What a strange country. The house going up next door to us is own by a Romanian couple who live and work in Italy. The do not plan on living in the new house they are building even though it would put a lot of American homes to shame in size and beauty. My neighbor across the street has a couple of green houses and sells produce. His son Lawrence is moving to Bucharest to find work. Lawrence was standing in a bird cage full of pigeons for the first ten minutes of our conversation. Yeah it was a little weird. Lawrence informed me that many Romanians can no longer find work in Spain or Italy (the Chinese are moving in and they are cheaper) and are returning home to find no work. Can it really be that no one can start and run a business in a town of ten thousand people? The largest grocery store in town is just a little better than a gas station. Will ten thousand people not support a full blown grocery store? Is it red tape or poverty or the lack of vision that keeps Babadag on the short supply of jobs?
I think there is money to be made here. I know that must sound like an evil capitalist pig. If we could get jobs here in Babadag we could keep families together. Is the church meant to merely give hand outs or just preach the gospel, what about a hand up?
There are so many directions to go here in Babadag: work with orphans, plant a church, start a business that employs people, work with the mentally handicapped. Each one of these directions needs a family to follow it.
Meeting people in Babadag has been a lot of fun. I enjoy this town very much because it is so much like Auburn. I mean Auburn doesn't have goats running through town but they are both laid back. I remember when the mormons moved to Auburn and it seemed the whole town knew about it. Just today we were walking up the street to hear an older lady tell here daughter those are the Americans that moved here.
Please pray for more workers.
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