Another goal as we work with the parents is to bring healing and restoration to families. Our workers go to the streets and minister to the children that are living in crisis, providing food, reading the Word and encouraging them to come to the Center. A van was recently purchased to expand this aspect of the ministry enabling us to spend time with the children out on the streets but in relative warmth. Time is needed to build friendships so that the children trust us enough to come to the day center. Christian workers go into two boy's prisons and one girl's prison each week.
Food is given to the children as well as personal items.
The Word of God and subjects such as Math, English and Geography are taught to the teenage inmates and as a result many children have come to know the Lord. Child Evangelism Fellowship correspondence courses are used to reach over 400 children in all parts of Russia. Many of these children come from villages where there is no Bible or other Christian witness and often our materials are the only means for them to hear about Jesus. The children often write to our correspondent, Nina, asking for Bibles and Christian literature and occasionally they send us pictures of themselves and their friends. We have great opportunities to witness to many children through this ministry and now also several parents of the children have come to the Lord.