Back from our last outreach of this summer....

Last Monday we came back home from our last outreach this summer. Together with a team from England we served for 6 days in the town Ceadar Lunga. There was a variety of activities we were involved in: in the morning kids programs, in the afternoon painting in the church for the ladies on the team and for the guys helping with constructing the foundation of a new orphanage the church started to build, in the evening we delivered food parcels to poor families or elderly. As the British people would say: we had a lovely time! And although it was (and still is) quite hot in Moldova, we have been busy and helped out wherever we could. May God continue to work in the lives of the people we met, talked with and worked with!

Little Andrei came to the program with his 2 older sisters and his older brother. Not sure how much he enjoyed the kids program but for sure, he enjoyed the banana he got! Later that week we visited his family with a food parcel and we got to know his parents too. His father Vitalie had been an active believer but got disappointed in his faith and let go of Christianity. We encouraged him to be honest with God about the way he feels, to keep praying and reading his Bible and to start going to church again. At the end of the visit we prayed together for Vitalie and his family. After we had prayed, Vitalie himself prayed out loud and asked God to forgive him of letting go and asked for His help to make a new start again. It was good to see that a simple visit, was used to motivate Vitalie to think again about his personal relationship with his Heavenly Father. May God bless Vitalie and his family!