Our hearts are continually overwhelmed with gratefulness when we take a glimpse at what the Lord has accomplished this past month in our lives. We see God's kindness expressed in your generous support for us and our ministry in Brasov, Romania and Eastern Europe.
After the Christmas and New Year season, we gathered together as a team to pray and look into what the Lord has in store for us for 2011 and for the month of January. Our greatest joy would be that our Lord would return. In the event that He does not return this year, we are willing to work hard so that more people will be saved.

Our church in Brasov is doing well. We experience wonderful things in the process of establishing this new mission. More people have showed up each Sunday and some of them seem to be willing to join us. Simona returned from Austria not long ago and established residence near Brasov. She heard about our church plant from a pastor in Romania and called me. Next Sunday she plans on attending for the first time with her two daughters. They were in a church from Gratz, Austria, and now they are looking for a church to attend. We have also had some new students that attended the Sunday night meetings. One of them is Delian, who attended the conference in Brasov with Paul Washer, Don Currin and Cornad Mbewe.

The three elders of the congregation (Alex, John and I) continue to preach the Word of God. A particular interest is developing the prayer time more. We want to be a church of prayer to see God move among us in a powerful way.

The evangelistic efforts have been focused on young people this month. We held a youth meeting where our teenagers invited their friends from school to attend. It was a wonderful meeting. I gave my testimony, so the young people who are unbelievers could hear the Gospel for the first time.
The couple from our block which I witnessed to have started to regularly attend our meetings. They are very committed to come and seem to really enjoy the time of worship, prayer and preaching. I want to start a Bible study with them.

We continue to witness to the people in the neighbourhood. I talked with a lady called Rica, who is working in a small shop across the street. She is a committed Orthodox, but she does not attend any church. I invited her to come and attend our meeting, but she declined saying that she does not have time. I also talked with a few other neighbors from our block. Mr. Victor seems to be an open person. We have good discussions.

On the third week-end of January, I travelled with my wife to Bucharest where we had an appointment in the American Embassy for the passport change. We also visited Holy Trinity Baptist Church, the church where I was a minister for years. The same day, I traveled to one of the HeartCry missions to preach an evangelistic meeting. Sorin I., our Gyspy missionary in Rosiorii de Vede, invited me to preach in one of the evangelistic meetings they held for the week-end. It was a great blessing to see so many people that responded to the invitation to attend the service. One young lady who was an Orthodox made a decision for the Lord. She confessed her repentance before the congregation and the elders prayed for her. I praise God that we saw miracles of conversion after the preaching of His Word.

My wife continues to teach English to the son of her doctor. They have a meeting once a week. The young man is very curious and asks all kind of questions about faith, the Bible, and God. Trisha is happy to explain to him the faith, which is so unknown to him. His mother, the doctor, is a reformed Hungarian (historical Calvinist), but she is not a committed believer to this denomination. His father who is a professor at Transylvania University is a Unitarian. His son attends with him, but he does not believe that God exists. So, we believe that God has brought this young man in our home to help him understand the reality of faith. He is around 12. Please, pray that God will work in his heart.

The process of legalizing HeartCry in Romania continuess this month by obtaining some more paper work. We are about to come to an end of this process so we can have an identity that is recognized by the Romanian state in our efforts of doing ministry in Romania. This will also help with our church plant in Brasov.

We are doing well as a family. My wife enjoys the ministry in Brasov. She plays the piano in our meetings, which is a great blessing for our young congregation. We also have at least one guest each week. sometimes we have more. A major part of our ministry is hosting guests. We also invite many people from the city to visit us, as an opportunity to share the Gospel with them. Pray particularly for Vali and Simona, a couple that we want to bring to church.

Once again, we are grateful for you helping us and our ministry. What we are able to do here in Brasov, Romania and Eastern Europe is due to God's grace expressed in your prayers and your faithful support.