A quick update on Community Bible Church team

Hey everyone...I wanted to give you a quick update on the progress of the team from the Walnut Community Bible Church from Walnut, Illinois. After a rough start with some major confusion from the Delta/KLM people in Chicago the team did finally board our plane just a few hours later than expected. Not only did we have an issue getting boarding passes but the team heard of the commercial airliner shot down over Ukraine (Romania borders Ukraine). We pray for all of the family members of those lost. The team does not know many of those details but were somewhat concerned before we found out that we would not come close to flying over Ukranian airspace. The team arrive in the early evening on Friday and spent the night in Predeal, Romania at the Hotel Draculiu. Today the team enjoyed a nice European breakfast and headed north to Tarneveni, Romania where the Point of Hope Development Center is located. While the team is not doing a ministry activities at the Point of Hope we did want to show them the school and the homes where the children attend and live. After enjoying some Pizza Motors pizza it was back on the bus for another 3 hours. We arrived at camp and got settled into our rooms at 7:00 pm had dinner, toured the camp, and sorted all of the aid and other goodies we brought. Finally about 11:00 pm the team settled down for the night. Meanwhile the trip leader (me) finally got the chance to post something to this blog. Over the next 6 days you will be getting insights from each of the team members and we will also post some pictures for you to enjoy. However, since the children we are hosting. This week are part of the Children Protective Services of Romania their identities need to be protected. So any pictures posted on this blog will be of the team and camp only. You will have to wait until the team gets home to see the kids since we cannot post them online.

Please keep the team in your prayers. Pastor Nathan prayed for this team to have unusual patience and good humor. I have seen both of these prayers answered. They are doing great right now but jet lag takes a while to overcome. So, pray for good health, open hearts and the the Grace of God be with each of them and the kids coming to camp tomorrow. THANKS! Together WE ARE changing the world!!!

Tim Oloffson- ACF Director