Another great day! Today we started at the Areopogus Center to learn about the Romanian culture. It was very enlightening to understand some major differences between the value sets, beliefs, and thought processes of the Romanians and us. Then we were off to the Orthodox Cathedral-- a beautiful place of worship with lessons about reverence and piety towards a holy God. Afterwards, we went to a Romanian Revolution Museum and learned about how Romania won its freedom. It's so different to in a country that is only 20 years old, and truly appreciates their freedom and celebrates their revolution. For lunch, most of us were introduced to the swaorma, a burrito like meal that is a Romanian favorite. All of the team spent some time at the mall (Andrew and I got our Starbucks fix). We met the rest of our team (our translators) tonight and had dinner and a time of worship and prayer with them. Tomorrow morning we will meet with the mayor in Nitchidorf. Please pray that the meeting goes well, and our time meeting with the people provides an open door for Kingdom activity. Drew, if someone is reading this to you, then give your mom a gigantic hug and tell her it's from me. Peace!

Michael




Hi it's Bri again. Today I found out that in Romania, smiling and waving at guys in the cars behind you will make them think you're a hooker. It's not a fun experience...especially with an over-dramatic friend sitting next to you probably peeing her pants (not that it would be the first time) who seems to think they will at any moment jump out of their car, break into our van, and kidnap us under the noses of the twelve other people riding with us. But anyway. Romania is sweet. That is all.
oh ps...apparently Wayfm is not only serving the greater kalamazoo area, but Timisoara as well. just ask reina.

Heeelllooo. this is John. So this is my first blog... Uuuummm... well I guess I'll start with yesterday. Yesterday the flight from Chicago to Munic was probly the longest 9 hours of my life. Sitting on a plane for that long doesn't do anyone any good. Luckily, the plane had these nifty little computer panels with movies and all that good stuff to keep me occupied... And of course the fellowship of my team mates helped as well... More or less. ;P
When we arrived in Timisoara we already confronted our first team problem. We lost some bags... Which you may know already. BUT! We got them back today so it was all good. Luckily the jet lag hadn't kicked in too bad despite the possible 4 hours of sleep i got that night.
When we arrived in front of the Dwight's house we were greeted to the sight of a rather large man in his underwear, starring with a stern face, at us... I guess he thought that we were weird foreigners or something... Who knows.
Dwight and his family have shown us great hospitality the last 2 days. His kids Luke and David are a riot. His wife is great too... her name escapes me... Yeah I know. I'm a terrible person.
But today we had an awesome time sight seeing and all that good stuff. We learned about the Romanian Revolution and tried some Romanian cuisine. But yeah that's pretty much what we did today. So the reason this is so long is because this is for you mom... You're welcome.

John