05/01/2016 Boldog Uj Evet From Romania! 1/6 Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas season, celebrating with friends and family. We also hope that... Boldog Uj Evet! Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas season, celebrating with friends and family. We also hope that you are looking forward to the year ahead and how God wants to work in and through you. We had an incredible month celebrating the Christmas season! It started off with a visit home to Alberta and Vancouver. We spent a weekend in Calgary with friends and also visited Brentview Baptist Church. We were able to speak in their services as well as lead the Bible study to share about Romania and the work that has taken place this past year. Following this visit, we headed out to Camp Caroline to visit Paul’s parents as they live on property there. We had a great week of family hangouts and activities and were joined by Paul’s sister visiting with her two kids. We also had the opportunity to share about Romania and Camp Falcon Rock with the Camp Caroline staff. They continue to be huge supports and encouragements to us and the ministry here.
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Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful Christmasseason, celebrating with friends and family. We also hope that...
Boldog Uj Evet!Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas season, celebratingwith friends and family. We also hope that you are looking forward to the yearahead and how God wants to work in and through you.
We had an incredible month celebrating the Christmas season! It started offwith a visit home to Alberta and Vancouver. We spent a weekend in Calgarywith friends and also visited Brentview Baptist Church. We were able to speakin their services as well as lead the Bible study to share about Romania and thework that has taken place this past year. Following this visit, we headed out toCamp Caroline to visit Paul’s parents as they live on property there. We had agreat week of family hangouts and activities and were joined by Paul’s sistervisiting with her two kids. We also had the opportunity to share about Romaniaand Camp Falcon Rock with the Camp Caroline staff. They continue to be hugesupports and encouragements to us and the ministry here.
After our time out at camp we headed into Edmonton for the weekend. Westarted with an important business meeting about moving forward withfundraising and camp development with some of our local partners. Followingthat, good friends of ours George and Arliss Cuff hosted an open house for uswhere we were surprised by over 60 people who came out. We hadthe opportunity to share more about the camp ministry. We were excited toinvite the Wagners to join us for the meeting and the open house to shareabout their calling and heart for Romania. Next we had the opportunity to be apart of Central Baptist’s church service. Paul was able to preach and I was ableto meet with people through our booth. Again, we felt so blessed by theencouragement and support we received from Central and it was great to seeour friends there!
Right after the service we rushed to the airport to fly into Vancouver to visit myfamily. It was the first time I was able to see my sister since her accident inJune. I was blown away by how well and healthy she is! God is so good andshowed her so much grace through this process. She is recovering from herbrain injury incredibly and is receiving a lot of support to get her back to normallife. It was great to be able to have some sister time with her. We also had anumber of family hangouts and activities that week with my family and evenhad a giant Christmas dinner together.
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It was such a blessing for Paul and I to be home for a taste of CanadianChristmas but we knew that it was important to be back home to Romania for
actual Christmas. We flew back in on the 22nd and were quickly wrapped up inthe celebrations here.
While we were away Tamas was able to serve on behalf of the camp byhanding out donated Christmas shoe boxes to the village surrounding thecamp. Every Christmas the pastors here receive some of the Christmas boxesfrom the Christmas shoe box program and then get help to give them away tofamilies in need. Tamas took the opportunity to meet with the impoverishedfamilies around the camp and shared the Gospel with them.
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We love the way Romanians celebrate Christmas and the focus they put onactually celebrating Jesus! The Christmas celebrations start the week beforeChristmas through evening church services the week leading up to Christmas.Then on Christmas Eve there is a special night service and the 3 days followingthere are a morning and evening service each day. After each service we wereinvited to different people’s homes for a meal and time to hangout and everyevening we were invited to be a part of the village caroling. The young peoplestay up late and go through the villages caroling in the streets either by signingor playing their brass instruments. Caroling is an important part of theChristmas celebration as it is a tool Romanians use to evangelize and sharethe story of Christmas. One night during caroling we had a family join us for asong, we had another elderly lady come stand outside of her house with herhands raised worshipping during the carols and finally we chatted with a drunkman coming from the pub about what we were doing. It was quite theexperience!
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During the holiday we had many opportunities to hangout with our friends in thevillage. One night included us taking some of the teens into the nearby city togo iceskating. It was the first time for all of them. We had a lot of fun hangingout and teaching them how to skate!
We finished off the month and year with a New Year’s Eve church servicefollowed by a meal with some friends from the village. The young people werethen up until the wee hours of the morning lighting off fireworks to celebrate theNew Year and then still managed to make it into church the next morning andafternoon for services.
We are so grateful for the ways God has led and provided for us and theministry here. We look forward to what 2016 will bring for Camp Falcon Rockand how God will continue to grow Paul and I to be better followers of Him.