The Hopkins

Today we started the day with the Friday devotions with the Veritas staff. It is great to feel like we are slowly becoming part of the team. We then spent most of the day out at the ministry center in Tsigmandru. I (Maurice) had a construction meeting with Roberta, Hans (the volunteer from the Netherlands), and Marius (the Romanian contractor). We went through the building, made some decisions, and set priorities for the remaining work to be done. We are starting to feel pressure to complete the building by mid-November for the district assembly where it will be dedicated. Karen also worked with Magda Cini to help organize some rooms in the ministry center. We are working in some rooms, so we have to shuffle things from one place to another to make room for construction. It is not easy to work on a building while it is a fully functioning ministry center. Then at 3 PM Melanie participated in the younger kids club there in Tsigmandru. We feel a great feeling this evening after finally getting started, August is a down month here. Veritas basically shuts down for the month and the staff take their personal time off. Now that September is here, ministry will kick into full speed. Maurice