Residency Cards Arrived

We have a major praise item to share with you all.  On Thursday, we picked up our Residency Cards, which allow us to remain in the country for 5 years at a time.  These cards take the place of visas/passports, and they will be our primary method of identification here in Romania.  If we had [...]

Archer’s June 2008 Prayer Letter

Dear Family and Friends,
These past three months have been quite an experience for us as we have moved into our village apartment in Bretea Romana. We are in the center of the village and the noise and commotion is something we have to get used to. Our neighbors have been helpful and we see more [...]

Good News on Our Visas

We just received the necessary papers (from Bucharest) to continue the process of applying for status as permanent residents in Romania. They arrived the night before last, so yesterday we spent the entire day in Deva (district/regional capital) going from place to place for all the paperwork.  That usually entails going to 3 different [...]

Working on Visas

Please keep us in mind over the next two weeks as we scramble to get the paperwork together for our long term visas.  We have to have all the documents etc. by May 20′th.  Due to the lengthy holidays and vacation time in the government of the last two weeks, little has been accomplished thus [...]

Renovating…

… and cleaning, and painting, and varnishing, and running water lines, and cleaning again….  I guess you could say that our first week or so here in Bretea Romana has been fairly busy (and we haven’t even started our garden yet).  It’s been busy here, but it’s the “good” kind of busy. :)  We are [...]

Here in Bretea Romana

Greetings to all!  We are working on settling into our apt. in the village of Bretea Romana now.  We had a safe and fairly uneventful trip over to Romania, although we wouldn’t have minded if it was a bit shorter. ;)  Thank God for granting us safety while traveling and a very easy time with [...]

Heading out…

Just a quick note to say that we are leaving NY in about 30 minutes.  We will be going down to Daniel and Whitney’s in VA for the weekend and flying over the ocean on Sunday.  I don’t know when I will next be able to update this, as any internet access that we have [...]

The Clock Ticketh

Hello all, after about a month of not posting on here as I had intended, I am finally getting back to maintaining this site.  The last month has flown by as has this winter.  It hardly seems that we have been back for 5 months, yet here we are set to leave the USA again [...]

Prayer Letter February 2008

“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”  Acts 1:8 NKJV

Dear Family and Friends,
A new year is here and we are looking forward to a [...]

Tickets!!!

  Well, it is now official: we have purchased tickets for Romania.  We will be leaving on March 16′th, which is just around the corner.  I expect it may turn out to be abit of a rush to get everything done before then, (esp. with working fulltime) but we were able to save a large [...]