Currently BWI have established two foster homes in Romania and help support a Christian boys and girls club in Hunedoara, Romania. Each home has a Christian set of house parents: Dan and Izabela Precup and Iovian and Lidi Cerna. Within this setting foster children from the state grow up under each couple's loving care. Life skills are modeled and taught, a high value is placed on excellence in education, and the love and care of family is given to children who would otherwise spend their childhood in a state run orphanage. These children flourish as they learn first-hand how a family functions. This model of the love of Christ gives these children hope and prayerfully will change the future of many children, one child at a time.
Within the past few years Broken Walls has allied with the Bethlehem Christian Center, a Christian boys and girls club in Hunedoara. The BCC serves under-privileged children in Hunedoara through after-school tutoring, providing hot lunches, and teaching Bible classes. Corneliu and Diana Medrea, a couple with a heart for evangelism and huge vision for what the Lord can do in Romania, oversee this facility.
Matt and Tabitha Starkenburg of Olympia, WA direct Broken Walls International.
Please contact Matt and Tabitha for more information on how to pray for and support the children of Romania through BWI.
BROKEN WALLS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
4530 64th Ave. SE
Olympia, WA 98513
Travel Plans:
Matt and Tabitha will return to Romania this fall.
Their current home mailing address is:
4530 64th Ave. SE
Olympia, WA. 98513
Phone:360-923-0938
Matt’s Cell: 360-790-3892
Tabitha’s Cell: 360-790-1740
Please continue to pray:
- Finalizing the purchase of the Bethel Center. We are still approximately $5,000 short.
- Foster Care Program - Increased funding to cover the shortfall due to the weakening dollar and increased cost of living.
- House parents and children – Wisdom, patience and understanding as the children come into their teens.
- Also for the new children as they adjust into new environments.
- For the Iovian and Lidia as they receive the children that the Lord would want under their care.
- Funding for the remodeling and expansion of our Second Foster Home and a new heating system.
- Operational Costs of our ministry and our personal support.
- The staff of the Bethel Humanitarian Association as they plan for the upcoming school year with the Bible
Clubs and the Social programs at the Center.
“Instead of the Thornbush will Grow the Pine Tree.”
Isaiah 55:13a
