The Next Generation of Children Do Not Have to Know the World of Street Life as Their Parents Did
At the age of nine Igor joined a gang of street boys and began to sniff glue.
He soon switched to heroin and alcohol. By the time he was 25 years old he no longer spent any days sober, and his life was devastated.
“I was always either drunk or doing heroin.
There was complete darkness in my soul
and I didn’t want to live.”
PHOTO: Igor on his way to our rehabilitation center.
Six years earlier Igor had become acquainted with our Yekaterinburg street patrol and had visited our day center activities many times. Desperate, he decided to find our team and ask for help. He found them at the same place, continuing to reach out to street kids.
“I need help,”
Igor was finally able to admit.
These words changed the course of his life.
Our team took Igor to our rehabilitation center, and he became a Christian there. After rehab, he got a job at a nursing home for disabled elderly and found a way to serve God and people. He then met Natasha, and soon there was a wedding celebration. One of MP’s workers, Andrey, is also a pastor who gave Igor and Natasha his blessing and married them.
The couple now has a little daughter, Julia, who is like a grandchild to our team members.
She can grow up without experiencing the darkness and misery of street life.
