Love Reni 2018
God is love and when we love we demonstrate our Father's heart to the world. Love is not just a feeling, it is seen when it acts! God loves Reni and we were called to practically manifest his love. We are happy today to report that the LOVE RENI project was once again a huge success! Father was once again so faithful! It was the fifth year that we were running this project and the first four years it was a struggle to get people involved. The authorities were initially indifferent, principals and teachers were weary to get involved and our attempts to involve local news outlets were in vain. This year - during the fifth LOVE RENI - all the schools were involved! It was as if the whole town made the project their own! Everyone was excited and there were so many people who helped as volunteers to clean the beach at the lake! They joined us and helped to paint. It was no longer just our vision and became bigger than us. Our prayer is that Jesus will be glorified in Reni and through the work we do. All six schools participated in the video contest with so much enthusiasm. The winning team won a laptop (which of course is a sought after item for all the schools!) and the team won a day trip to nearby Izmail. We took them to a pool and movie theater, both of which are not in Reni. To them it was a great spoil and we could build so many new relationshps with the children and their teachers. We are so grateful for Father's provision to make it all possible.
During LOVE RENI we could also make 200 food parcels for people in the hospital. They were so grateful and so many people asked us to pray for them. We met people with open hearts and great need. We are grateful that we could bring Jesus' light to 200 hospital beds.

The highlights of love reni 2016

 

Love Reni 2015

The mayor of reni, Sergei Kolevich at "love reni". this mayor LOVES reni!

The last week of May was a week of celebrating Reni - a whole week of loving the city we were placed in. The church - with the help of an amazing team of volunteers from Jubilee Church in Maidstone, England - loved on Reni...  The team of Reni lovers built a playground and rest area in the town center, painted the church's building on the town square, put wooden benches in the park for a picnic area, worked with the schools in a video contest to create videos about Reni.  All were and just loving the children at Raduga Children's Center, the youth and the young mommies in hospital. All proceeds of the gala evening event went to the local charity center for handicapped children. What a week! What a blessing! And lots of fun and friendship in the journey!

The winning video from school number 5