The ECM team is currently comprised of workers from Netherlands and Germany as well as from Romania. The work is focused in three cities, Timisoara, Sibiu and Ramnicu Valcea, and involves church planting, children’s ministries, work among the handicapped, and a Christian bookstore. ECM missionaries are also involved with short term teams and English as a Second Language (ESL).

An ancient land with a complex history, Romania has only existed as a State within it current borders for less than a hundred years, and yet within that time has seen many changes politically. In the communist years it lived under a repressive regime, yet is now a member of NATO and since January 2007, a full member of the European Union. Time will tell if the continuing exodus of population looking for jobs in Western Europe will now cease.

It is a country composed of three distinct geographic areas: the forest-rich Transylvanian Alps (part of the Carpathian mountain chain), temperate uplands with orchards and vineyards, and a large agricultural plain ending in the wetlands of the Danube Delta. Romania contains more than 30 UNESCO-proclaimed World Heritage Sites.

The variations in internal population density for its 22 million people reflect to a degree, the historical regions with the areas north and west of the  curve of the Transylvania Alps (Transylvania, Maramures, Crisana and the Banat) less populated than the areas south and east (Wallachia, Moldova, Bucovina and Dobrogea).

Quick Info:

• Area: 237,500 sq km
• Population: 22.3 million
• Capital: Bucharest
• Population: 2.3 million
• Language: Romanian
• Website: Romania - Tourism
  

Source: Operation World 2001