Thursday in Romania: Orphanage, visiting foster families, and market day in Beius

Peter and Ana Lucaciu and Howie, the dog. Peter is Executive Director of the Romanian Evangelical Medical Mission (REMM). Ana is the banker, coordinator, planner, orphanage director, etc. Howie is the Deal or No Deal translator.

Today we had a celebration with the families who have chosen to be foster families here in Beius. Here are some of the children from the orphanage and their foster mothers. To the left is Catelin, a baby we saw two years ago. He is now almost 3 years old.To the right are two other children who are being cared for by the Romanian foster parents.

This is Emily and Daniel with Daria, one of the girls at the House of Josef orphanage. Dave Tippit's organization, Eternal Concepts, had sent them gifts of lipstick, sunglasses, shoes, and dolls. The children were so excited with their gifts.
At the party for the foster families, some of the students from Emmanuel University in Oradea played with the chldren. Here is Emil with 2 of the students. Market Day in Beius. The vegetables were beautiful. This old man could hardly walk, but was buying his produce from the market.

This is Mike and Mike. Mike, our translator, is a student living in Stei, where we held our first medical clinic and Bible School. He speaks English very well. So he translated for us and helped us during our morning at the market. Here Mike Sirman is purchasing a Romanian pitchfork which is used to create the haystacks we see all over Romania. Karen wanted a pitchfork. The question is: HOW do we transport this back to the US?

While in the market, Karen was approached by a gypsy family to purchase this handmade skirt. The gypsies asked us 100 Euros for this skirt. Too much, we told them. We only had 30 leis, which was $15. They were quite the salesmen!Children at the market.

Mike, Claire, and Daniel at the party for the foster families.

Students from Emmanuel University. Dave Tippit is at the head of the table. Dave will be teaching the students discipleship principles during his stay here next week. The students were very sweet and curious about our work. We appreciate their time with us and especially their service work for REMM.

This is one of the gypsy families at market day. Their clothes were very colorful. Their children were beautiful.

Amy, Daniel, Claire, and Emily with the girls from the House of Josef orphanage. Also, Mike, our translator is in there with the gang. The girls love to play with us. Some of these children have families in America waiting for Romania to open international adoption again. Some do not have a family waiting. REMM works to get families for these children and currently there are not many families willing to adopt in Romania.

Another full day here in Beius. Tonight the Istrouma team must pack to go back to Budapest. The Holmes family leaves for Bucharest. Karen and Mike will be staying to do some more work at the orphanage and warehouse.

This is the team from Istrouma Baptist and Westminister Presbyterian in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Please consider joining us next year for our mission trip to ROmania. There is much more work to be done here. We thank God for our time here. We have been so happy to work here among these lovely people and to share the few materials, medicine, and clothing we brought and Jesus' love, his sacrificial forever love, with them.

Domnezeu este mare! God is great!

Dumnezeu este bun! God is good!

A face pe plac la pray pentru nouă. Please pray for us.

Multumesc Lord! Thank you, Lord!