June 20th update as reported by Linda S.:

The day started with a great surprise – or I should say an opportunity to flex.  Our trip to a boarding school was cancelled.   So we were invited to visit an additional six homes of local people.  The family Tim B., Kristin W., and I visited had four teenagers along with their mother living in a two room flat.   They were Armenian and although Armenian women usually don’t work outside the home, she has had to take a job washing dishes in a restaurant to feed her family.   The father lives near and occasionally will take them a bag of potatoes or some vegetables.  Otherwise there is very little contact with him.  

As Kristin and Tim looked at family pictures, the mother, myself, and Inna (our interpreter) visited together.   She was really touched by the picture and news that my grand-daughter is ill with cystic fibrosis and may not live to be an adult.  She confided in me that her oldest son was run over by a car when he was just seven years old.   I shared with her about my sister, husband, and mother dying within the same six months of the year 2000.  I was also able to explain to her how Christ held me up during that time and continues to do so today.   She was very easy to talk with thanks to Inna.

She was very pleased to see the gifts I brought her children as well as those gifts from Global Aid Network.   The large print Bible really blessed her.  Soon the mother had to leave for work.  The children didn’t want us to leave so we stayed and visited awhile answering many questions about America.  Inna invited them to the summer camp that her church is going to be having in July.  Hopefully the seed we planted today will start to grow one day and bloom into a new relationship with the Lord.