The Salvation Army opened the Patvērums Childrens Day Centre in March 2002 to provide a safe environment for underprivileged children from the local community in Riga.
Friday, October 28, 2005
End of another week!
As we wrote in the last entry this week has been the school holidays this has meant that we have continued to be busy at the centre.
As well as the bowling trip we have had much going on. On Tuesday at the +14 group we had 2 guest speakers from movement 'True Love Waits'(TLW). TLW is an international campaign that challenges teenagers and college students to remain sexually abstinent until marriage and is a movement that many Christian teenagers are joining around the world. 4 of our girls heard this talk and all 4 signed the covenant cards and received the TLW ring. We are really happy about this and ask that you keep them in your prayers.
While this was going on the rest of the children were out in the city doing a team game! They had great fun counting the number of cars that went through one sequence of traffic lights, finding different types of cars but of the same colour and other such challenges!
On a different note, today the son of the family that has been staying at crisis centre arrived at Patverums and told us that yesterday they returned home to his dad. In one way we are not surprised at this as the mum had very few other options but of course we very sorry that this has had to happen. As a centre we will continue to support her in whatever way we can. Please continue to pray for them, for their safety and their uncertain future.
And then to this evening! As we write our monthly parents group is taking place. We have 5 parents this evening - a new record! Tonight they are talking about 'Lying and how to cope when your children lie' as well as preparing CV's as many of them are continually seeking new employment. It's great to see this group developing and working we have all hoped and prayed it would.
posted by Patverums Childrens Day Centre @ 6:33 pm
