This summer camp in the mountains was a great blessing of God for all children part of this project. It was the first time for some of them, a new experience like this in the mountains, their parents are poor and these children never were in a SUMMER CAMP like this before.

This year we had a group of 26 children in our summer camp project and four adults as well. Most of them, about 85% are part of our charity program and the rest of the group came from the children club we are running on Vladeni Baptist Church. Even if they have different ages and live on different places around Botosani (Botosani, Vladeni, Bucecea, Pascani, Iasi, Mihail Kogalniceanu – different small villages), all of them felt very well and immediately accommodated at the summer camp conditions as well.

All trips we made during the days, Bible studying, prayer and worship (in the morning and in the evening), the time spent together, games, the Bicaz Gorges (a beautiful place with big rocks), – all of this made this summer a special project and we are absolutely sure all these children never forget this.

The smallest child of the group has 7 years old and the biggest is 17 years. It wasn’t so easy to have in responsibility a large group like this, but we thank God because nothing happened and He gave us power and wisdom to finish this project with no problems.

We are sure they never forget this summer camp. All of them have lovely memories about this and after years they could remember this nice camp. We are delighted because there was this possibility to make this project and also we thank our God for protection, good weather and health. We had no health problems in this camp, praise the Lord for that. We all could see His blessings in our lives this time.

Lower, you could see a small beautiful movie about our summer camp project 2009. If you would like to have a full version of this movie, please make a small donation (10,15,20 euros or more) to help our charity and missionary society projects. After that, give us your postal address and we will send you a full version of this video as soon as possible. We thank you for your understanding!

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It was a great, wonderful and unforgettable experience for most of children from our charity program this year. After those days, I and my husband have made a small evaluation of this holiday and we found this time was the most wonderful Christmas from our last years. All our family’s members were happy and grateful to God because we had in our mission ministry this project.

This year, a group of 34 children were involved our project for Christmas. Some of them are part of our charitable and social work; they live in social stages and different locations (Vlădeni, Botosani, Bucecea, and Mihail Kogălniceanu village). The whole of the project, December 24-26, 2008, the children from the village of Mihail Kogălniceanu lived with us in Botosani.

On the eve of Christmas, the children from the village of Mihail Kogălniceanu arrived in Botosani, in our home (my husband went after them by car in the morning of that day). They had the lunch, and after a small relax little, we all went to Vlădeni. There we gathered the entire group: those of Vlădeni, children Bucecea (Sofian’s children), some children from Botosani (Juravle’s children), and the children from our mission children club. We have had a specific work to do: to go with the Christmas carol through the village at different people’s homes. 

 The village was covered by snow. It snowed few days before, even on the eve of Christmas we enjoyed enormously much too large flakes of snow that falls on the ground. We went to the homes of people sang Christmas carols, specific event songs relating to the birth of the Savior Jesus Christ. The children were untiringly and full of enthusiasm. They had a nice experience and felt proud because all of them can do useful work to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ in their village. 

Tonight, the children went home and others in Botosani, where we had dinner together. Our children have enjoyed having them as their guest that time, they talk, playing different games and laughed a lot together. Many things were new to them, including that to play some games on the computer. 

The next morning we went to Vlădeni again, where the group of children attended a worship service by the local Baptist church. The whole church were touched by the children Christmas program. Their songs, poems and biblical verses about the birth of Jesus Christ sounded wonderful. We have had not such a large group of children before in our church service. It was wonderful to see all of them worship with the church that day.

At the end of the service, the children who worshiped at the church participated in a festive Christmas meal. We have eaten soup, a specific Romanian food called sărmăluţe, fruits, cakes and juices. All children were very happy, talked about stories and different things, experiences and memories. Finally, they received their Christmas received this year by the Samaritan’s Purse. They then disposed of because no longer had the patience needed to get home. You can imagine the joy that they have experienced it in those special moments.

 Some friends of our family heard about this project and have decided to join us through a donation of this specific event. Few days before Christmas, our sponsors from England told us about the possibility of helping this project financially. In this way, we want to thank you all for the support given to us in running this great project. 

After the Christmas festive dinner, each child went home and we got back to Botoşani. After we rested a little, we went to “the city children’s town” together with children from Mihail Kogălniceanu. The Central Park and the city were covered by snow. And then it was snowing quite profusely everywhere on Botosani; this generated a lot of joy in their souls. These children never have been and seen a place like this before. The places dedicated to the electric cars and horses were their favorites. They shot several times in these cars, which had an immense joy. It was the first time they saw something like that, and when they eat cotton candy. Tired, we returned home that evening. Children continued to play with our boys, told and laughter together. With difficulty we were able to determine them to go to sleep because the next day we had to take them back to their village. We would like to keep them few days more, but we have had special events in our family: my sister engagement time and my mother birthday party.

