When we arrived in Romania we got to spend some time with the Heart 2 Heart staff as we got used to the time change. We went to our first staff meeting where we took part in the initial planning for the orphanage program for this school year. We went to our apartment for the first time and had no idea where in the city we were at. We went shopping at IKEA to buy things that our apartment was lacking like most kitchen items, new couch cushions and a new mattress for our bed.
We went to several orphanages to hand out school kits and saw many of the kids that we knew from summer camp last year. Many of them remembered us which gave us a great feeling, knowing that we made an impact on them last year. We went to the girls transition house to get it ready for the new girls to move in. We went to the baby hospital for the first time and really enjoyed interacting with so many babies. We will continue to go to the baby hospital each week while we are learning the language. We started our full time job of learning the language and have had tons of memorizing to do.
We have enjoyed exploring the area around our apartment and have started to get a feel for where we are in the city and how to get around on the subway, busses, and trams. We shopped at a local supermarket which has most things we need and we also bought things from the local fresh market and a pastry shop. No wonder the time went by so fast, we have been so busy! We would like to thank everyone for their great support and would also like to give a few prayer requests. Please pray:
-For God to continue to strengthen us and especially to give us the ability to learn the language
-For the kids in the orphanages to have hope and to follow Christ and be transformed
-For the babies to develop well so they can live healthy lives
-For all of the H2H staff and all the people being used by God to make a difference here
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My name is Jerry. I have spent most of the morning reading your blog and praising the Lord for your move to Romania. I was starting my research on Romania this morning and stumpled across your blog. As Christians, we know things don't happen by accident. I edit and publish a website that tries to report what God is doing in the Balkans and encourage prayer. So it was exciting reading your blogs this morning because of Luke10:2 “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
I could not find an email address on your blog. I would love to establish contact with you. Can you send me your email address and if you have time check out the website, www.freebalkans.com.
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