The beginning of spring was marked in an unusual way - we received a call from a local governmental office, requesting that we
receive another boy into our family. The day he came to us, he was 7 ears old and a day - so the day after his birthday, he received a new family. Everyone in our family looked at him in curiosity, especially the older sisters, who received one more pleasant "trouble". One sister was designing in her mind new clothes for him, which would match his "lion's" eyes, another was wondering how to feed him.

This nice looking boy in shabby clothes, with a curious gaze, was standing before us. And we were accepting him into our family as he was. In a few days, we realized that he was a bit wild, crabby, and always hungry (as are a lot of children from similar situations.) This
was not surprising, because before he came to us, he lived in a depressive one-room flat, with a paralyzed and blind great-grandmother, a grandmother who suffered with pain in her legs, and with an intoxicated mother. And together with all of them, his mother's friend, Vova, lived as well. The pension that his grandmothers received was the only financial support the "family" had, but they used it to buy alcohol. Sergichick often witnessed all kinds of quarrels. He saw how his mom and her friend would fight 'till bloodshed. One of the reasons why this little boy was expelled from school, having visited it only for a couple of months, was that he behaved exactly as he had seen from his example at home.

​They didn't have heat in their home because of debt, no refrigerator, and no sheets on the bed. Sergichick always had lice in his hair. He has only seen his real father a couple of times. And just a year ago, this little boy witnessed the death of his 38-year-old mother, from cirrhosis of the liver. Sergichick was an only child. They didn't have enough money to bury his mother. So his granmother's relatives helped with the funeral costs, and with a weekly bag of food. And young Sergichick's aunt tried to find clothes for him in second hand shops. The weekly food bag would get devoured in one night, as daddy Vova would invite all kinds of his friends - alcoholics, prostitutes and drug addicts - to their home, to drink all night. So the 6-year-old boy discovered how he could salvage some food - he would hide it in places known only to him (especially the eggs and sausage), so he could eat it later. Sergichick and his grandmothers, were always starving and skinny.

Sergichick was smart enough to understand the hour on the clock, to know when he would like to watch a television program. But he would never go for walks by himself - he realized that he was too little for that. With no hope and no future, the only pictures he
held in his mind, were all kinds of movies which he watched all day long• Looking at this affectionate, gentle, little boy now; you would
never know that he had been a hooligan, expelled from school at the age of six. He has become very friendly. He is learning how to use
nice words, and the difference between good and wrong. He is surrounded with the love of mom and dad, and the care of his new
brothers and sisters. And he no longer has to hide food. Yes, he is happy and full of dreams. And he is in the process of receiving God's complete healing and deliverance in his life.