The bad thing about missing a week of posting on here is how hard it becomes to sift through the memories and decide which experiences, perceptions, and thoughts are worth sharing. Since the last blog I wrote things have changed very much. Here's a quick overview:
June 19 - Kayla and Sydney, two girls on a short term trip to Sibiu, arrived at the Bucharest airport and stayed with me at Rebecca's for the night before the three of us headed to Sibiu. I tried to show them a bit of the city that night but we got interrupted by a lightening storm and decided to head back. Early the next morning we took a taxi to the train station. On the train I met a girl who spoke English and wanted to chat a bit - as it turned out, the world is small. Very small. Ioana and I have mutual connections at three Romanian churches and enjoyed a really encouraging several hours as we traveled across Romania.
June 21-23 - Three days in Ocna Mures... they went by so quickly! Seeing the kids again at the orphanage there was a little hard because most of them did not remember me from when I was there two years ago and we arrived at the same time as a team from the Bible college in Cluj - a team of Romanians. But after the ice broke we started having a good time. Kayla and Sydney jumped right in to playing futbol with the kids and made quick friends. After a little bit, several of the kids remembered me and we tried to talk a little bit. Tante Luci at the orphanage laughed when I started talking with her and said (in Romanian) "NOW she learns some Romanian!" Little Maria just laughed at alot of my attempts to understand her though and would just say, "Americani." But it was not all fun and conversation - the rain started the first day we were there and by the morning the basement of the girls orphanage had flooded. We spent a good part of that day trying to get the water out with brooms and pans and towels. Once we had it all cleaned out the rain started again and by the next day the streets of Ocna were flooded too. There wasn't much to be done until the rain stopped so we went back to Sibiu as planned, praying that the rain would stop.
June 24 - Sighisoara... my third visit to the oldest still inhabited citadel in Eastern Europe... and the first time I got to go inside the old church there! No pictures allowed, but it was definitely worth seeing. This was Kayla and Sydney's tourist-y day and we enjoyed a trip to the old city and some time to relax. At the end of the day Stephanie and Leslie took us to see a friend of theirs who made some Texas fried chicken.
June 25-26 - The other tourist-y day turned into ministry when we found out that an older couple had not received much help with their house after the flood.
June 27 - Preparation for kids camp!
June 28-July 5 - We will be at the kids camp all this week, working with 15 girls from a gypsy village.
Please be praying for the camp as we begin to build relationships and reach out to these girls. A week is such a short time, but the Lord can open many things in less time!
I will be writing more over this week, but will probably not be able to update until next week.
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