Pastor Petru Ciochina wrote:
Because I like to be with people and communicate with them, I focused my activity on refugees from the center in Nisporeni, Moldova, who are without money and with many children. I buy them medicine and some baby food. Among them I met a woman named Olga* who moved me to tears. With a good and patient heart, who ran away from the war with 5 children, all of her own. She told me about the hardships she went through before arriving in Moldova.
Olga is 25 years old, her husband left her before the war started. When the war began, they fled to the shelters. Every time the sirens sounded, she couldn't dress all five of her children quickly, and she was the last to reach the bomb shelter. And because of this her father forced her to go to Moldova with her brother David. Later she asked me to help her go to Romania so that she could reach a relative of hers who took refuge from war in Germany. Olga had no money. I bought them train tickets. I gave them some pocket money. She said that when she came back, she would give me back everything I had spent for her and her children. That moved me, and I said no. I told her I was doing this because I had Jesus in my heart. And He brought me to you, and He loves children. And He teaches me „And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.”
We hugged her and we said goodbye as if she
were a child of mine. Now I don't know anything about her, I prayed with the whole
church to be on God's guard. She was to arrive in Munich.
*Name changed to protect privacy.
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