Category: Cluj, Romania

Family pictures

Here are a couple pictures from downtown Cluj yesterday, one I took of my precious wife Lili and daughter Briana, and one that our 4-year-old photographic prodigy of a daughter took of us.

Briana & Lili

Lili & Dave

Church Thanksgiving–Photos

Follow this link for a look at an album of photos (from my facebook) of our church in Cluj’s celebration of Thanksgiving this week.

Here is one additional photo, not in the facebook album, of the enjoyment of a wonderful meal that evening:

New worship song/our church’s team

For those who would like to see our church’s worship service, here is a clip from Sunday Sept 27’s service. The church is singing a brand new worship song written the week before by Ajay Torres, who ministered here with us for three weeks last month. The words in Romanian and English for the song, “Meriti Toata Slava” (You Deserve All the Glory), are printed below so that English speakers can know what is being sung.

Lyrics in English:
I want to give You my praise
I want to give all my worship to You
I want to give my whole life to You
For You gave Your life for me

You deserve all the glory
All honor belongs to You
All the world can know my love
I lift up my hands to You

Lyrics in Romanian
Vreau să-Ți dau lauda mea
Vreau să mă-nchin numai Ție
Vreau toată viața mea să Ți-o dau
Căci Tu mi-ai dat-o pe-a Ta

Tu mi-ai dat-o pe-a Ta
Meriți toată slava
Cinstea toată e-a Ta
Toți pot vedea iubirea mea
Mâinile Ție le ridic

Cluj and the Jewish holocaust

a building in our church's neighborhood
a building in our church's neighborhood

The building pictured above is in the neighborhood where our church meets. We stand in front of it while waiting for the bus to take us home after each service. The plaque on the front of it, pictured below (with English translation on the right), speaks for itself and shows why I have so often been in a very somber mood standing there.
The plague on its wall, right above our bus stop
The plague on its wall, right above our bus stop

It is financially the poorest area of the city. The Lord will bless those who bless His chosen people, and curse those who curse them.

Mary Worship Quite Contrary to True Christian Faith

Pictured here is the view out our window of some of the crowd gathering to worship Mary today at the Orthodox Church. Today is one of several annual holidays in her honor. If they were to set aside a day to honor Jesus (they don’t), unfortunately there would be no such crowd to gather.

crowd gathers to worship Mary at the Orthodox church in our neighborhood
crowd gathers to worship Mary at the Orthodox church in our neighborhood