Rachel's Romania: Rachel's Romania Update

A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows is God in His holy habitation. God places the solitary in families and gives the desolate a home in which to dwell…
Psalm 68:5-6a

Buna Ziua!

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing good. I have had another blessed month here in Romania. A lot has gone on as usual.

I visited a Romanian friend of mine in Targoviste. Some of you who have been supporting me through the years may remember my good friend Ramona. She got married last weekend and I was blessed to attend her wedding. It was my first Romanian wedding and let me tell you it was an adventure! I have also visited the hospital here in Oradea and helped the missionary family I was staying with get organized! My missionary friend Kelly from the US also moved to Oradea this month, it is nice to have another American friend to pray with and to hang out with.

I made my decision after much prayer and seeking the Lord as to where I should stay. I am now living in Oradea, Romania working with a ministry out of Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, called Pathway to Joy Ministries. I will be working in the hospital here in Oradea 3 days a week and helping out in the office with various projects 2 days a week. This of course all changes when we have teams. When teams come out to visit I will be able to join them in their ministry, working in gypsy villages, the hospital and the local orphanage. What a blessing for me! If any of you are interested in sending out a team to work with us please let me know! There is much to do here, and certainly not enough people to do it!

In June I was able to attend the Calvary Chapel Eastern European Conference in Vajta, Hungary. Hungary is only about 20 minutes from where I live in Romania. It was such a blessing, my missions pastor from Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, Phil Twente, came out for the conference. As always I am blessed to see a friendly face from home. The conference was also a blessing because I was able to spend a week getting to know all the Romanian and Hungarian staff I will be working with. It really gave us a chance to bond and to get to know each other. It is such a blessing to have Romanian and Hungarian brothers and sisters in Christ that I love to spend time with and am blessed to be able to serve along side of. I also made a special friend, Marinela, an orphan girl, who has sort of “adopted” me, I pray that the Lord will use me in her life.

This past week I finally got my own place! I will have to take pics and send them next month. But I am SO very excited to have my own little studio apartment. It’s nothing too big, but really I don’t need much, I just love having my quiet place to come home to at the end of the day. Currently I am sleeping on an air mattress but I hope to buy a bed or a futon or something next month.

Our interns arrived this week as well. Pathway to Joy will have 3 intern girls this summer. It has been a really fun week getting to know them and working with them. There is a lot going on here, and I am so very blessed and excited to be a part of it.

Please continue to keep me in your prayers, these next two months are going to be very busy, with helping create a few videos for Pathway to Joy, our interns, 2 teams coming to Oradea, my traveling to Slobozia to be with Calvary Chapel WestGrove’s High School Team and another conference!

I pray you are all doing good!

Love
Rachel