“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”
James 1:27
Buna! Hello everyone!
I write to you with such a happy heart, completely overwhelmed by all that the Lord has blessed me with.
This past month has flown by. I made my move to Bucharest and am enjoying my new apartment with my roommate Nann (who is the also the founder of ROCK Ministries). I have been incredibly busy, but have loved every minute of it. The Romanians here call me Rahela. I love it! It’s fun to have a Romanian name and I think it sounds so pretty.
I have been working in a children’s hospital here in town. ROCK works with children who are abandoned, orphaned or who do not have parents who come and visit them in the hospital. We bathe the children, help feed them, change them and play with them. Right now the majority of our children have cerebral palsy. I have really been enjoying interacting with the children. I am also teaching one of our foster boys, Florinel English. He’s 8 years old and very smart!
For the past 10 days we have had a team with us from Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara. Nann is training me to become the Outreach Team Coordinator. We had a great time with the team. They helped us in the hospital, put on a VBS for our foster kids and spent time with many of the foster children one on one. It was a blessed time. It was great for me as well to spend time with the team. I was really blessed by them. It was also a great way for me to learn the city a little more as I have only been for less than a month. It was fun getting used to the subway and the bus system. I was also blessed to lead 2 devotionals while the team was here.
Nann and I were talking the other day about starting a ministry with our church, working with the elderly. This was something that was on my heart before I even moved here, so please keep this in prayer for us.
Thank you all for your prayers and support. The Lord is so good and I am so blessed to be used by Him. I love my time here and I am so excited to see all that He has in store for me.
Prayer requests:
1. Teaching English, and possible teaching other foster kids as well.
2. Working in the hospital with the children.
3. Health and safety.
4. Driving in Bucharest (it is CRAZY here!)
5. Possibly starting a ministry working with the elderly here.
6. Dorina and Laura in Timisoara.
7. ROCK Ministries
I attached some pictures. I hope you are all good!
In Him,
Rachel
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