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There’s a lot of reasons ITMI’s Daria and Viorel Pop shouldn’t have devoted the last couple decades to caring for disabled elderly widows. The Pops appear to be an ordinary Romanian couple living in Arad, Romania. …
We’re so grateful for the generous way ITMI supporters have responded to the needs of Bethesda Home in Romania. Let’s keep showing God’s love and compassion to these widows.
Not long ago…
Bethesda Home is a great testimony to the unsaved staff and extended Romanian families that see first-hand the difference between Bethesda’s quality of care and what would happen in a state-run elderly care facility. We are looking for 100 supporters to adopt a widow for $50 per month.
The images were forever branded into her memory. Elderly women, abandoned by their children in icy, un-heated homes. Soiled sheets and meager blankets, their only defense against a bitter winter. Bedsores and other ailments unattended to. Limp legs and arms, frail with age and hunger.
After six of the last eight plus weeks being either in southern Africa or in Eastern Europe, my body’s internal clock has pretty much gone haywire. For the whole week that I have been home my body has insisted on transitioning from deep sleep to wide awake at anywhere from 2:15 am to 3:35 am. Driving to the ITMI office at our normal starting time mentally feels like I’m arriving in the mid-afternoon, due to my work day starting 5-6 hours before.
THE CONTEXT
In rural areas of Romania, many elderly and disabled without family nearby have nowhere to turn. Physician, Daria Pop, and her husband, Viorel, don't just provide care packages for the disabled and elderly, they love them like family.
The Romanian elderly receive the equivalent of about $25 USD per month to cover food, rent, heat and any other needs like medication. If they need care, most can't afford it.
For over 2 decades, Viorel and Daria operated Bethesda Home, where elderly, disabled widows with nowhere else to turn could receive round-the-clock care.
In 2020, Bethesda Home closed due mainly to lack of funding, but Viorel and Daria continue to care for the elderly in their community with visits and care packages as Bethesda Care for the Elderly.
WHAT YOUR SUPPORT DOES
Provides Basic Needs for Elderly Romanians in Need
Provides Basic Needs for Elderly Romanians in Need
Viorel and Daria use your gifts to meet the basic needs of elderly Romanians through visits and care packages that can include anything from food, medicine, or cleaning materials to money for utilities.
Demonstrates and Declares God's Love to the Elderly
Demonstrates and Declares God's Love to the Elderly
Through this ministry, fueled by your gifts, the Pops get the opportunity to demonstrate and declare the Gospel.
Demonstrates the Gospel to the Community
Demonstrates the Gospel to the Community
In Communist Romania, the elderly were shoved aside and not valued. The Pops' care and concern for these vulnerable Romanians stands in stark contrast to those anti-Biblical ideas, demonstrating the attitude our Lord has toward those who are vulnerable.
HISTORY
For over 20 years, Viorel and Daria Pop operated Bethesda Home, where elderly, disabled widows could live and receive round-the-clock professional care. For the Pops, the ladies living at Bethesda were part of their family.
They were loved, belonged and dignified.
Leading up to 2020, the ladies at Bethesda Home passed away one by one, and at the same time, funds began to dwindle. The Pops could no longer pay their full-time nurses, so Bethesda Home changed to Bethesda Care for the Elderly.
