South Texas Girls' Ministries Team

Well my first official team has come and gone! It was a blast to see some familiar faces (and to hear a familiar accent). I had 10 young ladies( Yes, Pam, Debbie, Pat and Vicki, you are young) come and visit me this past week. They were a blessing to our ministries.

The first 2 days they were able to go into the hospitals and visit some of the kids there. I know for some it was hard to go into the hospital, but I also know that they were able to touch lives there. On the second day we had a fourth of July Bar-b-que for our foster kids. The kids has so much fun having water balloon fights, blowing bubbles, and getting to eat lots of Bar-b-que. And Debbie Burnett and Pam Milbrath did a awesome job at the grill (they even cooked a Romania favorite, Mici, even though they didn't know how it was suppose to be cooked. It was wonderful! Our foster moms were also blessed by the team.

Throughout the week, one of the girls on the team cut just about everyone's hair. Whenever there was free time, there was Stacy cutting hair. She even stayed up to like 2 am one night to cut hair! (Thanks Stacy) The team even made breakfast one morning for the staff and moms. They made breakfast tacos. It was so funny cause the Romanians were asking, "what is this?, Oh it is like a soarma!" (when Americans eat soarma they say the opposite, it is like a burrito).

For the next few days, the team, our staff, and Casa Agar mothers/babies travelled to the Black Sea for our Summer Retreat. They team did an awesome job at hosting out retreat. They presented sessions for both moms and staff, they babysat, helped make jewelry (we sell it to help support Casa Agar and the moms) and most importantly, they built relationships with our moms and staff. Romania is a Latin country, and everything is built around relationships.

On Sunday we went to the international church in Bucharest (my home church) and Debbie shared in the English service, and we stayed for the Bilingual service (which was truly a multi-lingual service since it was done in Romania, English and Spanish (we had a guest speaker from Spain and at one point the translator was translating the Spanish into Romania and English at the same time). After Church we took them on a history tour of the city and of course they had a chance to buy jewelry from Casa Agar. At the end of the trip we had one last dinner together and had a chance to just fellowship and relax.

It was a fast week, but I know that they have made a lasting impact on our staff and moms. My prayer is that they were blessed by Romania. I pray that they will always remember Romania and the people that they met!

P.S. I'll add more pictures to my album on my website.