De reis is begonnen! / The journey had started!

Vandaag is de reis door het heelal begonnen! Er waren twintig kinderen gekomen en de sfeer was goed. Spelletjes, liedjes, knustelwerkjes en andere activiteiten zorgden ervoor dat het programma interactief en interesant was. Vandaag hebben we het over de schepping gehad and hoe God iedereen uniek en speciaal heeft geschapen. Hopelijk komen er morgen nog meer kinderen en we willen jullie vragen om mee te bidden voor deze week.

Today the journey through the universe started! Twenty children joined the journey and the atmosphere was good. Games, songs, crafts and other activities made the program interactive and interesting. We shared today about Gods creation and how God made all of them unique and special. Hopefully tomorrow even more children will join in and we would like to ask you to join us in prayer for this week.

De reis gaat bijna beginnen... / The journey nearly starts...

Nog een paar dagen en dan is het zover: de reis door het heelal gaat beginnen! oftewel de vakantiebijbelweek;) Sommige kinderen zijn al aan het aftellen. Andere kinderen zijn gewaarschuwd om niet te gaan want zo werd er gezegd: "ze trekken je zo in hun sekte en je komt er niet meer uit".
We hopen en bidden dat er toch een mooie opkomst zal zijn en we bidden voor open harten van de kinderen. We willen jullie vragen om mee te bidden voor goede laatste voorbereidingen en voor een gezegende tijd met de kinderen volgende week!

Just a few days left and than it will start: the journey through the universe! or the VBS;) Some children already started to count how many days are left, others were warned to not come because as they were told: "they pull you into their sect and they don't let you go anymore".
We hope and pray that there will be coming a nice amount of kids with open hearts. We would like to ask you to pray with us for good last preparations and for a blessed time with the children next week!

Church update

Last week there has been done a LOT of work on the building! Many brothers united and we thank all who were involved practically, through prayer and through finances. Let us continue to pray that God will help us to pay of the debts.

Working on different levels
Werken op verschillende niveaus

Learning by doing
Al doende leert men

We continue to pray for financial blessings as we also still lack some doors and windows to make the building wind, snow and rain free.
We bidden ook voor financien om deuren en ramen te kunnen kopen zodat we het gebouw wind, sneeuw en regen vrij kunnen maken.

The best saved for last!

Last week I was able to visit some elderly ladies in the neighboring village Vorniceni. As many of these ladies have a small pension and nobody is really looking after them, they are spending their days normally by waiting for the time to pass and hoping for somebody to come and see them, talk to them and help them.
This time I took also some of the teenagers with me. The day before at the teenager meeting we had discussed how we can help others and become a blessing for those around us. Now the time had come to put our study into practice! Two of the 3 ladies didn't have any jobs to do but one lady asked to help her to clean up her garden a bit by collecting the fallen leaves. And so the teenagers got tehir hands dirty and did a good job! The lady was happy and thankful.

As we handed the lady in the picture the food parcel, she asked us to open the bags and show her what was inside. As we named all the products she said several times: "oh this is defiantly an answer to my prayer. I gave my last food to my grandchildren and didn't have anything left. God pays attention to me".

Than she started to share what she had been reading in the Bible. She just had read about how the Lord Jesus at the wedding saved the best wine for the last. And she made the connection how the Lord now again had saved the best for last: her food was finished and now she got even better food! We were able to talk a little bit more about the best for the last and read together the verses from John 14 where it talks about Jesus going to prepare us a place in the Father house. Again He saved the best for the last! As we were reading these verses about this great promise for the future, the eyes of the lady started to shine and a nice smile came on her face. She suffered a lot on earth with a drunken violent husband, two sons who do not really care about her, illness, cold, hunger, etc. So to know of a great future that awaits, is a great comfort. May God bless this lady to hold on to this hope and as she reads the Bible on a daily base, may she get to know HIM more and more!

The lady in this picture is in her nineties and lives all by herself, she can't read because her parents didn't allow her to go to school. She had to go and work in the fields to help her family to survive. She has no children and only her neighbors check upon her now and than. So she is a very lonely lady but when we asked her how she was doing, she replied: "I am doing everything slowly but that's better than many others who can't walk or get out of bed anymore. I am thankful". This lady was a good reminder for us to count our blessings cause compared to many others we are very blessed and so we also have things to be thankful for!

New developments / Nieuwe ontwikelingen

This week with help from local brothers here and some OM-workers, the building is prepared for wintertime. As we had some rain in the last weeks, we saw how the wooden walls were effected and with the winter coming with probably more rain and snow, there had to be taken action. So there was decided to gather local brothers from the different churches in the area to help out prepare the building for wintertime. May God bless the rest of this working-week and may He bless all that came to help.

Deze week, met hulp van een aantal lokale broeders en enkele OM-werkers, wordt het gebouw winterklaar gemaakt. In de afgelopen weken waren er een paar regenachtige dagen en we zagen hoe de houten wanden daar niet tegenbestand waren. En nu de winter eraan komt met waarschijnlijk meer regen en sneeuw moest er een oplossing komen. En dus werd er besloten om met behulp van lokale broeders uit de verschillende kerken uit de omgeving, het gebouw aan de buitenkant winterklaar te maken. We bidden voor een goede verdere werkweek met een mooi resultaat.