Friday, April 10, 2009

Ivankiv Orphanage Girls Learning to Cook...

Each week, Jenny Kelly spends one evening visiting with the oldest girls at the orphanage. Our co-workers, Sasha and Olha also spend another evening visiting and teaching the younger girls and the boys. This week, Jenny decided to take a break from just hanging out with the girls and sharing the Bible with them. Instead, she invited them into our home for dinner.

Today, Jenny picked up four girls a little after 4 PM to bring them to our house at the camp. While here, Jenny taught them how to made Southwest Chicken Pot Pie, Salad and Chocolate Chunk cookies. They all had a great time...I could tell, I was outside the kitchen & living room windows putting our fence up while listening to the laughing and fun being had in the kitchen.

Oksana making cookies.

Yanna cooking.

Jenny with 4 of the 5 oldest girls from the Ivankiv orphanage.
Left to Right: Tanya, Lyuda, Jenny, Yanna & Oksana.


2 comments:

alan said...

HI, Good to see a familiar face. Lyuda was there when we adopted our girls in 05'. If you would be so kind as to say hello for us. I think she will remember Lyuda, Neyla, Masha and Oksana. If there is any way we could write to her via internet we would like to. Thank you for all your hard work and we pray God's Blessings on you , your family and your ministry.

alan pidcock

Conethia and Jim Bob said...

I stumbled upon your blog and was amazed. I, at first, recognized that red carpet from the "meeting" room at the Ivankiv orphanage. We adopted two kids, Alona and Yuri, from this orphanage in April and fell in love with the amazing kids there and the workers. I was so excited to see Yanna's face. She was present during many of our visits with the kids. I can't commend your work enough. We tried to send back some pics a few weeks ago but our package was returned. If you have any suggestions how we can get the package back to the orphanage, let us know. Continue your good works, give the kids big hugs for us. Blessings.