Ever go Christmas Carolling?

How about in Romanian?  It went about as well as you might expect.  I was awful but we had a great time.

 Here is where we are living.  It is a good thing we have a guide because everything is quite similar so I would get lost in no time.

In the evening we went to a brand new church where we had a great Christmas service.  The pastor talked about our need for Jesus and why Jesus was born.





Vanessa and Cole played a Christmas song.  I have some videos but will post more of that after the  trip is done.

For those of you who are praying for us here are some requests.  We are all struggling with sleeping at night.  I go to bed exhausted and fall asleep in about 10 seconds after I close my eyes but the eyes pop open around 3A.M. every morning.  We are all very tired and when we travel anywhere kids drift off.  A second item would be I received some emails from work that are causing me to be distracted.  Pray for focus on what we are doing here.

The Romanian gypsies are a people group that are marginalized in their own country.  The struggle with unemployment, broken homes, depression lack of hope is much like we see on some native reserves in Canada.  Pray that the cycle will begin to break and these people would find hope.  What a great time of year to share teh hope we have in Jesus.