Sunday in Romania

On Wednesday, July 25^th, a group of 26 people (21 teens and 5 adults) left to serve with the Groza family in Romania. They arrived in Fagaras, Romania, on Thursday night, and hit the ground running on Friday morning! It’s been so exciting to hear bits and pieces of what they have been doing.

This morning in church, we were able to see (via live video stream), the evening church service in Fagaras, Romania. (Isn’t technology wonderful?!) It was great to be able to see our group, and also to see some of the people they have been so graciously welcomed by.  Romania is 8 hours ahead of us, but I did get a quick phone call in to my mom this afternoon. She told me a little bit about their day: Both morning and evening church services in Romania are 2 hours long. My mom said they both went by very quickly. Between morning and evening church, they went to some villages and held church services there. Many of the children in the villages have lice, and lice are a very real possibility for the people in our group as well. Pray for our group, my mom included, that they would be persuaded to love on these kids, without being concerned about the possibility of lice.

 At one point during the evening service, the teens were singing in English while everyone else sang in Romanian. Getting to hear this on the video feed was incredible—singing in 2 different languages at the same time knowing we serve the same God…does it get better than that?!

Please continue to pray for the 21 teens and 5 adults we have in Romania. I’m praying that God will use them for His glory. I pray everyone will come back with a new perspective of how big God is and see the importance of being a bold witness for Jesus, whether you’re in Fagaras, Romania or Chetek, WI.