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Sunday, 20 December 2009 21:27

By the Lord's grace I continued to be involved in Patrauti de Sus village. Let me share with you the most important events of this month.

In my previous reports I told you about Elena F. who has a blind daughter and didn't have work. While she was attending our church we offered her a job to clean the church.  Elena was undergoing great trials and had to have an operation . The church raised some money for her surgery which was a success. Although she had been coming to church, she wasn't saved. Following this trial she understood the Lord's mercy and the following Sunday she confessed Christ openly. After she repented of her sinful life, she thanked the Lord for His salvation. This was an encouragement to me and the church as we prayed for for almost a year for her.

Regarding the church, we continue to pray in all pur meetings for revival in the village. We prayed for certain people while I continued to deliver evangelistic sermons. I also studied the subject of God's Grace and various things that relate to it. These are new things for me and the believers that I minister to. I urge the church to get involved in the worship time with poems, Bible verses, personal experiences, and songs. All of them are active and eager to serve.

This month we didn't organize children meetings because of the flu.

Because of the swine flu in our region all the children and students were quarantined in our country. This is a time when less people are on the streets. They aren't ready to open their doors to the Gospel. However, the Lord gave me some opportunities for sharing the Gospel with four young people. They were worried and had many questions about the virus that infested our country. I told them that the Bible shows us a more dangerous virus, the virus of the sin. I tried to awake their interest in the Scriptures. Two of them promised they would start reading the Bible. I gave them my phone number to call me when they had questions.

I attended three meetings with the missionaries and pastors from the region and one with the pastors from Storojnet county. During the meeting with the HeartCry missionaries we all shared about our ministries and prayed. We also made the decision to visit one another once a month to support the ministry.

The other meeting was a time when believers from 34 churches shared about their ministries. In Storojnet we prayed for our churches. It was encouraging for us. We prayed for the people of the Ukraine because of the great fear they had for three weeks because of the swine fever.

 

 
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