Day One....Beius, Romania

We arrived yesterday evening in Beius after 23 hours of travel.  We were greeted by Ana, who had the welcome soup ready for the team.  Potatoes and meat soup.  It was so good!  After eating we walked to Casa Josef orphanage to greet the girls.  It was great to see them again.  They enjoyed meeting all the team and loved that they are all so young and can play with them.  The played some games with the girls and then we returned back to our apartment to get some rest.  It was a good night sleep and now ready for the next day!

3 Days to departure...

We leave for our mission trip to Beius, Romania in 3 days.  After months of prayer and preparation the time is finally here.  We are packing our bags, checking our list but most of all we need your help with covering us in prayer.  I personally am so excited to be going back to Beius, because one of the biggest blessings from a mission trip is the people you have the privilage of meeting and with whom you develope friendships.  When my mind thinks of returning to Beius, it is almost like going to stay with family...but they are part of God's family...my family!  It will be awesome to see what God is at work doing in the lives of those I love greatly and those who I will meet.
Please consider praying for us daily during our trip. Below is the basic schedule of our trip and will give you an idea of how you can pray for our team and us individually.

Another Day Under the Son Music Camp
“Live It Out!”
Summer 2012

Team Leader: Paula Daves
Team Members:

Elijah Daves, Nehemiah Daves, Josiah Daves, BrittanyNicholas,

Madison Akins, Savannah Climer and Ashley Carpenter

Please remember us in prayer during our mission trip. We are
providing you a schedule to give you an idea of how to pray for us
according to where we are and what we are doing.
Follow our journey on http://www.anotherdayundertheson.blogspot.com/

June 12 – Departure from USA 2:40pm
June 13 – 12:10 pm arrive in Budapest, Hungary (5:10am ET)
We are picked up by REMM, 5.5 hour drive to Beius, RO
Arrive in Beius, dinner, settle in, rest up
June 14 – Prepare for camp, meet with ministry leaders
Meet girls from Casa Josef
Rest from travel and time change
June 15 – team goes to local public school
Visit classes, invite to camp
Prepare for camp
June 16 – Ministry opportunities with REMM
Prepare for church on Sunday
June 17 – Sunday – church and time with girls of Casa Josef
We will be going to church a couple of times
Sharing our testimonies and singing
June 18 – 1st Day of Camp 1:30-4:30Morning: visit school classrooms
Afternoon: Camp, pray for unity among campers
June 19 – 2nd Day of Camp 1:30-4:30Morning: visit school classrooms
Afternoon: Camp, pray for Gospel to be received
June 20 – 3rd Day of Camp 1:30-4:30Morning: visit school classrooms
Afternoon: Camp, renewed strength for team
th Day of Camp 1:30-4:30
June 21 – 4th Day of Camp 1:30-4:30Morning: visit school classrooms
Afternoon: Camp, pray for families of campers to be reached
June 22 – 5th Last Day of Camp 1:30-4:30Morning: visit school with girls of Casa Josef
Afternoon: Camp - final day, parents program
Pray for parents to receive the Gospel
Clean up and pack up camp supplies
June 23rd – Saturday – spend time with girls from Casa Josef
Pray for the girls of Casa Josef, it is always hard when the
Teams leave and they have grown close to everyone.
June 24th – Sunday – Depart for Budapest, Hungary around 8:30am
Travel is 5.5 hours back to Budapest
Pray for peace among our team when we are tired at the end
Of this journey.
June 25th - Monday – Tourist day in Budapest, Hungary
Tour Budapest, rest, team time before returning to USA
June 26th – Tuesday – Flight leaves at 6:20am
Pray all flights are on time
June 26th – Tuesday – Arrive in Atlanta, GA 2:45pm
Thank you for praying for us during this awesome journey God has prepared for
us to do.

Romania in 20 days....

We leave in 20 days for Romania!  We have a full day planned for next week to make signs, buy supplies and pack for the trip.  It is a very fun time, and I am thankful for God allowing me to work with each one of these people.

I will be posting a prayer calendar.  It will have a day by day schedule so those who are praying for us will have an idea of how to pray for us according to what we are doing.

Thank you to everyone for your support!  Please be praying for us!

Blessings
Paula

A Prayer for the team....

A Prayer for the team...

I have been encouraging our mission team to be very prayerful during the planning of our mission trip about the role they will have on the team and in the lives of people we come in contact with.  It is really exciting to see them so ready to go and ready to experience something new in their lives as a Believer.

During our time early in our preparation we have been working thru a short-term missions workbook.  We read through Phil 2:6-11.... then turned it into a prayer for our team.  I encouraged them to pray this Scripture over their lives in preparation for our mission trip.

Praying...
Lord Jesus, Thank you for working in my life.  As I pray for our mission trip to Romania, I ask you to work in the hearts of our team mates and myself.
I pray for:

• encouragement in Christ, to be drawn to His Word, to choose to study the Word, for encouragement comes from Your Word.
• let love fill my heart and be the motivation for all I do
• to be united throught the Holy Spirit with my team mates
• to have a tender heart that is willing to hear first, listen and have compassion and mercy for others on my team and who I meet on the mision field
• fill our team with the joy that comes from being like-minded, having the same love of Christ
• our team to be one, operate as one in the Spirit and in purpose.
• to do nothing out of vain conceit, but in humility to consider others better than ourselves
• to look not to our own interests, but also to the interest of others

Remind us Lord...our attitude Lord should be the same as Yours.  Help us to be the same person when we are with our team in the mission field as we are when we are away from each other.  As our Salvation is worked out in our lives, may we understand fear & trembling before you Lord. 
I praise You, Father, that it is You who works in me to will and act according to His good purpose. 
Take captive my every thought, that I might do everything without grumbling and arguing, so that I may be blameless and pure, a child of God who is faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom You shine like the stars in the world. 
Lord, May the peace of God, which surpasses every thought, guard my heart and mind in Jesus Christ!
Amen!

What if...

Yesterday, while working through my Bible study by Beth Moore on the book of James she wrote this in the last paragraph of this particular day's study.  I have written it out to remind myself how different my life is and can be when I believe His Word is true and He really is who He says He is.

Jeremiah 29:11

"'I know the plans I have for you', Declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

 plans to give you hope and a future.' "

What if...

• ...we understood down to the marrow of our bones that His is the only plan that really ends up prospering us?
• ...we really believe Jesus when He said that those who insist on finding their own lives will lose them and those who lose them for His sake will find them?  Matthew 16:25
• ...we really believed that, if we seek God's Kingdom and His righteousness, everthing else of true value would be gien to us, too?  Matthew 6:33
• ...we really believed that "He did not even spare His own Son but offered Him up for us all; how will He not also with Him grant us everything"?  Romans 8:32
• ...we really believed that "godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come"? 1 Tim. 4:8

What if....we really believed that God is not only great, He IS Good?

4 weeks to departure....Destination...Beius, Romania
June 12-26th, 2012

Preparation for the children's music camp mission trip to Beius, Romania is in progress.  It has been fun getting to know everyone and to watch Father build our relationships. 
Please keep us in your prayers as we continue to prepare for this mission He has called us to do.
Blessings,
Paula

Romania Mission Team June 2012

Pray for our team!