Adventures WorldRace SethBarnes Sponsorship Giving

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So we wake up on Tuesday September 1st at 4AM, my team leader Brandy starts singing “Rise and shine and give God the glory glory!” I roll out of bed after 4 hours of sleep, start scrambling to re-pack my 35 lb pack, and we make our way to the bus station. We get on the 5:45 AM bus and ride for 3 hours back to the Dublin airport where we are waiting to meet our other Teammate Shannon who is coming back from the United States.

Side note: Shannon lost her father a few weeks ago to a long battle with cancer. So she went home for 10 days to attend the funeral and spend time with family. She never once thought of not going on this trip because her father was sick and that is the most amazing witness for the Lord I’ve ever seen. God tells us that we should put Him above all else, and Shannon and her family have done that. Though she and her family could use your prayers during this time.

Shannon came in around 10 AM and we waited another 5.5 hours until our 3:30 flight. We spent 3.5 hours in the air to Romania and arrived at 9 pm. We then took a 30 minute taxi (bonus: they were playing the best techno I’ve ever heard) to the train station where we boarded a train at 11:45 pm. We rode this train in the smallest compartment I’ve ever seen for 11 hours. We mistakenly did not get the sleeper cars, so we sat upright the entire time. Here are a few photos for you to get an idea of how tight the space was. There are seven of us in the 8-person compartment, along with a Romanian woman who was probably very upset to see us start piling all of our stuff into the tiny space.
 
 
We arrived at our destination, Arad, Romania at 11 AM on September 2nd where we were greeted by my cousin Scott and another man Spencer. We were then brought to the home sponsored by Oaza (Oaza.com). This home houses 12 abandoned children, and us for the next 3 weeks. My cousins have been doing full-time mission work here in Romania for the last 3.5 years and we’re here to help them out. You can see more about them by going to : http://www.thedunnsinromania.org/

After putting our packs down, we ate lunch and headed off to meet the children we’re here to work with. They were swimming at a “Bath” (what the Romanians call a swimming pool) and we got to join them. What an amazing change it’s been… two days ago we were in 50-degree rainy weather and today we are in our bathing suits swimming in 80-degree heat and sun! It’s a bit surreal.

Our actual trip here did take quite a long time, but already I feel so at home here, useful here, and blessed by God to be here!