MUSTARD
SEED JERSEY PRAYER UPDATE 8th NOVEMBER 2015
All of
us will have heard of the recent tragic events in the nightclub in Bucharest –
our friend Nelu has written us an email asking for
our prayers:
In 30 October in a youth
club in Bucharest there was a fire conflagration where 32 youths died and 180
were injured, many of them are between life and death. (We understand they
couldn`t get out
because there was just one door, although that
club was authorized by city hall).
People are outraged because
in 26 years after communism was abolished , in
spite of promises of a good life for Romanian people instead too many
people became poorer – this is certainly true in Oradea. Many of Romanians are
trying to survive at existing limits so as to not die.
There are massive protests
in towns in Romania against all politicians, people are disappointed. Many
people can`t buy a bread , allocation for a child is
13 pounds/month to survive, youths can`t find jobs, many of pensioners can`t
take their medicine (they have to buy it and have no money), some of them
are without electricity, many of them are not accepted to work because are over
50 years old, many are living on the streets. Please pray for Romania that
there will be a BIG change for our country.
In the
same email Nelu spoke of the joy many of their
clients felt on being told he could start the BREAD DISTRIBUTION in November
because of the donations we have received and forwarded to him for this
purpose.
He
mentioned too his joy that there were funds available to buy FIREWOOD for the
poorest of the poor, saying temperatures have already dropped to minus 3 Celsius
at night and in the following months there will undoubtedly be many nights
between minus 15 and minus 20 Celsius; his aim is that we can provide fuel so
that at least at night there can be heating.
For us
in Jersey / Britain, where we do not struggle to avoid death by starvation or
freezing it is hard to relate to the situation and needs Nelu
has described. [But those of us who have visited Romania have seen this is the
case]. PLEASE MAKE NELU’S CONCERNS A PART OF YOUR PRAYERS OVER THE NEXT WEEKS.
IN
JERSEY we are busy with the Christmas shoebox appeal, checking all the boxes
and getting them ready for shipping.
A
number of our volunteers are struggling with a variety of health problems –
please uphold them all in your prayers.
God
bless you – please continue to bless us with your prayers for Mustard Seed
Rose