trip it was a very interesting trip we've never experienced some of the stuff that we experienced ever before which we'll get more in detail later on in the show but first of all i want to say thank you to everyone that's helped us with everything and prayed for us prayed for for our safety which is very important was very important on this trip and for all god's blessing that he helped us with everything that we did before we start before i want to get into any details of the trip i wanted to read the scripture that my dad and i picked out before we start this program i want to go first in the chapter which is a book matthew have matthew chapter nineteenth but i want to go to verse thirteen first says here than the then the little children were brought to him that he might put his hands on them and prayed him so the disciples basically rebuked the kids from coming to jesus see a lot of people forget that kids are innocent they are the future of our of anything of this world and they just put them aside  ministries we see the kids as innocent people that need to show love to and to understand there's someone out there that loves them and i thought of that you know that was a very important because jesus says here but jesus said let the little children come to me and do not forbid them for all such is the kingdom of heaven so we need not to forget the killing kids at all and that's our focus with these christmas packages to show their love to these little children because where we go to we go to the little villages tucked away in areas that you can never imagine where they're at a lot of people think of the cities think of the local towns or the cities but they forget about the villages and that's the focus that's where we do we go to the local to the deep deep villages where it's impossible to go many times even by  call or even by i mean you need a horse with a sleigh to go through the snow to get to some of these villages but that's why i want to mention first i want to focus on that that the kids that's what was our focus on this trip to show them the love that when they grow up one day he laid hands on them and departed from there so jesus prayed for them and laid hands in love on them out of his whole heart because he knows that kids are the future of the world and before you is third to describe the three this part of rumania which we that in romania say this is a third part thor third world of armenia where you know you have the cities you have the towns and then there's the third world part when we never been before and i'm sure your brother came with that e mail my brother came with me and my dad and was us three and then we had two other people from germany that joined us here and then we had two other people from the local area it was a smaller team than usual but you know it was actually a blessed we were very prosperous in what we did we finished packages even faster than before  it was a short trip and successful but what we did first we started off with arriving there to the local room in the local city where we used to go to where we stationed in the little church where  we brought all the food all the chocolates the sweets the teddy bears and what we did we did a whole assembly line we made in the expected if you will go to a videotape where i explain each package what we have in them from the from all the sweets it it's like a cookie remain in stoke you were it's either filled with chocolate filling but militarily we bought these to put one of these and in we also have a box or reasons that were donated from america from fresno california actually  we appreciate them for helping us out in america poppy put to these in each package and then lastly we also have chocolate bars that once again the church an english shot helped us purchase these pretty big chocolate  chocolates to put in the package and when the kids see this they are shocked because a lot of people came in afford to buy this to give to their child for christmas so we're we're happy to have the and then our brother george eco is putting together our bags that every year we do we put a label on here with a scripture from explain the meaning of christmas trees child so they know the message of the meaning of christmas and this is a good way of spreading the word at christmas time to the non christians so we purchase these bags and he's putting these labels on each one of them this is something that these kids never receive anything in their families don't even have anything to give them for christmas and of course we go to the villages not the cities most of the villages where nobody actually goes to them we're predicting approximately one thousand we're trying to do these packages for them see this is what we did those are all the items that we put on each package and we were able to give me fifteen hundred out including a local network where we always give some kids properly probably two hundred fifty kids and that exactly in a local church that helped us with that always helps us we're actually in connection with them all the time but that's approximate fifteen hundred packages we made this year it's not necessarily the number that we focus on it's actually were we go who we touch we want to go to areas where nobody goes that nobody even considers going where it's actually impossible to go this year we were hit with a lot of snow a lot of weather conditions and somehow we made it halfway through there and were able to distribute all those packages but you know it was it was not planned the way certain things happened for instance we got stuck in the snow for a little bit for five days and four nights and we got delayed coming back home but we think god for his protection and providing the supplies to stay while we were stranded literally stranded in a little village when we didn't know a soul there at all but god help us me someone in they welcome us in their home and opened their arms wide open with food in i mean we were eleven people in two rooms only which is pretty close quarters especially for us americans growing up here in america we're used to our big homes and you know we all want our little spaces in our he described to me those villages nobody did anything for them for before and i was so they are even maybe one or two christian evangelical christians in that area all of them they completely open for us to come they were actually happy and excited for us to go in there and their school now allowed us to read description of the by her own they allowed us to explain the pray for them to bless them and and they actually used some of them had a song for us  you went in there and then we went into the other but this video actually talks about how we are taking each goodie and put them in the bag this is how the bag was formed it's myself my dad my brother emanuel and then we have  in the middle of winter it's actually it's pretty cold minus ten celsius which is approximately what ten fifteen degrees outside but pretty bundled up thankfully we have a good story here that is providing us enough heat in this building and  put two boxes of raisins in each package a bar of chocolate and then you add in a and a teddy bear that's how we create these packages and really treat each and every one of them like this by hand and then funds to be able to get the bigger location and we move our organization over there from romania from the south of the romanian to the nordic romania because from next few years we like to touch those area again and that's why we pray the lord to provide the funds to be able to packages we went to the first day over there were in the village our  they were all thinking this for everything that we did for them they actually did come out there was nobody actually never went out there to give out packages and we went back again but unfortunately the we were blocked in we got blocked in and we were able to are supposed to donate this food but unfortunately the roads are blocked and it's impossible for us to go in the area to deliver this by hand so we're actually in the one of the elders home here that he's the main guy that our and sugar these are just necessary but how should i say pantry needs that they need to have to survive if they're trafficking or if they don't have anything so this will make a difference for them in the winter months especially now when they're trapped in their homes so what our plan is to do is to put all the supplies in the package and then we go and we'll put them by name by how many kids are in each family and after that when the roads clear up a little bit they'll come in and the schools that were planned to go to to donate the rest of the kids packages so we have been here to where the elders in the church that you can go and donate them personally to the schools because they're expecting us to come by but there are more the all these dry goods we thought of it had a time saying this is a good pantry need in everyone's home to have was a tunnel road from germany or germany we had two people that came with us from germany actually drove all the way from germany all went to remain there which took  put each bag with all how cording to how many kids are having people who are in the family we put all the food in there and we gave the permission to the local elder of the church over there to deliver them once the roads opened up because of weather so bad that the sent them to us to come and take us to make us get out the cars because it was impossible for the plow machines the reason part of the reason we got stuck was the workers first of all was a saturday a lot of what went drinking at the bar and by the time they realized the snow was coming down so heavily it was too late for them to come out they came out with their plan machines but we forget the plow machines are not machines you see in western europe or remaining in america they're from  followed him halfway through between a village in another village and it broke down that's what happened we broke down in middle of a field where was one of the worst conditions possible i mean the windshield was incredible i was always here to come over to the years exactly and then finally sunday after one two o'clock in the afternoon we had the military come to people from the military to come and tell us that we have to walk deep in the snow  good and the house was all still good i don't know how she can stay over there without thinking the house is going to fall down in one day and she never going to come along from there but that most of the house is made over there by mud and that's way so much poverty over there in that area but we are so glad we were able to do this this work of the lord actually and i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart because without the many of you which they play for us and also helping us to the bathroom you know we were thinking we actually had a bathroom in the house because most of time here is kind of villages you have to use our houses but we are thankful that god you know even though you go why would god allow you to get stuck in the snow we don't know why purchase some more stuff for romania and also to pay for the gasoline for our teachers and to see the blessing of god you know we need him and only the lord can put a team together like to receive our monthly newsletter please call us at our toll free number eight eight six two two five seven eight eight or email us at john nine tile at yahoo dot com you will be up to date on our mission was our put two thoughts today