http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/AMAppel/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from AMAppel en-us Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:54:30 UTC Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:54:30 UTC 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 630. We all have enjoyed it so much he http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/blog-305483.html 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 na http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/blog-304459.html 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 starti http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/blog-304363.html 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. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/blog-303577.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/blog-303030.html 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 start http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/blog-303026.html Here are some photos. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/blog-302705.html We arrived this morning to start our first day of the campaign. They put us on the cleanup 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 w http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/blog-302704.html 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. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/blog-302367.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/blog-302366.html O.K. I know I know I said I would do an update daily well I guess that's not going to work. We did try to update a couple of nights ago. Ruth had it all written out and then we lost our internet connection and everything she had written. We were way too tired to rewrite so here we are today trying again.A lot has happened since our last entry we decided it might be best to break up everythi http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/blog-302358.html As I write this we are somewhere in Romania but we're not actually sure where. We left our homes Tues. morning around 930 a.m. and arrived at our first night's lodging Wed. afternoon around 300 which is about 130 a.m. local time. Don't ask what day cause right now I'm not sure what day it is. I do know that it is about 800 a.m. now and 1000 p.m. home time. We feel much better now with a l http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Romania/Vest/Timisoara/blog-300833.html Wow we have heard back from so many people. Thanks to so many of you for your encouragement and prayersAs I was working on a Bible Study this week I ran across an old familiar verse. Isn't it great the way God speaks to us wherever we are in our livesHere's the verse Psalm 1914 I'm sure many of you know it by heartMay the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing in http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Washington/Bellingham/blog-297812.html So we only have 6 days to go Can't quite believe it's almost here I've been making lots of lists and doing lots of shopping. So many things to do and so little time. When we discovered this website for the Salt and Light Ministry we really started getting excited. This ministry is doing an Evangelism Campaign in Hunedoara and that is what we get to help with. Also for those intereste http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Washington/Bellingham/blog-297258.html I Peter 411If anyone speaks he should do it as one speaking the very words of God.If anyone serves he should do it with the strength God provides so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.To Him be the glory and the power forever and ever Amen.James 127Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is thisto look after orphans and widows in their distressand http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Washington/Bellingham/blog-293619.html So you're probably wondering whatever made us decide to fly all the way across the world to Romania. Well I'm sure there are going to be many times when we will repeat that question ourselves but here is the general story.Earlier this year my niece was inspired by someone in her church to do some mission work in Romania. Of course she desired to have someone she knew well to go along with h http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Washington/Bellingham/blog-277384.html http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Washington/Bellingham/blog-277379.html