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Update – October, 2026

– My heart is filled with JOY as I let you know that all my work finally went through with the Romanian government and I now have access to the ‘littles’ case (houses) – AND to two orphanages in Victoria.  It took nearly 3 months to get this accomplished, but my heart is filled with gratitude to our omniscient and omnipotent God!

– Two precious ‘littles’ are now with our Jesus.  There is always a sadness involved when one passes, but the greater emotion is that they are no longer suffering on this earth, but rather healed and whole in Glory!   Franz was beautiful – one day a healthy, happy little boy in a family, and then in an instant apparently this precious four-year old had a stroke!  He only lived a year in a totally incapacitated condition.   And just on September 29, Florin who was born with so much wrong with him including being blind was scooped up by his angels and carried into the very presence of our Jesus.  He was eight years old.

– After traveling for over an hour and a half, one way to the city of Victoria, I was told that I would not be able to enter to see my precious Claudiu and Moldovan.  That happened because the specific name of this horrendous orphanage (think of mental institutions in the 1920’s in America) was not specifically named on my papers with its new name!   I refused to leave there without seeing those two boys!  I was told that Claudiu was unable to leave his bed anymore and was on life support. I begged the two in charge to be able to see him for just one minute so I could tell him that I loved him.  Finally, they yielded to my pleas to let me cross the huge courtyard and enter the huge, cold and dark building (orphanage).  Only me!  Corina and Robert were not allowed to go inside.  I was a bit apprehensive leaving by myself with the man who would lead me into the building AND up six flights of stairs!!

– At the top of the stairs, there was Claudiu waiting to greet me!!  I was in shock.  He was neither confined to his bed nor on life support! The director’s assistants had LIED to me!  When we saw Claudiu, you would think that the man would have apologized to me or at least have been terribly embarrassed!!  But, no.  This is the mentality that I deal with in RO.

– I loved and loved on Claudiu, and when we stepped in through the door on the top level, I was in shock/over the moon to have Filip come and greet me!!  I was told seven or eight years ago that when he had been transferred there that he had jumped out a window committing suicide!!  Can you imagine??!!   But, what a joyful reunion.  (I’ll share more in my next email Update.)  I also got to see another boy I had known at Barza Mica, Brumi – and then, of course Moldovan!

– Next, we found the orphanage where three of our girls from B. Mica had been moved.  Once again, such JOY in spending time with them!  We hugged and hugged and kissed and kissed – and they never let go of my hands all the time I was there.  I was delighted, too, to learn that they are very happy at this new casa.  Praise the Lord!!  It was a most emotional trip!

– For other news, work on the ‘fence’ (barricade) is going rather slowly at Canaan (my church in Halchiu).  About mid-September, the really cold weather set in (even with mountain tops covered with snow!) – so I’m praying that work on the ‘fence’ will step up before Winter.  Please pray to that end!

– With some of our ‘kids’ having been moved from B. Mica to another orphanage in Bradet, it has taken a bit of flexibility for me to adjust.  Others who had already been at Bradet and are of a very low IQ status, have joined our program.  I’m still trying to figure out what to do with everyone.  “Listen to this, you who walk all over the weak, you who treat poor people as less than nothing.”  – Amos 8.4 MSG Above all, I want to treat them SO Christ-like.  After all, they, too, were created in His image – so loved by our Lord, thus – so deserved to be loved by me.  I would appreciate prayer in figuring this all out.