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O video summary of our 2016 Ski camp in Poiana Brasov! It was a great week and we thank you for your prayers!</div>
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<span class="s1">After being in Romania for 20 years we lost touch a little with InterVarsity/USA, but this past furlough has renewed our appreciation for the work and ministry of InterVarsity/USA.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">When we first arrived in the country we were a part of <b>InterVarsity LINK’s training program</b> helping to see LINK staff prepared to serve in overseas positions. At that time we also heard from the leaders of InterVarsity and were impressed with the vision “<b><span style="color: blue;">To see students and faculty transformed, campuses renewed, and world changers developed</span></b>.” As we traveled around we were able to visit several college campuses and see how staff and students are engaging their friends and colleagues with the truths found in God’s word.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">This past Christmas break we were also able to be a part of the 24th <b>Urbana missions conference</b> which has challenged nearly 300,000 participants over the years with their responsibility and privilege in global missions.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">At Urbana 15, students and graduates got firsthand information about the world seeing both the beauty and the brokenness that exists, grappled with hard issues that are facing the church today, and connected more deeply with God through daily Bible studies in Matthew and in prayer.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Personally, we were rejuvenated by being with 16,000 young people who were seeking their place and role in the future of missions. We connected with old friends from <b>Nigeria</b> and were able to hear about their work in difficult places in Africa. Their joy and strength is contagious.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We made new friends by stopping and talking to other missionaries that face the same struggles as we do leaving children in this country while returning to the field. Thankful that through Skype these new relationships can grow and develop.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We heard well known (David Platt, Francis Chann) speakers and unknown saints that were imprisoned for their faith all challenging us to live our lives in a way that tells the story of Jesus.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We bought great books-of the day, studied God’s word with hundreds of others, worshipped in different languages and ate dinner with 4,000 others BUT the highlight for both of us was talking personally with students that want to follow Jesus in this country and to the ends of the earth.</span></div>
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We both love connecting one on one or in small groups with people and hearing their stories and sharing ours. </div>
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<span class="s1">We’ve included 2 short summary videos for you to get a taste of what happened in St Louis at Urbana15.</span></div>
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You can see all the <b><span style="color: #45818e;">Urbana15 </span></b>talks by <a href="https://urbana.org/urbana-15/general-session" target="_blank">Clicking here</a> .</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Each year the seniors share at their last chapel of the year to encourage and challenge the students that they are leaving behind. Here is the Senior chapel from this year!</span></div>
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The seniors led the worship time!</div>
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We had a great weekend evangelistic conference with the staff and students from CSC (IFES Moldova). The whole conference was centered around small groups that studied The booklet <u>Uncover</u>, 6 passages from the Gospel of Luke to present Jesus! Each small group had just 4 students and 1 leader, so we had good discussions that everyone could participate in. I appreciated the openness of the students and their willingness to discuss about Jesus. Many of the students where reading and studying about Jesus for the first time, and most were amazed at the idea of Grace! Pray that God would continue to work in them!<br />
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Our team from Romania!</div>
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All the evidence on the table related to the 6 studies in Luke</div>
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson gave us an introduction to each study and charged us to observe and see details in the passage!</div>
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Came back and students were given the opportunity to share what they saw with the whole group</div>
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On Sunday I had the privilege of wrapping up the study and presenting the Gospel to the students</div>
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For 4 cold days in December the OSCEB students organized a proxy station about Christmas in the center of Bucuresti. </div>
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We stopped students to ask them to take a quick test to see what Character of Christmas they most represented (the Grinch, Santa Claus, Rudolf or the Magi)<br />
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Most people who took the test ended up as Santa, meaning Christmas to them was a time to be with family & friends and lots of Christmas parties</div>
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Many of the students enjoyed talking and many knew that the birth of Christ was the reason for Christmas, but they saw no connection with this to their own life. Most Romanians still see Christmas as a religious holiday and most know the meaning of the holiday. We find many students open to talking at Christmas and Easter about a spiritual subject. But then when you want to go deeper into what does the Bible say and about faith in Christ, most respond that these are things they will think about when they are older.</div>
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<br />Mike and Kris Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13905473588368570326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407956179464949186.post-76218150063740914532013-12-20T15:20:00.000+02:002013-12-20T15:20:53.461+02:00Fall Happenings!!Our fall was full of many events. We feel so privileged to see God working in many different ways in the lives of students!<br />
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Our bi-annual discipleship conference was held in Micesti at the Word of Life camp!<br />
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Florin, from Suceava, was in Mike's group and upon returning home the students in Suceava have started 13 discipleship groups. This is amazing because for the past 2 years they have not had one group!<br />
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It was nice to have some fun activities during Formacion as well, here we had an afternoon of paintball and above this we had a teamwork game.<br />
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Taking time to hear about some of the history of OSCER. I was privileged to be in a panel discussion with 2 of our former national leaders (Titi & Alex)</div>
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In late September we were part of a team that presented the theme of studying the Bible to the students of BCA at their annual secondary fall retreat. The students got really excited as they saw God speaking to them through the discovery Bible study method. We have even had one chapel a month were the students have continued to go through Luke using this method!</div>
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In Oct we met with over 30 leaders from OSCER to discuss the upcoming years and what goals we have as a national movement. We were also encouraged as the national evaluation of last year was presented and we saw how we are growing in evangelism and discipleship. This year we are praying for God to give us even more fruit as we try and touch more students across Romania with the Gospel<br />
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This spring around 30 leaders from across Romania met in our anual meeting, where we talked about evangelism, and the students from Cluj shared with the others about their Mission Week. There is great anticipation in OSCER for having another mission week next year!! Pray as we seek the best city to host our next mission week.<br />
