We've got a Christmas play coming!

Hey everyone! I hope you are all doing well. This week went really well and we've started practicing for our Christmas play. It will take place somewhere around the second week in December at either the casa stiintei(hope my spelling is right) or the theater in Ostroveni. We will have some songs and a play followed by a short message. We have about 30-40 kids that we expect to participate in our program. We hope this will help show the children and their parents what the true meaning of Christmas is.

We hope to have another christmas program with the help of our friend Claudiu Nitisor and Samaritan's purse. We want to rent the indoor handball arena in town that holds about 2000 people or so and invite people to come and receive a gift donated by Samaritan's purse, we will receive somewhere around 2000 gifts. We hope to have help from some local volunteers and possibly the handball team. We want to do this so we can gather the people to share the love of Christ with them and the wonderful message of Christmas. This project is going to take quite a bit of planning in a short time period and lots of help from the Lord. This will be one of the biggest things we have done and definitely will be the most people we have ever had gathered at once.

Our youth meetings are still going strong. There were 9 present not counting myself, Cristi, and Irina. We did have 3 or 4 of our youth missing tonight but everything went well. We hope the group keeps on growing even thought it is growing slowly. here are some pictures form this week's meeting.



Just remember and keep us in your prayers this busy Christmas season we have ahead of us and pray that God will touch the lives of the people here.

Swine Flu!

Hey everyone! Sorry I don't really have much to write on the blog this week because since last Wednesday I've been sick with the swine flu (At least thats what the doctor told me). I had a temperature of about 102 F.(39 C.) at one point, but I'm feeling much better now and will be back at it tomorrow.

I do have one piece of news for all of you Romanian readers though. My friend Claudiu Nitisor, who writes the Dumnezeu este opinia mea publica blog, has moved his blog to a new address. He said he lost his old blog somehow and had to move it. Here is the link to the new address http://claudiunitisor.wordpress.com/

Keep everyone here in your prayers and pray that now one else will get sick. Have a blessed day!

Happy Birthday Anca!

Hey everybody! Today was Anca's 31st Birthday! About 20 people or so came and we had a great time. Once again I want to wish Anca a very happy and blessed birthday, Happy Birthday Anca! Here are some pictures of Anca's Birthday......


This past week went really well, our attendance at Homework help and English were back up since the kids are all back to school. This week we had at least 20 kids everyday and on Friday we had 24. The weather is really nasty out and I don't think the kids got out much during the week, so come Friday they were all really wild. Here are a few more pictures of them during game time and lesson time.....


Yesterday night we went out with our youth group again. We went to a coffee shop/bakery in town and we just all "hung out" and talked. At one point Cristi was having a conversation with one of the teens about what we do with our lives and about following God's will and God's plan in our lives. Cristi used himself as an example, when he first started college he went to a christian college and he wanted to do music and be a musician. He went and took the entrance exam and he couldn't read the Notes. Cristi could play guitar really well and he knew the chords but he couldn't read music then, so he said at that moment he knew that it wasn't God's will for him to be a musician. Then he went on to do theology and know he is ordained and is serving here in Rimnicu Valcea. He told the particular teen that if you are God's child he will show you the path that you should take. He also said that what may seem right to us will not always be what God want for our lives.
Here are some pictures of our youth group.


Well, just keep us all in your prayers and pray that God will keep furthering the work here!

Back to school kids!

Hey everyone! This past week went well, even though our numbers were a little lower. This past week all of the kids grades K-7 were out of school and several of our regulars didn't come. Since the kids were out they didn't have any homework, so we just had a short lesson for the kids and did some arts & crafts. Here are some pictures of them below.....


I just want to let everyone know that this week's post will be that last post translated into Romanian. As of This week Cristi and Irina will be doing all of the writing on the Romanian blog and the only thing I will be doing is taking some pictures every once in a while to post up. I will continue to write on the English blog but, I feel like Cristi and Irina will do a much better job than me if they write on the Romanian blog themselves.

Keep us in your prayers and thoughts!

Winter is upon us!

Hey everyone! Well today was cold but other than that everything has went well this week. We had about 30-35 kids at English tutoring on Tuesday and roughly 15-20 everyday at our after school program. Last night we went out with our youth group to a coffee house and we all had a good time......here are some pictures of our group.


This morning at Church we had about 14 or 15 present. Cristi asked me to do the Message today at church. I was pretty nervous since it was my first time to every do it. The passage was from James 3:1-12. I talked about our tongues and how we use them to shoot"poison" at others and then we turn around and bless others and God. I also said that we should treat and speak to each other with love and kindness, instead of hatred and slanderous words. Tonight at our youth meeting we were missing a few of our youth because of the colder and rainier weather. There were only 6 teens there tonight, but hopefully more will come next week! Next Monday afternoon we want to go with the group to the Philharmonic and see one of the concerts there.

Keep us all in your prayers!