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When Jesus launched his one-man invasion of planet earth, he began by gathering a band of disciples to advance his kingdom-movement. He ended by entrusting his movement and his dreams to his inner circle with these words: "As the father sent me into the world, likewise I am sending you!" The mantle of the Jesus movement was not only taken up by the 12, but by the next generation (Stephen and Philip) and the next generation (Paul, Silas, Barnabas, Apollos) and the next generation (Timothy, John Mark, Titus) and beyond. Movement leaders gather people around tables and bread and wine and vision. Meals make movements. We are in the cafes and clubs and campuses of Romania to mobilize the next generation of Jesus' movement to overthrow injustice and exploitation and indifference. Table to table. Jesus style.
St. Nicolas at Ion Creanga Center
Haunting every child in the Ion Creanga center is a tragic past. There is also a brilliant future awaiting them...if they can find it. How will Georgica un-learn her past and discover immortality in Jesus?
Today we arrived at the Ion Creanga Center for Protection and Placement of Childres (yes, that is an orphanage) to celebrate St, Nicholas Day. In American terms, that's when you get stuff in your stocking. Sfantu Nicolae is a patron saint of children, particularly the poor and helpless.
Sorry, we don't snap a lot of pictures when we're with the kids. I'm disturbed by shoving cameras in kids' faces -- we want to be mentors, not gawkers.
PRAY that the Holy Spirit will move the stars and the souls and the hands of time. Time is too scarce to rush things. We do not want to be the people who come occasionally with a bag of stuff. We want to be the people kids turn to when they dream their dreams and face their demons. We want to be the people who demonstrate that God's Kingdom is come, and that those who plunge into it actually join the King in immortality.
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