Light in the darkness

Dear friends of LITD,

I am getting more and more tired of writing reports. Things are always the same with all the poverty around us. The food prices here are partly even higher than in Germany. A German friend of mine recently sent me some statistics saying that you need 420 EUR a month taking care of a child, weare able to manage with less than that. Nevertheless we have to improvise every day, but we don’t give up, we trust in our Lord.

I have now opened ZENKO station for everybody who is willing to change his /her life.Tonight I also opened a an emergency accommodation for over 20 boys who went to work in the morning without breakfast because they have no money. They just earn 5,00 EUR a day for 18 hours work for a firm doing demolition work., and even so I can look into faces beaming with happiness. Comparing their life with my youth in Germany in which I never had to suffer from hunger I can hardly understand them.Our cash box is empty – but trusting in our Lord we can see light at the end of the tunnel.

The work is growing more and more

On one hand we have a great lack of money like a lot of people here in Bulgaria and on the other hand there is more and more work coming up.One of our important principles is not to think of money in the first place but to trust in our Lord.Poor people can be helped if they are willing to change their life. The Romanies have understood that and that noone has to live in poverty for ever. We have had 30 positive results since the last 3 years, young and older people who live a normal and healthy life in spite of their poverty. This has caused a ” wave“ in our district. In contrast to the commercial welfare organisations we only use primitive instruments, means and methods in our work. Our aim is not to help somebody to gainprosperity but to create an island in all the misery here on which one can change his/her life throughthe belief in God and through the human strength which God gave to all human beings.This is why I can see boys going to work with beaming faces – no prostitution anymore and not being undernourished. They are happy to have found a way out of their miserable life.

Today some visitors from Sofia will come to see us here. I think they will be amazed to see how life has changed in our district with so little means. It is the strength of our Lord, he is the saviour, this is what I believe in. But this belief is no condition for being accepted in our community. I believe God shows the people the right way, he wants them to decide on their own whether to be for or against him.Meanwhile the Muslims show a great interest in our work, we are open for them as well.

Chalisans now two school groups

We have split up the youngsters into two groups:

Cchalisans I

All youngsters between 6 and 16 are in my group. The are children who are required to attend school but didn’t do so. We are successful in leading all of them back to school.

Cchalisans II

They are a new group which is led by our colleague Margaritta. She is a gifted person and the young grown ups have decided to accept her as their group leader. This is a remarkable decision because it proofs that men are willing to subordinate under a woman which is an important stepforward in their development.In this group the young men are taught to be literate and in basic mathematics as well as in Bulgarian vocabulary which the young men don’t understand. 100 % of the young grown ups take part in this course.In addition to that a group of older grown ups has met under the leadership of Kiro who is supported by Nichat. They want to found a group for older grown ups. This means that LITD does not only work with children and young people but als with older ones.

Please pray for :

- the financial situation;

- the two school groups;

- working with grown ups.

God bless you

FRANK