Playing football

 

 

 

 

July 2014

Worship service at Miheleu Baptist Church July 2013

 

Winter/Spring 2011

A few picture from the village taken on 6 March 2011

Ulicioara facing the main road

Hoanca towards the Village Well (‘Fintana Satului’)

The Baptist Church (new building very few people and most of them in their ‘autumn’.

The Orthodox church – very well kept

A horse cart parked outside a house in the centre of the village, behind the old store.

The road from the centre of the village towards ‘grajduri’.

A view of the ‘grajduri, end of the village

Birds

Plucked Geese

It is hard to be a goose in Romania – they are plucked twice a year for their valuable feathers. No anaesthetic is involved in the process. In many villages the feathers quilts were seen as valuable commodities. The more you had in your house the better off you were.

Photos taken July 2008

The centre of the village

The centre of the village from outside the Baptist church

The Orthodox Church as seen from outside the Baptist Church.

Chicken’s escape – just across the old shop

The house in the middle of the village

Photos taken in July 2008

The Local Shop

Miheleu shop

This is the local shop build in the 1970s which is now empty. The photos were taken in July 2008 with the then shop Manager/owner Aurica. In 2009 a new shop was opened. Photos to come.

Baptist church

The new building was finalised in 2006 and had a grand opening. It took about five years to complete. The financial and work burden was too much for the small and older membership. Donations were received from many benefactors. Some of the sons and daughters of the church living now abroad, in particular in USA were very generous. That is one of the reasons that the Romanian and USA flags are displayed side by side in the church.

Slavic Gospel association also helped with the building. This picture is on the SGA website and it was taken soon after the church opening.

More photos of the church can be found on Nelu’s blog, a native of Miheleu.

The new Church in 2008

Miheleu Baptist Church in 2008

Water a precious comodity during summer

The people who live in the village get their water from the wells.

Most of the people have their own well, but not all the wells hold drinking water.

During hot and dry summer some of the wells dry up and people source water from village common wells.