MariaRegina
23rd December 2005, 03:44 AM
OCMC Mission news
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St. Augustine, FL (December 21, 2005) - After eleven thousand miles of traveling in the United States, it’s nice to be home for Christmas. That’s the opinion of Floyd and Ancuta Frantz, Orthodox Christian Mission Center missionaries to Romania, who left the Mission Center on Friday, December 16, for their return journey to Cluj, Romania.
“Two and a half months, eleven thousand miles, 22 churches, 35 beds, one borrowed car,” recounted Ancuta, a native of Romania. “It will be good to get back to more familiar surroundings. I miss the snow.”
The Frantzes arrived in the United States on September 29 to raise the necessary financial support for themselves and the ministries they supervise in Romania: the St. Dimitrie Project for addiction treatment and education (Floyd), and the Protection of the Theotokos Family Day Center for the prevention of child abandonment (Ancuta). “We were successful raising our personal support,” says Floyd, “but we could use additional funds for our ministries. I’m grateful for all the people we met and the relationships that were built during our time in the States. It’s nice to know so many are interested in - and praying for - our work.”
One highlight of the trip was the borrowed car, a 2002 Subaru. “A former OCMC mission team member to Romania, Bob Born, lent us the car,” Floyd recalls. “It really helped solve a lot of logistics problems because we weren’t at the mercy of plane schedules and rental car availability. We could flex our schedule when necessary to take advantage of opportunities to meet with people as we drove around the country.”
Their travels took them from Boston to Santa Barbara to St. Augustine and many places in between. But now they’re back in Romania, ready to start ministering again to those they have faithfully served the past several years.
If you would like to find out more about their work in Romania, go to http://www.ocmc.org/missionaries.php. To support their efforts financially, go to http://www.ocmc.org/giving.php.
http://www.ocmc.org
St. Augustine, FL (December 21, 2005) - After eleven thousand miles of traveling in the United States, it’s nice to be home for Christmas. That’s the opinion of Floyd and Ancuta Frantz, Orthodox Christian Mission Center missionaries to Romania, who left the Mission Center on Friday, December 16, for their return journey to Cluj, Romania.
“Two and a half months, eleven thousand miles, 22 churches, 35 beds, one borrowed car,” recounted Ancuta, a native of Romania. “It will be good to get back to more familiar surroundings. I miss the snow.”
The Frantzes arrived in the United States on September 29 to raise the necessary financial support for themselves and the ministries they supervise in Romania: the St. Dimitrie Project for addiction treatment and education (Floyd), and the Protection of the Theotokos Family Day Center for the prevention of child abandonment (Ancuta). “We were successful raising our personal support,” says Floyd, “but we could use additional funds for our ministries. I’m grateful for all the people we met and the relationships that were built during our time in the States. It’s nice to know so many are interested in - and praying for - our work.”
One highlight of the trip was the borrowed car, a 2002 Subaru. “A former OCMC mission team member to Romania, Bob Born, lent us the car,” Floyd recalls. “It really helped solve a lot of logistics problems because we weren’t at the mercy of plane schedules and rental car availability. We could flex our schedule when necessary to take advantage of opportunities to meet with people as we drove around the country.”
Their travels took them from Boston to Santa Barbara to St. Augustine and many places in between. But now they’re back in Romania, ready to start ministering again to those they have faithfully served the past several years.
If you would like to find out more about their work in Romania, go to http://www.ocmc.org/missionaries.php. To support their efforts financially, go to http://www.ocmc.org/giving.php.