Evangelistic meeting led by Roma in a Roma village in Moldova.
We pray that the Spirit continues to move!
Monday, September 29, 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
A number of Dom live in Gaza. As you can imagine, this community has been hard hit. Just last month, 28 children in the community died. Help keep our brothers and sisters in Gaza alive. Give to the charity of your choice. Or give through the Dom Research Center. Aid is regularly sent through Dom pastors and churches in the area.
Dom Research Center, Inc
Friday, August 22, 2025
On-Going
longer do the quality recordings he did in the past.)
However, most of the things he recorded, created, or dubbed are now online. They continue to share the Word of God. Here are three links to some examples. Pray with us that the people who need to hear/see these will continue to find and use them.
Joseph and His Brothers, The Good Samaritan, The Lost Son
https://www.youtube.com/user/LutonRomaChurch/playlists?shelf_id=0&view=1&sort=dd
18 stories in English and Romanes
Friday, May 2, 2025
Building within the Body of Christ
This is Natasha. She lives in a Roma village in Moldova. She and her family needed a new home.
There was no place in the village that she could afford.
Local believers donated funds to do the paperwork.
A Christian organization in America agreed to build the house.
They have finished the foundation and the outer shell.
They will come back later to do the rest of the construction.
And the Sinti-led charity is planning to help finish and furnish it.
It takes a village to raise a child? Sometimes it takes the world-wide body of Christ to build a home.
Thank you for praying with us!
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Passing the Torch
Romanes Arbeit Marburg (Romany Work Marburg) is now in Koblentz. This photo shows former director Jens Döhling handing the organization over to Otta Laubing. He does this symbolically by giving her the files for the entire Bible in her heart language.
Talk about being fed from the Word of God . . . . )
Friday, March 14, 2025
How do you mail a letter? The easiest way, where I come from, was to either have the stamped addressed letter sticking out of the mail slot in your front door or to put it in your mail box and put the flag up. In either case, the mail carrier would pick it up.
So naturally, when we moved to the Netherlands, I did this.
The mail carrier kept pushing it back in the front door with the rest of the mail.
I kept putting it back in the front door mail slot.
After several days of mutual frustration, I asked a friendly Dutch person how to mail a letter. It was quite simple. Bring it to the post office or drop it in one of these orange Dutch mail boxes. Easy, once you know the system. Baffling and frustrating if you do not.
I, the stranger, am deeply grateful for the locals who were (and are) willing to help me cope in this strange land. Consider being a helpful local when you see a stranger in your own land.
Matthew 25:35 " . . . I was a stranger, and you welcomed me . . ."
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Giving
At a recent meeting, the discussion leader asked us each to share the most memorable gift we'd given or received in the past 6-12 months. The responses ranged from touching to humorous. What made each memorable was not the cost of the gift but the personal relationship connected to the gift.
Our friend Zoltan recently led a children's Bible lesson about a very special gift. He used CEF material + the 4 Word approach. The 4 concrete words from the story help remember the story. They also offer a chance to do an (educational) activity connected to the story. In fact, the 4 Words can be used in a "little preschool" for older children who still need to learn and practice pre-reading, pre-writing, pre-math skills. Interested in learning more or seeing more examples? Contact us!
Acts 3:1-16 Peter & John meet a lame man by the
Temple
Four words
- Gate
- Carried
- Look at us
- Walking/leaping
Gate:
Make up a game where two children face each other & make a closed gate by holding hands or wrists. The other children stand in a line and come, one-by-one, up to the gate. The "gate" raises their hands to become a doorway.
Carried:
- Math Game 17 Caterpillar multiplication.
- Needed: strong cloth or blanket. 4 children take hold of each corner and carry a 5th child from here to there. Then the 5th child jumps and walks back.
- Piggy-back relay race (might be dangerous).
Look at us
- Start Game B4 See the difference.
- Discussion: what is polite (in your culture)? Is it polite to look at someone when they talk to you?
- Is it hard to look at someone
when they talk to you?
(people on the autism spectrum find this difficult) - What might you do if someone
wants you to look at them?
(look at their forehead or their neck instead of their eyes)
- Simon says. Simon says "walk", "leap/jump", "sit on the ground", "stand"; all the things the lame man did.
- Red light/green light, but just with walking and leaping (jumping) instead of stop and go.
- Discussion: pretend you are really happy. Act like you are really happy. What does that look like? What do you do? Do you ever "jump for joy"?
Prayer time:
Have the children act out the story as you (or one of them)
retells it.
Actors: Peter &
John; man & friends who carry him; 2 people as "gate" or
"door"; everyone else as amazed people who come running once Peter,
John, & the other man walk through the gate. Point out that now the man can
walk through the gate into the temple, like everyone else. Jesus heals us. He
wants us close to Him.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Moldovan Pancakes
Thank you to all our Moldovan brothers and sisters, Roma and non-Roma, Romanian-speaking and Russian-speaking, who have extended warm hospitality to us!
Mix together:
- 2 eggs
- 200 ml milk (1 cup)
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 teaspoons sugar (more or less, to taste)
- 2 teaspoons butter (melted)
- dry curd cottage cheese with salt or sugar to taste (might beat egg into the cheese)
- jam
- mushrooms, sautéed