Our 2013 in pictures
Left: First ever New Testamental Baptism in the village of Tintava Up: This Baptism was the beginning of a new church (amongst the other 5 planted by Padureni, Giurgiu - Christian Gipsy Community)
Left: Through the “Agape Meals” Project, about 70 poor people have been blessed with a warm meal once a week. Down: Childr en praying during one of the Kids Outdoor Programs; Old ladies crying and saying “We are too old to go to church, but through you, the Church has come to us!”
Up & Left: Sharing The Gospel with people of all ages, social backgrounds and ethnical groups during our summer outreaches.
Up & Left: Bus4Life has been a great tool to gather many many children and people of all ages! All who visited us could hear about our Lord and leave with some kind of free reading material. For the ones who wanted more, Bus4Life offers a great variety of Christian Literature for sale.
Left & Up: Children have been a special focus for us. For them we prepared many games and Bible lessons during the KidsGames competitions, but also with different other occasions.
Left: George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilization, visited Romania to speak at the Brethren Gathering. In the picture, with his GoFer, Andrew & Rafael. Left & Down: Yothe dressed up in different national outfits at the Peniel Youth Conference. Left: Children participating in the Program “Travel around the World in one day� at the OM mission centre. Left & Down: Emy&Timy, our friends from Timisoara with some of the books and brochures published by OM Romania last year. Right: Romanian Watermelon - you just have to taste it to understand why! ;)
All Left & Above: In the village of Bod, a new church is being born. OM has been working along side Sorin, it’s pastor, to renovate the old building. By the end of this year, there have started: English lessons, Music lessons and a day care centre. Far Left & Down: Liz is teaching some English Lessons in Padureni, as well.
Left: A new Basketball League has started thanks to Stelica Robu, a believer who is also a Sports Teacher. Left & Down: Soccer Trainings are going on with Gabi Gligore!
Left & Above: Thanks to Elya Ballard from New Zealand & her wonderful church, this year we had 15 new bikes to use in the summer outreaches. We needed these bikes so much, as the old ones we had were old and breaking.
Left: The Free Dental Clinic had a great succes also this year in Topraisar! Thanks to Ema, Silviu, Alex & Radu who are giving their summer holiday to serve the poor!
Right: Puppet Show with the Transit team at home for Disabled boys.
The people we are most proud of, our missionaries, have been serving this year in many areas of the world!
Photo Credits: David Buser; Jan Kupper; Fabienne Buess; Caitie Sweet; Carol Muirhead; Uniunea CDE; Rafael Nastase; Stelica Robu; Luminita Dragusin; Gabriel Gligore; Raluca Cardos. Broshure Design: Raluca Cardos
Thank you for your involvement in making this year special for so many Romanians! We couldn’t have done it without you!
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