Church planting in Gura Bicului

As I mentioned in my previous report, we started a mission planting ministry in the village of Gura Bicului. There used to be an evangelical ministry there but it failed because it had no Biblical basis.  It's been a few month already since I first started to visit this place. The Christians are spiritual babies in their faith because they had no spiritual growing and never made any efforts to do so. I started a Bible study from 1 Corinthians with them.

It helped us a lot with biblical principles so that we can understand the source of the problems in church. The people from Gura Bicului came to understand that their lack of spiritual growth led to fights and divisions. When the church doesn't have Christ as it's foundation, then everything will fall apart. I go to this village every Thursday and Sunday night. I think God will bless us with people that will be entirely His in this village.

Mariana started to work with the children there. They had a program in the church last Sunday during the church service.

The youth ministry

After the summer camps, we decided to invite all the teenagers to a special night. We've been trying to make this group larger for a few weeks now.

Counseling

I offered premarital counseling to a young couple that is getting married.

A gentleman from the church passed away with cancer. Many people came to his funeral because he use to be a policeman. It was an evangelistic service because there were many unbelievers. The son of this family got close to God and understood that a life without God was meaningless.