Monthly prayer requests

October’s daily prayer request list has been posted.  Please print this out and pray for all of us here in Romania! The list can be found under the “daily prayer request” tab on my website!  Thank you!

Teaching and Potatoes

I really enjoyed my first week at the school in Stroiesti.  I’ve had really good classes. I’m getting to know the teachers in the elementry school and they are really helpful.  I’m totally in love with the Kindergarten class.  Nothing is cuter than 6 year olds going “up, up, up” and standing on tippy toes, then saying [...]

My First Day of School

My first day of school was pretty good.  There was some confusion as to where I was to have my first class.  You see there is a shortage of classrooms, so the kids go to school in shifts.  There wasn’t a free classroom for me.  I ended up waiting and took over the first grade [...]

School time

Today, I went to the school in Stroiesti to find out the schedule for my English classes.  I will have classes Tuesday through Friday.  I’ll have a total of 154 kids each week, but since the classes are optional this number is sure to decrease.  Each grade has 2 classes and I will work with [...]

Ploiesti

I had a wonderful time in the city of Ploiesti visiting with Eduard.  It was wonderful to see what other ministries are doing here in Romania.  I was able to attend a couple of Eduard’s choir rehearsals and visit the children in an orphanage where he has started a children’s choir.  Eduard and I were [...]

To Ploiesti

Tomorrow, while the kids are starting a new year of school, I’ll be on the train to Ploiesti.  It is the home of a choir ministry that has worked with MBK in the past.  Since I won’t start until next week at the school, I thought it would be a good time to see this part [...]

Getting Ready for School

This afternoon three teen girls, a nurse and I  helped 6 families get ready for school. I lost count of the number of kids we worked with…oops.  We were in the village for 5 hours and I was impressed how hard the team worked.  We scrubbed hands, feet and faces.  We checked for lice and then deloused.  [...]

School Prayer Requests

Tomorrow, there will be a group of us going into the village armed with laundry wash tubs, soap and lice shampoo.  We will be visiting 5-6 families in the afternoon to help them prepare for school, which starts on Monday.  After cleaning, we will pass out school supplies.  Please pray that we will be able [...]

Update from Ramona

You may remember my language tutor from last winter, Ramona.  She moved to Africa this past spring to be with her husband.  This is what Ramona writes:
the people at his office deprived him of a lot of money(leave allowance, contribution, deduction), so we can’t trust them anymore. they have an offer for him, as a [...]

Only in Romania

Ok, so I took these pictures from my balcony and I just had to share them.  I missed the best shots because I had to run to get the camera.  But what you are looking at is a station wagon sitting on top of a wagon being pulled by a horse.  A kid is sitting [...]