 The next morning, we early waked up and after breakfast, the children have packed their things and left for their village. The road was difficult; it was much snow and ice on the road. Although the road was very hard, God has helped us to take them home safely. Their families expected us in the place we have fixed before on the phone and have enjoyed when the children have begun to tell them about their experiences and beautiful time lived those days with us in Botosani.

We pray to God to have other opportunities to be together in the future, to enjoy in projects like this. Memories are long lived in our minds and we are convinced that these children will not forget too soon all things new and beautiful experience lived on Christmas 2008. 

 May God bless all those who have supported this project by prayer and financially. We are convinced that they will be rewarded for the effort made for our charity work and pray to God to have them in His guard this year all the time. 

Carmen Motora

 Coordinator leader of our charity programs

If you would like to know more details about our project, please read our report dedicated to the sponsors of this charity project.  

christmas child charity project 2008

Through the agency of this website post, we would want to thank to all our last year web-site’s visitors and say to them we are honored to have all of you as our visitors. That means one sure thing: our missionary and charity ministry had your attention and interest last year. We would like to continue to have you as friends and readers and please, don’t detour our society website and read all information about our ministry here when you’re online.

 Some readers of our website, perhaps found about this by chance or at random; if you liked it, you have to know that we are waiting you another time. Others, perhaps they clicked our Internet page by curiosity; we hope this had good and positive results. Some, we believe they read all information posted on the website with one reason: they wanted to know our latest activities or news of our charity and missionary ministry. We would like to know that your reading had a great impact on your lives. Regardless of the reasons bring to our website, we want to thank all of you and provoke to continue to visit us and read our latest posts about our ministry here when you’ll have the possibility.

 We also would like very much if you’ll sign into our guestbook. You could send to us your thoughts, good or bad impression, and some constructive suggestions. When you will write your message to us you could send it personified by uploading a picture of you there. Click here or on the picture to reach at our website guest-book page.

 Here is a map with our web site’s visitors places powered by The ClustrMaps.

In accordance with the dates received by this web-counter, our website was visited by 1, 115 visitors between August 25, 2008 – January 17, 2009. It’s a great joy’s reason for us and we are glad because the countries list is large and variegated.

Romania (RO)	940
United States (US)	41
Moldova, Republic of (MD)	27
Spain (ES)	26
Italy (IT)	18
France (FR)	10
United Kingdom (GB)	10
Europe (EU)	8
Austria (AT)	6
India (IN)	5
Germany (DE)	5
Portugal (PT)	3
Serbia (RS)	2
Canada (CA)	2
Denmark (DK)	1
Ukraine (UA)	1
Belgium (BE)	1
Netherlands (NL)	1
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA)	1
Cyprus (CY)	1
Angola (AO)	1
Macedonia (MK)	1
Bulgaria (BG)	1
Switzerland (CH)	1
Australia (AU)	1
Hungary (HU)	1

Another web-counter company, Shiny Stat sent to us others important dates which are a great joy for us: a) Total visitors 2008 = 3.521 visitors; b) Total pages visited = 6.001 pages

The following map we have just received by Flag-counter.com showed us a pleasing note: our visitors lived from different 86 countries around the world, not only from Europe. With a simple click on the image, you could check this information ( the map contains a list with the first 18 countries; the next you could find by clicking on the image/ of course, the traffic is based on our Romanian and English websites ).

Clara is well now, praise the Lord for this wonderful news.

She was with her mother at Targu Mures Hospital for new medical investigation and she need not another heart surgery right now, only if her heart condition will be suddenly change. The medical investigation just had good results last time in September and she is now at home with her family.

They already receive a financial support from our Romanian government because of Clara’s medical situation; this is not so much, but it is a good financial support for them.  Johanna, Clara’s sister is going at the kindergarten in their village and she is so happy because her sister is felling well now and she can play with her.

They receive a monthly financial and food support, thanks to our partners from England - Kids in Romania Foundation. They have open heart for this family needs and we are glad because they were near to them and us when this family had sad and hard experiences in the past with their daughter.

We thank them and God for everything they made for us.

May God bless them! 

Clara and her sister received their Christmas gifts from our charity mission

 “We know well the date of our birthday, but no one knows the date of our death”. 

