Quick Support Update: With all of your help, we made it to the goal to keep me here another month. I do still need $2175 to finish the World Race!
I am sorry that this isn’t a well refined bit of expository writing. Something about this place is sucking the creativity out of me, and I am sorry that you get the result. I have lots of great thoughts and images I want to convey… but it just isn’t happening at the moment (and I don’t know why). For some reason I can’t get the words from my brain to the keyboard. I can give you a few little bits though. We are in Moldova, and last week we were in a little village called Cornesti (pronounced Cornesh). We worked with an amazing pastor named Vitalii who runs a transition home for young men and women who are past orphanage age, but not ready for the real world yet. Lots of incredible things went on there, but we were only there for a week.
This week, we are in Soldernesti (pronounced like Holderness, only ‘sh’ at the beginning, and ‘esht’ at the end), working with a pastor who is about to open a transition home for young women. The home isn’t open yet, so we are staying there! The highlight of my week has been working in the vineyard. I have so much internal commentary about John 15 and how that all relates… and then there is the whole idea of continuity of kingdom and we are working with the vines that will produce the juice for people we will never meet to take communion… yeah… that sort of stuff is all in my head. Sorry you can’t all experience that right now… or maybe you are actually lucky…
Sometime next week we are headed to Romania to Bucharest where Team Banah will be joined by Team Lunchbox working with a ministry called Casa Shalom, which you can look at here: http://misslink.org/casa/
At the moment, I’m in a little internet cafe in Soldernesti, and I am surround by pre-pubescent boys all playing 007 or Doom or some other online game. Pictures from here will have to wait a bit; jump drives are not allowed in here.
