1995

In 1995 a team from the Auburn Church of the Nazarene made its first Work and Witness trip to Romania. The team's main activities consisted of numerous repair jobs at Sperantia,( the main church building in Bucharest), a church-owned apartment, and visitations at a geriatric hospital.

Trip organizers Marianne Zanoni and Bev Knapp(left) with 1995 team members from left, Walt Heck, Virginia Dean, Jean Heck, Penny Clemmer, Russ Glenn, Marilyn Berggren, Pastor John Berggren, Brad Mirk, and Ralph Sanford.
 

 

 

 

Brad Mirk and Ralph Sanford discuss work on a wall at the Sperantia Building. The team also payed a visit to the small community of Gaeseni, 60 km north of Bucharest, to see the progress on a new church building.  Money from the team's project fund was designated for construction of this church.

Excavations for the foundation of the church building in Gaeseni.

Members of the church in Gaeseni made 10,000 bricks for use in the construction of their building.  On this trip Brad Mirk met a group of young people and through the process of getting to know each other, he found out that they did not have a basketball to use on the nearby school playground.  Brad purchased a basketball to use with the youth on the playground, and also felt the Lord's leading to use basketball as a method of outreach to the young people in Romania.

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