Pictures

This is the center of the Roma mission of the Reformed Church that they bought four years ago. It is located in a village called Csonkapapi, which is in Ukraine a few kilometers from the Hungarian border. Beginning four years ago, we started renovating the inside and outside of the building and the improvements are still in progress. The fence and the roof of the building are new. The center has been operating even while the missionaries were living in the city of Munkacs, 50 kilometers from the Center.

This is the missionary family in the Reformed Church, Attila and Livia Tomes, and kids Mirjam (9), Debora (7), and Lea (3). Their home is a part of the Mission Center. They direct the Mission Center, organize Leadership Trainings, and summer camps. Outside of the Center, they visit the Roma congregations and oversee their Roma leaders and if needed they help.


The children have just arrived at the camp. They are 7-11 years old. Children came from the villages of Kisdobrony, Telek, Szernye, and Nagydobrony.

This is the courtyard where the children can play and rest in their freetime between programs and lessons.

Learning new songs

Learning Bible verses

During the summer camp, we have two cooks. Throughout the year we have one cook for the Leadership Trainings.


The boys really do look like Indians, which was the program!


Some of the camp leaders also turned into Indians!


Singing competition between congre- gations- the children could earn points for their group for good singing.


Playing parachute games





Making friends


This is Ravi from Nagydobrony. He is eleven.


Doing crafts


The boys are playing football.

The girls are cheering.

Then the girls played too!

The boys show their strength.


Going home on the bus.











Apart from the summer camp we organize leadership trainings for Roma adults one week in a quarter. The adults come from the same congregations as the children. The same 15-20 adults take part in these trainings. In these trainings we try to teach them theoretical knowledge about how they can teach children, how they can lead a Bible study group and help their pastor. We fundraise for the material needs of this program from abroad.

From September we have some running program. These are the running programs:

• Leadership trainings and make it more intensive,
• Summer camps,
• Continue renovating the Mission Centre.

For this plan, we need support and your help. If you are interested, please look at this link http://romamissionwishlist.blogspot.com/.