Monday March 17th

Monday, March 17^th

Greetings from Beius! We are all having an amazing time here in Romania. Today we went to a public school in Remetea. Where we did two skits. The first skit was about a wise man who built a house on rock and it stood firm, the second man was not a wise man, he built his house on sand and it fell apart in the storm. The kids especially enjoyed this skit because it had Carol Elrod the wise man, Karilyn Kelson the not so wise man, Elaine as the narrator, Eliot, Zach and Josh were the bottom of a pyramid with Stephanie and john in the middle and Andrea on the very top and at the end we all crashed and fell on top of each other. The second skit was the same one we did on Friday with the first school. We again played “Head’s up 7 up” with the kids and sang many songs. The kids sang “If you’re happy and you know it” and “Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee” in Romanian and we sang the songs back in English. When we had to leave John decided that we should give one of the soccer balls that Joe Land had given us to the kids. John asked the teacher and she was thrilled. She gave it to the boys and immediately they were out there playing (even though it had rained for about an hour earlier that morning). We all agreed that it would be a lasting image to see the kids running around in the rain playing with a little soccer ball. It was a great experience. Then because our lovely editors (Elaine and Carol) wanted to go see the ostrich farm we went to go look at ostriches and THAT was a moving experience.

One of our groups stayed here in Beius and went to the orphanage, some were chopping wood for the furnace, and others were washing windows. We then got to play with the girls for about an hour when they returned from school. They were a little active and were desperately seeking attention today. However it was a great experience.

The other group went on an Agape Run. We went to three different homes. Gave them food and clothing, gave the kids at each house beanie babies, visited with some of them, and then at the end we prayed with them. You could tell that each prayer touched their hearts in a special way and they were touched that we took time to pray about them, with them .

And Zach Rowland and I (John) feel like we need to make a retraction from an article that was sadly allowed to run in our last blog. In our last edition it was said that the “Americans” looked severely outmatched in their game against the “Romanians” it was however a much closer game then our lovely editors (Carol and Elaine) led you to believe. Zach was a leading force on the Romanian squad that was loaded with talent. Josh Elliot and I held our own coming back from a deficit of three goals and got within a goal but the game was ended before we could regain a share of the lead. So we apologize for the un-accurate information. (our editors are a little slow)

Sincerely the Rowland Brothers

(Our apologies to the Rowland brothers. We were apparently provided with misinformation!)

C & E