Last weekend, we had the privilege of driving up with two student interns, Chris & Cullen, to the northwest part of Romania to visit our colleague, Daniel Byrd. Daniel lives in a village and works with the Roma in several different villages.
We arrived on Friday afternoon and immediately began preparing for Friday night Bible study. Jessica & Cullen sang a few songs, and Chris & Cullen both shared a short testimony.
On Saturday, we and some Roma youth all drove to another village for a children's program. The boys played soccer, and the girls jumped rope and played other games. Chris shared the story of Moses and the 10 Commandments.
Sunday morning, we went to a house church in the same village from Friday. Chris & Cullen both shared a short testimony again, and Cameron preached. It was a great time!
In the month of September, we had the awesome opportunity to travel to Scotland with Cameron's parents. For a week, we toured several sites, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Loch Lomond, Loch Ness, the Isle of Skye, Inverness, and the Culloden Battlefield. We also took a steam engine train through the western Highlands. Here are a few pictures!
Glasgow Cathedral
Loch Lomond
Glen Coe
Fish & Chips
Jacobite steam engine train in the western Highlands (as seen in Harry Potter)
This past week, I (Jessica) had the awesome opportunity to help with a classical music camp in Bucharest. Our friend Susan, who is a missionary in Oradea, came to Bucharest to direct a music camp for children. I was excited to be invited to help with the camp! I wasn't sure exactly how I would be helping, so I went in with a plan that I would help wherever I was needed, no matter what that was.
The camp was Wednesday, Aug. 26, through Sunday, Aug. 30, when the children would perform what they had learned in a Sunday morning church service at "Grace Church." Wednesday - Friday, the schedule was the following:
9-11 Whole group chorus
11-12 Theory/Orchestra
12-1 Bible study/Chorus
1-2 Lunch/games
2-4 Recorder/Orchestra/Boom Whackers
For most of the morning, I sat among the children to help sing so they would hear how the songs go and to help make sure they were paying attention and sitting up straight. I assisted with the games during lunchtime, which on Thursday & Friday were water games, because it was SO HOT outside. After lunch, I helped Susan with the Boom Whackers group. Boom Whackers are plastic tubes of different lengths that make different tones when you hit them against something, like a table. You play them kind of like you would play bells in a bell choir. They are also all different colors, according to the note they play. They look like this:
I wasn't able to attend the camp on Saturday or Sunday, due to other obligations, but I took a lot of pictures and made this video montage for Susan to put on the Jubilate website. Enjoy! :)
