Video from youth camp 26-31 July, 2021 at Camp Cristia in Suceava, Romania. 63 youth participants, 11 children. Pray for them!! 😘😘
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Youth Camp 2021🥳🏕
Youth Camp 2021 at Camp Cristia July 26-31 in Voroneț , Romania !
63 teenagers
8 leaders
11 kids +2 babies
5 moms🤗
“Live Life Abundantly” whole book of 1Peter was the theme for the youth.
“Days of Creation” Gen. 1-2 was the theme for the children. The leaders were Teo Tifrea, Gary Stoll, Lucian Avadanei, Laurentiu & Larisa Paruschi, Ioana Bivolaru, Sara Bivolaru, Gabi Iancu, & Octav Topoliceanu all members of Holy Trinity Baptist Church in Piatra Neamt, and David Goran of Alba Iulia Baptist Church.
Great week, hearts softened, lives directed, great people! Praise God!! 🌿🌿🌿🙌🙌😎😎🏕🏕🏕☀️☀️
Baptisms 😎 😇
There were seven youth who were baptized this summer who we’ve had at camp, and who we know very well. At three different churches in town.
Baptism at the Pentecostal church: Florin Dodița (from Casa Ray Orphanage) and 9 others in June.
Baptism at the Betel Evangelical church in July: Ionut Dodita, Madalin Baroi, Dumitrita Matase, Nicu Vacaru, and Markus Gavril all teens from Casa Ray Orphanage in Dobreni, where do English lessons.
Baptism at the Baptist Church! (our church) Mihaela Barsan and three other members in August.
Pray for them as they start their relationship with God, to remain faithful to Him! 🙏🙌
10 Sponsors already!😀🙌🥳
We are happy to announce that we have 10 sponsorships for summer camp already, just need 50 more! 🥳⛺️
We visited on Monday to discuss some camp details & they told us they’re operating at full capacity this summer, restrictions have relaxed & they have to recouperate🤭👍 Theme is Proirities for Life and we’ll give six workshops on how to have a balanced life based on scripture.👍👍
Make checks payable to:
My Brother’s Keeper
PO Box 11
Roxbury, PA 17251
“Avadanei Camp” on the memo line.
Hoping to take youth from Garcina village, Bodesti village, Casa Ray Orphanage, Santa Maria Orphanage & our church. God bless you😌😌😌
Sponsor a Youth for camp!
Every year we try to take teens from our area for a week of camp in the mountains. This year we are going August 2-7, 2021 to Camp Cristia in Voronet, Suceava, Romania.
We are looking for 50 sponsorships Toft camp. If you’d like to get involved, please send your tax deductible donations by July 1 to:
My Brother’s Keeper International
PO Box 11
Roxbury, PA 17251 USA
Memo “Avadanei camp 2021”.
Or online via PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9883NR87V8MES and in the space for comments, write “Avadanei summer camp 2021”.
Thank you & may you grow in love, patience & faith! 😊🙏🌿
~The Avadanei family
Mama Tatiana finds Rest 🙏
With a heavy heart, as we try to trust in God’s plans, we announce that Mama Tatiana from the Casa Ray Orphanage is with the Lord. There was a fire in the hospital’s intensive care unit on Nov 14, where she was recovering from Covid, that started from faulty connections and spread rapidly. She had been doing better with her oxygen levels, but only God knows why this happened. She died, along with seven others in her room, almost immediately from smoke inhalation. The fire was rapid. She was 67.
