Winter clothes for children in Lozova

Many children in Moldova come from poor families. Families that do not have enough income or at least not enough to buy for their children warm winter clothes and good solid shoes. With support from outside Moldova, the church in Micleuseni got the possibility to reach out to 26 children in the village Lozova. Praise God for His provision! After we contacted the local major and told her about the project, she was happy to give us a list of different families with children who could use some good clothes. Next question was: who from the church in Micleuseni is going to buy the clothes? Surpirse: we were chosen! So last Wednesday we went to Chisinau to the second-hand market and bought many, many clothes and shoes in different sizes and colors!

When you shop for children in need and you just know that you can bless them with something they really need and make their face light up and smile, also knowing that many of them come from families that are broken and that they often don' t receive love and positive attention, this makes you enjoy the shopping even more....but we even experienced bigger joy beacuse.....when the local sales-people on the market heard that we bought clothes for children from poor families, they started to call us to their boutiques and gave us extra shoes for free, thick sweaters and all kind of other clothes and shoes with big discounts. So after two hours of shopping and filling big bags, the back of our bus was nearly full! Praise God for His help and for softening the hearts of the sales people.

Next thing to do is to hand out the clothes and make the kids smile! Coming Sunday afternoon we will hand out the clothes during a church service at 15 hour. We invited all the parents to come with the children to the church and we pray that the Orthodox priest will not make any problems and that we will be able to bless the children and share the Gospel in word and deed! Please join us in prayer!