How I’m Living – Romania

This month my team and I are living in Draganesti-Olt, Romania with three other teams. We live in a big missionary house, and it brings community living to a whole new level. There are four toilets, four showers, one washing machine, and one kitchen in which we must fit all of our groceries and prepare all of our meals. It's been awesome!

Meals are my favorite actually. Each team is in charge of dinner/clean up one night each week. Which means the other nights you get to just show up, eat, and leave. It's wonderful! And we've yet to have a disappointing meal. Our squad knows how to cook!

My team lives in a spacious room of bunks, and we have creatively made forts, so we actually have privacy for once!

This is our bathroom. We can flush toilet paper woohoo!

This is where some of my squadmates live.

This is our kitchen!

This is our sweet Gretchen.

Later this month is PVT (parent vision trip) so our living arrangements will change, but so far so good!

This month we are working alongside local missionaries to help them however we can. We have spent our time cleaning, discipling young girls, doing prayer walks, sharing testimonies with people in surrounding villages, doing construction (boys only – no girls allowed), and spending two hours each morning in worship and intercession. It's been so amazing.

Pray for Romania! The spiritual atmosphere is heavy due to all the witchcraft amongst the gypsy community. Also, in the early 90's when communism fell, many of the women were raped and forced to give up their children as soldiers. As a result, AIDS is a huge problem here, along with unemployment. But God is working and moving here, and I'm excited to be a part of it!