Team time!

Yesterday we had our so-called social time with the Local Ministry Team. Monthly we are supposed to spend social time together but since we did not plan for months a social outgoing, we decided to spend our social time this time in a different way than eating an ordinary pizza in Chisinau.
So we took off to Iasi and this turned out to be a bit of an adventure: the driver got stopped by the police for speeding but also we were 9 people in the van instead of 6/7? but after giving the police some extra pocket money we moved on. Just near Iasi the car broke down and so we had to walk a bit and take several buses to get to the centre. We ate some food and moved on to see a movie (you got to understand that this is something special for us here, watching a movie in English with Romanian subtitles instead of having movies translated in Russian in the cinema in Chisinau). So there we went and for 3 hours we were amazed that people can spend time and money on making very strange movies about nothing! We got out of the cinema and hopped on the bus again to get us to the place where we were supposed to meet our driver again to get back to Micleuseni. Well, to go short, we arrived home around 23 hour and yes, we can say we will never forget this social time spend together!

Greetings from Iasi

Fellowship groups in Lozova have started!

Yesterday we started a Biblestudy/ Fellowship group in Lozova. The winter has started and so people have more time now because most of the work on the fields is done. A group of 8 adults and 5 children gathered in the church in Lozova and after some tea and coffee, we started with singing some songs and continued with reading the first chapter of the brochure: lessons for faith-life. The first chapter was a basic introduction about who God is, the gap between us and Him and how the gap can be closed if we believe and accept Jesus Christ as our Savior. At the end we prayed all together a prayer of repentance.

Next week we continue to study what it means to live as a new born Christian. Next week we talk about reading the Bible and the importance of reading the Word of God.

Tomorrow a second fellowship group will start in Lozova. The same study will be done but in another part of the village. We pray that through these groups more people will get to know God and we will get to know more people in the village. Some people are maybe ashamed to come to the church but would like to hear more about God, a fellowship group might be the ideal solution for them!

May God bless the fellowship times and may these meetings be a blessing for the people in Lozova.

Een dagje winkelen met 13 moeders

Vandaag een dagje wezen shoppen op de markt met 13 moeders. 35 kinderen uit arme gezinnen kregen vandaag nieuwe kleren. Twas een heel gezoek om voor ieder kind de juiste maat, favoriete kleur, etc. te vinden maar op de terugweg zaten er tevreden moeders met hoopjes plastic zakjes in de bus op weg naar huis. Deze dag was een duidelijke demonstratie van Gods liefde en zorg voor kinderen in nood. Sommige kinderen hebben helaas geen moeder die zich intereseert in het welzijn van hun kinderen dus voor sommige kinderen hebben we zelf maar kleding gekocht. Aan het eind van de middag hebben we de plastic zakje even langsgebracht. Aan de stralende ogen was duidelijk te zien hoe blij de kinderen waren met hun nieuwe kleding (op de foto is de blijdschap altijd minder goed te zien om een of andere reden...;-)

Hoogtepunt voor deze meiden: nieuwe winterlaarzen en een warme muts!

Ion zijn vrouw is onlangs overleden aan kanker
en zo goed als het gaat voedt hij zijn dochter Elisea (bijna 2 jaar) alleen op. Ook hier was de hulp welkom! 

The toy shop!

Today the toy shop was open in Huzum. Every child collected points in the last weeks by behaving nicely, eating all the food, memorizing Bible verses, helping with cleaning in and around the building etc. Today the points could be used in the shop to "buy" toys. Some kids had 209 points, others around 50 points. They took turns in entering in the shop and exchanging their points for all kind of toys. Even though some children had more toys than others, at the end everybody was content with their purchases.

Waiting in line full of excitement!

A happy client!

More happy customers!

De wasmachine doet het!

Gisteren de nieuwe wasmachine aangesloten en het resultaat is natuurlijk super en schoon! Langzaamaan krijgen ook wij euro-stijl in huis. Als je in MD stromend water, een douche en een wasmachine hebt in huis dan leef je euro-stijl en dat wil natuurlijk iedereen wel!
Oh en bijna vergeten te melden: we hebben ook stromend water in de keuken! Tmoet niet gekker worden, he?;-)