Crusaders Romania Project Webpage

Please note that the activities of Crusaders Romania Project are now the responsibility of Life 2 Romania - this page was last updated in 2004

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A small group of Crusaders leaders have been running a project since 1991 to assist christian youthwork in Romania. This has mainly involved sending volunteers to assist Romanian christians in the running of holiday clubs and holiday camps in Romania. Since 1991 more than 160 camps and more than 25 holiday clubs have been run bringing a good time and the gospel to many thousands of young Romanians. In 1998 work started on creating weekly clubs and now over a dozen clubs meet every week across Romania. In 1999 we ran the first water-activity camp at a new centre on a lake near the Black Sea. In 2001 we started using a horse-riding centre as another themed camp location.

Please read this news letter (Feb 2004) for more information.

The main activity of the project is organising British paying-volunteers to go out each Summer in small groups to help man the Summer camps and Holiday clubs in Romania. Between 20-30 volunteers go out from the UK each Summer.

Also crucial however are the financial gifts collected, which support the administration of a Romanian charity: 'Cristia Foundation'. Cristia Foundation legally owns and runs all the camps, clubs, and holiday clubs that we support in Romania. It has a couple of paid leadership staff and a great many Romanian volunteers who run the work. Please visit their website (in Romanian and English): www.cristia.ro.

Some material goods are sent over (canoes, tents, cookers, marquees, games equipment...) but it is not an 'aid' charity. Indeed most of the funds for the camps are raised by local gifts or fees.

Some British monies are sent to sponsor holidays for orphans or as subsidy for other children, however the prime concern of the Project has been to train adult Romanians to do christian youth evangelism themselves.

If you would like to know more please contact the Project leader: Malcolm Langton for details. We would be very interested if you could help in any of these ways:

  1. Volunteering to go to Romania for 1-4 weeks in Summer 2004 (adults[aged 18-80+] and/or Crusader youth groups with leaders, only please). Detail. Application form.
  2. Giving money for Cristia, or as sponsorship for a club, Holiday club, or a Summer camp.
  3. Giving equipment.

There are now many Cristia clubs - run in church halls or orphanages. Many would benefit from extra small income to pay for renting a meeting room and for refreshments. We would love to arrange 'twinning' with similar UK clubs, please contact Malcolm for details ( )


Email cristia@suceava.iiruc.ro.
Crusaders Romania Project Prayer Diary.
Cristia has nominated Romanian Careforce volunteers who come to the UK for a year's voluntary christian work. We hope to encourage this link.
Crusaders Romania Project was a project of Crusaders Union of St Albans, but is now the main operating activity of a separate UK-registered trust called Life to Romania.To Crusaders home page. Written by Clive Ayling on Free Webspace from Geocities
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Click here for lots more detail for 2004.
Click here to see the application form for applying to go as a volunteer to help on a holiday club or holiday camp in 2004.
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