Back at Mocrea

Wayne and I together with Jackie and Adina paid our second visit of the trip to Mocrea today.  There was much excitement and many patients from the locked wards were allowed to join us at our request.  Peace and calm enveloped the hall as we organised further Christmas craft activities.  Today they coloured Christmas pictures and there was a lot of glue, glitter and blue tak!!!  They were soon in good voice with their carols as refreshments were served by a trusted patient.  Today we completed the Christmas wreaths (with their photographs in the centre) which were displayed along with all the other hand made decorations and pictures (seen opposite)  Everyone was in fine form and we give thanks for a blessed morning.  The grounds were so pretty as the snow fell around Adina!!

Snow had fallen all morning and on return to the city we called with a member of Adina's family who shortened two crutches for our dwarf sister from Vladimerscu.  We had hoped to deliver them and a Christmas food parcel  tonight but the roads were too treacherous for us to venture outside the city.  Instead we visited my old neighbour Ioan with a Christmas "grampy" box.  He was thrilled to see us both as we skated to his doorstep.  We called at the supermarket on the way home but we could barely stand up following freezing sleet and snow as it hit the ground.  It was -5 in the car park and as you can see Wayne is more than a little cold as Adina is sweeping snow off the car.  We came in so tired tonight and are looking forward to a good night's sleep.  We will need to review the weather conditions in the morning before we can decide whether it is possible to make the 3 hour journey to Maranatha Orphanage in Hunedoara.   Please pray for us because we do not want to disappoint the children but obviously safety is a big consideration - God, it is in your hands.