Time in Romania was well spent. We will have to post some videos soon. A few highlights about Romania:

1) Europeans love their round-a-bouts. Traffic is no longer a problem. However the lines in the roads are merely suggestions to follow.

2) Cornel, our host, defied the Communist Regime…twice. (video of that story to come for sure)

3) The WC does not always have TP.

4) We got invited by Joseph (a pastor/shepherd) to shepherd his sheep …unfortunately we had to decline to prior obligations, but we all wanted to!

5) God bless our translators, the Fedors, Lidia, Melinda, and the power of body language/charades! But I think in total, we learned a dozen Romanian words. (My favorite, “ce pace” (chay-pach) or “what’s up”)

6) God has a HUGE heart for the Gypsies of Romania! In the past 5 years that FBC has been operating in Hasdate, there is no more crime in that village! Cornel has started another church plant in Gherla. The children are beautiful. The ladies are hospitable and welcoming. The men were curious about our digital cameras.

7) The Lord healed Michelle’s ankles and saved Sidor’s life (a Gypsy man needed medicine for his kidney operation and couldn’t afford it…and the Lord used us to bless him and the medicine probably spared him from infection and we got to pray for him and his family)

8 ) The Lord is working in many elderly widows who all have  powerful encounters in their villages by praising the Lord and serving Him in joy daily. Maria sang us a song.

9) The Lord used our testimonies to witness to others multiple times throughout the week.

10) The Lord is supernaturally blessing the land. The mountains and countryside are gorgeous! People’s wells do not dry up in times of drought (i.e. Alunis) and people get ridiculously huge chickens and crops (i.e. Gusti’s tomatoes are the size of pumpkins….and it’s all organic farming…and praying)