Romania (Our Last Day)

This is our last day in Romania,

The plan for today is to go to Dobresti (mine and ashley's favorite place) It is the largest gypsy village that BIM works with. We are going there to give some pictures to some children and give some soccer balls to some children. After dobresti we are coming back here to get ready for Orphan Church if not orphan church we will go up to the orphanage to see them... I am excited to see them as well.

Ash and I are sad to leave tonight, but we have thoroughly enjoyed our time here in Romania. We are believing that God will allow us to pay off our debt so that we can move here soon... I just wanted to update yall on the happenings... Since the mission trip left we have had orphan church sunday, Ashley spoke during sunday school about the holy spirit. And i preached during big church. I spoke on the Disciple James, We have been talking about discipleship this summer and all that jazz... so i spoke on what we could learn from James- using his weaknesses and strengths... we have a video of the entire service so if i can get it uploaded i will...

Well i will update yall on everything that happens today later on tonight before we leave!

Thanks for all your prayers and continued support.

In Christ

Ashley and Kalep

Romania Update 3

Hey yall,

Since the Woodlake baptist team from loganville, georgia got here we have been hitting the ground running. After they got here we went to a gypsy village and delivered food and played with the children there. It was hard for me to see again the poverty that there is here. When we arrived at the village we broke up and grabbed the 14 bags for the fourteen families living there. This is a very small gypsy village that speaks hungarian, and this makes it a little harder for us to communicate but it all started when Paige Bruski the Second oldest daughter of the bruski family found an abandoned boy at the childrens hospital almost 3 years ago, After a little while the little boy would be missing from the hospital and then show up and then he would go away for awhile and then come back, eventually they found the mom and began to help her because the only reason she dropped him off at the hospital is because she had no food or diapers or anything for that matter and she thought that it was better to have three bottles a day and some diapers than none. Long story short the Bruski's have been delivering food to his family for a little over a year here... or longer, and now the entire village has sponsors so we are all excited to see how GOD used a little boy to bless a village and i there maybe a Church in the works in the coming years for this village! SO PRAISE GOD THAT WE CAN DO THIS....anyways i also wanted to go back to the poverty part, i delivered my food package to a family and as i walked in and looked in there little home there was nothing, only an old wood burning stove sitting on a mud floor. My heart broke for the four children that live there.....

Also on sunday we had orphan church, and it was GREAT! The kids were attentive and excited to be there! They are listening and learning, Also there is an older orphan who has been taken in by a Finnish lady, and he left today to go to finland to live with her family and go to a christian school! This is a chance of a lifetime for him, because he is a gypsy orphan and for him to go to learn in an another country is amazing. He will be there for a few years and he will be missed because he has been a leader in church and GOD is really working in his life and has changed alot, from being 0ne of the roughest kids to a young man that is seeking after GOD, and we found that he has a heart of Gold and longs to help others. So he will be missed, so pray that he will transition well and that God will continue to reveal himself to him, and bring him to salvation!


Monday we went to the Minor center and Maternity housing for KIDS CLUB! The minor center is a government ran facility, they take runaways and street children here...anyways we had lots of fun, teaching them some english and singing songs. We also had games and puppet show! We got to use a parachute and play lots of games with it and they were thrilled! It was lots of fun. Pray that God would continue to work through Nicki (she works there with the children on a weekly basis as a part of the BIM team) and that the children would be open to the Gospel. Also we held the same vbs at the government housing projects in the city.... what a wonderful time here...

Tuesday was one a good day because we got to go on house visits in Dobresti which is a village about and hour away from the city. There were five families that we visited and handed our food packages to, we also had singing and bible story on Zachius. It was one of my favorite days, because we get to see an elderly couple that i adore. John and Maria, they live with there son and his wife and children. they are to old to go to church and they thoroughly enjoy when the americans come and sing and give a bible lesson every tuesday. We sang for nearly thirty minutes and John was filled with joy. It was great!

Wednesday!

We are about to pray and then go to the gypsy village in Dobresti and then out to the city to move a single mom Carmen to the maternity center!

Thanks for reading my blog! here is a website that you can look at they are the mission team that is here this week if you go on there you can see pictures on the right side "day 1" and son on click those and they have some up.... Ash and i have been slacking on the pictures taking!!!!!!! here it is... http://www.woodlakemission.blogspot.com/


Thanks again!

serving Christ in Romania,
Kalep and Ashley

Romania Part 2

Hello again,

Sorry that it has been a day or so we have been busy doing work, and today we are getting ready for the new mission team coming in this afternoon!

Yesterday we went to a small romanian village and had a VBS kids club. I was in charge of games and ashley had the craft. Here are some of our pictures from yesterday. The bible story was on King Nebechanezer (sp). Ashley did a noah's ark sticker and picture with the kids... and we played some relay games and other fun games... then we went to the Farm House and set up for the chickens, and looked at the harvest. Then we came back home ate and found out that one of the girls that is here on mission trip was leaving last night rather than saturday so we got her on a bus...

Today we are cleaning and planning out the next week we have lots of stuff ahead of us this nextweek we are excited.

This picture is a picture of Roberta... she is 10 months and she has two other siblings and her mom is a single mother and is trying to provide for her family and is searching for answers and is learning about Jesus and asking questions. Her name is Carmen, so pray that we can continue to disciple her and her children. Roberta stayed the night with us and she is a greatbaby!