How true is this statement. When our partners visited us at the end of year 2007, we didn’t know that this year three people from our charity program will passed away. This is our God’s will indeed, but we were honored to help them in their sort last years/months.

Because of this sad situation, we felt to choose other people in our charity program. After some days of special prayers, we felt it’s a good idea to have three new people in our charity program. Here is, some information about our newest people in our charity program. 

Cotruta family

This family is living in Mihail Kogalniceanu, a village situated at 70 km from Botosani. This is the same village where Ciobanu family is living as well; in fact, the man with a blemish on his face is the brother of Simona Ciobanu.

As you could see in the pictures, they are living in a hard social situation, they only financial support is from the children allowance, the fieldwork and animals.

 They have four children: Florinel – 8 years old, Irinel – 6 years old, Andrei – 3 years old and Emanuel – 1 year old. Florinel is the bigger boy of this family. Incredible, but when his parents are at the fieldwork or at animals work, he is carrying to his little brothers, especially Emanuel who is one year old. They have a hard social life and we thank God for such a wonderful opportunity to help them by our charity program.

 Sofian family – Bucecea, Botosani

The family: Sofian Cornel, Sofian Felicia - parents. Sofian Daniel, Sofian Daniela, Sofian Ionut, Sofian Andreea, Sofian Gabriel, Sofian Beniamin – the children.Three weeks ago, we have heard about this family and all the time we prayed God to give us a possibility to help them. Today, He gave us this blessing. A women refused to receive help from our mission work, and we thank God because He already has this family in His plans for us.   

Iacob family – Botosani

 This family is living in Botosani in a small apartment with one room. As you could see in the pictures, the man has mental problems after a brain/cerebral accident few years ago. He cannot walk alone and this is the main reason they sold their apartment with three rooms and buy a new one with one at the first floor. 

  They are both retired and have a small pension. This is not sufficient for their monthly needs, especially for his monthly medical treatment.  Here is their complete name: Iacob Pavel – 77 years old and Iacob Veronica – 72 years old. We are honored to have them in our charity documents and help monthly with a food parcel and spiritual counseling. 

 Special note:

 ”How great is our God”. This is the name of a beautiful Christian song, but it is also a good response of our charity ministry in present. We started this project in August 2005 with one person. Now, after three years we have exactly 49 people in our charity program ( widows, elderly, poor and needy families ) and 26 children. Wow. A beautiful and blessed ministry being done to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Praise the Lord for this and thanks to our partners from England.

Mr. Duduta Dumitru

Last year, God put in our hearts the decision to help this man through the agency of our charity program. We were honored and thank God because we could have him in our charity program in his last year.

He lived alone in Botosani since 1999, the year when his wife passed away. He was a good Christian and all the time when we visited him, he always had a wonderful message from the Scripture for all of us. Last time when our partners from England visited us, we decided one afternoon to visit him. At the end of this visit, Mr. Duduta Dumitru said to us: “I have something for Sue and Terry”. It was a special message from Proverbs 25:25 – “Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country”.

He had several heart problems and his three heart attacked was the last for him. He spent his last hours with his son in the mountains. In a evening, he felt bad and his son called the ambulance there. After one hour of medical exercises, his heart stoped to bite for this world.

We were honored to have him in our charity program and we thank God for such a wonderful opportunity to help him in his last year. He was 78 year old in the day of his death.

Mrs. Ciobanu Domnica

When we started this charity project in August 2005, she was the second person from our program. In all these years, we were blessed to have her in our attention.

She had 95 years old when God called her in heaven, after a long time suffering. In her last months, she was complete blind and all time she asked us is there is a way to help her to see a little. We cannot help her because of her age, she was too old, but God have supported her in her suffering.

Her nephew called Laurentiu was near to her all days and she was so much helped because of him. He was a blessing of God for her daily needs and suffering and we thank God for his help. We were honored to have this old women in our charity program all these years.

Mrs. Ungureanu Veronica

When we were first time at this family with their monthly food support, they started to cry because someone love them so much. We told them our friends and partners from England would like to help them and they were so happy to heard this.

After a long suffering, Mrs. Veronica Ungureanu passed away this year on summer. She cannot walk so much because as you see in the picture, she was a little fat and had feet problems. A great help every day she had from her husband, Mr. Gheorghe Ungureanu. They lived alone in a small apartment in Botosani and all the time they told us how important is this charity help for their monthly needs.

Now, Mr. Ungureanu Gheorghe is in Brasov at his son, after his wife funeral he decided to take him there. We don’t know exactly for how long time but we already have another family which will receive his monthly food parcel this time. If he will return to live in Botosani, he will receive his monthly food support.

