Drinking - Healing in a family

From HELP Mongolia. Seeing Borko, you wouldn’t believe that she is already 22 years old. She looks and dresses herself like a 16-year-old. When she was still a baby her mother died. Her father never remarried. So she and her brother grew up with a father who was severely addicted to alcohol and extremely violent.

As we heard about the miserable conditions at her small home we asked Borko if she wanted to live with us for a while. I had to visit the father early in the morning in order to meet him in his sober moments. He gave his permission and Borko moved in with us. To everyone’s amazement her father stopped drinking for several days. That had not happened in years! We visited him again and told him about Jesus and the Christian faith. A week later he came to one of our churches and gave his life to Jesus shortly after.

Meanwhile Borko is living at home again. She needs to assist her slightly disabled father in practical ways. Now and then she stays with us, however she never minds to go back home since the atmosphere there has changed completely:
Her father has drunk hardly anything during the last month, he is happy and peaceful. He loves to go to church and even brings in new people.
Just recently Borko came down with something and her father asked her:
“Shall I try to pray for you?” And he prayed!