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!

Awana is coming to an End!

Hey Everybody Well our Awana club has almost come to an end! We have 2 more weeks left and then we will have a special closing ceremony. We are trying to get the Cinema in Ostroveni rented so that we will have plenty of room for the parents and Grandparents to come see the kids at the closing ceremony. I'll try to get the exact date of the closing ceremony in the next blog post.

We've had some new people coming to our meetings on Sunday thanks to Telu, a man that Dad and Cristi have Bible study with once a week. Telu invited one of his friends,Mr. Gigi, to come three Sundays ago and this past Sunday ,Mr. Gigi, brought one of his friends with him. So through Telu God has brought two more men to hear the Gospel. Telu had been asking Cristi how God was going to use him(Telu is in a wheelchair and doesn't get around much) so now we see how God has used Telu to show others the way toward Christ. It really is amazing what God can do through someone's life.

I'll keep you all posted!
Keep us in your Prayers!

Summer is almost over!

Hey everyone! Well our Summer has almost come to an end! School starts here on the 15th of September so we only have 3 more weeks left of our Awana club. We've had a great turnout this summer in Awana, right now we have about 50 kids our so. Our English program for the kids has been going well also, we have between 30 and 45 kids that come regularly.

Once school starts back we'll be starting back our free homework help and tutoring. We're going to have this everyday from Monday to Friday, we don't have an exact time set yet but we'll keep you posted.

Yesterday at Awana we had some special guest. Claudiu Nitisor(check out his blog at http://cllodvl.wordpress.com/) and his wife Dana came and put on a puppet show for the kids. We had about 25 kids so we were pretty crowded. Here are some of the pictures below.





Well keep us all in your prayers!

We've really grown!

Hey everyone just thought Would give a quick update on what's been going on. My grandma and my Great aunt have come to visit us for two weeks here in Valcea. We took them yesterday to see the kids at the Awana club. My Grandma ,who worked in Awana in the U.S., said that she wished the kids in Awana in the U.S. had as much desire to memorize the scripture as the kids here do. She said that the kids there just kinda zipped through their Awana handbooks and didn't really learn the verses by heart but the kids here do. For example some of the kids in our Awana club have completed their manuals and they're now doing the recap, which is basically redoing the whole book for a second time, and are going through it really fast because they took the scriptures in their handbooks and really learned them by heart. We should really count this as a blessing, that the kids here are really taking the scripture to heart.

Our Awana Program has grown quickly, this past Tuesday we had six new kids come but since we already have so many kids come on Tuesday we had to move them to Friday. Now we have about 40-45 kids who have completed their Entrance brochures and have earned their handbooks and uniforms and another 5 or so kids who are still on their Entrance brochures giving us a total of 50 or so kids. Mainly we need now is more sponsors and more space because we are at the limit of how many kids we can handle. Just keep praying for us that God will give us what we need if it is his will and pray that he will help us to be a good example for this kids and share Christ's love with them.