October, 2016 God has been so good to His ministry (Love From Above) in the past month – and has kept us so busy. I arrived back in the States September 21 with my head just a-buzzing with what-all went on in September. Because of your compassion for ‘the helpless’, ‘the least of these’, the…
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September, 2016 – In Every Thing, Give Thanks
I heard this recently – ‘What if when you got up every morning, all you had was what you had thanked God for the day before?’ That really resonated in my mind and heart, because not only am I not nearly as thankful as I need to be, but often I even forget to thank…
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September, 2016
August was a very full month. Besides loving and enjoying, singing and praying over our precious orphans, there were other things going on. The Tompi’s, Robert and Alina and I traveled to his mother and sister’s village in Bahnea to minister once again.
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August, 2016 – Lead Me to a Mountain
This is my birthday month! I was blessed to have loving parents and many, many happy birthdays growing up. We could always choose what we wanted for our birthday meal, and since I was born in the hot, dog-days of August, my favorite place to go to celebrate was to Musquash Lake for a cook-out. …
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August, 2016
I have been in Brasov in my little flat on Str. Frasinului in Noua (section of Brasov) for a little over a month now. It is ‘home’ to me – and with people whom I love – especially my precious orphans at Albina (Orphanage) and Barza Mica (Orphanage). Sadly we ‘lost’ precious little Ionela at…
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July, 2016 – God Bless America – (please!)
As I write this post from Romania, I have to tell you that there is something a little strange about not being in my own country on the Fourth of July. I experienced this back in 2000 when I worked with Gujarati Indians in Loughborough, England. It just felt odd. And it does this time…
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July, 2016
I am delighted to be writing this update from ‘the other land that I love’! I left Boston June 23, and arrived in Brasov (Romania) on the evening of the 24th. As usual, Ovi picked me up in Bucharest. The two and one half hour ride is always one of great conversation, catching up on…
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June, 2016 – Happy Father’s Day!
The Bible is full of examples of fathers. Good ones, not so good ones, ones filled with wisdom, ones who ‘struggled’ with wisdom, and plenty of other types. No matter who our father is (was) Ephesians 6.2 tells us to honor our father (and mother) – and it was also the first commandment with a…
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June, 2016
Joyous news! A single donor contributed not only the final third of the funds to finish installing the plumbing for our Gypsy Church, Canaan in the village of Halchiu, but also the entire amount to have the whole heating system installed. Can you say with me – ‘Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!’?
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May, 2016 – Soli Deo Gloria
Everyone thinks that their dog is the ‘best’. But I, truly, had the best dog – for about 11 years. He was a beautiful smooth-haired Chow-Chow, and his name was Johann Sebastian Bachie. My boys were quite taken a-back by his name, but since they couldn’t seem to come up with anything else, Bachie, it…