Go in peace, be warmed!

Fuel for the winter. It can be a real problem. Nearly every year some generous people donate funds for firewood for the poorest families in a Romany village in Moldova. Last year, the pastor in that village suggested use some of those funds to make the firewood go further. He replaced the door in this elderly couple's home. (The husband is blind.)

They had done what they could with the door. 

It was neatly painted, 

and they had hung a blanket over it on the inside for a bit of insulation. 

That was not nearly enough. 

So the old door was taken out . . .

. . . and a new energy-efficient one put in.

The pastor hopes to work with people in the village to more insulating in the future.

We hope to work with them, too!

Thank you for making this work possible.

If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.  James 2:15, 16, Good News Translation

M. Van Rheenen & K. Holmes