„Home Care for the Needy” Social Project going strong after 15 years

From the beginning, God created woman with special emotional abilities, with strength and resilience in order to be able to support others in need, both physical and moral. A woman who knows God and His will, enriches, brings hope, uplifts those who come in contact with, opens her heart for those who are lonely and poor!
With thoughts of this kind and lots of prayer sister Judith Bende, the Women’s Ministries department coordinator of Targu Mures A, set off fifteen years ago.
She wanted to organize a social project - a kitchen for poor and old people not only from her local church but also for people from other churches. February 9, 2005, the first day or trial run for the project named “Home Care for the Needy”, began with lots of emotions. Her leading thought was: “Women can!” From that time on, three times per week, a team prepares fresh food for approximately 30 people. The food is distributed in homes, in every corner of Targu Mures City, and great care is taken in the handling of addresses and details.
It is a very big challenge! Organizing and administering this project is not that easy. No one is paid for this activity. Everything is organized from voluntary contributions and there have never been problems with that. God has always provided the money for the food. The project is supported only by sponsorships from the church members, people from non-adventist churches, even more, an orthodox priest comes every month with a sum of money to support this work. The church has not been able to help them financially, but it helped them with access to the church kitchen including the electricity and gas consumption.
Unfortunately, as the time of the corona virus pandemic came unexpectedly, it seemed that that the world stopped. But… what a surprise! This activity doesn’t stop at all! The organizers decided that there is even more need at this special time, and even more people now are helped. Since March about 1000 food packages in all have been distributed to about 90 families each week. Young people from the church helped with the distribution and so many families were blessed.
Many women have discovered the spiritual beauty and the joy of these noble activities. The helpers experience spiritual enrichment when they visit older people and at the same time they become a blessing for other people. We think that the best way to show Christ is to show them His love, by caring about their problems and giving them a helping hand.
Everyone has the possibility to spread hope, showing to those in need a portion of God’s love, compassion and kindness! Let’s make the name of God known, and proclaim the riches of His grace, opening our hearts in mission.
The women involved in this work have the wish to share their faith but also to care for the sick people, to feed those who hunger and to offer emotional support to those around them.We as women, must consider it a privilege to be involved in missionary work and to sustain the projects that the church offers, proving this way that “Women Can!”
Reported by Anna Nădășan, WM Director, South Transylvania Conference Photos. WM Romania