New Logo

I'm SO excited to be able to finally show these to everyone. These are the logos created by Cassie Pease (cassiepeasedesigns.com) for  ETL and they are perfect! She did a phenomenal job. I am thinking about making t-shirts. Please let me know if you'd like to buy one! E-mail me at catherine@bringhope.org

Also, please pray for Ellen. She is traveling to Romania today. She will be serving for 3 weeks at the Franciscan orphanage in Satu Mare and then for 3 weeks in Turt. I've posted a link to her blog on the link section at the top of the page.

I'm really looking forward to getting back to Romania in a mere 20 days. I can't wait to hold the kids in my arms again! I can't wait to hear my favorite sound in the world: their laughter! I can't wait to see the people in Turt who have shown me so much love! I can't wait to get the final blueprints from the architect and begin construction on Casa de Copii Don Bosco! Right now, I have raised $26,000. As I've said in pretty much every single blog post since I announced this project, if you can donate anything, big or small, please click here. The smallest donations really do add up, so please don't think that a small $5 can't help. It does. Trust me.

I'm really excited about my next 6 month stay in Romania. Huge things are going to happen. I know it. And hopefully, by the summer of 2014, Casa de Copii Don Bosco will be open and as insane as it sounds, I'll be a mom. I never would have thought that by the time I'm 24, I'll be the mom to 10 kids. Well, here it comes. Haha.

As always, please pray for the mission. As A.B. Simpson, the founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, once said, "Prayer is the mighty engine that moves missionary work."