Hello all! We have internet in the house, which will make things much easier to keep you updated. :) Life in our new home has gone overall pretty well over these last couple of weeks.
This week Hope Church has been very busy with outreach. World race came to Draganasti-Olt on July 31, it is a team of 55 people. World Race is a mission program where participants travel 11 countries in 11 months, to learn more about it here is the webpage: www.worldrace.org. The team was broken up into three groups and came along Hope Church for three activities. One team went with the children director and other workers from the church to hold a kid’s camp. Another team went to Craiova, a city about an hour and a half away, for evangelism. The last team traveled to Greece to plan new mission possibilities with a local church in Greece.
Although we would have loved to go with any one of these teams, it is not what God had planned for us. We all feel very strongly that we should first concentrate on language learning so that we can actually talk and witness to people, so Monday was our first day of school. Chay-David and Lydia started 1st and Kindergarten. We are homeschooling them and thought that it would be good to start early so in December we could have a large break because we are anticipating a lot of ministry opportunities and events. Shelby decided to start her semester as well, she has been homeschooled in the US and is continuing here in Romania; this is her senior year!! For us adults, we started our language school Monday.
One of the local Romanian missionaries is holding classes for us 5 days a week. Although it has only been one week we have learned over 100 words, how to conjugate many verbs, and how to use the past participle the correct way. After only this one week we were able to go to the store and talk to the employees and ask questions. We are not conversational, but we are past being able to only say “how are you?” and “good”, so that is definitely a success for week one!
It is tough to do school instead of help serve with others from the church, especially because we really do love to serve the church and community. Learning the language is our top priority because we are not going to be able to develop the deep relationships with others that we know we need for evangelizing and discipling others to Christ without knowing the language. Please pray for us for understanding of the language and patients to wait for God’s timing in serving.
Prayer Request:
-Relief/healing from physical ailments: mosquitoes— mosquitoes are no joke here, like 40 bites on one arm
-Lydia’s burn— Lydia got a 3rd degree burn from a watch we bought her for Christmas that leaked battery acid on her arm, thankfully there is a very good doctor that goes to Hope Church who looked at it for us
-Language Learning— That God would give our teacher, Mihai, wisdom as to how and what to teach us and that He would give us knowledge for the Romanian language
-That we would be able to start building meaningful relationships with people around town through small daily interactions as we are able to speak the language we can talk to them about the gospel.
We thank you SO much for your prayers!!
Grace be with you,
the Georgebells
