Ministry Day #1 for Team October

Margo loving on
a little one

ACF has always given our mission trip participants a chance to share their daily perspectives by creating a blog post in which they can express and share with you, our supporters, what they experienced that day. Well today Margo Schindel from New Hope Church of the Nazarene in Princeton, Illinois shares with all of you her thoughts on day 1 of ministry work.

       Our October mission trip is off  to a great start! Today we got to go to the local church to worship with fellow believers in Tarnaveni, I have never understood the deepness of the Body of Christ. I was overwhelmed by the hospitality of these fellow believers. Those who have so little, for certain gave the most. I loved the emotion and love these people have for Jesus.
       The children are so enthusiastic to learn more and more about Jesus! They have lots of love to give. I pray that we can give back 10 fold that love. Their little eyes dance with excitement for love.
       So for now I hope they see our little lights shine as we bond together with cord that cannot be broken.

-  Margo Schindel



Games are always
popular & fun!

Not only did the team worship with the people of Tarnaveni but they also performed a VBS for 74 children. The team did a remarkable job of  overcoming some unforeseen obstacles like 34 more kids than expected and a little rain. After the 4 hours of worship and VBS the team enjoyed pizza from the very popular Pizza Motors. The team then traveled 45 miles to the city of Targu-Mures where they purchased a years supply of toothpaste for the children at the Point of Hope. The team then reflected on the day at our team wrap-up meeting where some great stories were shared and God was glorified.

Tomorrow the team will start working with the children at the Point of Hope Development Center. Thirty kids ages 3-6 in the morning and 50 kids from ages 6-10 in the afternoon. ACF will also get an update on the shipping container full of humanitarian aid that was sent to Romania through the support of 38 churches in the U.S.. It appears the container will arrive for the team to deliver this aid on Tuesday afternoon. However, delays are still a possibility so we continue to ask for your prayers.

To those of you with loved ones on this trip everyones' health is doing very well. We have a couple people with some mild coughs but nothing serious at all. Finally, the team is enjoying the evening diner with some great fellowship and lots of laughter.

The team enjoying food & fellowship

2 lovely girls at VBS