Romanian Gypsies

A huge growing passion in my life has been international mission work. I have felt like God has been telling me that spreading His word and love to people who live in much, much worse conditions than I. Those who, because of the country or region they live in hinders there chances at hearing God's word. This past saturday He laid Romania on my heart and specifically the village of Tinca. I think that people should be more willing to go to this country and serve these broken people.
In Romania, Gypsies are the outcasts of society. They are thought of on the same level as dogs. Some signs in the restaurant in the city even read, "No dogs or gypsies." Because of the harsh treatments gypsies live in complete poverty. There children have no one to take care of them, because there parents are out in the streets begging for money.
There is a ministry located right in the town of Tinca now. The Forget-Me-Not ministry was founded my Rachel Ross, a graduate of Lincoln Christian College. She started the Isaiah Center which is a 24 hour care center for the children of Tinca and surrounding areas. It currently has 8 permanent residents; all children. The center is in constant need of volunteers to help take care of the children that come in and out of the center daily.

If the thought of children living on the street, being abused, and starving is not a scary enough thought, then I do not know what is.