Meet Amy

HI Blog-readers! I’m Amy! This will be my second year going to Romania – my first trip was last summer on the 2014 team. While the trip was physically, mentally, and emotionally challenging from start to finish it was also inspiring, humbling, eye-opening, and...

Meet Leah

Hello everyone! My name is Leah Fricke, and this will be my second trip to Romania with Blackhawk. My first trip to Romania was the year before last, and I absolutely fell in love with the country and the people we met. The trip itself was one of the most challenging...

Meet Taletha

My name is Taletha, I’ve lived in Madison for 9 years, and I am a self-proclaimed Christian. But, hey let’s be honest with each other, I don’t introduce myself that way. I’m a somewhat normal (with an obsession with microwave popcorn) high school graduate. Some days I...

Coming Soon: Meet the Team

The trip is coming! In less than 3 weeks we will be in Craiova preparing for camp with our partners (read friends), building relationships across cultures and languages, and potentially missing many of you. The non-stop busy schedule, jet-lag, and cultural differences...

Support – From God and From You

We begin with Psalm 40, a piece of poetry written by King David that has shaped me personally in the midst of great trial, but also resonates as a prayer for all of humanity: 1 I waited patiently for the Lord to help me,     and he turned to me and heard my cry. 2 He...

Hope

Hello Blog Readers! This is Jimmy Bero writing here, and I (along with an incredible team) am leading this year’s trip to Romania. This will be my fourth time as a leader on this trip. But I don’t want to talk about me right now. (At some point everybody...