Buna seara (Good Evening.) Today was the last proper day of the bible club, we were 40 children today. The usual pattern was followed, the children thoroughly enjoying their singing, now that they know the words much better. ‘How did Moses cross the Red sea’ is definitely the favorite! As you will sea and hear if you watch us via the net, on Sunday Evening at 4pm (or catch up at anytime there after!)
The story of Moses continued today, including the Tabernacle. Deirdre and Glenys, took the little ones into the children’s separate work room, where the children (and some mums) completed worksheets and a spinner- to represent the 40 years the Israelites wandered in circles around the desert.
We prepared for our special evening service and Sunday school in the morning, throughout this afternoon. Everyone is feeling rather tired after a very busy week! The weather is very warm, but we have all enjoyed ourselves.
For lunch today, we went to one of the boys Paul, grandparents’ house where we had a feast of Fish, (Catfish, from the River Danube) and lovely watermelon.
Mihaela and Vali are attending a wedding reception in Timisuara, this evening so we are all about to have tea, and have a very long sleep in preparation for tomorrow – Hopefully!
Please pray that the children do well tomorrow night and give us God’s word to bring to them!
Glenys, Sarah, Deirdre, Ken & Mary
We, as every other day, started early. Arriving in the church and setting up, for another busy and interesting day. The older boys (13, 14 & 15 years) have enough English and a lot of interest to ask questions about the background and extensions to the stories. One lad, Paul (13 years old) has almost perfect English, and a very intelligent and inquisitive mind, he loves discussing deeper meanings to the stories, and their historical backgrounds, which as some of you know I (Mary) love talking about.
Two, pretty little 4 year olds, are the most mischievous, cute children in the group, they follow every hand action, and have learnt most of the songs like the others. Some of the mum’s who stay, have a word sheet and also write the Romanian words along aside the English ones, and also sing along with the songs – as long as you don’t look at them! Other mums join them early to pick their children up, so they can come into the church, to listen to the end of the club and are greatly amused at our antics. Miheala, gave out 53 invitations to children today for the Bible Club Special, where we will sing most of the songs, 6 children will recite the memory verses, in English. 6 other children will give a synopsis of the story in Romanian, and we hope to end up with the congregation singing ‘Tell the merry and Sad’ (the last verse.)
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Greetings from Romania
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.
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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
