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