Ten patients passed away total. The doctor on duty had severe burns from trying to save patients, and was transferred to Belgium for skin grafts. Let us keep all those families affected in our prayers, the Gavril family, their children grandchildren, the children in the Casa Ray home, the doctors & nurses, and those that were wounded. The Lord binds up the broken-hearted!!!💞💞💞🙏🙏🙏😞😞😞😞
Covid Cases Reach Casa Ray Orphanage
We heard in beginning of November from the orphanage Casa Ray in Dobreni that there were 5 kids and 4 workers who tested positive for COVID. The workers include Mama Tatiana, Tata Mihai, Madalina si Matei Gavril. Mama Tatiana entered the hospital since Thursday Nov 5 with low oxygen levels. The others had been in isolation 14 days, separate from the rest of the home. Everyone got over it thankfully, except for Mama Tatiana. 😓🙏
We do English at the Casa Ray Orphanage and take them to summer camp, and other activities but haven’t been there since March 2020 because of restrictions. They need our prayers! 🙏🙏💖💖
Summer update 2020
“This is what the Lord says: ‘You say about this place, “It is a desolate waste, without people or animals.” Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither people nor animals, there will be heard once more 11 the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord, saying,
“Give thanks to the Lord Almighty,
for the Lord is good;
his love endures forever.”
For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before,’ says the Lord.“
Jeremiah 33: 10-11
🙏🙏We pray you are making this unprecedented time useful & trusting in the Lord to reveal his promises that there will be good to come. He is always faithful and never changing from beginning to the end.
With cancellation of all our children’s meetings this Spring, have taken this time to teach our children the Easter story in a meaningful way, we’ve played more, done more crafts, and have been more intentional with correction. It’s been a fruitful time! If you are a parent, we pray YOU can also parent with the help of the Holy Spirit so God’s love fills our/ your house. We pray in this new normal we can find ways to reach out to those in our corner of the world and encourage them in their belief in God. How can we pray for your family in this time?🙏🙏🙏
Our camps are cancelled for the summer, because of meeting restrictions at the campgrounds and distancing. We are hoping to do some outreaches over the summer in some villages.
Outreach at the Ion Creanga State Orphanage in our city has been cancelled since March, waiting to hear when we can start visiting again. Looking forward to teaching them stories from the flannel graph again. 🤗🤗🤗😁😁
Praise God, we had an online meeting with a church in Lancaster in early May and it was encouraging and fruitful.💖
Praise God, our home church in Piatra-Neamt has had open-air sermons for three weeks. In two more weeks they will hold indoors. May our church and the church members shine God’s light 💖
Please pray for Cristina, a teenaged helper of ours, as she decides what to do after high school. She helps us at the IC Orphanage. 💖
Please pray for Anita a worker from Casa Ray Orphanage, who was diagnosed with Covid two weeks ago. She is feeling better. 💖
Youth Camp in Suceava, Ro 2020!
- It’s that time again, time to plan for camp!!
There is uncertainty for the summer activities we have planned because of the Continue reading “Youth Camp in Suceava, Ro 2020!”
Avadanei Family update January 2020
Dear Friends, family, and sponsors,
The year 2019 passed by quickly especially with the fact that our children are growing so quickly. Emily is 3 1/2 and Ruben is 1 yr 3 months. Here is a list of 2019 activities that we coordinated together with the city church (Sfanta Treime Baptist Piatra Neamt, where Luci helps lead youth group), the village church (Vestea Buna Garcina) and the surrounding Piatra Neamt area.
May 12, 2019– Tenth Anniversary of the inauguration of the Baptist church in the village of Garcina. The church hosted a meal afterwards with between 40-50 villagers attending. We saw 12 children from our children’s program & saw a few older ones from years past. In the Sunday morning program, we had as special guests the MBK gypsy choir, with Eduard Teodorescu directing. They sang also at our home church in the city on Sunday evening. Pray for the village church to continue to spread the gospel in the village. (Photo 1,2)
June 1 2019– Children’s Day event at our church, organised together with the Children’s ministry worker Gary, with city, orphanage, and village kids from Garcina and other villages. We had four hours of games, worship, a skit by the leaders, pizza, cake & confetti. The skit & theme of the day was based on Max Lucado’s book “You Are Special.” (Photo 3,4)
July 2019 ‘VBS for a day’- together with a medical team from SC, USA we had kids activities & crafts in 5 villages (Garcina, Bodesti, Bargauani, Borca, Bicaz Ardelean) & kids in the orphanage & our city each place one day for a week’s time.
