Help for (Ukrainian) children

Do you remember the interactive workbooks we introduced for trauma processing with refugee children in Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, and Haiti, a few years ago, where we trained the parents, educators, and caregivers of refugee children? They have now been translated into Ukrainian! We are very happy, and hope that they will also be a blessing for the Ukrainian refugee children!

They can be downloaded for free on our Children at Risk Schools webpage, with an explanation of how to use them: https://www.childrenatriskschools.com/there-is-hope

 

(I just found out that the website is not working well on mobile phones, only on laptops, sorry about that, we will try to fix this as soon as possible)

If you help Ukrainian children or families, or if you know someone who does, these booklets are recommended! As I explained on the website: The power of these booklets lies in inviting the Lord Jesus to come and heal their trauma.

We may spend a few hours listening to the children's stories, holding their hands and hugging them, but Jesus can always be with them!

It is not about us and our help, but about Jesus. When bad dreams or sad days come, He always wants to be with them. We teach the children to put their hands in the hands of Jesus. And then miracles happen!
 

I took this picture in 2009 when I was in Kyiv

Online course

Last month we also gave another 2-week online course to 40 students from almost 20 different countries, together with a group of international online facilitators. It was great, went very well, and we received a lot of positive feed back.

Most of our students are missionaries with Youth With A Mission, and already work with children in need. This seminar gives them some extra tools to do their often difficult work. For many of them it is also important that the course is accredited by the University of the Nations, so they receive a diploma at the end.

These are often very intense weeks for Johan and me, after a few months of preparations, but we finished with a very satisfied feeling!

We wish you many blessings in the coming weeks and months and are grateful for such a loyal circle of friends who stand around us in prayer and with financial help.