Pastor Jerry is currently traveling in Romania. Click here to read the reports!

Caleb Good News Ministries began their service to the Lord in 1993 by traveling to Romania.  Since that time, Caleb has shipped over 100 containers of medical supplies, food supplements, and clothing.  We have partnered with other ministries to help the street kids, supported orphanages, provided employment in bakeries, grown food in pea patches and bought livestock to help families in their own cottage industries.  But, it's not enough, we need your help, your prayers.  Check out the last two trips below, or send an email to ask specific questions.  We'd love to hear from you.

In Romania, we were advised by Childlife International of a desperate need. There is a hospital for special children located in Gradinari, the county of Giurgiu, managed by Dr. Teodora Avram who has run this Hospital for a number of years. Frank Bullock, of Childlife International, who has visited this hospital in the past and met Ms. Avram, indicated that the Gradinari facility currently shelters 40 children. A similar place in Tantavele offers a place for 120 adults with disabilities. Both of these places, a total of 160 people, are in desperate need of food.

We received a desperate call from the administrator of Gradinari centre (Mr. Stefan Tudor), pleading for help for basic food. He told us that they are almost out of food with only a few chicken legs left for the children to eat. The lack of food and medication has been going on for a long time, getting worse in the last months.

The problem was the village depended upon poultry and gardens. Due to the Bird Flu epidemic last year, all poultry was seized and destroyed by the government without compensations or replacement. And with the severe drought this year the gardens did not grow. The Village is comprised of mostly elderly and handicapped who cannot work to buy food once the gardens and chickens were wiped out.

Caleb Ministry provided $1,500.00 for emergency trucking of 6 tons of food from the Suceavea warehouses of Childlife International to this remote village. Also, our Braila Ministry trucked in 400 pounds of fresh food the day we learned of the need.  The Village now has enough for 6 to 8 months.

Loading Container for Flood Relief - June, 2007

A Fond Farewell:

We say good bye for now to our brother Ron and sister Sue Bates, of InAsMuch Ministries, who both passed to be with our Lord, July 27th and October 6th of this year, respectively.

Originally from Texas, they came to Romania in March, 1990 and established three orphanages in Bucharest and with Caleb Ministries as a partner, a street ministry which continues to feed the street children in Romania.  Also as part of their ministry, Ron and Sue finished translation and publication of a Braille Bible in Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian.

Mourners, including many of the street kids of Bucharest, made the pilgrimage to the funeral for Ron in July.  Sue, who recently died, will be buried beside Ron.  The Bates requested burial in the gypsy village that they evangelized.  They will be sorely missed by the people of Romania, their many friends in the USA, and Caleb Ministries in particular.

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