Welcome to Ville Tecii!! After a 8 hour train ride from Bucharest during the night. It was probably one of the best kept boxcars we’ve been in, but it had 6 beds and not much room. I was lucky and got the middle bed. I felt bad for the ones in the top bunk, especially Garrett who is around 6’2, poor thing.
Its was an interesting start here. Ministry wasn’t quite what we expected and for not laying down expectation it hurt our relationships with our contacts. We are working with Gypsy Agape. They basically start relationships and churches in surrounding villages and it is headed by two brothers. In the past 5 years they have opened and ministered 5 churches. We are here to help support them and for the three weeks or so we were living with their families. For the most part we traveled in the late afternoon to the villages. Depending on the day we would have might have kids ministry (playing with the kids, singing songs, maybe a short lesson) or we might be in the night service of one of the churches (be ready to give a testimony, sing a song or preach at any second).
The first couple of weeks were hard. Learning to work with another team and being separated from my teammates made for an interesting month. I learned a lot of lessons like trusting our leader and to step up. All the responsibility does not lay on Sydney, it’s on all of us and we need to not be dependent in a way that makes us lazy in our relationship with God. This month was about choosing to be involved in ministry, to be present. It was about dying to self everyday and I wasn’t everyday. We made a lot of mistakes this month, but we wont make the same ones again.
Overall, I learned to love Ville Tecii and the surrounding villages. It was hard at times, but worth it. God loves, lives, and is empowering people here.
