August!  Such a hot month in Romania!  Day after day after day in the high 90’s.  Activities had to be planned around the intense heat especially for our ‘kids’ at Barza Mica.  We have a sweet new girl at Barza, Cristiana.  She is 19, mentally and emotionally challenged, but ever so sweet!  Because she has spent some time in school, she really prides herself in being able to speak some short American phrases – especially ‘I ‘lov’ you, Mama Dawn’.

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!