Today the Brown Bus traveled approximately 2 hours out of Ivano-Frankivsk to Snyatyn to visit a Boarding Home for mentally impaired men.  At the home we found over 200 men from age 18 to 90 years old.  Some of these men had been at the home for many years.

 

There was a man in one of the groups by the name of L’onia who had celebral palsy.  As the group shared the bracelet with the men and told them how much God loved them, L’onia began to cry and tried to talked.  One of the caretakers told the group what he was saying.  He wanted to know if God would help him go home to his mother.  He had heartache because his mother had given him away when he was a year old and did not come to see him.  Pat H of Virginia went over to L’onia and hugged him and told him that he had a Father in heaven who loved him and that she would be his mother.  With those words, L’onia began to smile.