Alexandra's Story

Alexandra Goode is President and principal founder of International Guardian Angels Outreach. She speaks Russian fluently, is an experienced business executive, and has been married for 51 years to George Goode who is also actively involved in the ministry. They have 3 children with a total of 21 grandchildren. She is Babu Sasha to more than 240 children who are no longer Russian orphans as a result of her dedication and commitment.

 

Alexandra knows firsthand the suffering and trouble of being an orphan. She was born in Yugoslavia to Russian parents and became an orphan at age 14. She was forced by the Germans to live in both a concentration camp and a slave labor camp after she lost her family during World War II. She was never adopted. She immigrated to the US in 1949 .She began doing benevolence work during mission trips to Russia in the late 1990s. During this period she about learned about the orphans' living conditions and needs and dedicated herself to saving these children. "Every child is a gift from the Creator and deserving of a full life and loving family, regardless of the circumstances which brought the child into the world.

 

"One night Alexandra, barely 15, wept quietly on her metal triple bunk. She was questioning everything she knew or had been taught, using her young brain to ponder even the deepest metaphysical and epistemological questions: Who is God? What is man? Who am I? Why am I here? What is real? What seemed most real were the guns of the Germans and their harrowing medical injections. The pain was real. Sin was real. Was God real and did He care? Her mind was troubled and afraid.  She wept to God saying "'If you are real and if You love me, take my life.' He took her life -- every inch and cell. Alexandra asked for physical death, and instead she was given spiritual life. Her soul pierced the veil separating herself from God. She felt unmitigated hope and joy, and her hate-filled heart was satiated with love. It was the trials and suffering she underwent that prepared her for such a life of orphan ministry."