Recently the work
has branched out to help brothers and sisters in Christ in the
neighbouring country of Moldova where poverty is commonplace.
Funding and assistance has been given to help them set up a mirror work
- 'Children for Christ - Moldova'. This is headed up by Brother
Andrei and a team of helpers.
History
- Vio
and I met brother Andrei at a Christian camping conference in the middle
of
Romania
at the end of March back in 2003. Brother
Andrei shared with the conference in literally a couple of minutes the
need for help, “that they too want to evangelise their children, but
financially they couldn’t afford it.
He said that they had the possibility of hiring an ex Communist
Party camp for children in the summer of 2003 but had no finance or
training. . He and his team
of young leaders were keen to hold summer camps having been offered this
facility they wanted to go ahead and use it.
Both
Vio and I tried to ignore his talk, but at the time of prayer that
night, Brother Andrei was in our group and on being asked why he came to
Romania
knowing that
Romania
also is a poor country ? He
replied I just came for help!
The
Lord convicted both Vio and I that night.
Both of us had individually thought that we couldn’t afford to
help them financially because we had just started to build our camp for
all year around use. This
was a selfish thought for which the Lord convicted us.
How could we ignore this plea when hundreds of children could
hear the gospel, even if we had to stop our building we felt we had to
help them.
So
before leaving the conference we said that we would try and help, by raising
peoples awareness, and
also to talk with Harry regarding helping financially, but at least we
would be willing to come and help with training of his young people.
On
returning to
Arad
, I emailed Blythwswood and others with a plea for help for
Republic
of
Moldova
and within 4 weeks the Lord worked and we were sent 4.000 pounds to help
fund the 8 weeks of summer camps.
At
the beginning of May we held a weeks training for their leaders for
camp.
Brother
Andrei and his team have held 8 weeks of summer camps for over a 100
children at a time, since the summer of 2003.
The children who come to camp would normally not have the
possibility to go to camp, the poverty in Rep. Moldova is overwhelming.
Their
efforts have been praised by local authorities and greatly appreciated
by the children. Many
children have trusted the Lord as Saviour.
They
have freedom to preach the gospel to these children and give them a hope
for their future, their country may be in a terrible state politically
and physically but spiritually they can offer “Hope in Christ” to
the children for “their future”.
