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Dear brothers and sisters, dear friends!

We decided to start new section in our site - Service for orphans. Charity.

To be honest, it's not something new in our activity. We did this work from the beginning.

Yes, the main purpose of our work was addiction problem and all points, which connected with that. It's our priority is now too.

But every day we communicate with huge numbers of people, who needs help and ask about that. It's most poor and needing part of our society: homeless children, children from orphanages, addict's families, sick and invalids.

So we try to help them as with words so with material too: food, clothes, remedy, other stuff. We work very closely with two city orphanages and two special orphanages, wich situated far from Rivne (in village place). By the way, just village orphanages are most poor and needing in Ukraine. Also it's special orphanages for sick children with mental problems.

The stories of these children are difficult and individual in every case. But one common feature united all of them: the lack of love and family warm.

So "The Right Way" feels a real duty and calls to try to help for these children as we can. And to try to facilitate their hard life. Also we try to teach them and show for them a real Right Way in their lives, which can give only God for them.

As we noticed before, we try to help for addict's families too: with God's Word and material help as well. In Rivne we work very closely with many children families where one or two parents are addicted. In our city we have a lot of such families. There are suffered both: adult and children. Very often such families have no most needed things (even bread, for example!). They live in terrible, insanitary conditions. So we try to help these families as we can. But mainly, we try to give them a real hope and the ray of light in their lives.

It's very difficult task! Most of them lost any hope for better life. Our society called such people: "those who is on the bottom". And most of people convinced that is no any exit from this "bottom".

But we are sure it's not so!

We are all God's children and all we are equal before Heavenly Father, and He loves all of us.

That is why we are sure that, in God's eyes we have equal value: as respectable and successful men so "lost" and "humiliated" people too.

For most needing

“The Right Way” started new service. We found a good possibility to give a material help with food for the poorest and needy people in our city: orphans, homeless children, most poor families of alcoholics and drug addicts. Every week we buy some foods and bring to orphanages, boarding-schools, poor families. We are sure this part of our work is very important too. Most of our people, whom we help, need as much spiritual help as material assistance, too. We thank our Lord and good will of our sponsors for the possibility of this service!

Volodja’s story
My name is Volodimir Cherevko.
I was born in 1985.
I was born in one village in Rivne region.
My father was alcoholic and because of that he killed my mother, when I was only 6 month after my birth...
So in one day I lost both mother and father. The last one was deprived of the paternal rights at once. After that my life travel started.
In 1986 I was settled in Rivne state orphanage for children till 4-5 y.o. (it’s institution for most little children)
Then it was other orphanage for more older children (1989-1991)
At last I was settled in a special state boarding-school.
Just there, when I was 6 y.o. and sat on a bench, I realized that will be very difficult to survive in this place for me. I never will have family, success, happiness and more or less good future.
One of the reason of this terrible situation was current situation of all Ukrainian orphanage in that time. It was just 1991-1992, when Ukraine got independence and ecomomical collapse as well. Our state lived in very difficult time then. Our society had not only economical problems. It was time of changes in all spheres of our life. So you can only imagine what kind of life was then in the orphanage, if the real devastation was in the state in that time!
In order that to survive in orphanage (even for to eat something), we must were beat each other, take from more weak, mock above each other. We thought that we grow up as a man, but in reality we became as a wild animals.
Just then I started to reflect about God. I heard that He is Love. But I could not agree with that: nor in my heart (because my father killed my mother, when I was born only), nor in my present daily life (because my life in orphanage had not any love at all). In 10 years of my orphanage life I was full of hatred, spite, anger and cunning to all surrounding people and world too. So I imagined my future only in one way: with a street criminals, who lives with deception and robbery. I was sure that another life was impossible for me absolutely.
But Most High did not think so. The Lord had a special way for me and prepared absolutely another life. Only His mercy and great providence changed my life, my thoughts and values to radical opposite side. Now I can say that not a lot of my orphanage’s friends had so happy story like my.
When I approached to the last class of our school, some Christian believers started to come to us and tried to tell about God and Christian truths. There was good began.
In spite of that I knew that nothing good wait for me after school: nor family, nor home, nor job, nor normal future. But most bad I had no any hope that something could change in some time. I realized clearly that in spite of all these nice words from our Christians preachers, only street is my real future.
But as I said before, it was my vision and plans...
Who created me and knew me from my mother womb (as Psalmist said) planned my life in another way. So in one day, before finishing of school, one Christian woman visited our orphanage and told that she is ready to take me and 4 other my friends in Rivne, in her house, try to care about us and to give us Christian education based on God’s word and Evangelical principles.
I agreed because there was not other alternative.
This woman’s name is Lubov (translated as: Love). She could give us a real love, care and family warm, which we were deprived from our birth. She got a huge numbers of problems, when she took us (five 16 y.o. boys!) to her home. Now I can say that it was a real heroic act, which this weak and not young woman did for our salvation. But her work and self-sacrifice gave a good fruits.
In 2003 I accepted Jesus in my heart and life. It happened in one of Rivne Baptist Church, where I was baptized and became a Church member. Then He gave me joy, peace, confidence and Love.
I could finish special technical college, Bible institute. Now I have study in Humanitarian department of Rivne Academy.
God gifted me nice wife, who is my best friend and assistant in all my ways and ministries.
So I lived and was happy.
But one evening two of my friends from orphanage (they were more younger me) phoned me and asked to spend night in my home, to eat something and to wash. In that time we lived at my wife’s mother house. We had no own living place. But house of my mother-in-law had additional rooms. So I asked her to lease one room for my friends for money. I forced to tell a lie to my mother-in-law and from that time I paid her a rental payment for my homeless friends. If she would know who were my friends in reality, she never agree to live with them under one roof!
But after all God soluted this problem too.
He gave me a people, who was interested in our ministry and who started to support us and try to help us in different ways. “The Right Way” is one of most active, who does it. So started my ministry for those, who I was once. One day believers helped me, now I try to help for those like me. I never planned to do this work. But God called me for this service.
Our house, which we rent now, we named “Kovcheg” (Ark). It’s like Noah in one day gave shelter for those, who must was die, so my wife Oksana and me try to give such temporal home for homeless young people, who have a real desire to survive in this life, not to be lost, to get a chance for normal life and happy life.
Our main task is not only to give a roof and food for them. We try to show them a real “Right Way” in their lives, which can help them to build correct relations with God and people too. During last 6 months (when we started this ministry) 11 homeless young people lived in our house. Some of them was gone, some started studies and removed to state dormitory (each state college and university give such possibility for own students for small payment), some of them found job and try to provide themselfs, some still lives with us in our “Kovcheg”.
Also we organized group of young Christians (10 persons) from different Rivne Churches for special ministry in Rivne and regional orphanages. We visit orphanages regularly and try to help them with material and spiritual things. It’s food, clothes, school materials and of course God’s word. Just because of this work we tell for young people (who are ready to leave orphanage) about our “Kovcheg”, which is ready to accept them, if they are need.
What we need now?
The most important is your prayers that God bless our ministry and changed the hearts of our young people. Thank you.