July Mission Teams Arrive in Romania

What a group! ACF is proud to
 have you representing!

On this past Thursday 27 people from the United States decided to jump out of the boat and walk on water with the unconditional love and hands of Jesus right next to them. This is the largest group of people that Another Child Foundation (ACF) has ever sent to Romania at one-time. Actually, there are two teams at work here.

One team led by ACF board member Jessica Huettel will be working at the Point of Hope Development Center in Tarneveni, Romania. Team members include Rory & Kathy Miller from Amboy, Illinois, Jan Larson from Geneseo, Illinois, Jon & Michelle White from Dallas, Texas, Amy and Zachary Bowles from Houston, Texas, Terri and Aysa Harper from Apison, Tennessee, Jonathan and Monica Barrett from Hixon, Tennessee, Lauren Hornbeak from Houston, Texas and trip leader Jessica Huettel from Houston. This team will be doing a VBS for the younger children attending the Point of Hope as well as 3 days of work within ACF's Women's Ministry. The women's ministry is an outreach to serve the women whose children attend the Point of Hope. This team will be keeping you all up to date with daily posts.

Some members of this fine team!

The second team is lead by Pastor Dan Hille of St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Avon, Connecticut. He is being assisted by Jill Trick and Miller Parchen. Pastor Dan, Jill and Miller all went to Romania last year with ACF co-founder John Frank Reeve from Lafayette, Louisiana. These three brave souls have brought 10 of their senior high youth with them to do a 6 day VBS at the Harghita Christian Camp in the beautiful Carpathian  mountains in north-central Romania. The senior high youth include: Kevin Kryzwick, Meredith Banks, Katherine Jarka, Joan Nicholson, Sophia Pelehach, Maren Parchen, Dustin Van Kirk, Cody & Cameron Suttmeier, and Mollie Lahaie. The team also includes Liz Courville from Lafayette, Louisiana.

The team left on Wednesday afternoon and arrived in Bucharest, Romania in mid-afternoon. The team from Avon was unfortunate to have a flight delay that caused 12 of their 18 pieces of luggage to not make the transfer in Amsterdam. So far 10 the bags have been found and delivered. The other 2 bags are yet to be found. :-(

The famous Brasov sign!

Friday was a day of sight-seeing in the historical city of Brasov. Nearly all of the people who have traveled with ACF in the past have loved the city of Brasov. It has the famous Black Church among other landmarks like the Brasov sign which stands on the peak of a mountain near Brasov much like the Hollywood sign in LA. The team also visited the famous Bran Castle which is famous for being the castle that Vlad Dracul visited often. Vlad Dracul is also know as Vlad the Impaler or Dracula.

Keep these teams in your prayers. Saturday is another day of travel as they make their way to Tarnaveni and then onto camp for the Avon group. Ministry officially starts on Sunday and runs through Friday. These 6 days are vital to the reaching, teaching and transforming that ACF teams are sent to do. With the help of Fundatia Buckner staff and volunteers I am confident that God will be glorified in some amazing ways.

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More team members!

A view from the Brasov sign!