In recent days, the forced reduction in the number of orphanages in Moldova that has been going on now for three years has crept closer to the kids we know and love. Rumors that Internat 2 will soon close or morph into serving some other purpose appear to be true. At the same time, the [...]
If you’re a female between the ages of 21-28 and would like to serve in the country of Moldova for 3 months … for less than the cost of a mission trip to Moldova you can serve as a JMI missionary there all summer?
I have a young friend in Moldova who is in trouble. She was raised at the Internat 2 orphanage, is about 19 years old and lives with her mother and grandfather in a bare bones apartment. She works, her mom works as a custodian and her grandfather receives a meager government pension. Amongst the three [...]
JMI’s annual Christmas trip to Moldova has become one of the most meaningful weeks in my life. To catch that flight to Chisinau is to leave much of the madness that Christmas has become here in the States and rediscover the essence of the original event, without all the self-serving over-expenditures, commercial hype, and family [...]
A reporter friend of mine in North Carolina wrote today to set up a phone interview. She wants to hear about what stirred JMI’s interest to open Grace House in Moldova. I think the following testimony by one of our girls says it all much better than I can. (I’ve left the translation as it [...]
I love getting messages from kids I know in Moldova. Not only is the content of what they say important to me, there is something quaint and endearing about the familiar misplacement in translation of subject and predicate or the omission of articles or intransitive verbs in their sentences. Here’s an example from one of [...]
A former pastor of mine once shocked my sensibilities by challenging the notion that God could look upon sin, something I was educated to believe he could not do. It was always my understanding that his holiness would somehow be compromised were he to do so. But the good pastor insisted that, not only could [...]
JMI has borrowed this expression of William Wilberforce to remind us who we’re seeking to serve when we set up services in various countries. We’re searching for the least, the last and the lost, particularly among orphans and acutely vulnerable children. In May of this year, our search took us to the Amazon River in [...]
