On the 10^thApril a team of 15 of us set out early in the morning from Liverpool Airport to spend a week at the ACA headquarters in Vulcan. The team consisted of me, and three other adult leaders together with 10 teenagers from the Christian Fellowship School in Liverpool.

For the young people from the school this is a part of their educational curriculum and they are interviewed and, if selected they raise all the funds and prepare for this week in Romania very prayerfully, together with their classmates. For many of them this is their first mission experience.

After a short flight and a 3-hour journey on a minibus we finally arrived at our destination and settled in. The next day the students prepared for the holiday club, working closely with the youth from the Pentecostal and Baptist church there. The holiday club is run on two days and each day there is an introductory time together followed by a games session, a craft session and a Bible study. On the second day some of our youth lead the Bible study on the theme of trust, working with an interpreter.

I was able to visit some of the people who Medical Missionary Fellowship have been able to help by providing regular medicines and other medical help. When my group visited the village we met Maria and her family. Maria is just one year old but she was born very prematurely and spent her first six months in the hospital. There is no funding of health care in Romania and the family were very grateful for the help provided.

I examined her and was very encouraged to see how well she was progressing.

This dear family face ongoing medical bills for this little one. ACA is also helping several families with their ongoing regular medication.

Brother Ghita is daily in his office on site and the gypsies can come to him for help with many day-to-day problems including obtaining identity cards, receiving food and clothing aid, as well as medicine.

Aid is collected here in the UK and taken out to Vulcan by lorry 3 or 4 times a year. When we were there, the barn and the store were full as a lorry had just arrived.

Our teams also visited the two Kindergartens run by ACA where gypsy children and the local Romanians learn together. This is a real miracle and is breaking down some of the hostility between the gypsies and the local people. They also had opportunity to visit some of the families in the gypsy village and see where the children live.

This was my fifth visit to this project and it is such a blessing to see how the work is growing and to see changed lives of people in the gypsy village. I first met Romana in 2014 when she was expecting her fourth child, and she had cried and told me that she did not have enough to feed her children each day. On this visit she took us around the gypsy village and showed us her home there. ACA have helped her to improve and extend her home. Her husband Nelu is now working and is a leader in the Baptist church.