Update on Borumlaca

I would love to post some pictures only I have forgotten to bring my camera home 2 days in a row now. Maybe tonight I'll finally get myself together enough to remember!

I just wanted to update you all on how this week has been. You probably have guessed that a "YP" is some type of person by now : ) They are 13 youth from a church in England that have come to do VBS style programs with the gypsy kids in Borumlaca and, starting on Thursday, run the entire program again with the Casa Alba orphanage children.

We've finished 2 days at Borumlaca, this afternoon will be the 3rd. Day 1 was a little difficult. I had assumed that the kids would remember how we ran it last summer. Most of them said they weren't even here for the program last summer. That confused me. How the heck did 100 children just switch themselves out? I think they probably just forgot.
Mass chaos is the best word to describe our first day. The end got a little crazy though. Sorry for those of you that receive my weekly prayer updates when I used the word "violent."
I should have used extremely - extremely physical...pushing, hitting, screaming, kicking, people falling all over each other...all for bags of tortilla chips. The youth got into their vans and a couple of us stayed long enough to just empty the boxes of chips and shut the back of the van (from where we were distributing). I wasn't so much scared as much as extremely stressed out.
Interestingly enough, even with that experience and the difficulty in getting the kids to understand what the heck we were doing, most of the youth said at debriefing that night that they felt it went really well. We prayed for the next day that evening and during the trip there...

Day 2 ROCKED. God pulled a 180, you wouldn't have even known that it was the same group of kids and adults (who, by the way, were the ones pushing - screaming - kicking - hitting from the day before) from Day 1. The kids listened - we got into a good groove as a team - the kids stayed in their groups - and they UNDERSTOOD Moses (Moise in Romanian). Not just sort of got that the day was about a guy named Moses. More like they knew the story inside and out.
That rocked my face off the most. That the truth we handed to them they received and understood.

We are just about ready to leave for Day 3 at Borumlaca. The other night I played Passion's "God of this City" song for the team to pray over Marghita and Borumlaca.
I encourage you to pray that same for us today. We will do our final day, Day 5, on Wednesday.