Backpacking around Europe
for five weeks had its’ challenges to be sure.
After sleeping in train stations, hostels, and ferries with the same two
people 24/7, one would think my wife and I have had quite enough of the peregrinators
life to last us a good while. One would
be wrong…
This new
adventure upon which we will embark tomorrow, brings new challenges and new hopeful
expectations. It will be challenging
because it will not be only our own bellies and bodies we will be responsible
for, but also for seven other young and foolish (for following us into the
unknown) students. Hopeful expectation comes from the knowledge that this time,
we travel not for own amusement and wanderlust, but for the purpose of
spreading His good news!
It is to a
small city in the country of Romania
where we are headed, in the region of famed Transylvania ,
where the stories of Vlad the Impaler’s cruelty (aka Dracula) are birthed. These ancient cruelties however are distant
in mind compared to the more recent regimes that have plagued the
populace. When I think of Romania
I think of two things; vampires and orphans.
I don’t know of any vampires in need of the gospel, so it is to the
orphans that we will go!
In all seriousness
we are very excited to have this opportunity.
With this team of ours made of CCBCE students from Vajta, Hungary, we
will be spending time in an abandoned baby hospital where infants die from lack
of physical touch and love. Also we will
be visiting an orphanage every morning while in the afternoons we will be
working with local gypsy children. These
things I’m sure will impact us in ways we are not yet prepared for, but we are
excited knowing Whom we are going for.
If you have
a memory better than mine, please don’t neglect to pray for us that our God
will fill us up with His Spirit so that we can love these children and each
other in the way that He loves, without any conditions whatsoever! Pray also
for our safety as we travel, and for the hearts of the children we will
minister to.
