Hi, my name is Cristina (Ispas) Dumitrescu and, as a Romanian refugee in US for over 33 yrs., I have volunteered for many community ministries and medical charities. My journey started way back in the 1980’s when I learned that one of the greatest blessing being on American soil is that you learn to give, […]

Our return trip to Bolivia was booked in 3 stages. We had a return flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil and praise the Lord, He provided, through a very generous donation, enough funds to buy the tickets that we needed to get from Sao Paulo, Brazil to Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Unfortunately we couldn’t get a direct […]

I knew from the time we met his parents that he was going to be trouble. They were people of class, professionals immersed in a number of business ventures and advanced education, and no time for a problematic teenager. They basically begged us to let him come. Their son was out of control, and they […]

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Phillipians 4:19

Kuwait is one of the communities on the other side of the Amazon River, in Peru. It’s just 15 minutes from us by boat. This last August we had the opportunity of spending some time there while […]

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. Matthew 21:22

It was about 6 in the morning when a boy arrived and asked if we could massage his mom. “Massage her?” I asked, then I thought that maybe she fell and hurt her leg or her hips. So I asked the […]

In God’s plan for Israel every family had a home on the land, with sufficient ground for tilling. Thus were provided both the means and the incentive for a useful, industrious, and self-supporting life. And no devising of men has ever improved upon that plan.

The Faith I Live p. 260

Our Mission: To restore the role […]

When we arrived 2 years ago, one of the things I noticed most, was that we always needed to watch our stuff because the local people were constantly looking what they could steal, and many times they did steal our stuff. If they didn’t come around to see what they could steal, they were coming […]

The world ends when one dies

My sister and I went to visit a man in the community that had questions about the Sabbath, but when we arrived at his house only his son, Jimmy, was there. A few weeks ago, I had given him a bible and told him to read it. I now asked […]

The number of factors that must have combined to make our meeting possible, not to mention successful, left me completely astounded. Yet, at the same time, it was nothing short of what I had asked for.

It was Sunday morning again, and that meant distributing materials to my colporteur teams and collecting my plastic-bag lunch from […]

“Hey, did you know your fuel tank cap is missing?” Mr. Enrique asked when I pulled up in “Ogre,” our dilapidated Nissan Condor truck, to give him a jump-start.

“What? Ooh no!”

It was a face-palm moment: yet another numbskull move to mark against my name!

“I must have forgotten to put it back on when I fueled […]