We were honored to have this family in our charity ministry and we thank God & our partners for this wonderful opportunity.  

Few weeks ago, we were honored to have Mr. Terry Wright with us here in Botosani – our partner from Kids in Romania Foundation. He came for a special wedding service but we could be involved in some projects together few days as well. We were blessed by his presence here and we thank God because He helped us to visit some people from our charity program.

When we started our charity program called “helping widows, elderly, poor and needy families” in 2005, we had only two people in this project. The number grew up every year and today, after three years of this activity, we can tell you that over 40 people enjoyed every month by our charity support. What wonderful God worked all this time.

We have widows, widowers, elderly, poor and needy families in our charity program and of course about 17 children. They are all in our charity program and by the Lord’s grace, all of them receive every month a food support, spiritual and medical care and counseling in different situations.

We also could help different people with clothes, toys, sweets, money and other useful things this time and for all of this, we thank God and, also, our partner – Kids in Romania Foundation. This help were a blessing of God for all those people and every time they received our help with a special joy in their hearts.

We also are happy because God used us in a special medical situation: Clara’s heart surgery on Targu Mures University Hospital. She was in a hard situation and when this family was in a hard social and financial situation, our partner from England and their friends & supporters understood that and helped them with an extra financial support.

We cannot say she is ok now, she needs another one heart surgery this year but the worse situation already passed. She continues to be in our prayers and care and we thank God because she is in His hands all the time. We are encourage you to continue have this family in your prayers every day.

We are ready to increase this charity work in the future and we thank God because He will give us all things we need in this lovely work. Our missionary and charity society, St. Andrew Christian Mission Romania in partnering with Kids in Romania Foundation are ready to serve the Lord Jesus Christ and our community as the best we could.

Dear friends & supporters of St. Andrew Christian Mission Romania

We need your support and prayers in all our future plans and we are sure one day all of us will find how much God appreciated what we did for His glory on the earth. Without your help, all results we had this time never happen. We thank God for your open hearts for this charity work and we continue to pray for you to be strong in faith, have a good health and also open hearts for our charity and missionary work here in Romania.

May God bless you!

The summer camp location: RED LAKE, Harghita area – Romania, a beautiful place in the mountains for a memorable and lovely holiday for children from families with reduced financial possibilities.

 Between June 30 – July 5, 2008 our mission had another wonderful opportunity to offered a memorable holiday to a group of 16 children from families with reduced financial possibilities at The RED LAKE, Harghita area or The Bicaz Gorges, a beautiful place in the mountains near to Bicaz city.  

Most of them never was in a summer camp before and also some children didn’t know what means “a summer camp” till now. They live in poor families and their parents haven’t a financial potential to give them a possibility like this to go in an organised summer camp project. We indeed praise the Lord for this lovely opportunity to bring them with us in this mission summer camp, thanks to our partners from England – Kids in Romania Foundation. God bless them in all things and ministry.

All trips we made during the days, bible studying, prayer and worship ( in the morning and in the evening ), the time they spent together, games, a special vapour ( ship ) trip in our travel day to the summer camp location, the Bicaz Gorges ( a beautiful place with big rocks ), the camp fire – all of this made this summer a special project and we are absolutely sure all these children never forget this time. After two days, they parents called us to thank for this summer camp and also told us about the fantastic impact this summer camp had in their lives. Praise the Lord for this.

He had a nice experience in this summer camp and we would like to tell you about this. The administrator of “The Green House” ( this is the name of our chalet – the house where we slept over night, because in that area there is a lot of green trees ( we were in the middle of the forest ) and also the house roof is painted in a green colour; all people know that house as “the green house” ) had to gathered all the hay in a special house room near to our chalet, he was alone and this activity isn’t so easy to do. The children understood his situation and decided to help him in two days ( one hour each day ). We can tell you this help was a nice experience for all of them. Some of them never made that before and it was a nice new activity for them.  

We are sure they never forget this summer camp. All of them has lovely memories about this and after years they could remember this nice camp. We are delighted because there was this possibility to made this project and also we thank our God for protection, good weather and health. We had no health problems in this camp, praise the Lord for that. We all could see His blessings in our lives during this time.

    We also want like to send a “BIG THANK YOU” to our partners from England - Kids in Romania Foundation and their friends & supporters. A project like this never could be done without their prayers and financial support. They understood our desire to go in this summer camp and gave us the financial support we need for this summer project. God bless them in all things and ministry.

All the glory for this project belong to our Lord Jesus Christ!