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Journey report of the youthcamp Romania • 14-07-2003 to 26-07-2003
Monday morning at 04.00 o’clock everybody was at Wouko and Janneke place. Before we left we prayed and then we all stept in to the bus. We are: Wouko and Janneke Snijder, Johanan de Vos, Marius Wijnja, Jefta van den Akker, Rogier Eradus, Esther Engberts, Anneloes Nijmijer and Sandra Eikelboom. In the evening we arrived Abda in Hongarie and Johanan gave us a bible study. The next morning we had a early breakfast and then we left. It all got more interesting the further we go, we saw things that some of us have never seen before, such as a horse and wagon with a licence plate.

We past the Romanian border as quickly as we could and in the afternoon we arrived at the camping place for our second night. In the evening we had again a bible study and we sang some songs.
The next day we had a good trip and at 15.00 hour we arrived our camp, were we met a super nice group of Romanian youth.

This year the theme of the camp would be: Relation. Every day there we had different bible studies about relation with God, relation with yourself and relation with others. The bible studies were instructive and we had some discussion. Then we separate the Dutch youth from the Romanian youth and talk about it and later we came together and again we talked about it. The time for worship that we had together was super. We sang in Dutch, English en Romanians, all through each other. God is the only one that count and that was super. We made groups of 2 Dutch people and 2 or 3 Romanian people for the games and the trips that we made. In every group there was one Romanian who spoke English so that there was someone to translate. For my self I had a great time but there was a little tension between the Dutch and the Romanian youth. We’ve prayed and sang together and later in the evening we asked for forgiveness. The theme was “relation” and there was only one who will destroy this and it seems to succeed but our God is much bigger and in Him we are more than conquerors!! Sunday we got to the church and after that each of us did go with a Romanian to his or her house to eat and see how they lived.

Nearby the camp there was a little stream and there we wash our self and wash our cloths but also we wash there the dishes and in time that you don’t had to do nothing you could play in the river with each other. It could happen that there was some one who take a bath and at the same time a little further some one did the dishes. At the last evening we had a nice campfire and we felt that we don’t like to go home. Saying good bye was very heavy and we knew that we would not see each other for a long time. The first day that we left we visit Nico and Silvia Stroica in Galsa, nearby Arad. Here we had a bible study about the Ëxodus” of our own life’s. The next day we had to go to Arad in Hongaria were we finally could take a real shower. After diner we had a bible study. The last day we had a long trip true Austria and Germany but we had a great time in the bus and the time flew away. Saturday 2 August, a week after our journey, we had a reunion with the Dutch group and we had a nice dinner and watched photo’s and video of the journey and had a bible study. For my self I can say that I had a real great time together with my brothers and sisters and God.

Loves and God bless,
Sandra Eikelboom

Our families in Brasov
At this moment there are 18 families who been supported by the foundation. This is only happening, because we are supported and our contact persons in Romania, Dimitru Marcu and his daughter and her husband, Esther and Gabi Vacanza, who do a lot of work in Brasov for the foundation.the families who we support are all members of a Pentecost church in Brasov. With good co-operation with this church we can give the right help to the families. To have regular contact true the phone or by e-mail with our contact persons, we can react fast in the situation of the supported families. We try to give the young once in the families a good school education and when it is necessary we give them financial support. Wouko, the chairman of the foundation, travels at least 3 times a year to Romania to visit the supported families.
As you could read in the journey report of Sandra Eikelboom, the summer camp was a great success and the youth in our church asked us if it is possible to go again next year to Romania. We will do our best.

Next journey
On October 30 till November 7, Wouko and his wife Janneke will take 3 more couples to Romania. During this trip there will be a shoe action and their will be about 200 pairs of shoes distribute under the children of our supported families in Brasov. This is a great action that we never been able to do. The shoes are made in the shoe factory where many children after school work to earn money so that they make it a little bit easier at home. Because we buy the shoes their, we help the people to work. The church will help us with the shoe action. We like to ask you to pray for this all.

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