For the past 2 years we have done our Christmas visit to the above Children's Home on icy roads in heavy snow. The journey takes around 2 and a half hours. During this visit it has almost been like spring some days and I packed all the wrong clothes!!!.I think it has been colder in Wales!!!
Our team today consisted of myself, Adina, Danny, our driver and Rebecca, Adina's friend who has also accompanied us to ministry visits at Mocrea. With the car loaded with gifts and food items we set out early making various other visits along the route.
We arrived in Hunedoara, a town of around 100,00 people, which is a deprived area of Romania. We were greeted by Pastor Hada and his team plus the 22 children, many of whom are very young. Pastor Hada has a Pentecostal Church in the town and he and his family run the home with a team of staff that have been with them for many years. With the support of Jackie's Foundation they also run a soup kitchen in the compound which feeds around 50 poor children per day.
Their full Christmas concert is not until next week but the children laid on a lovely show of carols and recitations for us before Father Christmas (our lovely driver, Danny) arrived with his assistant, Rebecca to distribute the gifts. The laughter and excitement continued as we all later joined the children downstairs for present opening. What a joy it was to spend some value time with these children.
RR via sponsors provides financial support for 3 of the children at this home but we have respected the wishes of the Pastor in not including any pictures.
The temperature had suddenly dropped as we left for the long journey home.
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