Mission Alushta - Andre

I mentioned in the last post that the team went out to Evpatoria and Simferopol. Simferopol is about an hour drive from Alushta with Evpatoria being another hour and half farther yet. These two offsite visits occurred at the end of our week, Friday and Saturday after we discovered we had a lot of people in those areas who were not able to get as far as Alushta to be seen. But some did come.
Details provided by Cindy - the therapist who worked with this family.
Andre, age 8 was brought by his mother, carried in her arms. Andre has Cerebral Palsy and cortical blindness. They traveled 5 days from northern Russia and were staying in Evpatoria at a children's sanatorium for treatments. They heard about our distribution from a woman on the street who saw Andre being carried by his mother. She told them about our giving out wheelchairs and gave them a handwritten invitation with the address of the church we were at in Alushta included. They came the next day to see us. The mother knew God had sent them to us and it was a miracle how they found out. Andre received a wheelchair and other gifts. Sasha, Andre's 3 year old sister when given some butterfly clips for her hair kissed each one. When they returned to Evpatoria they posted an announcement on the bulletin board and many others came because of it. The very next day the father returned with car load of people and came to tell us how appreciative he and his family were. Ruslan said it reminded him of the 10 lepers and the one who came back to thank Jesus.
Now I have to tell you that we don't advertise our wheelchair distributions. The local social services people line up appointments for those who are determined to be in need of a free chair. We have no idea how on our first day of ministry that someone two and a half hours away had knowledge and a written address of our distribution to give Andre and his family. Like Andre's mother, we believe in miracles and angels from God.