We spent all last week visiting different camps in N. Greece. My friend Janice from the First Pres Church of Berkeley was with me for almost two weeks and not only she was a great help but also great company. We sent her off this morning to go home and I am following her home this Friday the 30th.
The refugee camps were very sad in many ways but yet very hopeful in other ways. The kids are carefree and happy but the adults mostly discouraged since the borders closed and they feel they are at the end of their rope. A little ray of hope is the fact that a few of them are being processed at a time and are assigned to particular countries. At this rate however, it will take years before they leave Greece. The army brings them food and the churches and many Christian organizations from within and outside supplement with food and clothing.
We continue to pray for them and ask the Lord to have mercy on them! We find a few Christians among them and many families are taken by local Christians to their homes as guests until there is an answer for their future.
The Macedonian Outreach continues to grow support a family in Thessaloniki who is waiting for their papers to be processed so they can join their father who is already in Germany. In the meantime we buy lots of food, hygiene products and things for the kids for six camps in the past five months. Please keep on praying for them!
Thank you all for your support through emails, phone calls, prayers and some visits while I served here this summer for four and a half months. God bless you all in every way.
With love, Vula
I just got the news and thank God that the young family that we supported in Thessaloniki were processed and are on the way to Germany to meet their husband and daddy. We wish them God’s blessings and a peaceful life. It was such a pleasure to have known and love them!
As all of you may know, we are no longer doing the annual Candy Cane Boutique. For that reason we are doing some smaller fund raisers to supplement our income. If you can, please join us for dinner on October 17th at Gianni’s. The flyer below gives you all the details. You will not be asked for any additional donations. Your dinner will be your only expense. The restaurant will be doing the contributing. Thank you!
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It is amazing how fast the Yastrebovo church building is going up! It looks like the roof might be up before the heavy rains start. We praise God for yet another miracle! This church is truly a gift from God. We are blessed to know that now there will be a place of worship for both adults and children. Our God is good!
On Saturday, Sept. 3rd, a big group of us visited a refugee camp of Syrians with about two thousand people living in tents. It is located in N. Greece where it is very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter. We brought food to supplement what the government feeds them daily through the army. The two gentlemen are Pastor Elias at the left, a pastor in Katerini and Pastor and Doctor Lampis, heart Specialist, from Kavala. He was there with a team of Christian doctors giving physicals. This was the first of more camps to be visited during this month. Please be praying for the refugees. The conditions are very bad!!!
