Mission Opportunities and Facts

     Types of Opportunities

  • Short Term Mission Trip: 2 Weeks - 3 Weeks
         Spring, Summer Christmas

  • Longer Stays with Approval from Board

     Countries Served

  • Presently   Romania  \  USA

     Religious Affiliation

  • W.O.N. is Affiliated with a Baptist Group, but Anyone can Participate.

     Religious Requirements

  • None: As Long as Our Rules and Regulations Are Complied With.

     Language Requirements

  • None: Translators Are Provided for Short Term
              Long Term would Need to be Familiar with Romanian Language.
             (Many Romanians speak some English)

     Cost, Funding, and Fees

  • Team Members and Volunteers Cover All Cost.

     Ways to Minister

  • Building Projects
  • Remodeling Orphanages
  • Maintence and Repairs
  • Building Campgrounds
  • Enviornmental Cleaning: Grounds and Rivers
  • Educational Projects: Teaching English, Computer Training, etc.
  • Bible Studies / Discipleship
  • Vacational Bible School and Camps
  • Psychological Training
  • Medical and Dental: Clinics, Visual Exams, First Aid, CPR Classes, etc.
  • Sports Training and Activities
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Facts about Romanian's Orphans

The population of Romania is 24 million. There is a crisis with thousands of abandoned children in Romania. Under communist rule this was kept secret. Being homeless at that time was illegal and children were forcibly confined to ill-equipped state orphanages. A Romanian will tell you that he or she knew nothing about the squalid, teeming orphanages of the Ceausescu regime. Conditions were hidden and the public kept ignorant .Those who knew were too afraid to complain for fear of being imprisoned and having their children be forced to live in the same conditions. Nicolae Ceausescu sought to control all aspects of the people's lives. Among his worst public order was the requirement that women have 5 children by age 45 before they could become eligible for birth control. Now abortion has been legalized and Romania has the highest abortion rate in Europe with 1. 2million abortions recorded annually compared to 500,000 live births.
In 2001, under pressure from the European Union, Romania declared a moratorium on international adoptions, and then in 2004 a new law was enacted to ban all international adoptions.
According to recent reports from the Ministry of Health overcrowding in orphanages is again rising rapidly since the ban on adoptions has been put in place.
The Ministry of Health in Romania reports that last year 1,888 babies were abandoned at maternity hospitals by mothers too poor to care for them.
UNICEF cited statistics that 9,000 children each year are abandoned in Romania's maternity wards or pediatric hospitals, 66 percent of them minority Roma children.
'Each year, 1000 children are adopted domestically while 8,000 children in Romania are being sentenced to a life without knowing family or a parent's love" according to Christopher Smith Co-chairman United States Helsinki Commission.
  1. "Romania's Forgotten Children" by Ruth SoRelle
  2. Romanian Adoption Policy Examined as Human Rights Issue -US State Government Archives