Goodbyes and Packing

It’s already over.  🙁   We overcame jet lag, adjusted to light switches, woke up to a huge grass hopper over my bed, learned at lunch not to fill up on the soup because there’s more coming and so many more stories that are waiting to be told!

Right now all of us are back to the house packing and spending the last moments left with our translators and hosts. Earlier today was the hardest part of the trip, we had to say goodbye to the kids at VBS and what was even harder was saying bye to the youth staying at the camp we’ve had VBS at. Those were the ones, about twelve of them, who we really got to hang out with and know this week.  They’ve opened up so much to some of us and it’s hard leaving knowing what they’ve gone through and going through now.  Please continue to pray for these young adults even as we come home. Pray that they will accept Christs gift of forgiveness, some feel they don’t deserve it because their parents have left them. Pray that they will find and put their hope in Christ, for we know that in hard times, even when it seems as if the whole world is against us, we have that hope in Him… these kids don’t have that but are seeking affection from someone, pray that they will seek the love of the Father who is perfect and will never let them down.

Can’t wait to share more when we get home but now it’s back to packing.

Planning for the Future

As our team finishes up with their last VBS and then gets ready for a visit to the gypsy village, Johnny, Keith, Claudiu and I are discussing plans for future trips. The emotions I know were high today as our team said goodbye to many of the youth that are helping with the VBS from the local orphanage.

Tomorrow they will have time to shop for souvenirs before we head off to Budapest for the night so our travel day on Wednesday will not be as long. A few of us have succumb to either the water or the food but between Joey’s blueberries and the Imodium I found at the Farmacie in Baia  Mare, we are doing ok. Just pray that we are back to normal before we get on the plane.

I look forward to seeing my home again and my son, but there is still one more service and one more day of ministry plus who know what the future will hold.

More Pictures

Didn’t have time to blog last night but wanted to be sure to share some more pictures this morning before we get going. I stole Amy’s camera so if you have looked at the previous links you may want to look again especially for the traveling T-Shirt.

Anyway, here are the new links…

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