Good day, dear friends!

I would like to share with events from life of my family and to summarize last year.

That year was extremely hard but also brought lot of blessings.

The main problem was a health of my wife Valentina and my elder son Artem.

First my wife had problems with health about 4 months. She had chronic sleeplessness and disturbing state. Finally God gave wisdom to minister of our church to advise me simple med for improvement of circulation of the blood. That mad had suppressed these problems for 80%.

But after solving these problems, new ones came very soon.

First, it came out, that our family has huge debt for gas supply – approximately 1300$. It happened because I was inattentive while looking through the bills for public utilities and did not pay attention that state stopped to charge compensation for public utilities in 50% amount (in Ukraine this compensation is provided for families with 3 and more children). Later it came out, that there was a mistake in bills and the sum decreased to 900$.  But anyway it was a huge sum for budget of our family and we had no opportunity to cover it.  le med d gave wisdom to servant

I have told about this story to my friend and familiar people. One familiar pastor has offered me to make a fundraising through social net. I agreed. Thanks to this support the debt was covered.

After two months my son begin to suffer from strong stomachaches.  He spent 2 weeks in hospital in our town and twice was put to regional children’s hospital in neighbor city. And only after third medical treatment situation begin to improve. All this time doctors could not make a diagnosis and that was worsening the situation.

Now state of health of Artem is stable and I hope that these complications would not occur again.

That time was bring double problem, because Valya was absent for 45 days and all this time I had to care for 3 kids, from time to time I had to leave them at home alone…

Also in the beginning of spring I bought a cargo bicycle. I was dreaming about that a few years. It helped me to get prepared for winter – I made supplies,  putting to my cellar lot of potatoes, onion and carrot, some groats.

Usually when I go for shopping, I buy about 20 kilograms of food. On a market square foodstuff, fruits and vegetables are much cheaper and that allows making serious economy. Three years ago I had a trauma of waist and after that it is hard for me to carry more than 10 kilos. Also, now I could drive my youngest son to school and from school home.

The financial situation of our family is still difficult. Unfortunately, we could not legalize 50% compensation for bills for public utilities, which is provided for families which have 3 and more children. That seriously increase load for our budget. I don’t have much work orders. I try to “switch” to translation of Christian literature, but for now I had just a few orders.

Situation is still hard. There is hearsay about soon attack from Russia, but I really hope that this hearsay will not become true. For now in Ukraine there is about 1,5 million of transmigrators, besides that thousands of people who are living in frontline territory have serious difficulties, being unable to work, having no shops and are under regular threat of battles’ renewal.

We met New Year in darkness – there was an accident in district and there was no electricity till 3AM.

This is how we are doing for now.

I would be thankful for your prayers and words of encouragement!

Prayer requests:

1) Health of Valentina and Artem;

2) Financial stability – sufficient number of orders, decreasing the sum of debts.

3) Opportunity to legalize 50% compensation for bills for public utilities.

God bless you!

Aleksey and Valentina