in the process of cooking. The students made a wall news-paper to put the pictures from our cooking studio, our receipts and pictures of the dishes prepared by us. We also decided to make a box for “Sincere Questions”.
We discussed 4 languages of love (attention, words of encouragement, gifts, help and touches). Besides, we made hand-prints on the poster, put our signatures on them and decorated our kitchen with it. It appeared that there were not enough bananas for everybody as some of the students took more than it was supposed. So I told them at the table that Jesus gave two main commandments to people… and one of them is to love your neighbor as yourself. It means to give your neighbor the best place, the best piece and so on. I think they understood everything. They became more active when it was time to wash dishes: even those that were not very hard-working before, did their best in washing dishes.
From Terry – As you can see, progress is measured in the little things – I’m going to try my hand at “Earl’s Ruins”, sounds so tempting, doesn’t it?
