Daily Life in Oradea
You know that whole “God’s our Daddy” deal? 😉 Well, here in Oradea, Romania, there are three teams living together as God’s kids. Eating, cooking, sleeping, farming, digging, and playing Dutch Blitz together.
Our weekly grocery list begins with something like:
280 eggs
55 loaves of bread
4 chickens
10 bags of rice
50lb bag of potatoes
etc 🙂
And with the exception of the one big, weekly grocery trip, how do we get to the store? We walk. Through many, many cornfields. And we carry our groceries back. Normal.
This month, we are blessed with an unexpected blessing. Good accommodations. Like, really good. No more squatty potties. No sleeping on the floor. No dust. No deserts. Since there are three teams here, it’s kinda big too. It’s so amazing to come back to this place after working hard, and especially after working hard for four months, and be able to rest. It is a squad-wide feeling that much of what God wants to do in Romania is in our hearts, and He has literally blessed us with a place to do that. We feel like this is a month of healing in our hearts, and we feel like we’re going to EXPLODE in Africa. It’s awesome 🙂 So, here’s a little bit about life and our house this month, here on a Romanian farm in the middle of nowhere 🙂
Like I said, we work on the farm. And sometimes, we have fun doing it 😉
We also are doing construction daily, leveling out the yards of the transitional housing that Habitat for Humanity has been working on. And I can honestly say that every muscle in my body reminds me of this fact. Ouch.
But we make it fun too 🙂
Hard at work.
And more digging…in the freezing cold.
And that’s why we’re SOOOOOOO thankful to come back to our house, especially with
thanksgiving right around the corner. Never in our wildest world race dreams did we
think we’d have a thanksgiving table (one that we eat at every meal!)
Lastly, here’s a video one of the girls on the other team made about our place here in Oradea. It’s kinda funny, because we’ll be going from this to Africa, but, bring it on!
I was just wondering, do you ever interact with the children who live on the farm? Enjoy 🙂