I feel so completely blessed to be here in ‘the other land that I love’ once again.  What a privilege that the Lord ‘assigned me this work to the ‘least of these’ – to ‘consider the helpless’ in His stead – in Jesus’ name.  Did you know that it has been nineteen years since I first set foot in Romania thinking that all the Lord wanted from me was a one-time missions trip?  He knew better than to show His whole plan for me knowing that this pathetic child would have totally freaked out!

Lord willing, I get to return to ‘the other land that I love’ July 6 for another three months.  As my kids at Barza Mica sit on the rock wall most of the day watching planes go overhead wondering if one is going to be the one to bring Mama Dawn back, I long even more to get back to them – and continue the ‘hands-on’  work the Lord assigned me in Romania . . .

Just a word to thank all the pray-ers over the ministry.  Your prayers are the ‘glue’ that hold Love From Above (and me!) together.  Thank you to all who faithfully support LFA.  Without your giving, there would be no ministry in Romania to ‘the least of these’/’the helpless’ – our precious orphans – and the Gypsies whom the Lord has led me to minister to.

I am so very grateful to the Lord to have had another uneventful trip back to the States on April 3 from my beloved Romania.  As a matter of fact, the plane from the Netherlands to Boston was nearly empty.  The few of us could spread out wherever we wanted to.  I could get spoiled if that happened too often!

March was a busy month.  Lots of snow – a broken down laptop – a broken down car – but some really good things, too!

I am so grateful to have landed in Bucharest via Atlanta and Paris on February 5 safe and sound.  The trip is grueling, at best – but when it is uneventful, I feel so blessed.  It’s wonderful to be back in my home (my little flat in Brasov)!  I took the first week to get through jet-lag, and then was right back at Barza Mica as if I’d never been away.

Loved meeting up with friends in Northern Georgia in January!  John and Linda Goetz drove from N. Carolina to visit, and to bring boxes of beautiful warm clothing to be shipped out by a Romanian company in the Suwanee (GA) area.  John is on Love From Above’s Board – and both he and Linda are precious long-term friends.  They, truly, live to serve others.

I trust that you all had a wonderful Christmas!  A Christmas full of the celebration of Christ, the Savior.  It seems as though I barely had time to get used to writing 2018, and here it is 2019, already!  The last month of 2018 was productive for our Lord’s work through Love From Above in Romania.

“A gift opens the way and ushers the giver into the presence of the great.”  – Proverbs 18.16

Love From Above continued with the purchase of prescription and OTC meds in November for our babies and ‘kids’.  We also bought a door for a building we are renovating on the same property as Barza Mica.  This building will be used for storage, and a place for our ‘kids’ to go while we do our crafts, stories, music, etc.  The workers at Barza have been hard at work repairing the building, including a partial new roof.

I praise God for a safe and uneventful trip back to the States on October 10.  How difficult to leave our precious babies and ‘kids’, though!  Please pray over these cast-off ones for their angels to be so close to them, to protect them and shelter them from the cruelty of the orphanage workers.