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BCA's spring drama production was Annie!</div>
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Hannah played one of the lead orphans</div>
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Andrew played Rooster, the smooth talking brother of Miss Hannigan! </div>
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Our small group from church met with 30 children from very challenging home situations a few weeks ago for an afternoon picnic. It was one of the hardest things we have done. We felt that for 4 hours no one listened to us, or could organize themselves as we wished. We felt like we had planned all these fun activities, but were unable to really do them with the children. In the end the woman who had organized it and has had contact with these children for many years, said they really did have a good time and even though it didn't feel organized to us, they just enjoyed being at the park and having folks take an interest in them!<br />
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We recently had a wonderful time in the mountains of southern Romania. We stayed at a friend's house and were able to relax, read and play games together!<br />
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On the way back to Bucharest we saw some of the famous sculptures of Brancusi. Here we sit at the table of silence, made as a WWI memorial! </div>
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During the weekend of 5-7 April OSCER teamed up with the IFES movement in Moldova (CSC) to have an evangelistic camp. The theme was ways we try to cover up or hide behind things rather than allow Jesus to define our identity. It was a super weekend and there were about 50 Moldovan students and staff along with 10 of us from Romania (pictured below).<br />
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This was the first time Kris and & I have gone to something by ourselves as Kris was able to get one day off from school to participate. We left early on Friday morning and returned on Sunday evening. It was very interesting to see many of the cultural similarities and yet many differences!</div>
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We had small group discussions after each talk so that we could process things together. About 20 of the students there were not followers of Jesus and we had opportunities to talk more deeply about what it means to follow Jesus.<br />
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The conference is always hosted by one of the countries in our region. This year it was in Montenegro. A fairly new country gaining their independence from Serbia in 2006. We met in the city of Bar that has NO evangelical church, and our conference of about 50 people was the largest gathering of evangelical believers on Sunday morning in the whole country.<br />
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The weekend before this tournament Andrew had hurt his foot so we were thankful that it healed some so that he could play!</div>
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Hannah is in her first season of playing basketball and has improved greatly!</div>
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At the beginning of the university year we sponsored an event in Bucuresti where a well known illusionist spoke about how he lived an illusion, until he met Jesus. Students packed into a lecture hall to hear him speak and ask questions. <br />
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In Nov. the students in Pitesti sponsored a talk on Science and Religion. A man from Australia was invited to speak and then take questions from the students. Mike went to this with a car load of students from Bucuresti.<br />
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In late Nov. the students from Bucuresti organized a local training camp in Sinaia to help integrate new students into the group. It was a very relaxed weekend with teaching (motivating the students in evangelism), time for a hike and fellowship. It was encouraging to see over 40 students come out for the weekend and we all enjoyed some time in the mountains!<br />
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<br />Mike and Kris Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13905473588368570326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407956179464949186.post-71320933684872249642012-12-05T16:39:00.000+02:002012-12-05T16:40:54.766+02:00Christians on CampusWe heard an interesting pod cast from John Stonestreet on the situation on campuses in American. It will probably be moving this way to Romania in the future. <br />
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<br />Mike and Kris Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13905473588368570326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407956179464949186.post-21418534715424580072012-10-31T20:42:00.001+02:002012-10-31T20:42:52.186+02:00Fall and New StudentsEach year in Oct we have a special meeting where we try to get new students involved in OSCEB.<br />
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The conversations we had were very encouraging. One young man had lots of sincere questions and really wanted to find answers to them. When we told him about sin and how even our thoughts separate us from God he said, "Then who can be saved?". At hearing this we showed him how Jesus had been asked this same question and the answer was not in what we can do or how good we can be, but in what God has done for us through Jesus. The young man left taking a New Testament and agreeing to read it. </div>
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The first class at BCA to have all the seniors graduate with honors! </div>
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Rebekah, Abby and Samuel with their first grade teacher!! </div>
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Hannah and Sam, who Rebekah has baby sat the last three years!! </div>
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With almost 1700 students from across Europe we celebrated the resurrection together on Easter morning! </div>
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One evening all the countries brought together special tastes from home to share with everyone! Here the Romanian delegation shared their specialties!</div>
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With perfect weather for skiing this year we were able to go to Poiana Brasov a very nice place to ski with modern facilities and slopes.<br />
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Joy to the World the LORD has come! Immanuel (God with us) is now here!<br />
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Razvan in the black tee shirt we have know since he was 14 years old and was a high school student in Pitesti and involved in the group there. Now he is in his first year at the university in Bucharest!<br />
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<br />Mike and Kris Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13905473588368570326noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7407956179464949186.post-309477097108486732011-10-04T15:15:00.001+03:002011-12-01T20:40:59.532+02:00Formacion (Training Conference)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z-tqR_bPPYU/Tors83xJ4eI/AAAAAAAABCY/jvo_kwt4XR8/s1600/301381_10150398947067704_760992703_10162128_1782961656_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z-tqR_bPPYU/Tors83xJ4eI/AAAAAAAABCY/jvo_kwt4XR8/s400/301381_10150398947067704_760992703_10162128_1782961656_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> From Sept. 11-21 we held our first intensive Discipleship Training Conference for OSCER that we called Formacion. We brought together 40 students from 7 cities across Romania</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Each day we met in our discipleship groups of 3-4 people. Here we would study from Galatians and then have a discipleship lesson. The lessons focused on helping someone get grounded in their faith. Then in the afternoons we had seminars or team building games.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Working in a team with some impediments caused the students to feel frustration and rely on new or creative ways to communicate and work through different issues!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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