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Harmony updates 2009

Gratziela — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:40:53 +0000

Doru and Rodica continue their work in Recas and Lugoj Children Homes, Buzias Juvenile Prison and not lastly, the Deborah House. Harmony program started as a music ministry, but for the past 6 months Harmony ministry in Recas has served beyond the limits of the children’s home. In Recas area there is a large Rroma community that struggles with severe poverty & school abandonment. Before Easter 2008 MLI through Harmony program and in partnership with Brother to Brother Support Organization from Denmark, has started a project in order to help the children at risk from the Rroma community to go to school. In this respect, in partnership with the School affiliated to the Children’s Home, around 100 children aged 3-14 are integrated in the educational system. They benefit from a free lunch at the school cafeteria, and MLI provides basic food for a number of 30 children each month. The lack of funds prevents us from providing food for all 100 children every month.
At Buzias Juvenile Prison the number of boys voluntarily attending Doru and Rodica’s classes grew from 25-30 to 60-75.
For Easter over 150 children from Recas, Lugoj, Buzias and Deborah House attended the special Easter Service organized by the First Baptist Church from Timisoara.
Now children get together more than twice a year. The girls from the Deborah House visited the children from Recas, they played together, sang, and the girls brought toys to the youngest ones.
Since May, about 15 youngsters from Buzias selected by Doru come once a week at Deborah House to help with the work in the orchard and the garden. The girls cook and they all have lunch together. Once a month we have a Chapel at Deborah House, when the boys from Buzias and the girls worship together along with the staff. For June 1st (Children’s International Day), the girls and about 30 children from Recas visited their fellows at Buzias. We all had lots of fun, had lunch together and the girls brought cookies made by them.

Lorena Rusovan

Harmony news – spring 2008

Gratziela — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:50:16 +0000

On April 28th we had a special Easter celebration at Bethel Baptist Church in Timisoara, like we have had since 1990, and 350 children and young people participated from different children’s homes, orphanages, penitentiary, street children or families with social problems.

This event was called “The celebration of the Resurrection at Bethel – a celebration for each one”. It was a special day in which each person, no matter the social or material status enjoyed God’s presence on the Resurrection Day. There where children from Recas, Lugoj, Deborah House, Beraca, students that where brought up at the orphanage in Lugoj, young offenders from the Correction Penitentiary in Buzias, prisoners from the Penitentiary in Timisoara and a group of street children. Also, among the guests of this event there were city officials, local politicians, representatives of different denominations, teachers and head-masters of these institutions.

The children sang and recited poems and prayed, and at the end they all had a meal together. It was a wonderful day that the children had been waiting for even since Christmas.

Afterwards, Rodica and I continued to work with them, have Bible studies and sing together Christian songs.

We are thankful to God that our relationships with the leaders of these institutions are very good and we are allowed to work with these children and teach them about our Lord Jesus and what He has done for us.

At Buzias we had the opportunity to present two Christian movies which had great impact in the lives of the young offenders there. We are glad that God is working and that the young ones choose to come to these meetings.

Recently, we celebrated Child’s Day, on the 30th of May in Buzias. Over 200 children came from Recas, Lugoj, Otelu Rosu, Buzias, Bacova and Cheveres. In the first part of the program we sang Christian songs and I had the opportunity to talk about God’s love for us. Afterwards, each institution participated with songs, poems, sketches and at the end we had different games of football, tennis, volleyball.

The children from Recas were visited last week by brother Eugene Groza with a group of friends from Northern Ireland. We all sang and prayed together and had a blessed time.

Pray that God would continue to bless the work that we are doing and that He keep the doors open so that we could continue to work with these children. We thank all those who pray for us and support us financially, from the bottom of our hearts. You are part of what we are doing.

May God bless you abundantly!

Doru & Rodica Racovicean

Harmony Summer Update

Gratziela — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:15:59 +0000

After celebrating Easter at Bethel together with approximately 300 children from several orphanages, we had a period full of activities in the orphanages in Recas, Lugoj and in Timisoara with the group of students that we meet with every week.

We continue to have meetings with the children, to learn songs and to study the Bible with them. We are glad that their participation is very good and they happily get involved in what we do. During the school year there are about 80 children who come to school from the villages around Recas and are not orphans. Through them our teachings reach their families. It is a chance and a great opportunity through which Jesus Christ can be known by the little ones and by their families.

We had the joy to be visited by several teams from the States. The children enjoyed their presence, their messages and of course, their gifts.

During the summer holiday (especially those who are admitted in the centers, and do not have families), went to school camps. Together with Rodica we visited them, and both the children and the tutors had the occasion to hear about the love of God.

At Raul Alb, a camp in the mountains close to Resita, at about 80 miles south-east fromTimisoara, a team from Aldersgate United Methodist Church, from Toledo, OH, USA, lead by Tim Kreps visited the children, and they had biblical sketches, gifts and games through which they presented the Lord Jesus. We enjoyed spending time with the children in the beautiful landscape.

For the international day for children, 1^st of June, we were invited with the children from Recas and Lugoj and with the students from Timisoara to the Young Offenders Center in Buzias where we had a religious meeting. The children sang and said poems, and all those who participated, almost 250 people, were able to listen to a short message about the priority to have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus. God opened this door for me to present the importance of having Jesus Christ in your heart.

Between 10-12 September we went with some of the students from Timisoara and a group of young offenders from Buzias to Surduc (a Christian center for Bible study, 100 miles east of Timisoara), where we studied the Word of God for 3 days, and played sports during the day, while in the evening we had a special time of worship. It was a blessed time.

Another school year has started now and we are daily involved in this ministry. We do appreciate very much your continue support in prayer, we need it very much! We are very much aware that only God can change the hearts of the children we minister to. At a personal level, please do pray for us as family, especially because my father is very ill, mainly is in bed all the time. We thank each one of you for your partnership in ministry! Thank you for your prayers, it means so much to us! During the years you have been such an encouragement and a blessing for us.

May God bless you all abundantly!