Comments on: Romaniv Boys Orphanage

By: Barry Rodriguez

Barry Rodriguez — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:19:59 +0000

Zeta, as of a few weeks ago, when I talked to some of the MTU folks who were in town visiting, they have still made no in-roads with the girl’s orphanage. The director there is apparently still rather hostile. They are still praying…

By: Zeta

Zeta — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:19:11 +0000

I was just wondering if they have been allowed inside the girl’s orphanage yet?

By: Jenny Fitzgerald

Jenny Fitzgerald — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:12:52 +0000

Barry ~ thank you. I remember seeing a video of a “home” for boys with Down Syndrome when our son Garrett (who has Down Syndrome) was born. I could hardly function for a few days. It’s beyond comprehension what “the least of these” have experienced their whole lives. I can’t keep from weeping as I think about it again. It sounds like Grace is closely connected to that orphanage from the posts I read. Is that true? How would I go about getting other churches here connected?

May the Lord’s Kingdom come here and now for these precious ones….every day of the week.

By: Kathy Whitmore

Kathy Whitmore — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:38:50 +0000

Barry,
You have encouraged me. Treasure in heaven, or treasure on earth? How after listening to you, hearing your heart, reading your entries and seeing these pictures could I ever treasure things of earth more than things of heaven? Thank you for opening my heart to those around the world whose voices need to be heard.

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:46:49 +0000

Chris and Mary Malone – Go to http://www.missiontoukraine.net and there is a link to the Romaniv Christmas party of Dec 2008 pictures that are posted on Facebook. Perhaps your Micah is in some of those.

By: Stephanee Potts

Stephanee Potts — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:19:25 +0000

Is there any way possible that you could email me. A good friend of mine is hosting a precious girl from Zhytomyr. Her brother is possibly mentally disabled and they don’t know what orphanage he is in. Possibly it is this one. I would like to give you more information and see if you or the other missionaries have met him. We adopted 2 girls (13 & 10) from Zhytomyr last Fall. What a blessing they have been.

My email is stephaneep@hotmail.com

By: Ken Ney

Ken Ney — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:27:45 +0000

Barry
I noted the posting from Jeri who mentioned she had trouble getting thru to us on our website. Any way you could include our email address mtu@att.net and phone # 317 846 7990?
Hate to miss these contacts.

By: Jason Hall

Jason Hall — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:29:52 +0000

We adopted a 10 year old girl from the older kids orphanage and a 4 year old (they were brother and sister) from the baby orphanage both from Novograd Volinsky, in Zhytomyr region. At the baby orphanage the director there told us they converted that place from an old barn. They kept the less disabled kids in a separate place than the others, we only got to see that part until right before we were about to take Vitali out of orphanage. When they showed us the rest of the place I was taken back. There was about 6 groups of 12 in separate rooms about the size of a normal sized living room. They were very disabled and most had down syndrome. But thank God those babushkas and care workers and director cared for these kids and facility was clean, just very small and tight for such a large group.

Thank you for sharing this about Romaniv, I was wondering what would have happened to Vitali once he left this baby orphanage. Novograd Volinsky is about 50 minutes east of downtown Zhytomyr.

By: MamaPoRuski

MamaPoRuski — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:18:17 +0000

We adopted two older (8 and 15) children with disabilities from Ukraine and know that more than one of these orphanages really do exist. Thank you for posting from the perspective of hope. We pray that everyone exposed to our children will see that what joyful and abled people they truly are! Thank you for joining those of us who have been speaking up and reaching out, each of us can change the world for us and these children one by one! God Bless you!

By: Jeri

Jeri — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:59:19 +0000

Barry, I would like to help MTU but the contact form wouldn’t accept my email address. Could you please forward it to them for me? I believe the little boy with the mishapened head has Hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and possibly he’s paralyzed or partially paralyzed due to Spina Bifida?

Please continue to share the stories about the needs of these children. Even in a “normal” orphanage, the conditions are often grim compared to what we as Americans live with. Our son was in the Sumy orphanage for preschool to seven year olds when we met him in 2000.