August 26-31, 2019 At Youth Camp we had 62 teens from our county & neighboring counties. We took 18 leaders from our church. Twenty youth were from our church, some were from other churches in the area, and some participants were unchurched. The week’s theme was “180 degrees: A Radical Change” about the life & ministry of Paul. This year’s camp has been scheduled for Aug 2-8, 2020. (Photo 5,6,7)
Nov. 30, 2019 Church Families Banquet. A chance for the married couples in our church (Piatra-Neamt) to get together for dinner and fellowship. The youth served meal. We initiated this event last year & had a good response so we continued again. (Photo 8)
Dec. 13, 2019– Christmas Dinner for Widows. Following in the same spirit as the meal for families, this year we had a special time for widows/ elderly members of our church. We had asked the families attending the other banquet to serve the meal/ donate some items. It was a good turnout (about 30), a family sang Christmas carols, and other church members served the meal.
Dec. 14, 19, & 20– Christmas programs at three places this year. In the village of Garcina, the Together Again Center in Piatra-Neamt for homeless families, and at the Ion Creanga Orphanage in Piatra Neamt. We had carols and handed out shoebox gifts. Wonderful to share God’s love. At the orphanage, again we invited our friends the Quo Vadis choir to come and sing some carols & help hand out boxes. (Photo 9,10,11)
Dec. 19, 2019- The Quo Vadis choir gave a concert at our church in the city (Sfanta Treime Baptist in Piatra Neamt.) spent the night, and the next day served at the I.C. Orphanage handing out Christmas boxes, and continued on to Suceava where they had another concert. Praise the Lord for their enthusiastic service!
Regular meetings of Garcina kids program Fridays, 3-6 kids. In village of Garcina.
Regular meetings of Ion Creanga Orphanage kids Saturdays, 15-20 kids. In city of Piatra Neamt.
Regular meetings of adolescents (12-14 years) Saturdays 10-15 kids. Baptist Church in Piatra Neamt.
Regular meetings of youth group(15-19 years) Saturdays 15-20 teens. Baptist Church in Piatra Neamt.
Regular visits to Casa Ray Orphanage for english lessons (ages 7-15) Tuesdays. (Rebecca & the kids going)
Regular work (once monthly) in Preschool Sunday school (Rebecca) at the city Baptist church.
Prayer requests: There were three baptisms in our church this year in August of the teens who have been coming to camp & church programs: Petru G, Cristina B, and Denisa B. All three continue to come to church & functions. Pray for them to remain firm in their faith. Pray for Cristina C, who has been devoted to helping us especially in our orphan ministry for two years, that she can deepen her spiritual walk. Our next furlough we are planning for the spring of 2021. If you and your family would like to meet with us then, shoot us a message!
Praises: We were able to move into our house. This gets us out of renting, which we have been doing for 5 1/2 years. The kids are already enjoying more play space it offers. The year 2020 promises more interaction in our city, as we have Youth camp planned for Aug 2-8 and are planning to do a VBS in July with children, besides ongoing orphanage, village group, and youth group meetings.
Thank you for praying for our family and sending your financial gifts through My Brother’s Keeper as we seek to be the hands and feet of Jesus, together with the local church in Piatra Neamt, Romania! Blessings to you in this new year,
-Lucian & Rebecca Avadanei
Emily & Ruben
My Brother’s Keeper missionaries
Children & Youth Outreach
Piatra Neamt, Romania
My Brother’s Keeper International
Any donations please write “Avadanei family” on the memo line and it will get to us. There are 7 other families working through the mission agency, so please don’t forget to specify. Thanks 🙂
If you’d like to get in on our camp fundraiser, we are accepting sponsorships of $130 to the same address write “Avadanei camp” on the memo line.
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14
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