Hearts Festivals Glorifies God in Romania

Hearts Festivals Glorifies God in Romania

The “HeartBeats” Festival, now in its 3rd year, took place in Cluj-Napoca in Romania at the House of Culture of Students. Christian music bands from all over the country, but also from Africa, the United States and Israel took to the stage. The festival created a context in which hundreds of young people, and not only young people, gathered to glorify the name of God.

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HeartBeats Festival

Cluj-Napoca

 

The “HeartBeats” Festival was intended to be

 

a festival of joy in Christ

since its first edition.

 

Although the current edition

was not on the same scale,

 

it attracted a large number

of young people

 

who were enthusiastic

about the atmosphere created

 

by the Christian bands

that performed a variety

 

of musical styles and expressions

of praise and worship.

 

This is a smaller edition to ensure

the continuity of the festival.

 

We are preparing a very big

edition next year,

 

but because the HeartBeats

community is a passionate one

 

and we have a large group

of mission-minded teenagers

 

and young people who need

this enthusiasm, this symbol,

 

we decided to offer the edition

anyway,

 

even if we initially,

considered postponing it.

 

This year we have artists

from different countries,

 

we even have artists

from Africa, from Uganda,

 

there are three artists

who are coming

 

and they are full of fire

and passion for Christ,

 

we have a band from Israel

 

who are performing

for the first time in Romania

 

and bands from Romania

 

who have just finished

their part of the festival.

 

Besides the vision

to glorify God with passion,

 

the HeartBeats Festival aims

to become a platform

 

that unites people from

different countries and cultures

 

who share the same values

to connect and motivate them

 

to get involved in different

spheres of society.

 

We wanted to create a context

in which organizations

 

that promote values or campaigns

that Christians should support,

 

such as the campaign

against human trafficking

 

or other campaigns

that are noble,

 

caring for the needy,

the vulnerable, the marginalized,

 

widows, orphans.

 

However, the theme that particularly aligns us this year

 

and where we wanted

to make a contribution

 

to the awareness-raising part

is human trafficking.

 

Romania, as we know,

 

is the country that has

the most victims who end up

 

being trafficked in the West,

in particular,

 

and I believe that in general,

 

such missionary – evangelistic

events should be accompanied

 

by a cause of social impact.

 

Kim Westfall founder of Uncaged

came to HeartBeats to talk about

 

the spread of human trafficking,

which is claiming many victims

 

among young women in Romania

 

and how every young Christian can and should get involved

 

in preventing and fighting it.

 

Since 2018, “Uncaged”

has been supporting the efforts

 

of the “WorldTeach” Association

in Romania,

 

in the fighting human trafficking.

 

Our association “WorldTeach” started rescuing girls and women

 

from human trafficking in 2004.

 

At one point we had

over 750 people rescued,

 

but we didn’t have a therapy

program

 

through which these women could be reintegrated.

 

The only way we treated them is

to show them the love of Christ

 

and show them acceptance.

 

We were placing them

with Christian families,

 

Christian leaders

who cared for them

 

and were able to rehabilitate

them to some degree.

 

Then in 2018, Uncaged,

a U.S. association joined us,

 

and they began to invest in

expanding to a professional level.

 

We have licensed ourselves

 

as a “Center for the Assistance

and Protection

 

of Victims of Human Trafficking”

in Timis County.

 

Hananya Naftali was also present at the fesival

 

and spoke about the challenges

facing the people of Israel

 

after the October 7, 2023 attack.

 

(Hananya Naftali – speaks En)

 

The festival ended with a concert performed by Wes Hampton,

 

singer of the Gaither Vocal Band,

 

who performed

some well-known hymns

 

together with

he Coram Deo Timisoara choir.

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