With the help of our Professional Team (a psychologist, a social worker, a pedagogue), during around 3 years of constant work we succeeded to take tens of people, who were homeless for 7-9 years, out of their depression, and to return them to normal life.<\/span><\/p>\n With the efforts of the Ministry, they found jobs, and 9 of them received apartments in Yerevan as a gift. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n TESTIMONIES<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n For a long time we lived on streets, both in the cold of winter and in the heat of summer. We were begging from door to door. One time, when I knocked at another door to ask for food or money, the hostess, a young woman, invited us in and asked who we were and how came we lived that way. Listening to my story, she reassured me that there is God and He has not forsaken us. I understood that I needed to repent and ask God to help us out of that hopeless In a couple of days, this young woman with volunteers from \u201cGo and See\u201d Mercy Ministry visited us. They prepared a place where we could not only sleep safely, but also to take a bath and have food. When we went there, the Mercy Ministry volunteers welcomed us warmly and invited us to have a dinner. My\u00a0children had already forgotten how a hot meal tasted. In addition to having a meal in a fitting manner, taking a bath and putting our new beautiful clothes, we had opportunity to have physical examination.<\/span><\/p>\n Praise the Lord for the Mercy Ministry Team! Their professionals \u2013 the psychologist, the social worker and the pedagogue, worked with us for around 3 years, helping\u00a0us to forget offences and cruelties of the past, to repent from our sins and to eradicate the reasons because of which we had become beggars. They did not blame us, but helped us to change our mentality and character, so that later in life our situation would have not repeated itself. In 3 years, we received a beautiful apartment as a gift, in a district and an apartment house, which we chose ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n Today my family is happy, as my husband has been released from prison, my children go to school, we have a job and we care for our needs. We thank God that He had the Third Way, \u2013 a way of happiness, \u2013 for us. We thank the Mercy Ministry Team for taking all the troubles, so that we could forget our cruel past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Svetlana Alaverdyan <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_empty_space height=”22px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Thanks to \u2018The Third Way of God for the Homeless\u2019 program, my hopeless life of a beggar that lasted for 8 years came to its end. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_empty_space height=”22px”][vc_column_text] Not only I was provided with a job and an apartment, but I also was able to take my old mother from a senior center, so that she would be able to spend the rest of her life in her own family and under her own shelter. I thank God and the Mercy Ministry Team. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gagik Ejoyan <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]
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<\/a>My husband was in prison, and I was turned out into the street with 4 non-aged children. The parents and relatives of both my husband\u2019s and mine turned their backs on us. They were tired of supporting us. Several times, I tried to commit suicide, but by the will of God, I survived.<\/span><\/p>\n situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nTHE 3RD WAY OF GOD FOR THE HOMELESS<\/h2><\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]