We are very thankful to the Lord for giving us very good weather this past month so we could continue going on the campus with our little Christian literature table. The Lord has given us good opportunities to share the gospel with people who stopped to take a New Testament or a booklet. One day, very soon after getting there a guy stopped and we started a conversation with him. He asked some questions and he listened very, very carefully. Although he seemed very interested in spiritual things and willing to listen to what we had to say, as I tried to move the discussion towards the gospel, he kept giving me philosophical explanations. After he left I was a bit disappointed because I did not get to share the Gospel with him. Not long after that another guy stopped, threw his cigarette near our table and started looking at the books smiling. I did not start a conversation as I thought he was going to mock us. I thought he would soon leave. But to my surprise he didn'. So I started a conversation and found out that he was not religious and did not believe that Jesus really had performed miracles. Nevertheless, he stayed and listened carefully as I explained the Gospel. When I said that people were looking for fulfilment in all the wrong places, he immediately asked: "Give me some hints about that!" Then I shared about Jesus who said He was the living water, and the bread of life, and the only One able to fulfil us. Usually I do not speak about fulfilment when I share the gospel, but I believe the Lord led that conversation. At the end he said he had had disappointments lately in his life. And he said: "It is weird. Lately many things connected to God have happened to me. Yesterday, I met a theology student, today I walk by and here you are with New Testaments..." I told him that "God wants to speak to you and this is why these things are happening to you. He took a New Testament and some booklets and I encouraged him to read them. Please pray for this guy Razvan. I know Satan is so eager to still the seed the moment they leave and go their way, and it takes a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit to cause in them the desire to seek God and read His Word. Sometimes we are amazed at their interest while talking to us, but then when we try to contact them and invite them to other events they do not want to come. I am sure that in some cases they talk to a family member or to a friend and they tell them, "do not have anything to do with those cults!" Please pray for all the students who heard the gospel and took a New Testament. Please pray that the Lord would give them saving grace!

An encouragement to us in our ministry this new University year is the number of new students who the Lord has brought lately. Some of them show eagerness in growing in their faith which is a tremendous joy for us. We are trying to start new discipleship groups with them and need wisdom in doing that. We need a lot of discernment in knowing what the students need. A great concern is that some of the students, even though they profess faith, are not genuine believers. They consider themselves Christians because they have attended an evangelical church since they were born. Please pray that the Lord would convict those who are not saved of their sin and need of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. Please also pray that the Lord would bring to our student group those He wants here. This month we attended the national student conference and many of our students were encouraged to evangelize. Even on the train back home some of them started practicing what they had learned and witnessed to the passengers!

At this conference I discussed with a girl who came in October to our group. She comes from an Orthodox background and the Lord started working in her heart some time ago. It seems that she was converted last summer. As we talked she told me she had planned to be baptized next month, but she changed her mind as her family opposed her decision. Her mother encouraged her to start going to the Orthodox church instead of the Baptist church. She was very troubled and confused as her mother's opinion was very important to her. I tried to explain to this girl that following Christ is not about belonging to a denomination. I said it was vital to be in a church where the true gospel is preached and where the people are genuine believers. I told her that Satan was trying to hinder her growing in the Lord. In the Lord's providence, one afternoon the two of us and Ioana, a new believer, who also came from an Orthodox background, spent some time together. We talked about many things, and at a certain point, they started talking about the Orthodox church. Ioana shared with her many things that are against the Bible in the Orthodox church. It was wonderful that this girl could hear these things from a person who was in the Orthodox church! Please pray for her to be protected from Satan's attempts to separate her from true believers and true gospel teaching.