Mission to Romania, June 18-21 Part 2, the story
The stated reason for the weekend in Romania was to continue the joint project of "Women for Women" in Arad, Romania with Jackie Ramsey and "Certain Women". We are getting a really good response from the ladies and are very encouraged. We are now planning the 3rd meeting for August 28. This time a visiting missionary gave a powerful testimony and I spoke on leaving the Valley of Achor (troubling) and walking through the door of Hope. We have a guest speaker from the USA next meeting with me doing the testimony slot. It is exciting to see the worship team come together from various churches and the translators gathering. It is really giving women a way to minister and be ministered to. Which was our hope all along, that and bringing an encouraging Word.
It turns out God had some other really wonderful purpose in the trip. I usually train in but dear friends, Sandor, Patricia and Bela Varga drove not only me but their long time friends the Toon family into Arad. We helped "plant" the Toon's in Arad, Romania for the summer. They have returned to the mission field after a 12 year hiatus and have been living in Slovakia but needed to leave for 90 days while some paperwork/visa issues are worked out. They reconnected with Patricia (all from same home church and mission team to Hu years ago) who is connected with me, who connected them to Jackie.
We all really had a powerful time of communion/koinania/fellowship together that was sweet, nourishing, divine, restorative. It was a most wonderful weekend even with a storm with tornadoesque winds that roared through the village causing us to lose power, plants, and a tent. The neighbors metal front gate blew off and was tossed into the air like a frisbee.
See part 3 for photos of Yancey, Esther, Eiley and Jason Toon and the Varga's.
It turns out God had some other really wonderful purpose in the trip. I usually train in but dear friends, Sandor, Patricia and Bela Varga drove not only me but their long time friends the Toon family into Arad. We helped "plant" the Toon's in Arad, Romania for the summer. They have returned to the mission field after a 12 year hiatus and have been living in Slovakia but needed to leave for 90 days while some paperwork/visa issues are worked out. They reconnected with Patricia (all from same home church and mission team to Hu years ago) who is connected with me, who connected them to Jackie.
We all really had a powerful time of communion/koinania/fellowship together that was sweet, nourishing, divine, restorative. It was a most wonderful weekend even with a storm with tornadoesque winds that roared through the village causing us to lose power, plants, and a tent. The neighbors metal front gate blew off and was tossed into the air like a frisbee.
See part 3 for photos of Yancey, Esther, Eiley and Jason Toon and the Varga's.
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