Vera Maslennikova

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Yesterday I visited Vera Maslennikova. A couple  of days ago she turned 86.

 

Vera was not in her birthday mood since she was not well at all – though she does not go outside, the heat is something her body cannot stand.

 

An amazing fact: Vera came to our church 24 years ago. She says, with her little pension, receiving food packages was merely salvation for her.

 

Vera was the only child in the family that lived in Russia in the place where the most fierce WWII battles took place. She says, her childhood was full of horror.

Years passed. Vera received good education and then went to Novosibirsk – a big place in Siberia – where she spent 16 years working at the research institute that tested aircrafts. She got married there.

 

Since Vera was a passionate worker, she chose to move to Kyiv in 1973 when she learnt that Antonov, a famous Soviet aircraft engineer, was then working in the capital of Ukraine.

 

Unfortunatly at the age of 50 Vera had to divorce her husband.

 

She said the years of her retirement became especially hard when she as the only child had to take care of her dying parents who still were living in Russia.

 

She sais, “If it was not the Mission, I cannot even imagine the kind of life I would have had”.

 

Vera’s Stephen minister takes  good care of her, doing all the grocery shopping and helping her around the apartment.

 

Please, pray for Vera’s health condition – she is not doing well these days at all.