Winter kleren voor kinderen in nood.

Deze week gaat het project: winterkleren voor kinderen van arme families, van start! Meer dan 900 kinderen zullen een stel warme winterkleren krijgen en voor veel kinderen zal dit een super kado zijn waar ze de hele winter van kunnen genieten. Hieronder een link met een klein filmpje over het project:

Filmpje Winterkleren voor arme kinderen

Wedding in the weekend!

Yesterday we were at another wedding and praise the Lord the weather was very nice still. Today it changed and it is only 12 degrees C. So it was good that wedding was yesterday!

Our friends Petru and Leonida got married in Paicu. Because I forgot to charge the battery of our camera, we only have some random pictures of the happy couple.
And also the bright sunlight didn't really help to get the diamants and glitters on the dress, nicely in the picture!;-)

There was defiantly a lot of material involved in the dress!

Typical Moldovan wedding food...(not so much my favorite..)

More food...

And more food....too many food!

3 important papers = 1 passport?

It is a matter of a long breath but we are getting closer and closer to the goal: a Romanian passport for Spiridon! This week he received more valuable documents so now we have in the collection of paper works:
- a Romanian birth certificate
- a Romanian wedding certificate
- and a certificate of Romanian citizenship.
Next week with these important papers he can go and apply for a passport in Romania. Does our dream come true finally? Waiting for the final result....

A healthy virus

This week I was helping somebody with translating a prayer letter and this person wrote the following about being at OM and working at OM:

"It is like a virus - when you are surrounded by people who are dedicated to work for God than you cannot remain indifferent".

When I went home that day to I was sitting in the bus (cause our car is still not repaired) and thought about my life and how this week I am "just" working in the office at OM. But I realized again that this office job is very different from any other office job. It feels like, I am working in God's office and surrounded by God's people! And the goal of all the office work is to reach out to all those people in Moldova who do not yet know and recognize God's great love for them! So it is different than a regular office job!
And yes, as the lady wrote: it is like a virus, when you hear, see and read how God is working, you can not stay indifferent! The virus will catch you too!

Party in the weekend!

Yesterday we were present at the wedding of our friend Oleg. Spiridon and Oleg have been friends for a long time. And while we kept the moldovan tradition alive (taking picture with the happy couple), we realized that our picture with Oleg and Zina might turn out a bit special:
A short happy couple with some tall people on the side....;-)


September and October are THE months to get married in Moldova and so in our agenda we have another 2 weddings waiting for us: next weekend and the weekend after that. So more parties to come (and more Moldovan wedding pictures too of course).