Romania Happenings

Hey parents, families, friends, and prayer partners!

It's Peter Jenkins here at the Mothership(RBC Youth Offices). Here are some updates from the Romania Team. Please leave comments to encourage the team with. From experience I know that those comments are a huge boost to morale when the days are long and the nights are short. We will hopefully have a new post each day and you can follow my twitter(almost_peter)to know when the blog has been updated. You can probably subscribe to this blog and be alerted of the same but twitter is way cooler. Here's the latest from the team:


So far today... we have been on a plane!! We left Grand Rapids airport and flew to Chicago airport.. then we flew from Chicago to Munich, Germany (which is where we are now). that flight took 9 hours! A lot of us watched movies, or slept! we were served dinner AND breakfast! it was really yummy :D We also had our team bag which was full of medications to take with us (like sun screen, aloe, aspirin, rubbing alcohol)
the bag had to be first checked in Grand Rapids, and they took some things out.. and then it had to be RE-CHECKED in Munich, Germany. It was a hassle.. but oh well! we were all really excited to land in Germany! Now we are sitting in the airport.. waiting for our flight to leave for ROMANIA!! :) please keep our team in your prayers! pray that we will have a safe trip and that we will have life-changing experiences and that God will open our eyes while we are there.. and that we would just show our love for Christ to EVERYONE!

-Desiree DeVrou

Well, here we are in Munich! All of our flights have run smoothly, though I apparently slept through some turbulence on the way into Germany :).

Families, you will be happy to know that everyone is doing well! Dani and Lauren Campbell did amazing as first-time flyers, and most of us managed to grab a little sleep on the 9-hour flight over here. Prayers for energy would be greatly appreciated, though, as the time difference is sure to catch up with us soon.

I can't tell you how excited I am to arrive in Timisoara and get our work underway, but it has been awesome to see our team already portraying the attitude of Christ during our travels. Baggage needs to be searched twice? No big deal. A Romanian man drops his luggage on one of our students? No worries, nice to meet you! Someone is hungry? Someone else shares their snacks. From little stuff to big stuff, our students have already begun to bond and prepare their hearts for the work we will be doing.

We will be heading out on the last leg of our journey in about an hour, and then we will be hanging out with the Poggemiller's and relaxing this evening.

Your thoughts and prayers are SO appreciated--keep them coming!! :)

In Him,

Lauren Kilmartin


Hey everybody! Its moderately weird when I think about the fact that I am typing to you from the other side of the world! My first few flights went really well. I didn't sleep much, but that gave me time to watch How To Train Your Dragon(which I highly recommend) and drink 2 gallons of apple juice. I will hurry up and finish because Bri is currently looking over my shoulder and breathing heavily in my ear. But one last thing.... It is amazing looking down at all of God's creation from above the clouds. Truly beautiful.
"I am in the father and the father is in me." John 14:11
~Dani


Hi it's Bri. I have to be speedy because Dani took forrreeeevvveerrrrrrr. but anyway we're in Munich and the plane ride was long and hot but okayyy because i stayed up all night watching movies on these wonderful little personal televisions.
okay now down to business.
Mandy: today i drank a mcdonalds coke and (accidentally) chewed a piece of ice and (almost) didn't share a drink with someone, all in your honor. i also spent a good hour in the night watching the children's cartoons thinking of Drew and Noah, since there wasn't star wars. anyway your husband is yelling at me to be done now so bye.
Brooke: hiiiiii!


Matthew 28:18 Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,[b] baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”