SHRINERS AID HEROIC UKRAINE BURN VICTIM

Art Ukraine Newsletter ^ | 3/26/05 | By Stephen Smith

[Calpernia]

She is a national hero in her homeland, hailed for plucking her little sister from their family home as it was consumed by flames. Now, Nastya Ovchar, her body burned extensively during the rescue of her sister, lies in a room at Shriners Burns Hospital Boston, half a world away from her home in the Ukraine.

If they made a movie about Nastya, they could well call it ''The President and the Little Girl," for it was the intervention of a national leader who had endured his own share of physical suffering that assured the 5-year- old could receive lifesaving medical treatment.

On March 15 fire erupted in a home in the Ukraine's Kharkiv region, which sits on the border with Russia. Nastya and her 2-year-old sister, Lyuda, were in the house by themselves. Nastya saved her sister from the fire; in the process, she sustained burns over 80 percent of her body, according to an Associated Press report from Kiev. Lyuda suffered comparatively minor injuries.

Tales of the rescue swiftly captured the attention of Ukrainians. That nation's newly installed president, Viktor Yushchenko, extended his assistance to Nastya. Yushchenko confronted pain and disfigurement last year, when he was poisoned during his campaign for president.

''Mr. Yushchenko always supported very young people. Children are the future of our country," said Iryna Bezverkha, press secretary of the Ukraine Embassy in Washington. ''This is a really inspiring story."

At first, Yushchenko, who spoke directly with Nastya, and his associates sought treatment in the Ukraine for the child. ''Unfortunately," Bezverkha said last night, ''these efforts were not enough for this little girl."

So the president, Ukraine lawmakers, and Yushchenko's wife banded together to secure treatment for Nastya outside their nation. "And they found Shriners," said Kathy Golden, spokeswoman for the Boston hospital. The Ukraine government arranged for the child to be flown to Boston, and she arrived Thursday night. The Shriners provide care free of charge at all of their hospitals.

Golden said privacy rules prevented her from releasing details of Nastya's condition, or even officially confirming her name, but she acknowledged that ''typically children with burns have many months of treatment."

The president intends to follow Nastya's recovery intently, the embassy spokeswoman said. Golden said, ''They've been keenly interested in her care, because they really see her as a hero."

[timer]

And some say we shriners/masons are bad guys. Does anyone know that our hospitals are entirely FREE? About the only thing our local shrine clubs raise money for is getting these kids back and forth to our 23 hospitals(transportation fund). We've healed some 500,000 kids in the 80 years we've been in existence. We also designed, in large measure, the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : look at the symbols on a dollar bill...

[Calpernia]

Bump Timer!

Mayor, may we have a prayer ping?

[PresbyRev]

There were several black brothers in the class in which I became a Shriner several years ago.

For more info: http://www.masonicinfo.com/

[Cvengr]

If you ever want to see the true side of a freemason, merely attempt to join the lodge and state you believe in God through faith in our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. You will quickly discover how they sincerely hate anything of God through Christ.

This simply leads one to consider why any person would deny the Lord Jesus Christ, but claim to believe in God. Consider that Lucifer when he became Satan declared in his 5 'I wills', that he would make himself like God. Then consider how somebody who rejects all things Christian, but seeks to serve a false god, would then describe Satan. They have no hinderance from seeking to deceive and will accordingly claim they are worshipping and serving 'God' when they also deny Jesus Christ.

There probably have been many a Christian brother deceived into joining freemasonry as a false service organization seeking to create perfect environment rather than partaking in God's plan through His will by faith in Christ.

A better path is to remain faithful to God through Christ in all things, being regenerated in the spirit, and indwelt by Him with the authority to do all things,..even moreso than any echelon of masonry and its bastard stepchildren societies could ever dream to achieve.

[cyborg]

Thanks for the ping. Good news all around.

[PresbyRev]

Funny - just this very evening at my lodge prayer was made in the name of Christ.

