Turning the hopeless into givers of hope
Teen Challenge Romania Summer 2010 Dear friends, it is with great joy that we share what happened in and through the ministry of Romania Teen Challenge in the last few months. Trust you will rejoice with us.
Graduation Banquet We celebrated the graduation of five transformed lives at Teen Challenge Romania. These five young men graduation was a memorable moment of joy and encouragement for us and for many who attended. We shared the joy of the mothers and fathers (the ones that have), the wives, the children and the friends...and the joy of the Father! It is indeed a celebration of victory and a new life...a life in Christ. We were blessed to have Pastor Ron Brown, a gifted and anointed man of God, committed to Romania Teen Challenge.
God’s touch on the guys during the camp Our students went to a Christian camp about 10 hours drive up north in Romania. One of the Van gear box broke in the way there but God helped us to get there in time:). There is something about getting out of the comfort zone that opens up a heart... the camp proved to be a real pouring of the Holy Spirit and many of our students experienced God in a deep way. They were so grateful for this opportunity.. Thank you for making this possible!
New students As other graduate, new students enter the program. We are still the only residential program for drug addicts in Bucharest and surroundings...a population of over 3 million people. There are an estimated 100,000 drug addicts and many street young adults. We meet them on the streets, at the hospital where they go to detox, at methadone clinics where they go for the substitute of heroin....places that offer a kind of help that is limited.
Development of the property
The attic
Increasing the capacity and creating the needed spaces at the Center has been a goal/project we started last year. We are now about 50% done. In the last months we finished the fourth floor (an attic with two big rooms: one for storage and one for hosting guests) and continued to work on the third floor - insulation and dry walls. The walls just need to be painted now. 3th floo
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We built a vegetables
Vegetable sg
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garden that already feeds us‌ Ionut, one of our interns and former student has done a great job with it. The greenhouse project is about to start as we are now in the middle of installing the dripping water system and already have the seeds that turned into little plants. This year we will grow cherry, tomatoes, bell peppers and Greenhouse
cucumbers.
Supporting Slovenia Teen Challenge
Seeds for greenhouse
Our heart goes with Matjaz and Magdalena Horjak, leaders of Slovenia TC as they are getting ready to launch a men Center there. We went there for few days to be supportive to them and do a staff training. Slovenia is not an easy country to reach people for Christ or to easily find good workers for the ministry but with God all things are possible. We want to be a blessing for them and share whatever we have and know.
Organizing 2 national Conferences for leaders in Romania I personally believe that investing in the leaders of churches, ministries and businesses in Romania is a key to reaching more people to Christ and have fruitful ministries and businesses in this country. It’s relationships and unity that will increase the fruits. We will always have the needs of the ministry but facilitating such a ministry, I believe will bless us and many other ministries on long term. Some of these pastors and business men already support Leader’s conference
Romania Teen Challenge and every year the numbers goes up. Romania is already sending many missionaries in the middle and far east as well as Africa and other nations...and I believe this is just the beginning. Romania has been receiving much help from many countries, especially the USA and that should serve us as an example to bless other nations. Pastor Ron Brown has been instrumental turning this vision into reality. The conference has been powerful in terms of God’s presence and deep fellowship.
We started 5 years ago with a small first conference held in a room of a cabin and in 2010 we took over three hotels and over 140 attendees, all pastors or ministry leaders or business men together with wives and kids. Oltita together with a group of ladies from St. Andrew’s Church organized a woman leadership conference and it was one of the first of its kind in Romania. Most of these women in leadership were really encouraged.
Women’s con
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Web updates You deserve regular updates and it is our desire to improve the communication. Starting with this summer on, we post regular updates on www.teenchallenge.ro and Facebook. Anytime you want to know what’s going on here, please check the web and the FB. We will continue to send our newsletters.
A grateful THANK YOU for your prayers and financial support! We take this opportunity to thank you for your faithful giving. We live here in Romania in a time of great opportunity expanding the kingdom of God and turning the hopeless into givers of life. We wish you a wonderful summer and richest blessings, Catalin and the team of Romania Teen Challenge If you would like to make tax deductible donation to Romania Teen Challenge ministry please make check payable to: Teen Challenge Southern California TC Office (Memo: For Teen Challenge Romania) 5445 Chicago Ave, Riverside California 92507 Please include a return address with your gift so may be properly receipted To ask questions call at 951.682.8990