I have a riddle for you: I am looking at the most beautiful thing in all the world and at the same time something completely disgusting. What am I looking at? I am looking at my new baby girl, Evelyn, after I’ve opened up her diaper! Now, in looking at these two things in front [...]
My first child has been born. A perfect, pure, innocent little girl – Evelyn Miriam Burba. I sit and look at her and think of the awsome responsibilities that await me. She is so tiny and helpless. She is fragile and weak. But soon this will no longer be the case. Soon she will be [...]
The harshness of the lives some of our orphans have led is sometimes mind boggling. But the horrors they have endured are no match for God’s incredible love and salvation. I have written recently about a new addition to our Beauty from Ashes Center for Orphan Girls, Sarmanca. Through tears Sarmanca opened up to our [...]
Comfort. Don’t lie. You know you like it. You know you want it. We all seek after it, consciously or not. Change. Growth. These are things that require effort. They require struggle. Hardships. Suffering. I am on the cusp of becoming a father for the first time. Now, mind you, for the last eight years [...]
So we have welcomed a new girl, Sarmanca, at our Beauty from Ashes Home for Orphan Girls and I’d like to tell you a little bit about her. Sarmanca grew up in one of the worst orphanages around, Cighid. Many of the orphans there died from mistreatment and neglect. As a teenager she came to [...]
About three weeks ago I blogged about one of our girls at the Beauty from Ashes Center, Mandinita. Mandinita comes from a gypsy village about an hour’s drive from Oradea. The only place she can go to high school is here in Oradea and so we accepted her at our center. The wall of her [...]
In this post I would like to present our Volunteers of the Month. This month we have chosen Sam and Manuela Tranca. Sam and Manuela (Mony) are Romanians who have been living in the United States for a long time. So why have we named Sam and Mony our volunteers of the month? We are [...]