Well, this is our last day here in Hunedoara. We leave pretty soon for Oradea to pick up Chris who left yesterday to visit some of his family. He was born here in Romania and was adopted at 14 mo. by an American family. After that we will be going to Budapest, where we will be doing a little more sightseeing and then we catch a flight the next morning at 6:30. We all have enjoyed it so much here and it will be sad to leave but we are looking forward to coming home and seeing our families and friends [View Full Entry]

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O.k. here I am again. It's been a few days since I've written on our travelblog, but I am glad that others have been able to. It seems that whenever we get a chance to be on the computers I am just too tired to be able to write (type & think). Part of it is probably all the go - go -go and when I stop, I wilt. We have been having such a wonderful time here. The Salt & Light Campaign is starting to wind down. We only have the remainder of today and tomorrow left. It will be [View Full Entry]

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When we started with the Spa ministry, I really struggled with it. I have a background in Mary Kay so I have no trouble at all with the spa aspect, in fact it did seem like a perfect fit. The trouble that I had was that I saw the people who live without heat in an area that reaches 10 below and families sending one parent away to find work while the other stays behind with the kids. Painting nails seemed shallow and pointless in the face of the poverty here. I felt more useful when we were picking up trash [View Full Entry]

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I will try to upload more photos on here but I don't have a lot of time before we go down and do the spa but I will get as many as I can. [View Full Entry]

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Hello, all! First off, I would like to say that we miss you all very much. We are blatantly reminded of home today for here in Hunedoara, it is a cold, rainy day. As much as we miss home, we are also realizing how very hard it will be to leave. We are only a week and a few days into our trip, and yet we are getting to know and love everybody here. Yesterday was the first day of the Salt and Light Festival. We arrived at the Centre at about 9:30-10:00 a.m., and we immediatly got to work. We [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday we were teamed up with the California team to help with the sewing, I was really excited because I now have been quilting and the first project is a quilt. Ann and the girls weren't thrilled though. We were waiting to get started when they told us that we were more needed in the spa ministry. They didn't have a team organized for it. The girls were thrilled, but Ann wasn't. We started doing facials and manicures and Ann was disappointed because she felt out of place. Throughout the day she was taking pictures (for those of you that don't [View Full Entry]

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Here are some photos. [View Full Entry]

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We arrived this morning to start our first day of the campaign. They put us on the clean-up crew with a group from Switzerland and a group from Indiana. It has been a great blessing to work with groups from all over. We started in the "forest" which was an empty lot and cleaned our way down the street and partway up the next. Groups of evangelists followed us. People were very curious about what we were doing and that gave the evangelists a chance to talk to them. We were very thankful to be done and for the cold water [View Full Entry]

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As most of you know, one of the reasons we traveled to Romania was to visit the orphanage that my Uncle Matt is involved with. I have since decided that orphanage is not really the correct description. Maybe foster families is better. Their are two different families, each with Romanian house parents. The first family, in Huneodora, have one boy of their own and then 5 other boys and 3 girls. We have spent a lot of time with this family and it is wonderful to see how happy they all are. They range in age from 7 yrs. old to [View Full Entry]

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Hi, this is Ruth. The campaign that we are helping with is organized by Bethlehem Center. The center is in one of the poorest districts in Huneodora. The center started by providing bible studies to the neighborhood including kids. Some of the kids couldn't read or write so the center added a homework assistance program. Many of those kids were so hungry that they couldn't concentrate during the lessons, so the center added a hot meal program. Well some of the kids smelled so bad that the other kids wouldn't sit by them, so the center added a shower and laundry [View Full Entry]

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