Praise the Lord for the blessings that we experienced in Pucioasa in January. We started the month with a prayer week. We looked for God's will for this new year. We had an evangelism in Varfuri. As you know we started to proclaim the Gospel in this village last fall. We worked with a group of children and their families by visiting them at home. The Lord opened doors for us in school, kindergarten and city hall. We stopped the kids program when the winter came because we didn't have a proper place. During the summer we had our meetings outside. Then the mayor allowed us to use the community center for our meetings. After a while he allowed us to use the conference room in the city hall. So we organized our last evangelization in that conference room. We invited the kids and their parents. There were around 15 parents and 25 children. It was a great step for our ministry there because we managed to gather all those that we had been visiting individually. I had a message from Matthew 18. I told them how much God didn't want people to go in hell. "Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish."

I also talked about each parent's responsibilities. In the end we recommended a Bible study with the families. We are praying for this village. The adults were happy about the Bible study and wanted Bibles.

The youth from our church ministered in this village. They made friends with the kids, the teenagers and their parents. Through the Lord's grace we want to plant a church there.
This year we planned to have guests in church each Sunday. Praise the Lord. So far He brought some of the kids' parents (from non-Christian families) and other acquaintances of the members. Around 15 non-believers visited our church this past month.
Because each member made efforts to reach his family and acquaintances for Christ, a sister's husband confessed his wish to follow the Lord. He came for the first time to church on the last Sunday of January. His name is Vasile V. I visited with my wife this family the week before and we found out how the Lord had worked in his life. We visited him several times and urged him to follow the Lord, but he rejected Christ. But this past time was different. The past months he had two surgeries and a heart attack. All that time the Lord was working in his heart. So, it was a surprise for all of us to see this proud man confess his desire for God. He said nice words about his wife's testimony. How great joy it was for our sister who took beatings because of her faith for years! It was wonderful seeing both of them in church. This is the fruit of Christian testimony and unceasing prayer.

This past month I tried to get closer to several new families. I started an orchestra with a new generation of kids. As I had mentioned before 85% of the children who attend the church come from non-Christian families. After talking with some of their parents, they got closer to the kingdom. When will God call them into His kingdom?

For some time the Lord allowed me to make friends with a young man, namely Adrian. As he got to know me, he opened up to the Gospel. I had several good discussions with him. He is very close to the kingdom. Please pray for him to have a personal relationship with God.