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Sadly, the family I help is suffering with very serious illness. Unless God intervenes, there will likely be a parental death soon. And that's so very sad. I think the best encouragement I can give is from the Scriptures. I don't know the specifics of the P family's faith (the coordinators encourage families to attend church and offer counseling and Christian literature but serve people of all faiths or no faith) but I know that they pray and that the children attended Christian summer camp.
Moldova is culturally a heavily Orthodox Christian country. The Orthodox faithful use the Psalms heavily in daily prayers and every service. It is the "prayer book of the Bible" after all! So I've tried to send short notes from the Psalms encouraging the family to cry to the Lord like David and place their hope in Him. I was encouraged by this article to pray Psalm 139 for the family (check it out!).
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What are the benefits of helping a family? One benefit is knowing that one family has food on the table this month. I can't feed the world but I can help one family. I appreciate the fact that the children are in school- not on the streets or having to work/help their parents to pay for food/rent/heat. But most of all, and I pray this will happen, they will hear the Gospel, repent, and accept the Lord. I pray the children will grow into well adjusted Christian adults and be able to support themselves because they got a full education and life skills. Maybe my family will never be able to support themselves without help (due to terminal disease). But I pray and believe that the chains of poverty will be broken (if not in this then maybe the next generation). Please pray for the P family. I don't share pictures or the full name for their privacy but God knows them.
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