Roma Gypsies

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. The project team includes members from Macedonia Baptist Church in Kansas City, Second Baptist Church in Liberty, and Little Bonne Femme Baptist Church in Columbia. The team will also visit Auschwitz, observing the Day of Remembrance for Roma exterminated by the Nazis.

Read the 2011 Trip Summary.

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Pastors from Missouri are helping train Roma pastors for service in the local church at the Gypsy Smith Training School in Bucharest, Romania. So far, two pairs of ministers have made the trip: In 2011, Terrell Carter and Warren Hoffman, both from Third Baptist Church in St. Louis; and in 2012, Bruce Gentry from the Baptist Student Center in Cape Girardeau and Josh Stowe from Wyatt Park Baptist Church in St. Joseph. Another pair of ministers will travel to the Gypsy Smith School in January 2012. Pray for them and for the Roma pastors they will befriend

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