Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28
Lord we ask for your rest and rejuvenation as Mia continues her trip to the United States. Please give her a chance to heal from exhaustion, and bless her with new strength from remembering your calling on her life. Amen.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Proverbs 17:17
Mia painting in Memphis
Lord, we thank you for bringing Mia safely to the United States and for the gift of friendship and community that we share with her and with our Romanian brothers and sisters. Teach us how to love and welcome visitors. May her trip be restful and inspire her work and ours. Amen.
We’ve gotten in all the records from this school year. Can this list be any more exciting?
Praise God for these amazing children, teenagers and adults as they influence their schools and workplaces.
As a young man marries a young woman, so will your Builder marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.
Isaiah 62:5
We pray today for the adults in Romania who have grown up with Mia’s Children and are getting married. We pray for Tabita, Mihaela and Gigi, Catalin, and George, and for their families. Please strengthen their relationships and give them wise men and women to encourage them in their marriages. Help them to grow as one together, looking to you always. Amen.
Catalin on his wedding day
In the same year of our beloved Costel’s death, many of the young men and women he counseled about family are moving forward with their own!
Earlier this year, Tabita – one of our first members – got married and moved to London. Then Catalin got married in June.
Coming up this month, Mihaela will marry Gigi. And George, one of the first children to whom Mia and Costel ministered, will legalize his marriage with the mother of his child.
Costel saw many of these young men grow up and helped some of them out of extremely abusive situations. Only a year after his death, they are starting families of their own.
Says Mia, “Happy news: how time passes, and our children are now adults! This is a great honor in memory of Costel, husband and father who was their role model.”
Please pray for these young people as they commit to marriage!
Tabita's wedding
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
3 John 1:2
Lord we ask for mercy on Mia’s health as she struggles with the fracture in her inner ear. Give her the capacity to hear well and to continue serving you with her body. Give any doctors who examine her wisdom in how or if to proceed with any treatment. And if at all possible, we ask for you to heal her completely. Amen.
Happy birthday to you Mia Scarlat! You put the Mia in Mia’s Children.
(Send her your birthday wishes here or on Facebook, and we’ll make sure she sees them!)
From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you.
Psalm 71:6
It is Mia’s birthday this week! God we thank you for Mia! You have blessed so many people through her. Thank you for the gift she is.
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9
God we pray this week for Bogdan, whose final exams today precede his graduation from college.
Thank you for the fruit we have seen in so many of our students’ hearts and educations. You have raised up loving and accomplished children from the ashes of broken places, and you have involved us. For that we look back, and are grateful.
As many of you may already know, last week Patsy Vick, one of our board members, lost her husband.
Ray Vick was an active part of Mia’s Children, supporting Patsy’s regular visits to Romania and traveling there with her as well. A devoted father here in the United States, he was also beloved by the many children he met in Bucharest.
After losing her own husband this year, Mia had many kind thoughts for Patsy. We wanted to share some of what she said with all of you.
We love you, Patsy, and we miss you, Ray.
From Mia:
Beloved Patsy and Family,
The words are too poor to can say how much I’m sorry to lose such a wonderful man as Ray was and will be forever!
Lord knows him so well and I’m sure that he’ll stay with Lord in Heaven, watching over all his dear Family and Friends, as well as his beloved grandchildren.
Costel is with him and I can see their hugs and special smiles. Two brave men who dedicated their life for others, serving the Lord whom they loved so much…
They’ll stay with us forever, dear Patsy. We were so blessed to have them. Ray was a special Husband, Grandfather, a Man of God, a Friend for so many. What a blessing and great honor to meet him, to know him, to work with him, we all in a great and blessed team of Lord!
The kids are so sad to lose their Grandfather Their tears are signs of how much they were blessed through Ray and you!!! Many memories will stay with them forever, because ray was the great man with white hair, with soft heart, with tears in his eyes speaking to them about Lord and sharing a special love!
Thank you, Ray, thank you, Patsy, thank you Lord! He is with us forever!
Patsy, I don’t know how to comfort you…but Ray is with Lord and with other Man of God, with Costel. You’ll suffer a lot after him because you’ll miss him so, so much. Nothing will can fill your heart, but be strong in Spirit as he’s not suffering anymore and you’ll meet him one day.
You have so many to love you around you and you’ll have to give them Ray’s love, to continue to be for them what Ray was. Take care of your beloved Granddaughters, rejoice into Lord. I’m with you – take my hugs right now and say a great thank you to Ray from me, from us, please!