zaterdag 26 april 2014

A day in the forest with the youth...

Today we had a day in the forest with the youth: games and bbq! Praise God all went well!
Some people are really active in collecting wood for the bbq!

Team building activities

Oh no, she stepped on a mine!

Balloon shooting

How do you use these things???
Just lower the stickk, seems so easy!

Watch out!!
Swinging across the crocodiles

Lunch time!

donderdag 24 april 2014

Business with the youth from Micleuseni

Last October when we moved to Micleuseni, we suggested the following plan to the youth from Micleuseni: as a youth group we would work the garden around our house:
- Half of the garden we would plant watermelons for us to eat during summertime,
- In the other half of the garden we would grow white beans and these we would sell and with that money we could go and eat pizza or go bowling or.....etc. etc.
The youth agreed and quickly they calculated that they needed only 3 days to work and than the money and watermelon would be there: day 1 - digging, day 2 - planting, day 3 - harvest.
We will see how the above working schedule will turn out in reality....;-)

For us the main goal behind this plan is to give the youth something else to do than sitting behind the computer every free minute. But for most of the youth the juicy watermelon and the $$$ we will make with selling the white beans is the motivation to start our business. So far we are at day 2 of the working schedule:

Day 1: In October we worked one day in the garden near our house. Hard work all the digging but we had fun. (For the part we did not manage to dig we hired a small tractor last month....;-)


Day 2: Today we planted the watermelon seeds and the white beans.



Lunch for hard working people

Now we just need to wait for Working Day 3 to come....All is under control!


maandag 21 april 2014

Easter weekend = over....

So this was our Easter weekend:
On Saturday we were busy with helping make the traditional Easter bread at Spiridons parents house




The result is great of course!
On Sunday morning we celebrated Easter at church and we sang many songs!

On Monday we went to the forest with the people from the churches in Nisporeni, Micleuseni, Huzum and Lozova. We enjoyed the fresh air, fellowship and sunshine!

donderdag 17 april 2014

Easter weekend!

Yesterday it was a special day for the children in Huzum. A group OM-ers came from Chisinau and presented a very nice Easter program with games, an Easter song, a puppet theater, a sketch board and a handcraft. Normally for many of the children it is very hard to pay attention and behave for more than 10 minutes but this time for over 40! minutes the 30 children participated without making trouble! 
A true miracle!

We pray that all they have heard about the Easter story will remain in their hearts!



dinsdag 15 april 2014

Brother Nicu

Nicu and his wife Veronica
Brother Nicu is leading the church in Micleuseni and overseeing the work in the villages Lozova, Huzum and Dolna. Since some time Nicu has problems hearing and after a seeing a doctor, he got advised to purchase hearing aids. Of course this is not cheap and so any help is welcome. For more info, see the link below: