Newsletter - April 2006
Volunteers in action from Virginia (click to enlarge)
Building report / Flooding report
Volunteers in Action from Virginia
Today we rejoice in knowing that our Redeemer lives. The word of God says, if the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwell in us, it shall quicken our mortal bodies. Thank God we are quickened and impowered to do his will. We have hope and courage to press on through the trials that come our way knowing that God's spirit dwells in us. We always need to remember that our trials are just temporary. God is preparing us for eternity. We thank God for this opportunity so send a note to your door, just to tell you some of the good things that God is doing right here in Romania.
All winter and early spring we've been working on our
new house. We are so thankful for the volunteer
teams that have come from Virginia to help us. Our
children were so blessed to meet all of them. The
teams have been such an encouragement to us. We
had two teams back-to-back from the Family Worship
Center in Catlet, Va. and also a small group from the
Fairfield Baptist Church. Thanks so much for coming
and investing your precious time for the children in
Romania. This new building will be a place for caring
for and training many young people. I can hardly wait
until we can open our doors for the children to come.
We have a lot of work to do to see this happen. I
just got an estimate of around 95,000 dollars to finish
this building. We know God has helped us all the way.
We want to thank all of you that have continued to
support us and believe in our vision to help the kids in
Romania.
Please pray for Romania. At the present time we are
having severe flooding. Water levels have not been
this high for a 100 years. Many villages are already
under water and these already poor people have lost
everything. The situation is desperate. We want to
see how we can be a blessing to these people.
Reaching out to the poor
Uneducated Gypsy families live in desperation
On a regular basis we visit poor families in our local
neighborhood. It's very hard to imagine so close to
Bucharest people are living in such primitive,
impoverished conditions. Some of them have no
running water or electric in their little homes. The
children are filthy dirty. We have taken the left over
pieces of wood from our building project to give to
them for firewood. We help these families with
clothing and food. They are so thankful and happy to
see us come. Hygiene is a word they don't
understand. Some of them don't even know how to
read and write. They have no address, no identity
card and therefore can not even find a job. Now our
children understand so much more the blessing it is
being able to live at Casa Shalom where all their
needs are met. God help us never to forget the
goodness of God in our lives.
Click on the David Wilkerson link below and read the
story about Sorin and Mirela when we found them on
the hillside with the sheep. Now Sorin loves to read
the word of God at our church services. He loves the
Psalms, and likes to sing. Remember David started his
ministry caring for the sheep. I'm also sure God has a
special ministry for our little boy that lived with the
sheep.
September 8-10 2006 Celebration at Casa Shalom
Becky's 25 years in Europe and Casa Shalom 10 years
We're all looking forward to September for two
Anniversaries. First my 25 years of ministry in Eastern
Europe and 10 years for Casa Shalom. It's going to
be a big celebration with people coming from the
States and parts of Europe. We hope that you will be
able to join us. Meet the children that some of you
invested so much in and see the buildings that you
helped to build. You will not regret it, I promise you!
Please let us know by the end of May if you are
coming. This way we can reserve the hotel rooms in
time.
Now for those of you that can't come we'll be
preparing a special book of remembrances of events
over the years. Send us your notes and thoughts
about Casa Shalom and we will add some of these to
our Anniversary book.
We hope you enjoyed hearing from us. We'll be updating our old websites. Soon a new site will be coming. www.casa-shalom-family.org Now God bless you all and have a wonderful day.
Becky and the Casa Shalom family
U.S. Mission Address
For Financial Support:
Christian Faith Ministries Attn: Casa Shalom
P.O. Box 50538
Denton, Texas. 76206
You can send your tax-deductible gifts to our mission address in the U.S. Add a note stating your gift is for Casa Shalom. A note about sending packages: Please do not send packages to Casa Shalom. We cannot get your packages out of customs without great difficulty. Send any package directly to us:
Rebecca Dan-Walsh
str. Donitei 15, sector 6
Bucharest, Romania
E-Mail: casa_shalom@hotmail.com
Remember, as soon as we receive your gift it will be completely transferred to help with
the building expenses unless designated for sponsoring one of the children.
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