Our Last Three Weeks!
Our last three weeks of Ministry were spent in two different parts of Moldova. The first week we worked with a small church in Northern Moldova in a city called Edinet, and the last two weeks we have been in the Southern part of Moldova in a citied called Cahul. The time here has gone so fast and tomorrow morning we will start our journey to Kiev, Ukraine for our last six days of this trip. Here is a look at what some of us have been doing in Moldova.
In Edinet, Moldova we spent our afternoons working with children throughout the city. We went to some of the poorer areas of the city and spent a couple hours a day playing with the kids, singing songs and teaching interactive Bible stories.
Here are some of the boys reading through the books we gave them to take home. We really enjoyed our time with these kids!
Our mornings in Edinet were spent assisting the elderly and helping them with some home improvements. The lady in the this picture lived across the street from us. She is blind and lives alone in a house that is falling apart. We spent a morning cleaning out her backyard. Her house does not have indoor plumbing and because she is blind she can not find her way to the outhouse…so her backyard was in desperate need of being cleaned.
We also spent a few hours painting for an elderly man who also lived in the neighborhood.
Our last two weeks in Cahul, Moldova were spent playing with deaf children. In the afternoons a group of us helped out at a school for the deaf. This is the only school in Moldova for deaf children and there are about 94 kids from all over the country living there. What a blessing they were to us. We would go play with them in the afternoons, sit in on some of their classes, and just share life together. They were eager to teach us some Romanian sign language and we loved getting to know them. Tonight is our last night with them and we have been given permission to take them out for pizza and ice cream!
In Cahul, I spent my mornings going into the high school with the youth pastor and teaching on AIDS and Swaziland. It wasn’t a planned ministry, but after the youth pastor heard my heart for those who are affected by AIDS in Swaziland he asked Lisa and me to help him teach on AIDS. I really enjoyed spending time with the teenagers and sharing my heart on what is happening in Swazi. It also helped them to hear how AIDS has completely devastated one country and to know that if they don’t make wise decisions it could happen here in Moldova as well. I failed to take any pictures of the school and us teaching, but the picture above is of the youth pastor we worked with and his family.
Our time here is done and the trip is at an end, but it was a blessing to be able to spend our last weeks of ministry in Moldova. We will miss the children and all the friends we have met here. Thank you again for praying us through our last few weeks!
