Summer 2021: Rockin' Romania

IMB job #: 18101

Location: Romania

Team size: 5

Field expense: $1550 plus roundtrip airfare, immunizations, required travel insurance, passport & visa costs

Job description: Use your musical skills to teach young people to play guitar, keyboard, flute, drums & percussion. Help local believers develop music teams for worship. Local young people have little to no access in musical training. Offer tutoring for children in the community allowing the local ministry to develop relationships with the families. Team will be working directly with a national pastor.

Local supervisor specifically asks for students who can offer beginning instruction/tutoring in piano, guitar, drums/cajon and voice. 

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Dates for Summer 2021

May 31  Team leader training begins (Nehemiah Teams Training Center, Mentone, Alabama)

June 3  Team member training begins (Alabama)

June 8  Teams deploy for the field (via ATL)

July 28  Teams return to US for debrief (Alabama)

July 31  Teams return home

COVID-19 in 2021
We continue to move forward in planning for summer 2021 teams. Decisions will be made as we get into 2021 as to whether or not certain teams may need to be cancelled due to travel restrictions or local situations. Info will be posted on the website if teams are cancelled. 

Summer 2020: Summer Sports

IMB Job #: 13443

Location: Romania
Team size:  4
Field expense:  $1654 plus round trip airfare, immunizations, required travel insurance, passport & visa costs, etc.

Job Description: Soccer, badminton & volleyball players needed to use their skills to develop relationships in local communities. Your 'goal'... use your personal testimony to communicate the Gospel through relationships.

Students must commit to the entire program from orientation through debrief. Your first stop will be a joint orientation with other Nehemiah Teams. Learning the skills needed to carry out your assignment as well as team building will fill these first few days. Your team will fly to your final destination for the summer. Following your ministry time you will return to the US for a joint debrief... sharing all God has done over the summer.

2020 Dates
March 15  Application deadline through www.imb.org/students
May 28  Member orientation begins
June 2  Teams travel to the field
July 27  Teams arrive at debrief
July 29 night/July 30 morning  Students return home

Finishing Strong!

Summer sports team member in front of the People's Palace 

We have less than a week left of our time here, but only four full-time working days. We plan to go into Araci each afternoon again. Our program there has really hit its stride in the last two weeks. We get there and sing songs for around 15 minutes in English and Romanian—these kids LOVE to sing! They shout the words and we make a LOT of joyful noise to Him! We have tried to be intentional with the songs we teach them, since they are essentially preaching the good news each time they sing in front of their friends and families. Thankfully, we have a great music team (Rockin' Romania Team: Christine, Savanna, Wade and Reagan).

This weekend we are planning a giant sleepover with our teenagers from Bod. We’re all going to sleep in another building at our home base and have fun talking and just spending time together. We’re also making a point to focus on them this week, since many of them spent last week at a camp an hour away from here. We missed them but we’re glad to have them all back with us for work this week!

I know I’ve said this before but the time has flown by! Pray that we will stay focused and give this last week our all in our work and to out teammates. 
Pray that we would be unified and that in a time where everyone starts to feel a little stressed, we would have grace for each other and bear with one another as we finish.

-Maria
Summer Sports Team
Romania

Luke 15:7

We have a huge praise to give thanks to the Father for this week! Each afternoon, instead of bringing the Araci kids here, we met at an empty plot of land on a street where lots of the kids live. Several moms have stayed for our entire afternoon program all summer, and Chele (ABC's & Jesus team) and Olivia (Summer Sports team) have been diligently talking with them and sharing the good news faithfully each day if possible. One of them prayed for salvation this Thursday. PTL! We are so excited and grateful that He gave us opportunities to share with not only kids, but also their parents.

Many of these moms are our age or barely older (early 20's) and some are younger. It’s normal in Araci to have a first child at age 15 or 16, so many of the women my age already have 2-3 kids under the age of 6 years old. The children's fathers are mostly away working in England or Germany, and that makes for difficult situations. One woman has told us that her husband does not send any money back home, but spends it on alcohol for himself. She is left with several kids in a one-room house with no running water or electricity for months while he works. Pray that the workers here would be able to pour into these women and that the one who has prayed for a relationship with Him would be discipled and that her faith would be genuinely strengthened.

-Maria
Summer Sports Team
Romania 

Visit with Team Romania

We are loving getting to spend time with and serve alongside the Nehemiah Teams Romania teams this week! They are doing an awesome job of ministry and God answered big prayers today by sending almost 300 kids to the village outreach this afternoon in a new, nearby village! Pray for NT Romania this summer as they serve here in Bod and the surrounding villages!

