About Daniela Ministry

Overview

The Daniela Ministry is a charitable organization associated with Calvary Chapel. The goal of the ministry is to meet the spiritual and physical needs of the street children and desperately poor families in the Eastern European country of Romania.

The Daniela Ministry was established as memorial to Daniela Bistriceanu, whose life was unexpectedly taken in a tragic accident. Daniela’s love for Christ was reflected in her love for her family, friends, and children. It is out of this spirit of love and service to others that this foundation was established.

Background

Under communism, the Romanian people were encouraged to have large families, but after the fall of communism the economy of Romania became very depressed. Most of the people had been government employees and were now jobless. They no longer had the means to support their large families. As more and more people became homeless, children in great numbers were abandoned, and to survive, these children found shelter in the city sewers. Drug addiction, hunger, abuse, pregnancies, prostitution, disease, theft, and hopelessness grew along with the underground community of forsaken children.

In Boise, Idaho, Niculina Bistriceanu, a Romanian nurse, and her husband, George, felt a deep burden for the impoverished families and deserted children of their native country and wanted to do something to help them. They had no idea where to start, but God had a plan in mind. In 1998, using the American know-how of an energetic Catholic co-worker of Niculina's, Mike Farruggia, and the growing outreach to Romania of Calvary Chapel Boise, the Lord put in motion a ministry aimed at giving hope and help to the lost children and desperate families of Romania through native Christians working in tandem with American believers.

Goals

The mission of Daniela Ministry is to meet the spiritual and physical needs of the street children and desperately poor families in the country of Romania.

Daniela Ministry, with the help of individual sponsors and churches in the United States, has been able to distribute food, warm winter clothes and shoes for many children and coordinate regular Bible studies and spiritual guidance for these children.

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