Missionary friends of mine in Romania started a program a number of years ago called " The Widow's Mite". Every month they deliver groceries including canned meat, eggs, oil, fruits and vegetables, cleaning supplies and candy to needy widows in and around Arad, Romania. The program also supplies wood for burning in their stoves. This year the need is becoming greater and greater. Today, the program is run by veteran missionary Jackie Ramsey. She and her small team work very hard for at least 4-6 days a month just to prepare and deliver for this ministry. Because of your support of me, I was able to go to Romania in October (when Jackie was away) and help with the packing, sorting and distribution. We were also able to leave some extra money to help one widow pay some utility bills. If you would like to sponsor a widow, the groceries alone cost about $35 a month. Let me know if you can help one time for Christmas or monthly and I can send you details of how to do that. This winter is fore-casted to be unusually cold so any help you could give for wood would be a blessing! The more monthly support Jackie has the more widows can be helped. Right now there is a list of those waiting for sponsors. Of course, our prayers are important for this ministry, too.
Here Adina is putting the food packages together.
This is an example of the finished parcels
We visited Ilena and she had a visitor, a single mom named Helen. She asked if we could add Helen, too.
This room is the entire living space for Ilena and she is glad to have it!
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| Katerina was waiting at her gate for us although she did not know when to expect us! |
Although most of the ladies are true widows, Jackie has felt led to help this couple. She also helps buy the medicine they need.
This little grandma was being helped by her grandchildren but when they lost their jobs they appealed to Jackie for help for her.
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| Here is missionary, Carolyn joining us to deliver to Kati, who has been house bound for about 10 years. She has a really joyful spirit and is a great baker so her bag always includes flour, sugar and oil |
Often on the train journey to Arad I meet interesting people. This young woman, Katalin is a Romanian national chess champion. She will be traveling again to France soon to compete.
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