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Lenuta Chronic
- lenuta.chronic@wordmadeflesh.org
- Country
- Romania
Lenuta was born in a small town, Cudalbi, Galaţi county, on June 20, 1965, in a family that kept the Romanian orthodox traditions, but didn't know God. Lenuta has a younger brother and sister. In her school years, she adhered to the communist doctrine because she wanted to dedicate her life to an ideal. She learned that those who spoke of faith in God had attitudes from the Medieval ages and were obstacles to society's progress. When her parents decided to follow Christ, she was 18 years old. She saw great changes in their lives, but her mind was already very grounded in the communist ideology.
After eight years of questions and interior struggle, she surrendered to the love of Christ. She began to go to the Pentecostal church her parents attended. In 1998, she met David Chronic. She saw how he related to street children, who she had ignored until then. She prayed for God's direction in her life, and soon the leaders of a children's home asked her if she wanted to work with them among street children. She worked there for a few years and then returned to teaching in public school. In the year 2000, two children that Word Made Flesh Romania worked with were in her class, and she became more involved with the Valley House. Lenuta has served as an educator for the school children's program at the Valley House since fall 2005.
David was born in Denver, CO, and moved to Omaha, NE, with his family when he was 11. Following the move to Nebraska, he struggled through conflicts with his family. God had His hand on David's life, though. David accepted Jesus in early 1992 because of a friend who reached out to him. At the time of David's salvation, God also placed a call on him to be involved in missions. As he would read the Scriptures and pray, God would break his heart with visions and dreams of a dying world. Part of that calling was fulfilled in missions trips to India, Mexico, Romania and Moldova. As a student, David studied in Romania, where he began to spend time with street children. In 1996, he received an international business degree from the University of Nebraska. In 1998, David returned to Romania with WMF, where he started a WMF site in Galati, serving among street children, children with HIV, and the Roma (gypsy) community.
David and Lenuta were married in December 2002.