Last Day with Children

Posted on June 24, 2015 Updated on June 24, 2015

As you are waking up this morning, the children will be on their way back to Ukraine. We just said goodbye with our traditional chasing of the bus. I don’t ordinary cry easily, but I’ve teared up at some point every single day of this camp. Goodbyes are going rough, knowing what they are going back to. In our morning devotion, I asked their counselors how we could be praying for them as well. Sasha, the physiologist who came with them and worked with the children all week, is also a chaplain. She will be on the war front and working with soldiers. She asked for prayers of protection, ministry and the resources they need. There were many requests for prayers for peace and for all of the children. The Korytkowski Telegram for this month includes a great list of names and situations you can be praying over with us, so I’ll share it with you.

Korytkowski Telegram

From War Zone to Ostróda Christian Camp
From Ukraine to Poland

While I am writing this email we are in the very last days of the camp for Ukrainian children.

About 10 of them lost one parent in the war that is still going on in Eastern part of Ukraine. About 15 of them lost their homes and together with parents and in some cases with one parent live in churches, camp facilities and other places that became for them temporary shelter.

The entire group of Ukrainian children counts 47 and among all of these kids there is a lot of pain, questions about future and uncertainity.

But there are also many prayer requests and here there are some of them:

– For better grades and war at Ukraine to be over (Daryna)

– I want the war at Ukraine to be over (Nastya)

– For my mom (dad died in the war) (Diana)

– I am worring about my mom (dad died in April while fillling documents to go Ostroda Camp) (Anna)

– For the war to be over (Irina)

– Please pray for my husband he is in war now (Inna)

– For me to rest well (father died at war( (Artem)

– I pray that the war at Ukraine is over and every one is healthy and “in one peice” (mom died when the bomb fell on their property) (Laura)

– For peace at Ukraine (Eagor)

– that we will not have a war at Ukriane (Olga)

– I want the war to be over and I want to come back home to m firends (Zhenyn)

– Pray for my parents (separtaed due to the war) (Vova)

– I want you to pray for my city Mariupol (Mariia)

– I ask you to pray for all people and for the end of the war at Ukraine.

Above only a few prayer requests that were verbalized by Ukrainian children and written down by counselors. I would like to ask you to pray for our entire team as we are ministering to these children at Ostroda Christian Camp.

He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 147:3
Greetings and blessings

Andrzej & April Korytkowski