About Us/History

The Beginning

Since 1992 Peter and Lesley Butcher (pictured right) have been involved in working in Dorohoi, Romania through Horley Baptist Church and the Romanian Aid Foundation (RoAF) transporting Aid and working with the Romanian arm of RoAF, Associatia Neemia (AN). Dorohoi, situated in the north-east corner of Romania is a town of approximately 40,000 of which well over 75% are unemployed and is principally composed of crumbling tenement blocks built during communist times. There is no regular water, gas or electric supply as the infra-structure of the area has broken down over the years. Many families have little or no income at all.
Peter and Lesley July 2000v2-300.jpg (19008 bytes)

 

The Vision

In 1999 Peter and Lesley both felt that God was calling them to make a bigger commitment to Romania. In January 2000 while working with Benoni, the Administrator of AN , hearing about and seeing the appalling living conditions of many people, Lesley had a vision for a Centre that would provide food, warmth and comfort for a few hours to people living in cramped, dismal and depressing surroundings, somewhere those in need of temporary accommodation could be helped. When she spoke to Benoni later that day, he said he had had the same vision only two weeks before!

 

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