“I can’t do it!” “It’s too hard.” “My feet hurt.” The complaints just kept coming from the mouth of one of our “big-boned” orphan girls on a recent hike in the mountains. As many of you parents can relate to, I began to get irritated. “It’s not that hard”, I was thinking. “Can’t she just [...]
I’ve got to admit it, many people think our ministry goal is nuts! Our goal is to take young people who have spent their entire lives in orphanages, with almost no discipline, love, encouragement, direction, or help, and to turn them into not just productive, normal citizens, but young Christians on fire for Christ who [...]
Dear ROM Prayer Day Supporters, In this month’s ROM Prayer Day email we would like to update you on a couple of past prayer requests. Recently we asked for prayer for our Annual Rib sale/Car wash. (ROM Prayer Day – April) This year’s sale was our biggest ever, bringing in over $3,800! Thank you for [...]
So I have just returned from a six-day backpacking trip with nine other guys in the Fagaras Mountains of the Transylvanian Alps, the highest mountain range in Romania! If I only had two adjectives to describe the trip they would be: grueling and mind-clearing. Now we’re not talking about a nice hike through the woods [...]
Dear ROM Prayer Day Supporters, Compassion. This is where it all starts. Anyone whom I’ve ever met (myself included) who has worked with orphans began doing so because they felt compassion for them. But it doesn’t take long working with teenage/young adult Romanian orphans to realize that more than compassion is needed. There are two [...]
Dear ROM Prayer Day Supporters, We need your prayers! Once every month we have our ROM Prayer Day. This is a day when we ask you to pray for a specific prayer request. This month’s prayer request is related to our Third Annual Car Wash/Rib Sale. This has become an important yearly event and is [...]
Compassion. This is where it all starts. Anyone whom I’ve ever met (myself included) who has worked with orphans began doing so because they felt compassion for them. But it doesn’t take long working with teenage/young adult Romanian orphans to realize that more than compassion is needed. There are two very different problems that must [...]
I know that the idea of doing business as ministry is a little strange to some people. Recently we have begun two small businesses whose sole function is to finance our work with orphans and to provide jobs for orphans in Romania. For those who would like to understand how business and ministry can go [...]
Dear ROM Prayer Day Supporters, Violence – I don’t like it. I don’t like having to deal with it. I don’t like threats. I don’t like living in fear. I don’t like those in my family and our orphans to have to confront these things either. Yet these are some of the things we have [...]
Just a quick update on Mandinita. (Pictured to the right along with her mother and Andreea, our Director) Some of you will remember her from past posts. Mandinita had to temporarily leave our program because her mother (Mandinita comes from a Gypsy family) left to go work in France for several months in order to [...]