Rpc Team Romania

On 6th December 2008 a team from Rpc headed to Romania to the team from left to right Alan, Joy, Angela, Gladys & Robert.  to contact Gladys click here

It was thrilling to be back at the Smiles Mission Centre and spend a week seeing the great things that God is doing in that needy country.  Some years ago we saw projects just being started and were there at the building stage now those buildings are finished and an integral part of the community, bringing hope and God's love to folk who were living in despair.  What a joy to see the children's centre giving a secure home to babies who have been abandoned, and respite to families who can not cope with the hardships involved in trying to keep families together in trying circumstances.  To watch children be so excited about having a tooth brush and toothpaste that they clean their teeth after they eat anything!!  Having a shower and clean clothes and footwear.  We helped to construct new mobile homes for some of the locals who lived in mud dwellings.  To be able to convert an old storage container into temporary housing,  and see the smile on the face of those who received them, left an everlasting impression on our lives. The Tileagd dream has come true this is a project including a school a church, doctor, dentist and optician facilites. To see the pride that small Roma community has in this and to have the privilege to worship with them one Sunday morning and see men who have come to faith and the passion of the women praying a truly humbling time.  But there is still so much need.  The conditions that some of the elderly live in is unbelievable like pigstys only as clean as they can make them... many told us they were just waiting to die.  The life expectancy is only 50 - 60 years and this is a country that is now part of the EU! There's lots to do and the Smiles team is now mostly made up of Romanian workers.  Please pray for this needy land and the spread of the gospel. See pictures from the last visit - click here

  
This is a view into the work of the
Smiles Foundation

A mission trip with the Smiles Foundation is an  experience  of a life-time  and  different  to  any  other  mission trip you will have been on.  The trip is a 'Hands On' experience.  Using your gifts to impact  the  lives  of  others  who  are in need of help to stabilise and support family life.  Much of the Smiles Foundation's work in Romania  is  concerned  with  the support of nearly 200 families, living  in  the  county of Bihor, North-West Romania, close to the Hungarian border. 
Romania   is  situated in the  southeastern part of Central Europe and shares  borders with   Hungary to the northwest, Yugoslavia to the southwest,  Bulgaria to the south, the Black Sea and Ukraine to the southeast and to the north and the Republic of Moldova to the east.  Romania is the second largest country in  the area, after Poland.   It extends approximately 300 miles North to South and 400 miles East to West.
Romania's   territory   features   splendid   mountains,   beautiful rolling  hills,  fertile  plains  and  numerous rivers and lakes.  The Carpathian  Mountains   traverse   the   center   of   the   country bordered on both sides by foothills and finally the great plains of the outer rim.  Forests cover one quarter of the country.

For more information on the work of The Smiles Foundation

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