No Such Thing

Bethany Hertzler

Bethany shares this very encouraging and relevant testimony during the meeting on Wednesday at a high school in Arad.

Bethany held the entire room's attention while she shared about her life and how she has come to realize that there is no such thing as a worthless person!  


We hope you are encouraged by her testimony.

Around Town and Friends!

We wanted to share a few photos and one “fun” slide show of a few or our friends and our time around town.  There will be scenic pictures to follow in a few days.  Thanks again to all of you who have been praying for us!

Team visiting at school

Oliver with new friends from school

Daphne and Stephana

        

Oliver, Cristi, and Matthew skipping down the street

Music store

Music store in the basement!

Bethany sees guitars

Bethany is excited!

Oliver tries to leave the basement!

Oliver emerges with his head still intact

Bethany emerges with her new Romanian baby (guitar)!

Matthew and Amy with a new friend from a village church

Tyler with his new friend

Matthew helping Amy cross the railroad tracks!
She wouldn’t have made it without him!!

At our favorite pastry shop

Yes, Gigi’s!  It’s the best!

Oliver amusing and challenging the high schoolers!

And the team!

Team response to Oliver!

Great Time at High School (Part 2)

We had a great time visiting the 11th and 12th grades at a high school in Arad, Romania on Wednesday!  

Meeting new friends, sharing and singing.  We look forward to continuing our relationship with these new friends in future years.

One of the highlights was the team playing Build Your Kingdom Here by Rend Collective.  We hope you enjoy watching it half as much as we did performing it!

The Importance of Building Relationships

San Martin

This is just a quick post.  We visited the Baptist church in San Martin, a village about 45 minutes from Arad.  (This picture is from a previous year - it is now painted a bright color).  Maybe we can get an updated picture next year.

We had a great time seeing many familiar faces and visiting after the service.  It was truly a blessing to see these brothers and sisters in Christ again.

The video is of Matthew Walkers testimony.  I hope you are encouraged and challenged.

I will put more up as I have time to process them.  We have had so much excitement and blessing.  We can’t wait to share it with you.

Great Time at High School (part 1)

We had a great opportunity to visit a high school here in Arad, Romania.  It was a wonderful morning.  We were with the 9th and 10th graders today.  Tomorrow we will be able to visit with the 11th and 12th grades.

They sang to us, it was incredible.  Then we had the chance to sing to them and then three of our team members shared a message with them.  Tomorrow the other three young team members will share and we will sing again!

The following video features some excerpts from the morning!  ENJOY!!

            

Let The 2016 Adventure Begin!

Bethel Baptist

We made it to the home church here in Arad, Bethel Baptist, safe and sound.    Right now we are rehearsing music for tomorrow - we are jumping right in.  We will be speaking and singing at a high school chapel and then in a village church in the evening.

Keep checking in with us to see videos and photos of all that God is doing this year!

The ping pong table and paddles are found - Let the games begin!

It’s All About Relationships!

Matthew and Amy Walker

Hey guys!  This is Matthew here.  I can’t believe the time is almost here for my fourth trip across the ocean to the gorgeous country of Romania.  As Amy and I were thinking and praying about whether or not God would have us return this year, one thing I started to realize was that I will have traveled outside of my country four times, yet all to the same place.  A lot of people may wonder why.  Why go back to the same place so many times when you could go to any other place in the world??

For me it’s all about relationships.   Relationships that have been started and continue to this day.  I’ve watched so many brothers and sisters in Christ from the church in Arad and from the villages in Romania grow. I've watched them physically grow, but also in their own walk with Christ.  I’ve also seen some have their understanding of  their need for Christ slowly rise to the surface.   We’ve become close to so many of these Romanian Christians.

Relationships are so crucial to us as human beings, but also to us as a church body.  Because we are one body in Christ, it only makes sense to be connected with one another.  It’s hard, if not impossible, to do that with just one quick visit.  With just one visit you might make an impression or make some memories, but usually they are quickly swept back underneath by life and all your circumstances.  Being part of this team for a fourth time, will only bring us closer to those friends we have made and rekindle the friendships we have.  It is so much easier to help build and encourage those whose we already have a close connection.

And to our Romanian friends we say: We will see you all very soon!!!!