Mark Koehler

This author has written 163 articles

What the Children Need to Hear

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, The Children, Ukraine

Relationships have always been on my mind. Since I was a child, my own need for relationships was a major factor in my life. It was missing much of my childhood. When I interact with our children at the Emmaus Food Program, I see very similar needs in their lives. They live in very difficult…

The Innocence of Children

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Ukraine

As I woke up this morning, the scenes from a film that I had watched last week reappeared in my memory. Not many films are more than a momentary escape from the reality that I live. Not many films that I have seen portray reality. But this particular film, “The Boy in Striped Pajamas,” was…

Help Wanted

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Ukraine

When you see these two very common words side by side, what thoughts come to your mind? My first impression is that a job is available, that there is some work to do. Think about the word help. If I replace it with the word to assist, I immediately envision a very different concept. If…

Children of Hope

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Ukraine

What do you see above? Look at them from a distance; look at them close-up. Look at their clothes. Look at the expressions on their faces. Look into their eyes. What do you see? I see children. Each one has a story unique to him or her, as do all children. What they are at…

Country in Crisis, Family in Crisis

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter, Ukraine

Because I have no TV, by choice, I don’t follow the news often. When I am hungry to know what is going on in the rest of Ukraine or the world, I go online and read the news. I have heard that the economic crisis has hit Ukraine pretty hard, but had not seen too…

A Father’s Love Story

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter

I call it a Father’s Love Story, but I was not her father and she was not my daughter. Oksana wanted to be my daughter. In her heart, she wanted to belong to someone. She wanted a family experience. She never knew her father, and she had been taken away from her drug using ……

Ira’s Insight (January 2009)

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  • Mark Koehler
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  • Newsletter

Now Mark is preparing to visit America. He will go in April 2009. He is taking pictures and short videos of his ministries. We have been visiting Emmaus Club, the massage clinic, and the Rehabilitation Center in Illichevsk. It’s very nice to see people there who can tell us about the positive changes that are…

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