August 2014 – adventuresinromania

4 August, 2014

Greetings!

Our Bible school here finished up well end of June and new relationships were made between the kids of Casa Ray Orphanage and the team from PA. Our team consisted of 6 people, Beth & Andrew Railing, Hannah Robb, me, Laura Steager, and Jess Lapp.

Our lesson theme for the week was Growing Your Faith, using the verse 2 Pet 1:5-7 “For this reason add to your faith goodness, to goodness knowledge, to knowledge self control, to self control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.” We also spent some time on the story of Joseph and how he had some of these character traits.

The kids memorized the verse 2 Pet 1:5-7 during the week, and the girls on the team taught each section with activities and projects. We made paper plate tambourines with the kids to learn joy, learned ACTS model of prayer with bracelets (adoration/adoratie, confession/marturie, thanksgiving/multumire, supplication/cerere) , made a frame with their parents/caregivers to learn about honor, and by the end of the week we did a play of Joseph’s life and his brothers’ visit to Egypt.

Thank you for your prayers for the kids. Continue to keep them in prayer that they remember how important prayer is in their lives. Pray also for the remainder of their summer and for when they start back to the rigors of school Sept 15th.

The team from PA: Hannah, Laura, Jess, Rebecca, Beth & Andrew Railing together at a touristic town called Red Lake, Romania. — The team from PA: Hannah, Laura, Jess, Rebecca, Beth & Andrew Railing
together at the top of the city Piatra Neamt on Mount Cozla, Romania.

Beth teaching her lesson on brotherly kindness.

One child's drawing of their family. — One child’s drawing of their family.

We took a hike to the forest with the team and kids from Casa Ray.

Cristina and I on our hike to the forest with the team and kids from Casa Ray.

Statistics

In Romania in the year 2000, there were: 87,753 orphans/abandoned children.

In the year 2010, there were: 62,000 orphans/abandoned children.
(To read more about why there are orphans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_orphans)

While numbers are going down, there is still a large group, with a high concentration in institutional orphanages in the Eastern part of the country. To effectively serve this marginalized group, there is a need for compassionate individuals to be willing to do life with them: support during the school year, providing extracurricular activities, and offering possibilities for them to grow.

Romania Pop. 20,121,641 people (2011 Census).
Piatra Neamt, Romania Pop. (our town) 58,000 people.

Num. of children at Casa Ray Orphanage (private) : 20

Num. of children at Elena Doamna Orphanage (state) : 116

Num. of children at Ion Creanga Orphange (state): 74

Country's Induction in the EU: 1 Jan, 2007.
Conditions of orphanages have greatly improved with the country’s induction in the European Union, and grants have been given to certain orphanages and infrastructure to make renovations.

Psalm 68: 5-6

" El este Tatăl orfanilor, Apărătorul văduvelor, El, Dumnezeu, care locuieşte în locaşul Lui cel sfânt. Dumnezeu dă o familie celor părăsiţi, El izbăveşte pe prinşii de război şi-i face fericiţi; numai cei răzvrătiţi locuiesc în locuri uscate. "

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" A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land. "

Month: August 2014

Play pictures ~ Joseph (Genesis 40)

VBS at Casa Ray Orphanage 2014