Ruslan was living in a southern region. He lived with his mother and the man the mother was living with, not a father. We are not sure how it is that the social workers brought him to our region after his mother died. He had no other family and the man whom the mother had been living with was in Russia at the time of her death. We knew he was about 4 years old; after petitioning for his records, we found out that he had just turned 5. Coming from the south, he spoke mostly Uzbek. As it worked out, the Lord had provided a volunteer from Uzbekistan that we was working with us that year. Now he speaks Russian, Kyrgyz, and English.