Odessa continued!
It is my turn to finish the details of Wednesday that Steve started! After wandering around the city we all came back to the hotel to work on our talks for the upcoming conferences. Rachel was going from 3 talks to 2 talks, and the rest of us were going from almost 2 hour seminars to 45 minutes! So we all needed to do much cutting and revising!
That evening we had an exceptional gift -- we went to dinner at Paul and Tania Becker's home. Not only do they have a lovely apartment, very cute little children, and they are very good friends of MDI's, but they had also invited some other guests, along with us, for dinner that evening. Igor, one of the 15 year old boys from the Internot (orphanage) was there. He had just been moved from a village orphanage to this orphanage in the city a month ago. It was the first time in his life he had ever been in someone's home. He is a very special young man and he helped Paul cook the dinner and seemed to really enjoy being there and being with us. We all said that he was a boy that we would adopt - there was such a gentle spirit about him. He only has one more year in which he can be adopted before he turns 16 and is released to the streets from the orphanage. We are all praying for his adoption. And then there were two more special people there. One was Paul's voice teacher who is the lead soprano in the Odessa Opera (She was singing the lead in La Traviata the next evening) and their world famous accompaniest. After a delicious dinner, Paul, his teacher and the pianist gave us a private concert that was amazing! We were all spellbound at the music! It was a time of worship, a pure enjoyment of watching the gifts of music that God has bestowed on these three used for His glory and their joy and our pleasure! And we ended singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and America all together. I am sure neighbors a block away could hear the powerful music! The city was wild and alive as we walked home -- I am sure the Good Humor Day celebration lasted long into the night but it was quiet in our rooms!
That evening we had an exceptional gift -- we went to dinner at Paul and Tania Becker's home. Not only do they have a lovely apartment, very cute little children, and they are very good friends of MDI's, but they had also invited some other guests, along with us, for dinner that evening. Igor, one of the 15 year old boys from the Internot (orphanage) was there. He had just been moved from a village orphanage to this orphanage in the city a month ago. It was the first time in his life he had ever been in someone's home. He is a very special young man and he helped Paul cook the dinner and seemed to really enjoy being there and being with us. We all said that he was a boy that we would adopt - there was such a gentle spirit about him. He only has one more year in which he can be adopted before he turns 16 and is released to the streets from the orphanage. We are all praying for his adoption. And then there were two more special people there. One was Paul's voice teacher who is the lead soprano in the Odessa Opera (She was singing the lead in La Traviata the next evening) and their world famous accompaniest. After a delicious dinner, Paul, his teacher and the pianist gave us a private concert that was amazing! We were all spellbound at the music! It was a time of worship, a pure enjoyment of watching the gifts of music that God has bestowed on these three used for His glory and their joy and our pleasure! And we ended singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic and America all together. I am sure neighbors a block away could hear the powerful music! The city was wild and alive as we walked home -- I am sure the Good Humor Day celebration lasted long into the night but it was quiet in our rooms!
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