Thursday Oct.29 Report #11
We will try not to bore you with details today, but it was different ! We loaded the big van that seemed to be working fine and headed out to an orphanage in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains.
This is one of the best run orphanages we visit and the Director, Natalia, is probably the reason for it. She has 145 children with a school and workshops for the older children. She relies very much on sponsorship for many of the larger projects e.g. all new windows. She appreciates the clothing and craft items we bring. There were only 40 children there as there was a holiday and many of the other children had family members that can take them for short spells.
Her greatest need was the same as a year ago, namely winter boots. It is hard to believe that boots here often do not last more than one winter, but it is a fact. What she did was give us names and sizes for 45 children who have no family at all to help them with clothing.
We unloaded two boxes at an old folks home in the same village.
We then headed out of town to get diesel at a little service station, and would you believe it, the van would not start, the battery dead! We pushed it but for some reason it would not start. A man agreed to tow it and away they went leaving us to wait for them to come back. They did, about half an hour later.
We get in and head on to the road and clunk it stops again. No more details except that 2 hours later we headed home. The only problem now was that we had a meeting at 5 pm and it was now after 4 and we are still in the mountains. We got to meeting at 5.30 with everyone still happy and singing hymns as they waited.
We had an appointment with a lady who had surgery a week ago to take a tumor from behind her nose. They went in through the nose and got it all. She looked well but was tired. She is a regular attendee at our meeting and confirmed for us that she is born again.
We headed home very tired and enjoyed a good nights sleep.
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