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Posts by John Koon

seven weeks and counting

26 November 2009
John Koon

Magda Clopotel (WMF Romania staff) and I just returned to Galati from a four-day trip to Moldova in which we looked for host families for our staff moving to Moldova, met with a lawyer to discuss the process of obtaining living permits and presented our vision for WMF Moldova to a class of social work [...]

love alive

29 September 2009
John Koon

As you may or may not know, Word Made Flesh is moving to Moldova. I realize that many people do not know the story of the birth of this new community, so I thought that it would be of interest to share it here. I moved to Moldova exactly three years ago, in September 2006, [...]

clopoţelul a sunat ca o sentinţă….

30 May 2009
John Koon

(See below for English translation.) Acest text este scris de Adriana Ciobanu, o profesoară din Chişinău care deja Îl slujeşte pe Isus printre cei mai vulnerabili de acolo. E sfîrşit de an şcolar.. În Moldova avem o tradiţie cînd clopoţelul sună pentru ultima dată pentru cei care absolvesc şcoala… După ce am privit un reportaj despre [...]

I Can’t Do Anything with this Dark

21 May 2009
John Koon

A poem by April Folkertsma Ispas, October 2007 It’s a quarter to 4 a.m. And I can’t do anything with this dark, sleep, read, pray. I can see only as far as the bus headlights illuminate, along a bumpy Moldovan road, On my way to Chisinau for clarification or further vision. My fellow travelers sleep [...]