GYPSYS NEED JESUS

I have struggled with this posting. You will understand why I say this if you have ever tried to explain a situation or share an experience and discover how impossible it is to communicate your heart. When you take a picture that is meaningful to you, it can't display all the little things around it that gave it depth, feeling, perspective, and imprinted your memory.

Life for the Gypsy is hard and trying to help them is complex. Many of them do not have jobs, therefore their children beg and steal. They are victims of a bleak social order that locks them into poverty and crime. Ben Boingeanu has a heart for bringing the Gypsy community to Christ. It is interesting that the Orthodox religion does not change their heart, but knowing Christ does. We took food bags to several families that Ben knew and 4 or 5 other men came to the house to pick up their food bags. I did not see any house that had more than two small rooms, no running water, no in-door toilet, no refrigeration. The dirt floor was covered with old and filthy carpets. Several homes had thick hangings covering mud dabbed walls that helped with insulation. Notice their stove/oven/heater in only one room of the house. This is where they eat, sleep and stay warm.

Many of the children do not have coats or adequate shoes. They leave their shoes outside. With melting snow there was ice, mud, puddles of water, dirty, messy shoes just outside the door. We stepped very carefully so as not to fall.

This delivery of food bags took all afternoon. In all the depressive things I experienced today, God is at work. I will share more tomorrow. Pray for those who carry the Gypsy communities on their heart.