Romania Week One

With excitement about my move to Romania, I said goodbye to my family...knowing that I'd be missing Christmas and the next eight months. I can't express how anxious I was with wonder.  I was doing it...I was moving to a foreign country...

So, after one very long flight, I finally landed in Romania...and then it hit me.  I was in a foreign country...and would be so for the next eight months. I was greeted by Florin Cucu (the director of the Master's Commission program we would be pioneering) and by Pastor Shawn (the head of Crosstraining International). It was a surreal moment for me. From here on out, I'd be flung into an adventure; a fight for justice!

From the second I got in Florin's car, we started preparation for everything we were going to be doing in the proceeding months.  We went to a department store, looking for the few commodities needed for the apartment that I, and the incoming students, would be living in. Not even having time to fully adjust to the time difference, our team began preparing our apartments. I took the dangerous job of climbing on a slippery tin roof to paint a section of the house. With a smile on my face, I stepped back to admire my work...and then rain came from nowhere...

Our team began meeting on all the logistics of Master's Commission Romania (MCR). Using MCR as the vehicle for our ministry, we'll begin to call the youth of Romania to step out of their apathy and comfort, find a life transforming personal relationship with Jesus, and come against all the dark injustices that scar this beautiful country. So these meetings took our deepest care and focus.

The, students arrived last Thursday and checked into their rooms.  This year, our students are David Petre, Sorin Arsene, Onutza Neascu, and Carmen Marin.  It's in these students that we will be pouring into the next eight months, as we bring God's kingdom on earth!  After this, we left for the mountains to facilitate a time for seeking God through prayer and worship.

As the students started pushing into God, He fell thick in the room. They began to lay down everything, praying for God's move in them and their country. From meal to meal we began to become more and more like family. And with passion we began to cast vision on what we were going to be doing in the upcoming months.

These students are fired up, ready to take the challenges head on.  We know that the journey won't be easy, but just "like popcorn" ~Nichole Marcell , with heat and pressure applied, we'll begin to change this country for Jesus Christ!!!

So without further ado, let me introduce you to MCR: 

From left to right: Jonathan Price, David Petre, Sorin Arsene, Carmen Marin, Megan Dean, Bianca Doll, Onutza Neascu, Liz Cucu, and Florin Cucu.

Please continue to keep us in your prayer, and together we'll shake up Romania! God Bless and His will be done!