Doctors, home visits and construction in Lozova

This week again a very good use of time! From 9 in the morning till sometimes even 9 in the evening we were busy doing many different activities! 

Monday and Tuesday we helped translating for some medical people from Canada and the UK. I discovered that for translating doctors, you actually need a whole different vocabulary but we tried in the best way to describe the different pains and treatments etc. All the people that came to the church to see the doctors, got their blood pressure checked, received some advice and/ or medicine but most important we prayed with all the people. May God give the people spiritually health but also physically. 

Together with nurse Rose from the UK,
we tried to help around 60 people with different health problems. 

Teaching some stretching activities for a healthy lifestyle

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we were reaching out in the village Lozova. We visited 10 families/ elderly with food parcels and encouraged them in their, often very hard, situations. We invited them to come to church so that together we can learn more about God and grow closer to Him.

Nadea is in her 70ties and she lives by herself. She has different health problems and with nobody coming to help her or to talk to her, life is hard and without a lot of joy.

While we visited the different families, others of the team worked hard to help finish the extra room at the back of the house, where we meet as a church. The ceiling got put in and after some hard work also the windows got put together. Hopefully next week the windows will be put in place and lets also pray that we can find a good electrician who can help to install the different cables and plugs etc. We would like to see the room finished before real winter starts!

Spiridon is trying to put the windows together....

End result for this week....

A new ministry started

Last Saturday we started a new ministry: a teenager club. So far 4 boys and 1 girl came. We noticed that for the kids between 10 and 13 years there is nothing to interesting to do. They are too old for the Sunday school program and to young for the youth meetings so we decided to start a new group! We are excited and pray that next Saturday even more teenagers will come..... but until than we pray for Danu, Ion, Samuel, Vlad, Liuba and Costea!

Spiridon in the OM news

Slavic, one of the boys from the story

This week on the OM international website a story was published about Spiridon reaching out to two small boys.

See link below:

Story about two boys

Pumpkin celebration in Lozova

Many different kind of pumpkins. The winning pumpkin was 125 kg.

Last Sunday there was a BIG celebration in Lozova. It was all about the pumpkins and other local products.

Many people came to the celebration and local products were for sale as home made wine, apples, grapes, honey, etc. There was traditional music and we found out that Micleuseni has also a local ensemble with Mr. Major as the leading guy!

Team picture

 Below a video of the traditional music:

Washing machine replaced in time!

Receiving the new washing machine

Cristina is 27 years old. She grew up in the village Cioresti. She got married to Ion and at the moment they live in an old, small and broken house. They have two sons. The oldest boy Maxim, 7 years old, can't hear or speak and so he lives not at home but he is living in a kind of boarding school for children with a disability. Only during the holidays he comes home. The second son Vadim is 5 years old. He is going to the kindergarten in the village. The village Cioresti is a big village but despite that, there is not much work. At the moment the only way to earn some money is to work on the fields surrounding the village. Cristina and Ion work as day workers as often as they can. With the money they make per day (150 lei/ 8 euro per day per person) they try to make a living but it is not easy. As the winter is coming, wood will need to be bought but with their income they can't afford to purchase food, clothing, repair the house and also prepare for the winter. 

Old washing machine

Cristina is an optimistic young lady and she prays that God will help her family. She went to the Evangelical church several times and there she received a Bible. She told us that now and than she reads the Bible but she wishes that she would understand more about what she is reading. We encouraged her to keep coming to church and ask questions. Knowing the material situation of Cristina's family, the local church decided to bless Cristina with a washing machine. 
As we arrived at her house with the washing machine, Cristina just came out of the garden. After we greeted each other, we explained the reason why we came and Cristina was pleasantly surprised. After she explained what had happened we all understood that it was Gods timing and plan. Cristina told us that the day before she had tried to wash some clothes with her old washing machine but it broke down and so she washed by hands. She was very thankful and surprised to see how exactly in time her old machine got replaced. Gods timing is perfect!