Romania Day

Romania National Day is December 1st, but since the kids will be out of school they had their program on Friday.  The 2nd graders sang and recited poems.  It was very nice!

Winter Wear

Here are the children in there lovely handmade hats and scarves loving made by folks in Minnesota!  I think their faces say it all! I still have more to pass out to some of the little kids too small to come to group!  I am looking forward to doing that sometime this week!

Thanksgiving-Romanian Style

So this Thanksgiving, I got together with some friends, including some American Mennonites who have a foundation on the north side of Suceava.  We had a nice time, eating, playing games, but there was no turkey.  Turkey is expensive here.  So I have decided that I need to raise some turkeys for next year.  However, my friend, who [...]

Monthly Prayer Requests-Updated

Hi Everyone,
I have updated the prayer requests for December. www.melissainromania.wordpress.com and click on the Prayer Request tab.
Thank you for Praying for all of us here!

Christmas Boxes

While you are all celebrating Thanksgiving this year, my apartment has been turned into Santa’s Workshop!  I received 180+ Christmas Shoeboxes for the children of Stroiesti this morning.  Along with the shoeboxes were lovely winter wear including handmade scarves and hats from a group in Minnesota, toothbrushes and tooth paste from a dentist’s office in PA, extra [...]

Yesterday’s Election

I have posted the link to an article about yesterday’s election here in Romania. It is interesting to see the similarities and differences between the Romanian and American electorial process.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34089368/ns/world_news-europe/

Field Trip

Yesterday, the children of Stroiesti were invited to an event in the city at a sister church. The event was kind of like a harvest-thanksgiving celebrations, kind of…..  35 kids from the village were there and there was 125+ kids in total.  There was a lesson about the tree that produces good fruit and bad fruit.  Followed by [...]

Prayer Request

I found out yesterday, Bogdan’s father, Vasile, along with 11 other men from the village, will be going to Portugal on Thursday morning.  They will make the 3 day journey by bus and will pick up other Romanians on the way.  They will spend 3 months in Portugal picking olives.  They will be back in February.  [...]

In the details

We all know God is in the big things, but I know I sometimes forget that God is also in all the details.  He has reminded me of this many times recently, but yesterday, it was even more apparent.
 
You know we like to celebrate birthdays at Sunday School in the village.  Yesterday Gabriela’s 7th birthday.  [...]

All moved in

Yesterday, I hired 3 teens from the village to help me move stuff. I couldn’t have done it without them.  We made many trips in my car.  Turns out you can get a fridge in my car!!  A friend let us use his big truck for the stove and washer and other pieces. And then last night [...]