Sunday in Sabolchiu

This Sunday I went to church in town and met a guy who has been volunteering out in Saboulchiu, one of the gypsy villages where we are focusing. He said he was going out there for church and so I went with him to check up on the kids and see how everything was doing out there. Turns out they had been working over Christmas break (with this volunteer, Calin) to memorize the ten commandments. I was blown away to see these kids who cant read, recite one by one all ten of the commandments. Of course they were still beating up on each other but I am all about the baby steps and having such a fundamental aspect of the Christian faith that they can access whenever they need (most of them cant read so memorization is pretty much the only way they have to retain God's word), is far from a baby step to me.