Sunday Morning Church

These are pictures from church on Sunday morning down in the valley (i.e. the mission church that Troy began, not Holy Trinity Baptist Church - which is the bigger church we've visited in the past.)

Outside in the courtyard was where all the children met. They had approx. 30 children out there and they were going through VBS material & playing games. Some of our team was out there helping.





Inside, after singing in Romanin, Troy preached in English while Bogdon translated for all the Romanians. We then split into groups to discuss the prodigal son. One group took the story from the perspective of the Father, one group the perspective of the older son, and our group took the prospective from the younger son. We came back together to report our findings, then had the Lord's supper. Though church was 2 hours long, it was pretty good.

Here is our team in our Sunday best.

Here I am with Andrew and a youth that Whitney so lovingly renamed "Bob." He received this nickname because none of us could pronounce his name. And now, we've got the other Romanian youth calling him Bob. Poor fella. But he is a young man with a servant's heart. He fixed the coffee for church on Sunday. Maybe we should rename him "Kelly." ;-)

Here is Roland and I at lunch after church...as good Baptist should. To be an American eating Chinese in Romania is something to think about. If only our waitress were Mexican!