A light in the dark
Raya lives with her young family in her parents’ house in a village in Moldova. She has three small children, and the youngest is only six months old.
He’s done this before!
A set of juggling balls – how about that for an unusual gift? And, as happens time and again with such inspired choices, they landed in the right hands.
Shoebox surprise for hungry man
Sixty-three-year-old Zlatko was searching through other people’s rubbish in the city of Kragujevac, when he was approached by David Armus from Blythswood Serbia. “I’m looking for something to eat,” he explained to David. “And maybe some things that could be useful to me.”
Too young to understand
Nadia’s husband had passed away before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. She lived in a village near Kyiv with her grown children: a son, Dmytro, and a daughter, Tetiana and her husband. Tetiana was pregnant with their first child when her husband volunteered for the army. He died in the war before their son was born, in 2023.
Surprised by joy in Bulgaria
Zhani Slavcheva isn’t easily shocked. She and her husband Stoyan have been serving some of the poorest communities in Sliven, Bulgaria, for many years, bringing the gospel and responding to people’s immediate needs.
A diary can be more than a gift
Which item in a Blythswood shoebox might grab the attention of a 13-year-old boy? For Agron, it was a diary. “My life is not easy because my father is in prison,” he says. “I always try to be hopeful but when I have been thinking a lot, I find it difficult to share my thoughts with others.