A Song from the Heart of Rebecca...

Since one week I’m back in Germany. One week went by so fast.

While I was in Romania, typical things happened –simple daily stuff. This was my third time to visit Cindy and it is familiar to me and I had an opportunity to see all my old friends again.  In one way I’m back in routine but at the same time I’m different cause of what I experienced the last two weeks in Romania.

My name is Rebecca. I’m a student from Germany, 22 years old, and I’m going to be a teacher for handicapped kids one of these days. Since I met Cindy in an orphanage three years ago she has been a very important friend for me. So I love, love, love to visit her! And I love to visit her in ROMANIA – the country where I left a piece of my heart!

The time we spent together - time with God, with the people and especially with the women from and the villages around – It had been such a great blessing for me personally!  It is quite hard to explain what I feel was so special during my time there, as you can imagine... But I would like to share some thoughts with you, which I sent to some friends when I was there:

Tuesday, March 1st:
Yesterday we visited a poor family’s home with kids, I love so much. It had been so wonderful to see Lela – a girl who has Cerebral Palsy, her legs and her arms are very crippled because of poor muscle control – Oh..How can I explain how it
feels to put one’s arm around her? She is such a cheerful girl likewise are the other kids who romped in the small, narrow, humble one-room-cottage. It would be enough work for one life just to do exercises with Lela and helping her
younger brother Sainur, who is handicapped as well, to learn how to walk. Among these needs there has been space for brimming joy and cordialness. I know that God was in our midst.

Tomorrow the women conference is going to start. Cindy, Lidia and I will go and share the gospel each day at different places. Many things are still uncertain:  Which specific thoughts and songs God wants us to choose, which women and how many are going to be there, how we’ll get from one place to another... I remember myself about how God prepared everything for me to get here. So he will provide this as well. I trust to him!  It is such a deep desire that God is going to use our words and songs and everything to speak into the women life. If God doesn’t fill us out, our deeds will be empty. Please pray for us!  This morning I had this song in my mind, "God Will Make a Way."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zo3fJYtS-o

Friday, March 3rd:
I barely know where I shall start to tell. So many things happened in the last days. I met so many people. I heard so many words – many chanted and spoken. I understood the people here so much better. When I close my eyes, I see
faces of these people we met. Their faces are so distinctive. I see the Turkish Roma kids – rhythm is in their blood – dancing. I see Gluelseve, a young woman with a lamed hand, who tries persistent to write numbers and at the end she
just colors circles again... And I see a pretty, young girl, 15 years old, who raised her hand once Cindy asked if somebody wants to make a decision for Jesus. In heaven there is a big joyful celebration today because this girl got saved. And I can tell you: I celebrate as well. This joy fills me up completely.  It is no thanks to us! God touches hearts!

Yesterday I asked God very excited:  What will you do in the following days? He answered already!  God blesses me affluent! I learned already a lot on my trip about the people, being human and about GOD!  I hadn’t been a person who is in the mood to dance that often – very rare. Many times sorrow and tasks are getting authority over me and I’m getting the feeling to not carry that stuff... That I’m full of joy and powerful and it is just because of God!  Our God doesn’t have favorite children – so I’m sure the same is true for YOU!  

Wednesday, March 9th:
The woman’s conference is over. Yesterday we recognized faces we had seen this past week at one of the 7 places where we had been. Roughly 150 women followed our invitation. It had been a very special afternoon for all of us. I just marvel
that God brought so many women together to worship Him. When I stay and think about some of the ladies situations I’m able to realize all the miracles completely.  Many women don’t have a car so they had to take public transportation. They must have saved money for this trip, perhaps they had to conserve it from other times.  There were women who live in very bad conditions – material as well as emotional. Mothers, grandmothers, young girls, teenagers, kids, aunts and friends... It had been women from different denominations. And all of them got at least a red tulip and some cake which somebody else made for them.

Miracles which happened last week:
Women made a decision for Christ. God healed Anna-Maria. Women could get out of their daily routines at least for 2 hours.  They were in a warm place; they heard that they are special, loved and awesome in Gods eyes... Being together with the women and thinking with them about God had been for me personally an indescribable blessing. I understood God on a new way! He is a loving God! He is a giving God! A God who thinks just good things about us and who wants us to live! Not just somehow, or with suffering. NO, he promised us a life abundantly. HE was, HE is, and HE will be present! And HE heals also today, I believe it. And at the same time it is almost bigger than I can imagine... But I experienced it with my own eyes.  “With God all things are possible!” – Cindy had been a big example for this attitude to life.  Here is another song on my heart, "Jesus Lover of My Soul, It's All About You."                                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-ZdMOx_HY 

This song I could sing today. For me it’s a prayer. I deep wish.  I wanna stick by one’s decision every single day. To comprehend myself only dependent on Jesus – this desire I felt gloriously the last days!