Prayer Needs!

Bogdan, Roman & Natasha at Rom's graduation party

Earlier this week, Mike left Ukraine to head back home. He was sad to leave and the boys were sad to have to say goodbye. Right before he left we were blessed to find out that an amazing Ukrainian couple was willing to move into our team's apartment and live with the boys until we get back! Natasha and Bogdan are involved in a local church, and Bogdan coaches and plays on the floorball team with Roman, Vlad and SP. The boys go back to school on September 1st and life will get back into a little more of a routine. We're so thankful to have Natasha and Bogdan there to help support and take care of the boys and ministry until we get back! Please keep them and Roman, Vova, SP and Vlad in your prayers.

We also have an important prayer request for one of our grad kids, Roman. For the past 5 days or so he's had a weird swelling on his cheek that has been getting worse by the day. He said he hadn't been able to sleep or eat much for a few days. He went to the hospital on Wednesday to get it checked out and the doctors admitted him and had to lance what's either some kind of boil or abscess in his cheek. He's been in a lot of pain, running a temperature and clearly has some kind of infection. They're supposed to go in and try to drain it again today because it didn't go well the first time. Please keep Roman in your prayers! He's hurting, feeling sick, bored out of his mind and will probably be there another 4 or 5 days. Pray that they would be able to kill and keep out infection. Pray that it would go better this second time they lance it today. Pray that the pain would go away and he'd start to feel better. And pray that God would use all the time he has sitting alone in the hospital to speak to Roman and work in his heart. Thanks for your support and prayer!