When I was a child growing up in Maine, our church was diagonally across from our house, sitting on a hilltop. Every Sunday morning, the church’s bell would begin to peal calling us to Sunday School – and then to the morning service. It wasn’t a refined bell – absolutely nothing you would hear in…
I’m back in the States – Norton, MA to be exact. Oh, how difficult it was to leave my precious babies at Albina, and ‘kids’ at Barza Mica. The little ones at Albina love having Corina and me with them but are really clueless at my coming and going. However, my having to leave is…
Our hearts and minds seem to be always turned to ‘thankfulness’ during this month. Not that it’s the only time that we are thankful, but with such a wonderful family holiday, the ‘spirit of thanksgiving’ pervades. We love sitting around a sumptuously spread table with all our traditional and favorite foods of the day. I’m…
October was a busy month! Thanks to you (and most of all to our Almighty God), we are using the ‘outdoor’ kitchen at Barza Mica. It needs some finishing touches, but is totally operational. This kitchen makes it safer for our precious ‘kids’. BTW, the food is amazing – the cooks are just the best,…
I had returned from Romania to Massachusetts just a few days before and happened to be home all by myself one October evening. Sitting at my kitchen table, I had my Bible open and was meditating on John 15.15 – “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his…
So many blessings in September: – LFA was blessed once again to be able to send two vans full of food, goods, and supplies deep into Ukraine. So many there are huddled in their basements for protection and literally, starving to death. Not only do we bring them sustenance, but the Good News of our…
There is a well-known female speaker whom I love. Usually, I am completely disinterested in Christian Women Speakers. It seems all too often that the depth of their subject matter is desperately shallow – and when I am wanting some ‘meat to eat’, they give me frou-frou instead. I stopped going to Women’s Conferences a…
I can hardly believe that August is over. I love August! It speaks ‘summer’ to me! It was, however, a different few weeks. I had a (mild) UTI, four ocular migraines, a sinus infection, and bronchitis – all within the span of two weeks. I am absolutely praising God that I’m doing so much better,…
As I encounter another birthday this month (forgive me for not saying which one), I am more and more grateful for the Bible’s description of what our heavenly bodies will be like. I absolutely love God’s assignment for me in Romania for the past twenty-two years – and could only love it more if He’d…
– I absolutely praise God that despite a difficult trip, He carried me back safely one more time to ‘the other land that I love’. (Thank You, Lord!!) As usual, Ovi and I had great conversation on the nearly 3-hour trip to Brasov from Otopeni. Much of what he had to tell me was difficult…