I thank God for a good night's sleep enabling to rise early. This was my last sabboth in Romania and I will rejoice and be glad in it. Up early but the internet is still down so I caught up on my accounts instead. Quick phone call to my hubby to send best wishes to our Church in Wales today it it is their Christmas Family Service too and my "Little Lambs" are taking part. 
Then Danny arrives - he has already been out to Sofronea to pick up Pastor Jackie and the girls. This is the first time Jackie has been out since she returned from hospital a week ago. After loading the minibus we were on the road to Vinga Church where we had a morning service and a Christmas programme which included lighting the "Love" candle, the Children's, Youth and Adult programme. It was indeed a real blessing. This was followed by shoe box distribution a delicious meal prepared by Leontin and Maria who live next door. Leontin is one of the Church deacons. 
You will recall that during the first few days of my trip we visited the "Osana" Children's Home in Timisoara where Cerbu and his wife Nadine care for 6 girls in addition to their own 2 daughters. Well Cerbu has a band and together with his older girls they spread the gospel by going on the road with their shows. Pastor Jackie hired the Community Hall in Vinga and they offered to come along and do a Christmas Show so after lunch we all went along to this evangelistic event after chugging along in the truck with children in the open air back. It was an awesome show which lasted 1 and a half hours. After performances by the various Vinga Church groups, the team performed sketches, the Scrooge Story, a Puppet Show followed by some modern carols. The whole hall came alive as the audience joined in with everything. As they left we gave out sweets and oranges. Everyone commented on how much they loved the event. Praise God for a blessed afternoon.
On arriving back at Arad I attended with Adina and Rebecca a Ladies Night at the Metanoie Church. It was awesome with quizes, games, carols & powerful testimonies. To me it was the icing on the cake. Little Yasmina and her mother (whom I wrote about 2 weeks ago) had last night arrived back from medical treatment at Cluj and they joined us at Metanoie. They were both happy in the midst of much adversity. Praise God Adreana made a decision tonight to be baptised. God is really working in her heart. In addition to Yasmina's many health problems, her mother, Adreana also needs a knee operation in January otherwise she is at risk of loosing her leg. As she has no family in the area, Adina and her mother have agreed to accommodate Iasmina. She loves Adina and she will certainly be in a loving home.
It got late and I had a lot of blogging to do and so Adina, Rebecca, Maria and Patricia kindly offered to pack all the Mocrea Gift bags ready for distribution tomorrow. Praise God I have such loyal people who help me out here. It is 1.30 am here and I am just calling it a day.
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