Dear ROM Prayer Day Supporters, As I am sure you have become accustomed to, once a month we send you a particular prayer request related to our ministry to orphans in Romania and ask you to pray…but not this month. This month, instead of asking you to pray for us, we would like to pray [...]
In our last discussion on unity we saw that we have a clear commandment from Christ to love one another. We also saw that non-Christians will know that Jesus is the Christ if they observe us loving one another. It is true that sometimes we succeed in doing these things but what we observe around [...]
We walk into the pre-kindergarten class full of young gypsy children. They are all smiles! They sing to us some Christmas songs they are preparing for a recital. They are bubbly and full of life…all except one. She won’t tell me her name. Later on, speaking with the people from the organization who work with [...]
Unity – the Bible has much to say about it. But how much of it do we see around us in the Christian world? The passages I read about unity in the Bible do not seem to match up at all with what I observe around me. In my own life I have had conflicts [...]
So I am back in Romania after three months in the States and have acutely felt my leadership duties here as I struggle to keep my head above water. In pondering these duties I came across this quote by the Dutch lawyer and theologian Hugo Grotius in the book Life Work by Darrow L. Miller: [...]
Welcome back for the long-awaited, final installment in our “Biblical Basis for our Work with Orphans” series. Through this series we have attempted to show you why it is we do what we do in Romania. We have used four key passages from the Bible that have determined our whole strategy for ministry to orphans. [...]
I like to think that I’m a tough guy. I am sure most guys do. Who wants to be a wimp?! When I think of Jesus I think of him as being about the toughest guy you could imagine. Arnold, Clint Eastwood, Russell Crow in The Gladiator – these guys will melt when the King [...]
There is a greatness in unknown names, there is an immortality of quiet duties, attainable by the meanest of human kind; and when the Judge shall reverse the tables many of these last shall be first…To fill a little space because God wills it; to go on cheerfully with a petty round of little duties, [...]
Have you ever noticed how many people, including Christians, seem to have little to no direction in their lives?
What should we be doing? What is God’s plan for us? What is the secret to it all?
Dear ROM Supporters, Do you shop online? If so, you can help raise money for orphans! Romanian Orphan Ministries, Inc. is now listed at Send Them For Him where you can do your routine online shopping and we will receive a donation for each purchase! They have over 600 major merchants like eBay, Priceline, Office [...]