The morning started for Glenys and Deirdre as usual with breakfast at the home of Geta and then on the minibus that had picked up about 10 children on the way; arriving at the church (Basilica) just a few minutes later.
The children, approximately 40 today, ranging from ages 14 to 3 ½ are very well behaved and sit in the front pews whilst the team set up the flannograph and music.
Today the story of Moses continued with crossing the Red Sea. Sabin our pastor welcomes the children, and two or three of the parents of the very small who stay at the back of the church. He leads us in prayer in Romanian and although we cannot understand the words, we know that God does and that is good enough.
We started the day, by again sorting out last minute preparations for the day. We had 46 children and young people today, we again started by singing ‘My God is so Big’ and continued by reintroducing the song ‘hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah’ which many of the children learned last year. We made the song into a round and had the children sitting and standing, making it more fun for them – and us! Sarah, did today’s memory verse from Acts 16 v 31. Today’s story was the Passover, which Mary & Ken presented between them. Ken, dressed up as Moses again, and a few of the children believe that Ken, is in fact Moses! Which we found very sweet! We then separated, the older children went to work with Mihaela on the keywords and the younger ones to make/decorate bags. We rejoined for the revision of the memory verse, and a recital of yesterday’s. The children have been bringing all their crafts and word lists each day to show them off.
For dinner we were invited to Mary and John (one of the Boy’s & a girl from the Bible club’s grandparents.) We were given a stew, fried chicken, mashed potatoes and a risotto, all if which was lovely!
We then went back to Vali & Mihaela’s and they told us, that the boy who had been bitten by the dog, was still in hospital but fortunately wasn’t as bad as first thought. Glenys, is thankfully much better today! But Ken, has suffered with something quite similar to Glenys so stayed at Vali & Mihaela’s after the Bible Club, and says he feels much better after sleep. Some of the team will be going to the funeral of a man from the church, today. There was a service the day of his death, in the home and the another in the home, here in Moldova Noua today, along with the ceremony at the graveyard.
We have started planning our special service on Sunday Evening (available at http://maranata1.netfirms.com at 4 o’clock onwards – UK time)
Tomorrow we are planning on bringing the children the Red Sea, and up into Mount Sinai in the Talk.
Glenys, Deirdre, Sarah, Mary & Ken
We again started very early to finish off the the preparations for the day. When counting there were around 47 children today! We started with ‘God gave us a special book ’and then continued by teaching the children ‘my God is so big.’ Glenys (bunica) taught the children the new memory verse from Exodus ch 9 v 14, they were very quick to learn the words. Ken & Mary (bun & bunica – grandma and papa) then did the talk on the first 9 plagues, Ken dressed as Moses again acted the part out.
We then separated, and the younger children made bugs and the older children learnt the keywords of the day. We ended the day with the revision of the memory verse and some of the songs.
The SOUL course has been moved to the autumn. If you’d like to join please contact the pastor. For more details link through the the separate SOUL page of the website.
