Pastor Andre’s Drug Rehab Center

On our visit to the Lomonosov Baby Home, Pastor Andre of the Lomonosov Baptist Church was there to greet us and had lunch prepared for us when we arrived. While there, we discussed his plans for the summer which include a family camp, a children’s camp, and a camp for the Drug Rehab Center residents. We also discussed plans for our team that will come in October. We will continue to work at the Baby Home, the Children’s Hospital, and the Drug Rehab Center. In addition, Pastor Andre told me that the director of the Orphanage in Petrohof that we visited briefly last fall are waiting for our arrival. So we are looking forward to a great trip this coming October.

Pastor Andre has continued to work on the renovations inside the church. We noticed that he had put new walls up in the staircase area and had finished the staircase. He was just finishing installing some new flooring when we arrived. The biggest news is that the wall heaters in the kitchen and the rest of the building are now working! They had fought with the city for over 3 years on getting the proper documents before the heaters could be connected. Now there is heat in the building!

I visited the ladies from the Drug Rehab Center that we had worked with for the first time this last fall. They were anxious for us to come again! They had been using the leftover craft materials to make gifts for friends and continue to create things from what we taught them last fall. Several of the residents had graduated from the program and a few that we knew from this last trip are still there. Two of the girls who were residents last year, will become the directors this next year beginning in June. I could tell that they were encouraged by our visit on Friday and even the new girls seemed to know about our planned visit in the fall.