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Galya and Sasha are two of our longest serving houseparents, having looked after Hope Now children for more than ten years. An additional blessing for the family has been the presence of Galya’s mother, a Christian babushka. However, for the past two years she has been bedridden due to illness.
Imagine Sasha’s consternation when one morning he went to wake her and the bed was empty. After searching the House he went an woke Galya. “Your mother has disappeared”, he said.
“Oh no” Said Galya, “The Lord has come and taken his own and left us here”. They looked outside, still no sign of her, so Sasha got in the car and drove around the village and there
she was, talking with friends. Bed ridden for two years, but now like a spritely younger woman, she jumped in the car and said, “Alright, let’s go home.”
I listened to the story and smiled as Galya said, “Most of all I was afraid for my children, they too had been left behind.”
Ironically, that was the same day that I took yet another boy from Shpola Orphanage to stay with them. “Will you take Misha,” I asked.
Galya embraces him and said, “Of course we will. What I’m afraid of most is to lose the blessings.”
This brings the number of our children to five boys and two girls in that one family alone. Pray for them, such simply people who yet love the Lord.
Larissa Vovk. Child Care Officer.
Misha will need a sponsor for £60 a month but so too will Sasha Semenenko in the Pre-independence home.
Sadly, his sponsor has had a change of circumstance and is unable to continue Sasha’s sponsorship.
Sasha’s older brother, Artyom, who graduated from university this year as a computer programmer, and sister, Anya, who is now a chef, have also been in Cornah House and Swindon house respectively. There mother died 8 years ago and father, an alcoholic, is unable to care for the 12 children. Hopefully, Sasha will be just as successful as his brother and sister. Already he has become a Christian and is loved in the house by the other students.
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