The Year is coming to an end!

Hey everyone! Well, the year is almost over! It has been a great year and God has definitely done some work here in Rimnicu Valcea.
This past week before Christmas we went with some of the teens from our youth group and Tim and Krista to the homeless shelter to sing some carols for them and give them some gifts. It went really great and the people there seemed very open and accepting of the short message that Tim had for them. Tim and Krista both said they wanted to do more there in the future. Here are some photos.


Yesterday afternoon Claudiu Nitisor and his organization, ProHelp, had a small event called Balloons for Jesus. He had a small stand up with balloons and he sold them at 4 lei($1.50) apiece and wrote the name of the person who bought one on it. Then at 3:15 everyone let their balloons go. Claudiu told everyone that this was to celebrate the birth of Christ our Saviour. Here are some pictures and videos



Last night Tim and Krista invited everyone over to their house for a sort of Christmas potluck, as we call it in the south, and fellowship. After everyone finished eating we went up stairs and Tim had a short message for everyone about Christmas and what its really about and what is really important. Here is the message if you want to see it for yourself.

After Tim had a message there was a short time of sharing of what God had been doing here in Valcea and how he had been working in peoples' lives this past year. Here are some videos of That and some pictures of the whole get-together.



I hope everyone had a merry, merry Christmas and hope you all have a happy new year! Keep us in your prayers!

Have a very Merry Christmas!

Hey Everyone! I just wanted to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. May God bless all of you as we get ready to start this new year!

Our Christmas Festival went great!

Hey everyone! We had our Christmas Festival this past Friday. It went well even though we didn't have quite as many people as we had hoped for. There were about 1200-1300 kids there and roughly 1600-1700 people there total including adults. This gave us a great opportunity to share the true message of Christmas with a lot of people and to tell them about our Savior, Jesus Christ. Here are the Pictures from the program and some videos.




We are stopping our English classes and homework help sessions for the Holidays, but we will pick them back up on the 5th after the kiddies start back to school. We are really excited about what this new year will bring for us here and we hope that God will really work in the peoples lives here in Rimnicu Valcea.

Keep us in your prayers!

Getting everything ready for this Friday's Christmas Celebration!

Hey everyone! Well I would like to start off by giving some happy birthday wishes to one of the girls in our youth group. This past Saturday was her birthday and on Sunday we had a small "birthday party" for her at our organization's center. Here are some pictures!


Last night we had a meeting with all of the volunteers that will help us on Friday at our Christmas celebration. We made up teams and discussed how we will proceed with giving the gifts. Claudiu Nitisor told us that he had talked with several local television stations and a few national television stations. All of the local stations have confirmed they are coming and two of the national stations confirmed with one more that has not responded yet. He also went and talked with some of the local radio stations and newspapers and asked if they would cover the event and two of the newspapers accepted.

We will doing a "special panting" like I mentioned in the post before last if you want to see what I'm talking about just watch the video below.

We actually won't be doing the same story or message these people will we just took the idea with the painting. We will also have our kids that our Organization works with sing two carols at the Celebration. If you want to see the full program for Friday night here it is.

1. Opening and welcome Claudiu Nitisor
2. A Carol by our Group Cristi Ciuculescu
3. A shrot word from the city's mayor Mircea Gutau
4. A Choreography Mihaela Runceanu
5. About the Organizations who
put together the Program Chuck Harrod
6. A Puppet show Dana Nitisor
7. The "special painting" Group
8. A Christmas message Claudiu Nitisor
9. A carol by our group Cristi Ciuculescu
10. Closing and exiting instructions Cristi Ciuculescu.

After the Program ends we will have teams waiting at the exits. These teams will take the tickets we passed out and will give a gift in exchange. The only way to get a gift is to have a ticket, this way we don't have to worry about being short. We will go and pick up the gifts on Thursday and will come back that same afternoon and drop them off at the place where the Celebration will be held.

Keep us all in your prayers as we have this busy week ahead of us and pray that God will guide us.

Our Organization's Christmas program went great!

Hey everyone! We had our Christmas Program yesterday and it went great! Not all of our kids came but we had a little over half of them. All of the kids that had parts in the play came so that was a big relief. First Cristi gave an introduction and then we sang some carols, had the play, and sang 2 more carols. After that Cristi had a 25-30 minute message about the true meaning of Christmas and how we as people try to take Christ out of Christmas by filling it up with junk like Santa Clause and stuff. After that We sang one last carol and closed. Here are they videos of Cristi's sermon, some of the Carols, and some pictures.


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We are really excited about next Friday. At 7:00 P.m. we will start and hope to be finished by 10:00 with everything. Pray for us that everything will go well and that God will bless what we are doing.

Our Christmas Program is all lined out!

Hey everyone! Well we have got our Christmas program all lined out and we are really excited! Actually we have two Christmas programs that we will have take place.

The first program is our organization's (Bunul Pastor) program. The participants in the program will be the kids we work with 4 days a week at our center in Ostroveni and our Church's youth group. It will take place on the 11th at the Casa Stiintei in Ostroveni at 7:00 o'clock P.M. This will just be our closing program for the Holiday's since this week is the last week of school. We expect roughly 60 people to show up. We will have some Christmas carols and play followed by a short message. We've been practicing for it this past week here are some pictures....


The second program is the big one that I wrote about in the last blog post. It will take place on the 18th of December at 7:00 o'clock P.M. at the city's indoor handball stadium. We will receive 2000 gifts from Samaritan's Purse and will distribute them at the program. The total time of the program will be about 2 hours, but will be split into tow parts. The first hour our group of kids we work with at our center in Ostroveni every week will sing some carols with Cristi and Irina, We will then have a special "painting", and Claudiu Nitisor will have a short message. The second hour we will distribute the gifts to Children between the ages 5-14. We already have about 20 or 25 volunteers and we need at least another 10 to 15, after all we are going to be giving out 2000 gifts. We will also have the city's gendarmerie there for security purposes (the gendarmerie is a division of the city's police force here). We hope that everything will turn out well and that the attendance will be good.

This week was my brother Chase's birthday. He turned 15 years old yesterday and we had a party for him at out youth meeting yesterday afternoon. We ate cake, played some games, and had a good time and then we all walked to town. Here are some pictures and videos of the party.....




This Saturday Mom had program with the mothers and daughters. About 8 or 9 mothers and 15 daughters came. Mom had a short message for them and then they did some crafts and played some games. Here are some pictures.....I had more but accidentally deleted some of them


This past Friday I went to help Claudiu Nitisor with 2 puppet shows that he had at the City Library and at one of the school here. We had really great attendance! Here are a few pictures...


Well thats about it, just keep everything we are doing and us in your prayers!