The Gypsy Choir from Romania is coming!
At all three services this coming Sunday, February 7, we will hear the Gypsy Choir sing, dance and give their testimonies. Since 2001, Christ Lutheran has been a significant financial and volunteer sponsor of The Smiles Foundation working near Oradea, Romania. Since that time, we have seen these very children go from living in squalor, begging in the streets and growing up without any formal education to living with hope and smiles!
The Gypsies in Romania are an outcast society. Forced to live in the worst, deplorable conditions, their future has little hope for improvement. They are not offered employment, scorned from society and unwelcomed in the public schools.
Over the past nine years, The Smiles Foundation has provided housing, three schools, medical and dental care, food and as of last year a chapel. Christ Lutheran provides the salary for the pastor to care for this congregation.
Because of the work of Smiles, these children have a future--not just in Romania but a future in the Kingdom of God. I invite you to join us on February 7 to hear and celebrate what God is doing in Romania, a former communist, atheist country now open to the Word of God.
And listen. Listen to see if God is calling you to join me this summer (June 27-July 4) for a life-changing mission trip to Romania.
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