Elpis Action

Elpis Action is development ministry of Elpis Foundation. This program targets families that will, with a bit of help and coaching from Elpis, soon be able to help themselves. In a short time we hope to see them able to care for their own families and begin to help others.

Medical Care: This summer a medical kit was given to nurse in the little village of Vale , where pastor Cornel Fedor, a pastor associated with the Somes Missionary Circle , has been effective in reestablishing the Baptist Church . Corina, who is a new Christian, has begun to call on the people in her village and in other nearby villages to look after their physical needs. This personal concern for their physical needs often helps people open up to the possibility of finding spiritual healing as well.

Agriculture: Two years ago we began to help a family of ten. Ioan Rus, the father, is unable to work because of severe asthma. At first, we provided new shoes and a heating system for their home – winter was coming on.

The next summer we gave them a tiller and a small one-wheeled plow. That winter, the father was able to build a small cart to be pulled by the plow.

This year, at planting time, the older children used the tiller to prepare the land, then as one boy drove the plow, the younger children in the cart handed seed potatoes to the other children who planted them. The method worked so well that the neighbors were soon asking the Rus family to plant their crops as well.

One of the Rus boys demonstrates the use of the cart.

Economics: The engineer’s drawing below illustrates our desire to produce a similar plow in Romania . We believe this would help rebuild the

Please pray:

for families that will be part of Elpis Action
for the development of business opportunities in the villages
for the establishment of permanent village medical clinics
for medicines for those who cannot afford basic medical care