Ramona Abrudan was born August 1, 1966 into a family where only her mother was a Christian. When Ramona was 14, she had the opportunity to attend a Christian youth camp in the mountains of Romania. It was during this camp that she invited Jesus into her life. While at this camp, she also met the man she would marry eight years later. On June 26, 1983, Ramona was baptized in her home church.

Following the death of her father in 1982, Ramona became involved in children's ministry at her home church. Then, in 1985, Ramona started working with youth. During this active involvement with children and youth ministries, Ramona began studying Economic Science at the University.

While completing her degree in Economics, Ramona married her camp sweetheart, Rei Abrudan, on July 17, 1988. A year later she graduated from the University and took a job as an economist for IRIS SA, a china factory in Cluj-Napoca. Two years later, their first son was born, Paul-Sebastian, on September 8, 1991. The following year brought the birth of their Christmas baby, Marc-Serban, born on December 25, 1992.

Since the birth of their sons, Ramona has been working for New Hope Ministries in Cluj, Romania. She says that after several years of prayer, God listened to her desires to be a full-time worker among young people. As a Youth Counselor, Ramona's responsibilities include her continued work with the youth of her church. However, her youth ministry has expanded with the government's permission to teach religion in the public and private schools.

Through a Bible class Ramona teaches at a local high school, a counseling service developed for teens. Ramona says she never realized the deep hurts and problems the students were dealing with until some of them began to come and talk to her.

The administrative responsibilities of Ramona's work includes preparing 19 future Sunday School teachers for one of Romania's largest churches as well as training teachers in a church in Jibou. Ramona follows a three year training curriculum which requires evangelistic field work for each participant. The area of focus for these teachers is raising their awareness to the special needs of the nonchurched children and youth that will be attending the new church from the neighborhood. Ramona also trains Sunday School teachers countrywide in the new BCM materials New Hope has published.

Further, Ramona inputs Rei's translation work into the computer and maintains the bookkeeping for all of Cluj's distribution work. She is also actively involved in organizing several of the New Hope youth and family camps in the summer.