Give Thanks

 

Even though Romanian's don't celebrate Thanksgiving like we do in the States, we have so much to be thankful for! We had a full month during November as we started preparations for the upcoming holiday season. The boys helped put up Christmas decorations and we are thankful for the opportunity to make new traditions and memories with them.

There were a few small projects that the boys worked on as well. One was to deep clean and paint one of the bathrooms. It's amazing what a new coat of paint will do to brighten things up! I'm so thankful that they were able to tackle this project. While it wasn't a big one it was much needed as there was some mold that needed to be taken care of. Nicu, Corni, and the boys were able to treat the walls so that hopefully the mold will not come back.

An after pic and Iuli and Corni working on cleaning the bathroom before Nicu painted.

Nicu and I have continued to serve in the children's department at our church, AlfaOmega. Once a month we lead a lesson, a game, and a craft with the kids. We're thankful for our church family!

We were also able to go to visit the kids at Periș once during November. There had been several cases of COVID so we had waited to visit until most of the kids were feeling better. We were especially thankful to be able to see the kids after several weeks away. Just after we went to visit the kids there were new restrictions put in place and we needed to be fully vaccinated before we could go into the orphanage. Nicu and I have had the first dose of the vaccine and will have the second dose in mid-December. After that we will be able to deliver gifts to the kids just in time for Christmas!

How You Can Support Us

Here are our current prayer requests and praises: Pray for all the kids we work with as we enter the holiday season. Some go home with families for the holidays and some will stay at the orphanage. Either situation can be hard for the kids. Pray that we will be able to get enough gifts for all the kids at the orphanages. We need over 400 gifts. Our church, AlfaOmega, and our "mother" church, Sfantul Treime, are helping with gifts. Pray that everyone will give generously and, more importantly, from their heart. Praise the Lord that we were able to get the vaccine easily here in Romania! We are praying that after the second dose we will not have any major side effects and that we will get the Green Certificate that we need quickly so we can go visit the kids. Pray that we will be able to have a Christmas celebration with the kids at the orphanages and not just drop off gifts. In addition to the gifts that we will receive from the Romanian churches we need financial support to buy gifts for the boys in the transition program and to cover any gifts that don't get bought for the kids at the orphanage. We pray that you will prayerfully consider donating to Heart to Heart this holiday season. If you would like to partner with us financially through Heart to Heart International please use the button below. If you choose to support us financially be sure and indicate in the memo section that you would like the funds to go to Nicu and Melissa Perghel, the Boys Transition Program, or Christmas gifts (if you would like to make a special Christmas contribution). You can check out our Facebook group to receive updates on the program and how God is using us here in Romania.

Giving Through H2H You can also make a donation through Walking With Orphans using the PayPal Giving link below. The transaction will appear as "Eastern European and Russian Orphanages Project" (the registered name for Walking With Orphans).                             By using PayPal Giving we will receive 100% of your donation! https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1239712