Children's Christmas Outreach

For the first, but not the last, time in our Church's history, we
put on a large Christmas program and giveaway for the poor children of Targoviste, Moreni and Doicesti.

With the help of Mission Connection as well as a few local businesses we were able to
give nearly 500 gifts away.

Here are some of the guys from the church carrying gifts into the auditorium that Santa would later hand out to the kids.


In each of the 3 cities, local elementary schools and other local groups joined our effort and participated with songs, dances and dramas. Here is one children's class from Moreni singing their hearts out.




Above we see the Targoviste drama team putting on a skit involving Santa Claus, Superman and Jesus; the skit was about the 3 of them explaining their view on the true meaning of Christmas.

Below, Pastor Mihai and Adina Popescu hosted the event.

One local girl performed a traditional song and dance routine. It was quite an experience for me (Chad) since we don't have these type of traditions in the U.S.

Above is Estera (Emma's sister) and Chad. Estera was one of the 4 clowns in Targoviste. In each of the 3 cities there were different young people who volunteered to be clowns.

2 pictures up is Nikki hard at work. She organized the entire event and did a wonderful job, especially since she just found out she was pregnant.

3 pictures up: One of the 6 bicycles that was given away through a drawing. It was aweseome. One girl who won the bike has 5 brothers and sisters and none of them have a bike; they were so blessed.