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December 2004
In This Issue
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Message from Ben Kubassek, Executive
Director
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Uncle Hardi’s getting married!
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Mangalia social project
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Tuzla Community Centre
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Sommer family
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Medgidia church dedication
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Valu Traian outreach
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Mangalia church completion
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Kogalnicanu kids home |
 Helping people help themselves!
It always a rewarding
feeling to help someone help themselves! That’s what Hands for Humanity is
doing in Romania. We have built 10 chickens barns to date. Our chickens
growers Veronica & George in Lumina have been very successful and now have
a 1000 chickens in their barn. We all know that “handouts” don’t work for
the long term. What people need in most third world countries is a “hand
up”. A handout lowers their self esteem and creates a dependency on the
donor. A hand up helps people help themselves and makes them feel good
about becoming self-sufficient and as a result their self-worth and
self-esteem increases! Thanks for helping us help people help themselves! |
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www.handsforhumanity.org
email: ben@kubassek.com
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In May my Uncle Hardi moved to Medgidia to work for
Hands For Humanity. He has been busy running the feed mill, managing the
crops, preaching in the local churches, and etc. Besides all that work
he’s been doing, Uncle Hardi has also had time to find himself a wife. On
October 30th Uncle Hardi will be getting married to Sister Beti Meduta
from Medgidia. We are very happy for both of them and wish them God’s
richest blessings! |
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 Mangalia
Social Housing Project
Community development is a primary focus of
Hands For Humanity. HFH is partnering with the City of Mangalia in an
exciting project to integrate Gypsies into the Romanian society. The first
phase of the project includes 18 small homes. The second phase planned for
next spring will include a kindergarten/ alphabetization school building.
The building will also serve as a church/community for the Romi living in
that community. Please pray for provision for this project. This project
will require funds to purchase building materials, donations of building
materials, and team of volunteers to complete the construction this fall. |
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Tuzla Community Centre
Tuzla is located 25km.south of Constanta, Romania. The
Second Baptist Church from Constanta has been planting a church in this
village over the past five years. HFH has acquired a parcel of land in
Tuzla to develop a community centre building which would serve as a
daycare centre, alphabetization school, and a place for the church to
meet. A church in Wales has agreed to sponsor this project has committed
to raise the $25,000USD still needed to complete the project. They will
send a team of young people to Romania on March 25, 2005 to complete the
construction In the meantime, Hands for Humanity will be shipping the
construction materials from Canada while Martin Sommer our field
coordinator there prepares for the team.
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 Sommer
family has moved to Romania
Martin and his wife,
Clazina along with their five children arrived in Mangalia, Romania on
August 28th. Martin is a framing contractor and house designer, just the
kind of person we have been praying God would send to Romania to help
coordinate the many building projects we have on the go in that country.
Please pray for provision to support the Sommer family while they are in
Romania for the next year. |
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 Medgidia
Church dedication in Sept.
After four years of hard
work and believing God for miracle after miracle, Betleem Church in
Medgidia finally has a church building that is substantially complete. The
church is planning a dedication service on Sept. 26, 2004. Thanks to all
who donated to this project. Pastor Vasi and his team are making a
tremendous difference in Medgidia and surrounding communities. It’s been
exciting working together! |
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 Valu
Lui Traian church holds first outreach event in June
Marcel Iordaci is a local
church planter from the Basarabi Church and has made it his mission to
plant a church in the town of 15,000 people just west of Constanta.In June
the church was finished on the inside and a special outreach event was
held with great success. The exterior of the church still needs stucco and
will be completed this fall. |
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 Mangalia
church completion this fall
Thanks to our faithful
donors this project is nearing completion as well after 6 years of
construction (or should I say waiting for funds). Interior work is
progressing and a team from a church in Suceava will come in October to do
the exterior stucco. |
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Our Hutterite friends from
Manitoba have been big contributors towards this project.
Project Romania Rescue rescues
kids from the streets of Constanta. Hands for Humanity is honoured to be
able to help PRR carry out their mission. Please consider making a
donation towards the $10,000 still needed to complete this building and
get it filled with kids. |
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 Your
gifts help us make a lasting difference
Hands For Humanity supports
Betty Meduta and her ministry team by providing space in our community
centre for programs that reach many poor children in the city of Medgidia.
Please pray for Betty…she’s making a BIG difference in many little lives!
Please help us fund the operating costs of the community centre so that
Betty and other missionaries and church groups can continue to have free
access to a building which allows them to carry out their mission of
“letting God love His children through them”. |
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 Your
gifts help us be a blessing to those less privileged!
Your gifts towards child sponsorship help us
complete projects that will make a difference that will last through
eternity. Because you give, HFH is able to ship a container every month
filled with clothes, food, medical equipment and construction materials.
Here Martin and Roman prepare to unload the a container load of framing
lumber and truss components at our warehouse in Mangalia. |
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ben@kubassek.com
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Thanks for being a blessing!
Your
generosity has made it possible to bless many people and complete many
projects to date in Romania. Because you gave, people are being trained
for the Great Commission…because you gave, children are being fed…because
you gave, we can carry out the Great Commandment! Thank you for your
faithful giving!
Thanks
for letting GOD love His children through YOU!
Blessings to all of you,
Ben Kubassek,
Executive
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project
needs finishing touches