Today is Sunday, November 3rd our last full day in Suceava. We all met at Viorel Candreany's church. Bonnie joined Sorina in Sunday School with the children, while the rest of the team listened to some special speakers and Viorel spoke, later Sorina and Bonnie with the children joined the church service, while Barry preached on grace.

After service we went to Viorel and Geta's for wonderful lunch and fellowship.                                                          
                                                   

In the evening the team went to the evening service at Viorel's church. Tony, Calvin, and Jack spoke and Barry preached on forgiveness.

After church our team, Pavel and Helen, Sorin, Magda, Sorina, and Andrew, and Viorel, Geta, and their daughters all went out to dinner.

Today, Saturday, November 2nd, Calvin, Jack, Sorina, Bonnie, Magda, and Sorin had a delighful breakfast of crepes and Magda's home made strawberry preserves, Yummy. Sorina, Magda, and Bonnie went into Suceava relaxed and talked while sipping lattes.

Tony, Ingrid, Elaine, Barry, Pavel, and Helen picked up Calvin, Jack, and Bonnie from Sorin's and drove to another orphanage. We took laundry detergent, food, socks, medical supplies, and sweets for the children. There are 77 children living there, they all seem to be happy. The children were friendly, coming up to us and hugging us, holding our hands, and trying to talk with us (language barrier). Nico gave us a tour of the orphanage. We gave sweets out to the children and they sang songs for us. The older children play musical instruments and they played two Christmas songs for us.

After leaving the orphanage the team returned to Sorin's and Magda's for lunch, we had great fellowship and delicious Romanian barbecue, home made soup, coleslaw salad, potato salad, bread, and scrumptious cake.

We went to Sorin's church for the Saturday night service where Barry preached and Calvin, Jack, and Tony shared their testimonies. After service we all went home with our host families.

Children are like unpolished diamonds

On Friday, November 1st we started the day with chocolate cereal and fresh milk from the cow.

Pavel, Tony, Barry, Elaine, and Ingrid went over to pick up Calvin, Jack, Bonnie, and Sorina for our road trip to an orphanage in Botosine. We delivered food, laundry detergent, socks, medical supplies, hand made hats, and sweets. We met and interacted with the children. It was so much fun.

After visiting we went to Pavel and Helen's for lunch and fellowship.

Calvin, Jack, Sorina, and Bonnie returned to Sorina's home to change our clothes for church.

The team went to church in Botosine, Barry preached and all of the team shared with the congregation.
One of the parishioner's asked us to his restaurant, Patty and Chips. He treated us to french fries, salad, cokes, waters, and individualized pizzas.

It was a long busy day, we all went to bed after returning to our host homes.

On Thursday, October 31st Calvin, Sorina, and Bonnie went to McDonald's for cafe' lattes. Calvin experienced his first latte'.

We returned back to Sorina's house and Jack was awake and had eaten breakfast.

After Sorin distributed some food to an orphanage, he cooked lunch for us.

Calvin, Jack, Bonnie, Sorina, and Sorin went for a walk around the village.

In the evening, Bonnie, Elaine, and Ingrid went with Magda and Sorina went to the church and met with the ladies and shared testimonies. Calvin, Jack, Barry, Sorin and Pavel went to church. Barry preached.

After church the ladies went shopping at the mall and the men went to dinner at the home of one of the men from church.


When Calvin, Jack, Sorin, Bonnie, Sorina, and Magda returned to Sorin's house we had a sing a long with Sorin playing the squeeze box.

On Wednesday, October 30th we traveled to Suceava Romania. On the way we stopped at the Iasi (Yash) airport, to pick up Elaine's luggage that was forgotten in Bucharest.

We stopped for lunch at a restaurant called Little Texas and enjoyed a leisurely lunch outside on the patio.

We arrived in Suceava about 5:15 pm after beginning our trip in Moldova at 9:00 am. It was a long day.

Barry, Tony, Elaine, and Ingrid stayed at Pavel's house. Bonnie, Calvin, and Jack went to Sorin's home to stay.

Sorina fixed us dinner and after we had taken showers, we enjoyed a restful night.