What a day...Part Doi (two)

What a wonderful day in Moldova. This is just a little update from the Texas gals who are so totally blessed to be a part of this wonderful team. We have been working with the group in Straseni. We have been so excited for months and we have been praying for God to use us as we ministered to the teachers from the Orphanage. Well of course all of the things that you prepare for and imagine will happen upon your arrival are not exactly what you find and experience. The first day of camp we found out that there were no teachers to join us in our bible study. (bummer)! The joy and the blessings of working with the children has been so precious and amazing, but our passion was also to teach these beautiful women who pour their lives into taking care of these children.

Tuesday morning came, and we still had no teachers who would join us. So we decided to befriend the ladies by bringing them coke and cookies. Even in foriegn countries (food talks!)
The teachers seemed to appreciate our attempt to make friends, so we decided to make one more attempt to get them to come to the bible study on Wednesday morning. They reluctantly said they would come.

So today (Wednesday morning) we met the teachers outside and asked where we could meet. We went into one of the classrooms in the orphanage, leaving the 36 children in the care of the other 4 members on our team, (they are amazing!) We had such a great time with two teachers who agreed to spend time with us. We feasted on more cookies and more coke and spent some time getting to know each other. They were very transparent and told us that they were very nervous to meet with us, but were willing to see what the bible study would be like.

Mary, Becky and I had such a great opportunity to share Christ with them. They told us that they were of the Orthodox faith, but that they had visited the Baptist church in town. They said "we feel different at the Baptist church, because everyone has such peace and joy, and we have seen the peace in you and the way you smile." We were able to see the walls come down, and before our almost 2 hours were over, they were crying and they hugged and kissed us. Moldovian women are not known to show their feeling or emotions, so God did a BIG thing today! We are so thankful that God is so faithful, even when the details don't fall into place like we have prayed and anticipated. His ways are so much better than ours! Continue to pray for us as we have opportunity to share and plant seeds for two more days.

In Him,
Mary, Trina and Becky