Baptism

Cassidy, Megan Radke, Michaela again!

After very little sleep, (about 4 hours if you were lucky!) we met at church to attend the sermon. We participated in worship and communion (real wine, different then Bhawk) and Hunter and Emily shared their experiences at camp and how it has changed them.

After church, most of the congregation drove to the Jiu River for the baptisms. We heard everyone's testimony and listened to friends speak on behalf of those being baptized. From our team, we had:
Catie Smiley
Kristen Emerson
Jimmy Bero
Megan Watts
Megan Radke
Aubrey Fisher
and three Romanians were baptized. The stories were powerful and told of how God has been working in the lives of our teammates and the lives of Romanians.
There were three neat things about the baptism: 1. It was in a RIVER. 2. All the believers who were getting baptized wore white to represent the new life they were expecting. 3. After each person was baptized, all the people sing "Rejoice in the Lord always and Again I say Rejoice! X2 Rejoice! Rejoice! And again I say Rejoice!" (Except they were singing in Romanian and David led us in English). I really enjoyed this because the whole community was there supporting their brothers and sisters in Christ.

After the Baptisms, we went to Parc Romanecu and hung out with our Romanian friends, which was a blast of course. We threw around the frisbe, napped, ate ice cream, and enjoyed each moment we have left with each other. Michaela experienced her first good bye and is not looking forward to what Tuesday is going to bring (As is the rest of the team). We are heading off to our host families for an early bed time (hooray!)

So they are ushering us out of the church, Noapte buna!