I am about finish a great weekend at my friends house. I have been babysitting an American kid all weekend and have had a most refreshing time. the child here and I talked about Zaccheaus and Jesus. he now can tell the whole story and sing the song. I am so proud of him. It was such a nice time for me because I could relate to him. I could tell him Bible stories. and teach him things. I am enjoying being a missionary through love and life style. But it is so nice to see and hear the benifits of all the prayer and preperation. I love this child and can honestly say that I will miss him dearly when I am back in the states. i look forward to next week as I will be going to Brasov Romania, to meet some of my friends who are missionaries there. Then i will be going to Cluj to see the botanical guradens, and then to Timisoara where I will be going to learn about the reveloution and the fall of Communisem in Romania right in the place that it started.
Father I thank you for all the blessings that you have given me while I am on this trip. I thank you for this time of refreshing of my spirit that has started. You are so perfect that you know all of my needs. Praise you for who you are. Praise you when it is dry and praise you when i am refreshed. Holy is your name and you are worthy to be praised.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Hello Blog Fam!
Well I am about to head out for the afternoon session of Caramidari and am so ready for it. My friend Rebekah warned me before I left that it seemed like I would be here just long enough to get used to it here and let me tell you.... Man she was right! I feel as if I am adjusting and as soon as this begins I am only 52 days away from coming home. This makes me very sad. I am so feeling like I am getting into my groove. Where I fit in, what there is for me to do, and how to go about life here. and it is almost time for me to go home. The weeks are passing so quickly now. I am currently preparing for a very special ministry to my heart. I will be watching Christopher while his parents are in the Parenting Seminar. I don't think any one else in the ministry thinks of this as a ministry but I do. I will be watching Christopher all weekend. The reason that I think of this as a ministry is because we have time where we talk about Jesus. we have time of prayer. we will talk about missionaries, and what it means to be a missionary. I love that little boy with all that I have in me. We will be doing some really fun things and I can not wait to tell you all about em. I almost forgot to tell you that there may not be a blog next week due to the fact that I will be traveling around Romania. This is the Christmas / Birthday present my mama gave me. I am so happy about this and I will tell you all about it when i get back and settled in.
Lord I thank you,
I thank you for your hand in my life and I thank you for who you are. Lord guide me in my walk this coming week and may I stay close to your side. You are Holy and I am nothing, yet you died for me. You died for me while I was/am still a sinner, but Lord may I never forget that your Grace is sufficient for me.
Lord I thank you,
I thank you for your hand in my life and I thank you for who you are. Lord guide me in my walk this coming week and may I stay close to your side. You are Holy and I am nothing, yet you died for me. You died for me while I was/am still a sinner, but Lord may I never forget that your Grace is sufficient for me.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Taxi
I dont know if in larger Cities if there are diffrent colored taxi cabs but here there are hardly any yellow Taxis! it is so cool!
Teen Challenge pics
I was first encouraged about Romanian while I was in Teen Challenge. So i was so blessed to be able to join this group when they went to talk to the guys! God is so good!
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
PLEASE FORGIVE ME!
I realize that it has been quite a while since I last blogged. And i am so sorry for that.
So first I will talk about what has been going on in the kindergarten in Caramidari.
Sibearjean - is a wonderful little girl who is around 8 years old. she is one of the best writers in class and has mastered all the letters we have learned so far. She is beautiful and although her head was shaved due to lice she is still stunningly beautiful... much like Demmi Moree.
Funda - is Sibear's sister she is the one who loves me most. She is very good at picking up on how others are feeling and acting around her. She gets easily distracted but when she is focused she is very intelligent.
Fotos - is one of the more girly girl's of the Caramidari kids. She enjoys pink things and is always the first to comment on how long and curly my hair is. This makes me sad for her as her head was also shaved last Jan.
Gula - I love Gula with an undying love. Gula and Fotos are sisters and you can def tell that she is the older of the two. Although they get along well together Gula and Fotos are one of many families in Caramidari that have up to 10 children with a mother that is under the age of 30. This means that the mother was married around the age of 12 years old. sometimes even as young as 11. Gula's head was shaved at the same time as fotos, i think she minds less though.
Ioshad - Is one of our three boys in Kindergarten. He is sweet and loving. He always is the first to say hello to me (well if Funda can not) and loves my attention. Although I have the hardest time helping him with writing, due to the fact that he is left handed, I love spending time talking to him. He is a wonderful boy. He and his sister Sunita were able to come to church Sunday and he came over and situated himself between Bethany and my self. What an honor to be chosen. Then almost right in the middle of the singing time he found out that Carmen was at the front leading worship. so he stands up on the chair and yells almost at the top of his Lungs "CARMEN! OVER HERE!" It was one of the sweetest things i have ever seen.
