The St. Dimitrie Staff
Our spiritual counselor and
assigned priest from the
archdiocese is Fr. Cristi Persa. His
spiritual guidance is offered to all of
our clients, and he also gives
religion classes and conducts
services in Savadisla.
Preotasa Laura Popovici is our
administrative social worker. Her tasks
Preotasa Laura Popovici is our with the
archdiocese and the city hall administrative
social worker. Her tasks about our program,
and giving social include managing the
budget, networking assistance to our
patients when needed. Here you see her
talking with former OCMC missionary Craig
Goodwin at one of our training courses.
Clinical social worker Claudia Varga is
seen teaching at one our seminars on
alcoholism. In addition to her counseling
duties, she is responsible for training
other staff members, and helps with the
development of our education programs.
At the chart, you see social worker
Nicoleta Amariea. Her primary
responsibilities include the development
of our education programs and
coordination with other archdiocese
social work departments. She also helps
with counseling, and with the social
assistance programs at Casa Alba.
Richard Regian is a peer counselor who is on
the team in Savadisla. He also helps out at
Casa Alba, and Pantelimon. Rici will also be
helping us with our programs in the Republic
of Moldova.
Raluca Csak is one of our volunteers
and will be a staff member after her
graduation from university in social
work this year. Her duties at this time
are doing occupational therapy with
patients in Savadisla, and helping
with translations.
Marin Bria is our "House Man" for Casa Alba.
He keeps the day-center maintained and on
tract, and is working with the many homeless
people who visit our center daily. He also
keeps our program open in the evenings for
the 12 Step group meetings, and often cooks
breakfast for the homeless who come into our
center for  a cup of coffee in the mornings.
Ucu Ghete is one of our peer
counselor volunteers. When not
helping out Marin at Savadisla and
Borsa. Here you see him in one of our
training programs. Ucu will also be
helping us in the Republic of Molova.
Peer counselor Victorita Chidean
helps with the bookkeeping and
some of the administrative tasks, but
her most important work is
counseling with the family members
who come to our program seeking
help for their alcoholics.  She is also
involved with development of the 12
Step family support groups.
On the far left is counselor Basile
Jivin, with one of our volunteers.
Basil carries the message of hope
and recovery to the patients at the
long term care psychiatric hospital
in Borsa. He is also involved with
the recovery group at Casa Alba and
goes to the psychiatric hospital in
Cluj to meet with the patients.
I could not make this list of "staff" without
including my lovely spouse Ancuta. She
helps us when we have need of her time
and talents. Here she is preparing some
gifts for the kids at the elementary school
in Sarmaduc. Of course she is also quite
busy with her own project through
OCMC, the "Protection of the Theotokos
Family Center" , which is for the
prevention of abandonment of children
under 2 years of age.
On either side of bishop Vasile, (Basil)  
is Fr. Calin Popovici (L) and Fr. Liviu
Borsa. These two priests have been
helping us for years at our projects in
Cluj and Savadisla. Here you see them
at the blessing of the St. Dimitrie
day-center, "Casa Alba".
Last and least is yours truely, Floyd
Frantz. I am a missionary through the
Orthodox Christian Mission Center
(OCMC), and with God's grace and the
help of the above staff we have been
developing the St. Dimitrie Program here
in Cluj, Romania since November of 2000.