Day 11 - Saturday, 11 June 2011
Posted by Daphne Nicely on Saturday, June 11, 2011
I now know when the music stops blaring over the speakers at the Beer Festival. Traditional Romanian music until 10:00pm and then Techno-Pop until 12:45am.
Today Dean and I attended a marriage confernece and our very own pastor was the speaker. It was good to be reminded of some of the many Biblical principles that we must follow in order to have a healthy marital relationship. There were approximately 70 people in attendance. The Grace Baptist Church youth set up the dining hall and provided child care for the event. They and Didi also served the meal to the conference participants.
After the confernece we went to PC 3/4 and visited with the young people. They talked about hopes and dreams and wanting to have a better future. I am encouraged by much of what I hear. I told them that we would see if we could attend the Brickyard Church tomorrow since that is just around the corner from where they live.
Didi taught several of the young people some games (Octopus Tag, Ninja, Poke...). She did an awesome job of including youngsters from all age groups (7 years to 24 years) males, females and even me for two rounds of Ninja. The young people had a great time and played and laughed for nearly an hour in the courtyard. Sometimes they had as many as 20 people playing a game at any given time.
Later the teens and young adults had a cook out and grilled meats that were purchased by a former resident of PC 3/4. They had a very nice spread (Kebabs, Sausages, Mici, Chicken Wings) and wanted so badly for us to eat with them. We told them that we were still full from lunch and that we would be eating dinner soon, but so as not to offend we ate a little.
Last night at the Beer Festival we bought little hair barettes for some of the little girls and handed them out. Didi then taught the games to the younger children and played with them while Dean and the young men played a game with a soccer ball. When it was time to leave, all the small children mobbed Didi and she and I had a group hug of about 20 kids. Also, one young man that I have hugged for the past two years hugged me good-bye this evening. It seems that the ice is starting to melt!
We headed to the Olariu home for dinner at approximately 5:50pm and had a great time of fellowship with Haley, Sandra, Rachel, Delia and Debi. As always we had a wonderful meal. The pastors decided that Sandra and Haley would go to Resita for church service tomorrow and that the Nicely Family would go with Brother Gigel to a small village to perform a baptism.
On our way back to Grace Baptist Church we stopped by PC 3/4 and invited all the teens and young adults to attend the evening service at GBC with us tomorrow. We told them that we would leave from there and all walk to church together. We plan to arrive early and reserve a row or two so that we can all set together as one big family. They all seemed really excited about this and are looking forward to it...as are we.
We stopped by the Beer Festival again to buy more barettes and get more Betty ice cream.
I took my last dose of antibiotics, but my throat has started hurting again.
Noapte Buna (Good night).
Today Dean and I attended a marriage confernece and our very own pastor was the speaker. It was good to be reminded of some of the many Biblical principles that we must follow in order to have a healthy marital relationship. There were approximately 70 people in attendance. The Grace Baptist Church youth set up the dining hall and provided child care for the event. They and Didi also served the meal to the conference participants.
After the confernece we went to PC 3/4 and visited with the young people. They talked about hopes and dreams and wanting to have a better future. I am encouraged by much of what I hear. I told them that we would see if we could attend the Brickyard Church tomorrow since that is just around the corner from where they live.
Didi taught several of the young people some games (Octopus Tag, Ninja, Poke...). She did an awesome job of including youngsters from all age groups (7 years to 24 years) males, females and even me for two rounds of Ninja. The young people had a great time and played and laughed for nearly an hour in the courtyard. Sometimes they had as many as 20 people playing a game at any given time.
Later the teens and young adults had a cook out and grilled meats that were purchased by a former resident of PC 3/4. They had a very nice spread (Kebabs, Sausages, Mici, Chicken Wings) and wanted so badly for us to eat with them. We told them that we were still full from lunch and that we would be eating dinner soon, but so as not to offend we ate a little.
Last night at the Beer Festival we bought little hair barettes for some of the little girls and handed them out. Didi then taught the games to the younger children and played with them while Dean and the young men played a game with a soccer ball. When it was time to leave, all the small children mobbed Didi and she and I had a group hug of about 20 kids. Also, one young man that I have hugged for the past two years hugged me good-bye this evening. It seems that the ice is starting to melt!
We headed to the Olariu home for dinner at approximately 5:50pm and had a great time of fellowship with Haley, Sandra, Rachel, Delia and Debi. As always we had a wonderful meal. The pastors decided that Sandra and Haley would go to Resita for church service tomorrow and that the Nicely Family would go with Brother Gigel to a small village to perform a baptism.
On our way back to Grace Baptist Church we stopped by PC 3/4 and invited all the teens and young adults to attend the evening service at GBC with us tomorrow. We told them that we would leave from there and all walk to church together. We plan to arrive early and reserve a row or two so that we can all set together as one big family. They all seemed really excited about this and are looking forward to it...as are we.
We stopped by the Beer Festival again to buy more barettes and get more Betty ice cream.
I took my last dose of antibiotics, but my throat has started hurting again.
Noapte Buna (Good night).