This month was the biggest mystery we’ve had on the Race so
far. Usually we know at least where
we’re going, our contact’s name, and kind of what we’re doing about a week
before we get to the new country. This
was not the case this month. We knew our
contact and where we were going about one hour before leaving for our ministry
site.
We came a few days early to Moldova to hang out with the
fresh and exciting and wonderful A Squad.
We got to take them out to eat, prophesy and pray for them, and have
some amazing worship with them. Then
Monday they left to return to their ministry sites in Moldova, and we met for
our orientation. At that orientation we
learned that we would be coming down to Cantimer, and we would be working with
a Pastor Boris. That’s about all we
knew. Then we were dismissed and had
about 5 minutes to pack up our bags and leave.
Cantimer was only a few hours from where we were in the
capital by bus. We arrived and met
Pastor Boris. He immediately took us to
a Sister Maria’s house to eat lunch (it’s like 2:30 in the afternoon at this
point). After a quick eat and run lunch
we went to Pastor Boris’s church, which he is in the middle of building. We sat inside of a freezing building with no
heat and chatted about ourselves and about Moldova. Still during those 4 hours we didn’t learn
anything we would be doing for the month.
We do learn that we will be splitting up and living in 3 different
houses. And that we will be eating all
three meals at Sister Maria’s house. So
we head back to Sister Maria’s house for dinner, and me and Jess unpack our
bags because this is where we’re going to be living for the month.
We learn that breakfast will be at 9 am so we wake up
accordingly, still no idea what we’re doing when we start ministry the next
day. We wake up and are ready at 9 am
for breakfast to find out that we’re doing manual labor that morning then
preaching at some other village that evening.
That’s pretty much how it’s been since.
We just wait until the morning to find out what we’re doing that day. The one constant is doing construction on the
church every morning for 4 hours then we have lunch then we could possibly do a
kid’s program, do more construction, or go to another village to preach. Let’s just say after 10 months of practice
we’re pretty good at being prepared for anything. And that’s exactly what we need this
month. Be prepared for anything.
It’s going to be so weird to go home and have a schedule.
Crazy.