Sunita - Sunita is my sunshine. When I first came to Romania Sunita was the only one who did not always clammier for my attention. Then about the middle of the third week when all the kids got used to me I started to notice this quite little girl. She is about the size of a five year old but now it is obvious that she is around 7 by the way she acts and speaks. Sunita after some time now has warmed up to me. She is my friend. She will now climb on my lap and hug me. She will talk to me. I can not express how much this little girl means to me. She lives in a one bedroom house. What i mean by this is she lives in a box type thing. there is no kitchen, there is no bathroom, there is no bedroom, there are no closets. what Sunita has is one room that she shares with her brothers, Mother and Father kitchen stove, bed, Television (with satellite dish) and clothing, personal items, food that has to be stored, I mean all of this families worldly possessions are in a space about the size or smaller then most of our living rooms. No i am almost sure that 80 % of us have living rooms larger then her house. She is very special to me.
Gunidean (Q19) - Is our oldest boy. If i already had my Photography ministry he would be the first to be enrolled. Not only does he love taking pictures, he loves helping the others do it well. He is really good at it and I really am quite sad that I do not have a camera that i could let him have for the day. I mean I would love to give all these kids something like that but i really think that he would/could do something great if just given the opportunity. I love him for that. I wish that i could let him use my camera but if i did then i would have to let them all use it and because they do not love it as much they would not be as careful as him and might break it. But oh man one day...
Christi - is one of our other boys. Although he is very quite and shy there is one thing that stands out about Christi. He is a performer. I know you are thinking quite shy performer? But it is true. the kid sings, dances, acts he is a wonderful mess. He is so handsome and sweet. His parents obviously love him very much in the fact that he is always clean (none of the other children ever are... well fotos and funda, but they are not as bathed as Christi), and he is generally happy. Although i will say the more i learn about him, the more i see where God is going to have to make a change in his young heart.
Roxanna - our little starlet. roxanna is one of the very few girls in Caramidari who have not had to have her head shaved. she has very long sandy blond hair and is PROUD of it! She walks with a switch that is cute now but in a few years will not be so impressive. She is a little behind educationally because she did not start Kindergarten until my fifth week there and it is just like our school year at home. so she started second semester and late at that. but she is catching up nicely.
Now that is all for The KIDS.
Now for the afternoon session:
For the past 8 weeks we have done the characteristics of God.
Love - Bethany
this was my first week in Caramidari and Bethany did a puppet show and showed how God was love
Righteous - Terrance
This was my second week and Terrance did this smell thing and talked about how we know God even though we can not see him
Father (King) - Babak (who is now back in Germany)
This was my 3rd week and Babak did a demonstration of how God is not some mean Guy on his throne (which scared the kids two days in a row) but A kind father who loves his kinder. I mean kids.
Nurse Nora - Nora talked about dental hygiene.
Brushed bethanys teeth to show the kids how to do it and then brushed another young mans out of the crowd. I was really sick that week and stayed in bed the whole time.
Kind - me
I did God is Kind and talked about when he was like let the children come to me. Then we did a role playing thing. that was cool
Merciful - Iulea
Iulea did the story of the good Samaritan
Peace giver - Rebekah
Rebekah talked about when Jesus calmed the storm and we did a craft.
Unchanging - Carmen
And Last week Carmen did How God is Unchanging. she showed pictures of how when the kids were little and how they changed. and God does not change. it was neat.
This week is Easter and we are going to be talking about how Christ is the Savior.
We are going to be doing the push up skit and then showing the crucifixion of Christ in the Jesus movie. and then talking about his resurrection. and it will be great!
ROSEBUDS
last but not least i am going to tell you about what has been going on in Rosebuds.
The first week we talked about what is a rosebud and why do we have this class
then we talked about kindness and how we can be kind
then talked about gratefulness and who we should be grateful to
and then we did modest. we put on a fashion show of modest and immodest dresses and then we learned how to sit and get in and out of a van in a skirt.
Next week is humility and i have no idea what to do!
so that my friends is what is going on here. I will try harder to keep this thing updated
So first I will talk about what has been going on in the kindergarten in Caramidari.
Sibearjean - is a wonderful little girl who is around 8 years old. she is one of the best writers in class and has mastered all the letters we have learned so far. She is beautiful and although her head was shaved due to lice she is still stunningly beautiful... much like Demmi Moree.
Funda - is Sibear's sister she is the one who loves me most. She is very good at picking up on how others are feeling and acting around her. She gets easily distracted but when she is focused she is very intelligent.
Fotos - is one of the more girly girl's of the Caramidari kids. She enjoys pink things and is always the first to comment on how long and curly my hair is. This makes me sad for her as her head was also shaved last Jan.
Gula - I love Gula with an undying love. Gula and Fotos are sisters and you can def tell that she is the older of the two. Although they get along well together Gula and Fotos are one of many families in Caramidari that have up to 10 children with a mother that is under the age of 30. This means that the mother was married around the age of 12 years old. sometimes even as young as 11. Gula's head was shaved at the same time as fotos, i think she minds less though.
