Needy people in Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine struggle to pay their heating bills or to buy fuel to heat their houses during the cold winter months. The Warm-A-Family program helps by providing stoves and/or funds to buy firewood and pay heating bills. This assistance usually goes to large families or to small or isolated churches that lack funds to heat their meeting places.
The stove Iosif and his wife in Romania received will be a great blessing this winter. It uses less wood than their old stove, but still gives more heat.
As winter approaches once again, we in North America are thankful for warm, cozy houses. But many families in Eastern Europe face winter with dread and uncertainty. How will they have enough money to heat their houses when incomes are low or non-existent and jobs are hard to find?
Many Americans anticipate winter and what comes with it—relaxing evenings in a cozy house, a fire to ward off chills, hot chocolate, and falling snow.