The other day we had orphan church (wed. i think) it was lots of fun connecting with the new kids that have been coming and also catching up with the kids that we have known for many 2years. Tomorrow we are going to one of the gypsy villages (caricue) to have vbs and finish some construction on a house there. Also we are delivering food packages to the 14 families in the village that all have sponsors (PRAISE THE LORD)...

Some prayer requests:

-new mission team arriving today

-the time that we spend here, will bring glory to God, and we will see the fruits of our labors

-the gypsy villages, orphans, and the impovershed that we work with

-Salvation for all

Thanks for reading and praying yall! We appreciate it!!!

Kalep and Ashley

Finally HERE!!!!

Hey everyone, Thanks for your prayers and support and all the gifts. We are finally here and are going to maternity center tomorrow morning early to scope out the family room we are going to paint the walls, and have some trees and flowers and make it fun for the kids.

Our flight was good alot shorter than usual because of our short lay over in Paris. Today was also Ashley's sister emma's birthday so they picked us up in budapest and we went out to eat at burger king! haha... lots of fun...

Well it is late i do want to show you the pictures of all the stuff that we got. We have unpacked all the goodies and are extremely excited about handing them all out...

here is some pictures from the atl airport and getting to romania to unload our stuff!

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Romania Prep!

Hey Yall (Fellow SaLTers, Northbrookers, Friends, and Family)

Ashley and I left wednesday morning the 17 for Atlanta. Ashley has been foing wedding festivities for one of her best friends this weekend and today is the wedding and TOMORROW is the day we leave for Romania.

I have spent time here buying last minute things for romania and i am packing the last minute stuff now and shifting things around for weight purposes.

Ashley and I want to thank everyone who donated the supplies. It is greatly appreciated and we were so blessed to see how everyone gave for our trip. These are by far the best supplies that we have ever brought to Romania. We are extremely excited to bless the Romanian people with these things.

Ashley and I are going to do our best to keep everyone up to date on the happenings in Romania and we are going to take pictures and share them on here. Also we are going to take pictures of the stuff that we were given by some of yall with the people that we give them to.

Thanks again and we look forward to our flight tomorrow because we know monday morning we will be in romania. It has been a year since we have last been there, an extremely long year.

Thanks for your prayers and support, we are extremely humbled by the genorosity of Norhtbrook church, family, and friends. Continue to pray for safe travel and our time there. May GOD recieve all the glory and honor.

God Bless

Isus te iubeste!

Serving Christ in Romania.
Kalep and Ashley

Wow it has been a minute since i last updated!

Hello everyone!

Here is picture of ashley and i at the beach spring break! just thought i would give yall an updated picture!

Well summer officially started for me last wednesday! I am excited about my last semester at Union, however i am on the job hunt now, i just wish i had one planned out ya know... but this is life!

Well ashley and i got a puppy, here name is Iubi, it is romanian for love, but in this context it means baby, darling, etc. Iubi is pronounced YOUBEE, She is a mutt from the humane society, but she is pretty. She is mixed with (they said) german shephard and her mom was little like a terrier of some kind, so hopefully she want grow up to be a GIANT! Here is a picture of Iubi....

Romania is quickly approaching, Ashley and I are extremely excited about going back there again! We are trying to learn Romanian, well Ashley is relearning or refreshing her memory as well as learning the correct verb forms ;) and i am learning it all together new! So you can be praying about our language acquisition.

Ashley and I have been teaching 5th and 6th grade children's church twice a month! Our class is really good and we enjoy teaching them! Everything is going good for us though!

Work is kinda slow, but it is cool!

Well i guess that is it for now! I will blog later and also update yall on my job search and iubi and also i plan to use this blog in Romania to update everyone about the things that are going on there! oh yea speaking of Romania and our Church, The church gave us a 100 dollars for our trip, this was a suprise to ash and i! we are in awe of how AWESOME GOD is and he is showing us daily that he is our Provider and he is continuing to bless us!!!!

Have a great day and we will talk to you later!

Registered for my Last Semester at the UU...etc.

Hey,

I registered for my last semester at Union U! i am extremely excited about this... The only thing now is finding a job. I am open to pretty much anything from counseling(in some form) to enrollment counselor at some univeristy or college to Resident Director at a university to flying airplanes to jumping out of airplanes all the way back to working at Youth villages or youth town!! haha i just need a job to pay off debt. however i am really interested in youth villages or Youth Town( a youthvillage like organization but Christ centered) i am excited about graduation and getting a real job and not working at the lob(redlobster for those who do not already know) much anymore. I plan on keeping that job becuase it is extra money and quick money.

Well graduation is set for December 12, 2009 i am excited! pray for me and finding a job that GOD would have me do! and also pray that i would get my resume down quickly and apply for jobs!

Also lastnight ashley and i went with our salt group to the Free will homeless shelter in Humboldt. We fed them and then ashley i briefly told who we were and about romania and integrated that into my lesson! I throroughly enjoyed teaching them. It was fun it was like we were back in romania teaching the homeless. I got to know three ladies pretty well and it was lots of fun! continue to pray for ashley and i as we are being involved with teaching 5th and 6th graders every other week for childrens church! we are excited.

Ashley is doing well in school and loves tutoring her student, and is ready to graduate and begin teaching her own class!!!

Well i just wanted to update yall on our daily lives here in jackson! I will be posting some more blogs on what i have been learning from God....

Have a great week! thanks!

kalep