Ioshad - Is one of our three boys in Kindergarten. He is sweet and loving. He always is the first to say hello to me (well if Funda can not) and loves my attention. Although I have the hardest time helping him with writing, due to the fact that he is left handed, I love spending time talking to him. He is a wonderful boy. He and his sister Sunita were able to come to church Sunday and he came over and situated himself between Bethany and my self. What an honor to be chosen. Then almost right in the middle of the singing time he found out that Carmen was at the front leading worship. so he stands up on the chair and yells almost at the top of his Lungs "CARMEN! OVER HERE!" It was one of the sweetest things i have ever seen.
Sunita - Sunita is my sunshine. When I first came to Romania Sunita was the only one who did not always clammier for my attention. Then about the middle of the third week when all the kids got used to me I started to notice this quite little girl. She is about the size of a five year old but now it is obvious that she is around 7 by the way she acts and speaks. Sunita after some time now has warmed up to me. She is my friend. She will now climb on my lap and hug me. She will talk to me. I can not express how much this little girl means to me. She lives in a one bedroom house. What i mean by this is she lives in a box type thing. there is no kitchen, there is no bathroom, there is no bedroom, there are no closets. what Sunita has is one room that she shares with her brothers, Mother and Father kitchen stove, bed, Television (with satellite dish) and clothing, personal items, food that has to be stored, I mean all of this families worldly possessions are in a space about the size or smaller then most of our living rooms. No i am almost sure that 80 % of us have living rooms larger then her house. She is very special to me.
Gunidean (Q19) - Is our oldest boy. If i already had my Photography ministry he would be the first to be enrolled. Not only does he love taking pictures, he loves helping the others do it well. He is really good at it and I really am quite sad that I do not have a camera that i could let him have for the day. I mean I would love to give all these kids something like that but i really think that he would/could do something great if just given the opportunity. I love him for that. I wish that i could let him use my camera but if i did then i would have to let them all use it and because they do not love it as much they would not be as careful as him and might break it. But oh man one day...
Christi - is one of our other boys. Although he is very quite and shy there is one thing that stands out about Christi. He is a performer. I know you are thinking quite shy performer? But it is true. the kid sings, dances, acts he is a wonderful mess. He is so handsome and sweet. His parents obviously love him very much in the fact that he is always clean (none of the other children ever are... well fotos and funda, but they are not as bathed as Christi), and he is generally happy. Although i will say the more i learn about him, the more i see where God is going to have to make a change in his young heart.
Roxanna - our little starlet. roxanna is one of the very few girls in Caramidari who have not had to have her head shaved. she has very long sandy blond hair and is PROUD of it! She walks with a switch that is cute now but in a few years will not be so impressive. She is a little behind educationally because she did not start Kindergarten until my fifth week there and it is just like our school year at home. so she started second semester and late at that. but she is catching up nicely.
Now that is all for The KIDS.
Now for the afternoon session:
For the past 8 weeks we have done the characteristics of God.
Love - Bethany
this was my first week in Caramidari and Bethany did a puppet show and showed how God was love
Righteous - Terrance
This was my second week and Terrance did this smell thing and talked about how we know God even though we can not see him
Father (King) - Babak (who is now back in Germany)
This was my 3rd week and Babak did a demonstration of how God is not some mean Guy on his throne (which scared the kids two days in a row) but A kind father who loves his kinder. I mean kids.
Nurse Nora - Nora talked about dental hygiene.
Brushed bethanys teeth to show the kids how to do it and then brushed another young mans out of the crowd. I was really sick that week and stayed in bed the whole time.
Kind - me
I did God is Kind and talked about when he was like let the children come to me. Then we did a role playing thing. that was cool
Merciful - Iulea
Iulea did the story of the good Samaritan
Peace giver - Rebekah
Rebekah talked about when Jesus calmed the storm and we did a craft.
Unchanging - Carmen
And Last week Carmen did How God is Unchanging. she showed pictures of how when the kids were little and how they changed. and God does not change. it was neat.
This week is Easter and we are going to be talking about how Christ is the Savior.
We are going to be doing the push up skit and then showing the crucifixion of Christ in the Jesus movie. and then talking about his resurrection. and it will be great!
ROSEBUDS
last but not least i am going to tell you about what has been going on in Rosebuds.
The first week we talked about what is a rosebud and why do we have this class
then we talked about kindness and how we can be kind
then talked about gratefulness and who we should be grateful to
and then we did modest. we put on a fashion show of modest and immodest dresses and then we learned how to sit and get in and out of a van in a skirt.
Next week is humility and i have no idea what to do!
so that my friends is what is going on here. I will try harder to keep this thing updated
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