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Monday, June 25, 2007

What Happened in June

Ephesians 3:17-19 That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith: that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height--to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.




This month has been a very busy month for us, and if the Lord has been teaching us anything it would be that in all we do may it be as unto Him and not to man out of the Love of Christ. Our prayer is that we may truely comprehend the Love our Saviour has for us and to know the fullness of God. So often we get very busy in our ministries and doing the work of the Lord but we do it not with the love of God but with our own strength and in the flesh. I want to know that no matter how busy I am for the Lord it is out of love and nothing else. Other wise we have no fruit and the ministry becomes burdensome rather than a joy for the Lord.




This month Chris's sister Jenn came to stay with us for three weeks. It was a blessed time and good to have family come to visit. We were so sad to see her leave and wait with expectation of her visiting again. While she was here she visited the orphanage of children with disabilities, then together I went with her to the children's hospital. I have now committed to go to the children's hospital two mornings a week to love on an abandoned baby there. Jenn and I also went to a program called "open doors" where we had a blast playing with the kids there. We played "UNO" a lot, but loved seeing the smiles on the kids faces just doing what they enjoyed.


Two days after Jenn left we went to the leadership conference in Hungary. It was held at the Calvary Chapel Bible College of Europe. There were over 400 people there that were either missinaries or nationals involved in the ministry. They came from countries all over Europe, just to name a few, Hungary, Romania, Ugoslavia, Austria, Ukraine, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Spain, Serbia, and others. The theme of the conference was, "We Want to See Jesus." It was a great time of praising our Saviour and praying with others for their ministries. We all so had some free time where we got to enjoy the pool quite a bit, which was a great refresher as the temperature rose to 100 degrees two of the days we were there.


While at the conference the Lord really used one of the songs we sang to speak to my heart and I would like to take just a quick moment to share that with you. The song was "I could sing of your love forever," and we all probably know that song or have sang it at some point or other. I really started to think about the words of the song and how often I sing these songs but just the words they don't mean anything to my heart yet I say that I am singing to my Lord. We got to the verse "Oh I feel like dancing, its foolishness I know." Many people think dancing before the Lord is foolish. I for one think I look foolish when I dance, but then the song goes on to say "oh but when the world sees the light they will dance with joy like we are dancing now." Are we dancing before the Lord with joy? Am I dancing before the Lord with Joy? How dare we think to dance before the Lord is foolish. David danced before the Lord with all his might. Do we serve a dry, dull God? No, we serve the Lord God Almighty, Maker and Creator of all things, who can do the impossible and yet we sing of dancing with His joy but how many of us actually do? A lot of Christians say that they are not Christians, because of Christians. It is time, including myself, that we start truely understanding the Love our Lord has for us and walking around in the light of our Lord and Saviour, so that the world can see the joy of the Lord. Even if we look foolish to the world, may we allow the Holy Spirit to lead us and let His joy shine through us to the rest of the world.



Prayers and Updates:

We are still looking for two sets of house parents for two different family centers. We hope for our one family center to be able to start up in the fall. Please pray for God to bring his people to be house parents, and pray for the children that will be placed in the home that even now the Lord will start preparing their hearts to know Him.



We also would ask for prayer for our visas which we have to obtain to live here. They will cost around $600 for the family, and we need them before three months runs up again. Other wise we have to leave the country for a short time and then return.



Lastly we would ask prayer for a brother and sister of ours in the Lord who also are ministering in Romania. They live in a city of over 200,000 thousand people with only about 100 christians. It is a very dark city full of witch craft and other things from the enemy. Each week they have between 300-500 kids plus some parents at their church meeting. They are going through lots of spiritual warfare with the enemy and are also is desperate need of some laborers to come along side of them. Right now it is only the two of them. Please pray for this dear couple.


Thank you
We appreciate all of your prayers and support. We love you all and thank you so much for all that you do. Especially after being at the conference and seeing all of the missionaries there, it made me all the more thankful for you. Because you too are following the Lords leading, and without you to being faithful to the Lord's calling ourselves nor the other missionaries would be able to follow the Lord's leading in our lives and go. You make a difference and we love you and thank you.


Serving together in Christ,

Chris, Faith, Levi, and Chloe Anderson

Monday, June 4, 2007

Kids day








Kids day. A day set aside for kids. The kids from the family centers in Bistrita as well as the kids from church got together for a time of games, food, and lots of candy.

The older kids had relay races.While the younger kids were inside and had ring toss and ball tossing competitions, along with a few other games.Another game the older kids played was sort of like duck, duck, goose. but instead of counting ducks, they run around and stand in front of another. that person then runs away from the person that is it.



Winky, the clown had the most fun. She was a hit among the kids.


The sword balloons were to best ever made. Even the girls liked them. The


kids went home happy and content (and a little tired).