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Adelia is
a Christian mother with four children.
She is educated as an engineer but now works as a housekeeper. Her husband left her and the children. When
she broke her leg, she had to be off work for two months. Big Family helped
Grace Center provide food for Adelia and her children.
Big Family Mission has been partnering with the Grace Center in St. Petersburg for over three years now.
For
me (Ken) it has been a big blessing and a humbling experience as we watch God’s
work through Grace Center unfold. Ask
Dianne: She will tell you that I want to explain everything in a logical
manner. Yes, I want to say the Grace
Center does “this, and this, and this”.
It has these goals: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
But, praise God! There is nothing
logical about the Amazing Grace that God provides to each of us. And, in similar fashion, we have found that
the work and love extended by the Grace Center cannot be reduced to a simple
formula.
In
the time we have partnered with the Grace Center, Big Family has:
- helped a young woman decide to keep her baby and provided clothes
and furnishings as well as a temporary home for mom and baby;
- provided food for a single mom with 4 children who couldn’t work
because she broke her leg;
- helped hold a Christmas celebration for single mothers and
orphanage graduates;
- helped an orphanage dropout decide to keep her baby and join the
Center’s young mother’s program;
- helped treat an orphan with cerebral palsy to her first-ever
excursion to a supermarket; and
- and assisted with the many other acts of grace that flow from the
aptly named Grace Center.
We
thank all of you who pray and contribute to help with the work of the Grace
Center.
Please consider joining with us to share in the Amazing Grace work of the Grace Center in the year ahead!
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The young lady in this photo (Uliana) is
near and dear to our hearts. We first
met Uliana when she was nine years old and an orphan at the Kommunar Internat
School. At age 16, Uliana became
pregnant and had to drop out of the orphanage school at Jukki. Uliana has had a faithful Big Family sponsor
who has prayed much for her over the years.
The Grace Center worked with Uliana to help her decide not to have an
abortion. Now she has her baby girl
Alina, and Alina’s father has married Uliana. She participates in the program
for young mothers at the Grace Center.
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Lena from Grace Center helps Lisa shop for
baby clothing. God’s grace flowed to
Lisa through a generous gift by one of our Big Family friends.