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”.