Final Day at Borumlaca (Day 5)

Each day at the teaching rotation the kids learned about a man of faith from the Bible. Check out the very cool sketches the team brought along with them each day!

"I love God"

Today as a whole didn't start off so well, for me at least. I woke up at 6am (thank you church bells of Marghita) and still was running late for everything all morning. I hate being late - it really bothers me. And, it bothers me when others are late as well. So, I definitely wasn't excited about the impression I was leaving on the team that is here right now.
Then this sadness just set upon my spirit. I didn't know what was going on - what exactly was the Lord trying to tell me through this? We left for Borumlaca and the 2 things that were most on my mind were.

1. Good gracious these roads are awful - I don't think I can sit in the back seat of this van anymore. I did let the driver know that I did, in fact, want to make it to Borumlaca alive today. : )

2. The sadness.

So we get closer to the town and the heaviness was growing so just as we came to the "Borumlaca" sign I told them to stop the car. I literally could not even enter the town. We spent time praying and I hear God say, really clearly, "My presence will be with you." Over and over again He just kept speaking those words through the prayer time. I couldn't stop the tears...

We arrived in Borumlaca and I got out my guitar to start with the songs. As soon as I started worshiping with the kids God's presence was there. Whew. Immediately He changed my 'mourning' into dancing. What joy filled me! It was awesome - then I was like "bring it on! let's go day 5!".

The team of youth were, again, incredible. Seriously - there are not words to accurately describe how impressed I have been with these teens. I and another translator switched between the teaching rotation and the Bible verse station. The teaching session today really touched my heart. I know, that sounds cheesy. For some reason though, the message of salvation - brought in front of these gypsy kids - taught with such compassion from those running the group...it was really powerful for me. Most of the kids said that they wanted Jesus to live in their hearts - really awesome. Praying that the church that has been started in this village would be able to disciple these young faiths!

Today also was really cool because when the parents and kids starting spreading the word that we were making t-shirts...well, at the very end those that didn't have their kids in our program starting appearing - begging for t-shirts. The threats were a lot more serious than the tortilla chip madness on Day 1 so I immediately went to the team's leaders and was like - we're going to have to make a quick exit. I started praying for peace to settle over the angry, screaming crowd... By the time I got back to where they were, they had dispersed. We were able to finish the time with worship and say good bye to all of the kids! And, all of that happened without any of our rented vans having windows broken - which is what was about to happen when I ran to tell everyone that we had to leave.

God is good. His presence was with us. Amin!