Maybe your just repeating falsehood and bearing false witness against your neighbors. The Bible doesn't say anything about that does it?

[Cvengr]

Do the elders and pastor of your church realize you partake in freemasonry on one side and then claim to have faith in Christ on the other? Most Presbyterians I've bumped into generally excommunicate freemasons.

[Cvengr]

Rather than falsehood, I bear testimony of the duplicity in freemasonry. Why not explain why freemasonry also promotes Wicca?

[TheLion]

Where have you seen Freemasonry promoting Wicca? (I'm assuming that is witchcraft and paganism).

[Calpernia]

Respectfully posting here that this thread is about a wonderful little girl named Nastya Ovchar who has risked her life for her sister!

I will gladly find an article for debate of Masons vs. Wicca vs. what ever you would like and post it and ping you.

[Cvengr]

In the military. There are some conspiracy theorists out there with considerably more damaging evidence, but first hand knowledge is sufficient for myself.

I suspect there have been believers in our Lord and Savior in freemasonry perhaps in some regional areas not fully engulfed by freemsonry, but the upper echelons are more concerned with the occult and worldly things, than to simply remain faithful in God through Jesus Christ.

If you have dabbled in freemasonry, check your thnking by 1John 1:9 prior to your next meeting. Place yourself in His hands through faith in God in Christ and do not let the right hand know what the left is doing. Let God through Christ guide you. He's in charge anyway, ..it might be surprising and unpleasant but it might be a vast eyeopener.

Christ defeated the builders upon the cross and at His ascension. Be on guard, those who are antichristian will also deceive as they have well honed that skill in the craft.

[Cvengr]

Good to hear she is receiving medical treatment and prayers through our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus are out for hr recovery by His will.

Thanks for the post.

[Calpernia]

bump!!!!

[struwwelpeter]

Beautiful Girl!

25 March

Heroic Nastya Ovchar will be treated in the USA

On March, 15 in the village Vorontsovka of the Kharkov region five-year-old Nastya with the two-year-old sister Luda were staying at home alone when the fire happened in the house. At first the senior sister tried to extinguish a fire singly. Having understood, that it was above her strength, Nastya, shielding the sister by own body, took her away from blazing house. As a result of tragedy Nastya had got 80% of third-degree burn.

The girl has survived several surgeries, but she is still in grave condition.

Victor Vikarchuk from Khmelnitsk, who co-operates with the American doctors, has undertaken to help the girl. He had heard about Nastya on TV news, and in 2 days sent her pictures to Boston.

An operation for skin growing and transplantation in this case is possible only in America and Germany. According to Vikarchuk, "Americans are ready to take the child and treat her at their own expense. Ukraine does not have possibility to treat such burns".

PMs of Ukraine declared they would collect money for girl’s treatment.

Nastya will stay in America for a few months. Skin growing and transplantation needs time. Only15% of skin will grow from 1% for 3 weeks. And Nastya needs 80%. However, the Bostonian doctors hope for the best as they cured a child of 99% of burns.

According to the press-service of Nina Karpacheva charged with human rights, it was planned to send Nastya Ovchar to Boston today by regular craft "Aerosvit", but in connection with the down condition doctors insisted that the girl had to be in the Boston center to 24:00 on Thursday.

The obligatory conditions of flight are absence of landing, which the child will not be able to survive, and maintenance of necessary temperature.

[Calpernia]

Isn't she an angel?

[uglybiker]

What's not to like about a Shriner?

[Axenolith]

My wife was on a jury trying a case exactly like that a few weeks ago. Convicted the guy of criminal negligence but combined to ask for clemency in the form of community service and parenting classes because the guy was a loving father, just dumb as a stump when it came to managing a household and kids...

[TheLion]

Thanks for that! I knew the "Duke" was a Mason in his later years but had no idea he was a Shriner.

[TheLion]

Post # 39 was for you....sorry.

Thanks for that! I knew the "Duke" was a Mason in his later years but had no idea he was a Shriner.