-Tyler & Wallis Faught w/ Team Romania

Team Leader Training... my perspective

I really have no words for how this last week of team leader (TL) training and orientation went. I came into the week not really expecting to bond with any other team leaders besides the ones going to Romania — but the Father had other plans. There were around 50 TLs that arrived Monday to the Alabama training site, representing many states and heading to 18 countries for the summer. You’d think that with so many differences in personality and backgrounds, it would be hard to find common ground between us all. But it’s not. We have Someone uniting us all in a desire to reach the nations for His glory. When you think about that, you can easily see why we get so close (metaphorically AND physically!) in such a short time. I think that’s an aspect of serving alongside others that doesn’t often get recognized — and I’ve always felt like serving with others is a pressure-cooker environment for relationships. This can be positive or negative, and I’m happy to let y’all know it was all positive for us last week. -Maria Team Romania

Prayers for continued growth

I can’t believe this was a week ago today...
I’m thankful for each of you & our summer together. I’m praying for God to continue growing you on your daily mission field. ♥️
Philippians 1:3

Virginia Justus
-Romania

It's been a great week!

The reality of how short the time we have left is hitting us... Pray for focus and endurance for us! 

We are looking for more opportunities to serve outside of our usual schedule... Pray for doors to be opened!

We are working in groups of children and in all honesty, it’s hard to have one-on-one gospel conversations... Pray for persons of peace and opportunities for conversations.

-Virginia
Team Romania

Team of the Day: Team Romania

Location: Romania
Team size: 8

Job description: Use your musical skills to teach young people to play guitar, keyboard, flute, drums & percussion. Help local believers develop music teams for worship. Local young people have little to no access in musical training. Offer tutoring for children in the community allowing the local ministry to develop relationships with the families. The team will be working directly with a national pastor. If you can speak English, you can help share the Gospel & plant churches. By teaching very simple English words & phrases to children & youth you are helping with their education while opening doors to engage their families with the Gospel. 
Guys, use your soccer skills to open doors with kids, teens & young adults. Girls, use your love of playing badminton & volleyball to open doors with the female population. You don't have to be a pro, just have fun & be willing to take initiative in building friendships so that you can share about Christ. 

Looking forward to what comes next!

It is so amazing being here. Seeing God work in so many ways....it’s incredible. I already love these kids so much and I am so excited to see what God has in store for them. Please be praying for the kids and our team!

I love the language and the culture and the area is gorgeous. The history in the country still plays a role in it today too. But most of all seeing another country, with both its pros and it’s real-world problems, has been a great learning experience for me and very eye-opening...  I am looking forward to what comes next while I’m here!

-Olivia

Team Romania

Team in Focus: Rockin' Romania

IMB job #: 6505

Location: Romania

Team size: 10

Field expense: $1539

Use your musical skills to teach young people to play guitar, keyboard, flute, drums & percussion. Help local believers develop music teams for worship. Local young people have little to no access in musical training. Offer tutoring for children in the community allowing the local ministry to develop relationships with the families. Team will be working directly with a national pastor.

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Dates for Summer 2018

June 4  Team leader training begins (Alabama)

June 7  Team member training begins (Alabama)

June 12  Teams deploy for the field

Aug 1  Teams return to US for debrief (Alabama)

Aug 4  Teams return home

NEW TEAMS for 2018: ROMANIA

We are excited to offer opportunities in Romania for summer 2018. These teams will be partnering with a local ministry. Click on the job title for more information or to apply.

Summer Sports

IMB job #: 114675

Location: Romania

Team size: 12 (7 guys/5 girls)

Field expense: $1539

Guys, use your soccer skills to open doors with kids, teens & young adults. Girls, use your love of playing badminton & volleyball to open doors with the female population. You don't have to be a pro, just have fun & be willing to take initiative in building friendships so that you can share about Christ. Team will be working directly with a national pastor. 

ABC's & Jesus

IMB job #: 114677

Location: Romania

Team size: 12 (7 guys/5 girls)

Field expense: $1539

If you can speak English, you can help share the Gospel & plant churches. By teaching very simple English words & phrases to children & youth you are helping with their education while opening doors to engage their families with the Gospel. Team will be working directly with a national pastor.

Laptop League

IMB job #: 114678

Location: Romania

Team size: 7

Field expense: $1539

Teach basic computer skill to kids in a local ministry's outreach programs. If you can use MS Word & Powerpoint, we need your help. We reach families in the town by offering programs to help their children's education which allows us to build relationships with the parents. The Gospel can then be shared with the entire family.

Rockin' Romania

IMB job #: 114679

Location: Romania

Team size: 10

Field expense: $1539

Use your musical skills to teach young people to play guitar, keyboard, flute, drums & percussion. Help local believers develop music teams for worship. Local young people have little to no access in musical training. Offer tutoring for children in the community allowing the local ministry to develop relationships with the families.

Dates for Summer 2017

June 4  Team leader training begins (Alabama)

June 7  Team member training begins (Alabama)

June 12  Teams deploy for the field

Aug 1  Teams return to US for debrief (Alabama)

Aug 4  Teams return home