First week back to school!!!

Hey everybody! Well we've got all of our after school programs and stuff up and going. We've had about 18-20 kids everyday for the after school homework help, roughly 15 for English(ages 6-13), and 6 or 7 for the English(ages 14-18). It is a good start and several other kids and their parents have promised they will come. On Friday when we had our homework help we had our first volunteer. One of the little girls grandmother stayed for the 2 hours her granddaughter was there and helped us grade the kids homework and extra work we had given them. She also promised that she would try and come at least once a week to help us out and try to get us some new extra curricular material for the kids. This was really encouraging for us to finally see someone, besides us, to volunteer their time and energy to help these kids.

I forgot to write in the last blog post, that anyone who would like to volunteer one day a week for 2 hours to come and help us with the after school tutoring. We will accept any and all volunteers the reason being, we want to be able to work more 1-on-1 with the children so that they can learn even more. If you Want to volunteer or have any questions feel free to call us at:

Irina:0746 627 808
Cristi:0788 687 309
Cody:0788 254 664

Today at our Sunday night youth meeting we had a fairly good turnout of 10 youth or so. Cristi had a short devotion for them from Ecclesiastes 11:9 which says "Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things." Cristi told them that you can go and fulfill your worldly and fleshly desires, but if you do then know that God will judge you in the final day. He also said that even though you try to fill your life with worldly pleasures that you will never be truly happy unless you have a personal relationship with God. They all said they would come back next week and that they enjoyed it so we'll see.

Next week I'll try and take some pictures of the kids to post on the blog.
Until then keep us all in your prayers!

Awana Is over and School has Started!

Hey everyone! Well we had our Awana Closing program this past Friday. We had about 150 people, including parents and the kids that participated, come. You can see the videos and photos below. It all went well and we had a great response from the parents after the program. After we finished the Awana ceremony with the kids my Dad, Chuck, had a short Gospel message for everyone. It has been a great opportunity for us to share the Gospel with kids and parents alike this Summer and we cant wait till next year!

Since School has started back we have a new after school tutoring and homework help program. On Tuesdays we will have two home work help sessions from 2:00-4:00 p.m. and then from 4:00-6:00 p.m. On Wednesdays homework help at the same as time as Tuesdays and from 6:30-7:30 p.m. we will have English for adults. On Thursdays we wont have homework help, instead we will have free English lessons from 2:00-3:30 p.m. for children ages 6-9 and from 3:30-5:30 for children ages 10-14. On Fridays we have homework help again at the same times as Tuesdays and Wednesdays and from 6:30-7:30 p.m. we will have free English lessons for teens ages 14-18. Finally, on Sundays we have a short Bible study for all ages from 11:30-12:00 a.m. and from 5:00-7:00 p.m. we will have Youth meetings for ages 14-18.

This Summer has been great! We have gotten to know these kids and have been able to influence their lives in positive directions. We hope to see all these kids and their parents have a personal and lasting relationship with God. We want to instill wholesome and Godly values in all of these children so that they can grow up to be Godly men and women.

Well, keep us all in your prayers! May God bless you!

Awana Closing Program!!!

Hey everyone! We had our last Awana Club meeting this Friday and our last Awana store(check out the slide show at the end of the post). The Kids are sad because we will not be having Awana meetings until next summer.

This week we will have our closing program. We've rented the Cinema in Ostroveni and we will have the closing program on Friday, the 11th of September at 7o'clock. We will meet with the kids one more time on Tuesday to rehearse for the program. Anyone and everyone is invited to come!

I want to remind you all again that we will be starting our after school tutoring program soon! I don't have an exact date and time yet but I'll let you all know. If you know anyone who has kids who would be interested in coming just give us a call or send us an e-mail!

Well, keep us in your prayers!