Partnering with CBF field personnel Dianne and Shane McNary, CBF of Missouri works with Roma Christians in Slovakia. The Roma people, commonly called Gypsies, are discriminated against and ostracized throughout Europe. Often, their children are forced to attend inferior schools and adults are denied job opportunities based solely on ethnicity.

Working with the Dianne and Shane, groups from Missouri will meet Roma Christians in Slovakia to build friendships, encourage, and explore mission projects. In addition, pastors from Missouri will visit the Gypsy Smith School in Romania to provide training to Roma pastors, most of whom have little theological training.

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The next Roma Road Partnership Visit is slated for July 27-August 5, 2012. The setting will be Kocise, Slovakia. Plans are to work with the Roma church in that city and at a Roma school. Group size is limited to 20 persons. A special option will be a visit to Auschwitz, observing the Day of Remembrance for Roma exterminated by the Nazis.

Read the 2011 Trip Summary.