Recap: Getting to Romania

                  Recap: Getting to Romania

I know it has been a little while since I have blogged, but hopefully you received a newsletter from us Georgebells about a week ago in your email inbox. If you are not signed up to receive email and snail mail newsletters you can give us your information here: http://missionromania.f-pc.org. Remember to add a note in the comments section letting us know you want to be added.  Anyways, as with most moves, our move has gone by like a whirlwind. Since our last blog post Lydia enjoyed her 4th birthday, Chay lost 3 teeth, and we have finally moved in to our new home in Romania.

Thursday, July 9th was our big day. We departed from George Bush Intercontinental Airport at 3pm and made our way to Bucharest, Romania arriving about 24 hrs later. I was nervous that so many hours of travel with our three children was going to be painstakingly hard and long but they were amazing! 

It also helped that we had 10 people traveling with us with one goal: to help us on our move. We are so thankful to God for everyone who spent their time and money to help us because a move so far is physically and emotionally taxing! 

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After days of hard work cleaning our new house and yard, done almost entirely by our “team” from Fellowship Church, we hosted a house warming party and invited other missionaries and workers from Hope Church. We tried our best to serve Tex-Mex with the ingredients we had and it turned out pretty good. 

Oh and I almost forgot, we officially bought our house!! In Romania, the land has to be owned by a Romanian citizen but can be “operated” by a citizen of another nationality. So some of our new friends and fellow youth workers came with us to buy the house and land with us. Thank you Alex and Ancuța (pronounced Ann cootz a)!!  

There is much to be done before our official ministry is started. Our primary focus for the next couple of months will be learning the culture and learning the language. Please be in prayer for us for language learning, it is much needed! :)  

Grace be with you,

the Georgebells

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Last week—ok, maybe week and a half ago— the Georgebells went with 63 youth and 8 other leaders to Glorieta, New Mexico for FUGE camp. FUGE camp is a christian camp that focuses on Bible Study, Worship, and includes some really fun recreation. We had a great time as we got to lead and watch our youth encounter God and learn more about Him. 

One fun thing that is kind of special about our youth group is that we have themed days. So some themes we have are tie-dye, Noah’s ark, and then dressing in our church youth shirts. It is fun to match as a group, but what is really great about it is that matching is a great way for our youth to get together more often and have things like tie-dye parties; it really brings unity by just spending time together. 

Honestly most of my time was spent hanging with my children. Even though the camp is not fitted for them, it is a great way for them to learn about God and that young people can love Jesus!! Plus, what child doesn’t want to be a teenager somewhere deep down? I am so thankful to God for how our youth at Refuge love on our children!! 

With only 5 more days before we make our move to Romania (!!) we are frantically packing ;) and you will hear much more in the near future. 

Grace be with you,

the  Georgebells

Prayer Request:

-Peace in the chaos of moving

-Continued unity in our two families

-Peace and excitement for friends and family stateside