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05/01/2016 Boldog Uj Evet From Romania! 1/6 Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas season, celebrating with friends and family. We also hope that... Boldog Uj Evet! Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas season, celebrating with friends and family. We also hope that you are looking forward to the year ahead and how God wants to work in and through you. We had an incredible month celebrating the Christmas season! It started off with a visit home to Alberta and Vancouver. We spent a weekend in Calgary with friends and also visited Brentview Baptist Church. We were able to speak in their services as well as lead the Bible study to share about Romania and the work that has taken place this past year. Following this visit, we headed out to Camp Caroline to visit Paul’s parents as they live on property there. We had a great week of family hangouts and activities and were joined by Paul’s sister visiting with her two kids. We also had the opportunity to share about Romania and Camp Falcon Rock with the Camp Caroline staff. They continue to be huge supports and encouragements to us and the ministry here.

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Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful Christmasseason, celebrating with friends and family. We also hope that...

Boldog Uj Evet!Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas season, celebratingwith friends and family. We also hope that you are looking forward to the yearahead and how God wants to work in and through you. 

We  had  an  incredible month  celebrating  the Christmas  season!  It  started  offwith a visit home  to Alberta and Vancouver. We spent a weekend  in Calgarywith friends and also visited Brentview Baptist Church. We were able to speakin their services as well as lead the Bible study to share about Romania and thework that has taken place this past year. Following this visit, we headed out toCamp Caroline to visit Paul’s parents as they live on property there. We had agreat week of  family hangouts and activities and were  joined by Paul’s  sistervisiting with her two kids. We also had the opportunity to share about Romaniaand Camp Falcon Rock with the Camp Caroline staff. They continue to be hugesupports and encouragements to us and the ministry here.

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After  our  time  out  at  camp  we  headed  into  Edmonton  for  the  weekend. Westarted  with  an  important  business  meeting  about  moving  forward  withfundraising and camp development with some of our  local partners. Followingthat, good friends of ours George and Arliss Cuff hosted an open house for uswhere  we  were  surprised  by  over  60  people  who  came  out.  We  hadthe  opportunity  to  share more  about  the  camp ministry.   We were  excited  toinvite  the Wagners  to  join  us  for  the  meeting  and  the  open  house  to  shareabout their calling and heart for Romania. Next we had the opportunity to be apart of Central Baptist’s church service. Paul was able to preach and I was ableto  meet  with  people  through  our  booth.  Again,  we  felt  so  blessed  by  theencouragement and support we received from Central and it was great to seeour friends there! 

Right after the service we rushed to the airport to fly into Vancouver to visit myfamily.  It was  the  first  time  I was able  to  see my  sister  since her  accident  inJune.  I was blown away by how well and healthy she  is! God  is so good andshowed her  so much grace  through  this process. She  is  recovering  from herbrain injury incredibly and is receiving a lot of support to get her back to normallife.  It was great  to be able  to have some sister  time with her. We also had anumber  of  family  hangouts  and  activities  that week with my  family  and  evenhad a giant Christmas dinner together. 

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It  was  such  a  blessing  for  Paul  and  I  to  be  home  for  a  taste  of  CanadianChristmas but we knew that it was important to be back home to Romania for

actual Christmas. We flew back in on the 22nd and were quickly wrapped up inthe celebrations here. 

While  we  were  away  Tamas  was  able  to  serve  on  behalf  of  the  camp  byhanding  out  donated  Christmas  shoe  boxes  to  the  village  surrounding  thecamp. Every Christmas the pastors here receive some of the Christmas boxesfrom the Christmas shoe box program and then get help to give them away tofamilies  in  need.  Tamas  took  the  opportunity  to  meet  with  the  impoverishedfamilies around the camp and shared the Gospel with them.

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We  love  the way Romanians  celebrate Christmas  and  the  focus  they  put  onactually  celebrating  Jesus!  The Christmas  celebrations  start  the week  beforeChristmas through evening church services the week leading up to Christmas.Then on Christmas Eve there is a special night service and the 3 days followingthere are a morning and evening service each day. After each service we wereinvited  to different people’s homes  for a meal and  time  to hangout and everyevening we were invited to be a part of the village caroling. The young peoplestay up late and go through the villages caroling in the streets either by signingor  playing  their  brass  instruments.  Caroling  is  an  important  part  of  theChristmas celebration as  it  is a  tool Romanians use  to evangelize and sharethe story of Christmas. One night during caroling we had a family join us for asong, we had another elderly  lady come stand outside of her house with herhands raised worshipping during the carols and finally we chatted with a drunkman  coming  from  the  pub  about  what  we  were  doing.  It  was  quite  theexperience!

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During the holiday we had many opportunities to hangout with our friends in thevillage. One night  included us taking some of the teens into the nearby city togo ice­skating. It was the first time for all of them. We had a lot of fun hangingout and teaching them how to skate! 

We  finished  off  the  month  and  year  with  a  New  Year’s  Eve  church  servicefollowed by a meal with some friends from the village. The young people werethen up until the wee hours of the morning lighting off fireworks to celebrate theNew Year and then still managed to make it into church the next morning andafternoon for services. 

We  are  so  grateful  for  the  ways  God  has  led  and  provided  for  us  and  theministry here. We  look  forward  to what 2016 will bring  for Camp Falcon Rockand how God will continue to grow Paul and I to be better followers of Him. 

Tanya and Paul