Greetings! I am glad to share with you once again our missionary activity from Bucovina.
This month was black and white. We tried to do our best within the ministry in Pasat. Some of the members understand the value of living for God, but not all of them. Because one of the men continues to drink, he is ruining our image in the village. I disciplined him, but that had only a short term effect. I am waiting to see how he'll behave. This was the black part of the ministry. Nevertheless, we received joys too. We visited and had a special fellowship with a new family. They were open to the Gospel.

There are seven friends who regularly attend the church. They continued to come in December as well.

Another thing that brought me joy was the visit that I made in two other villages. There is a great need for evangelism there. A ministry had started in one of the villages named Mihoreni, but it was abandoned after a year. The Gospel hasn't reached the other village of Bicesti yet either.

We visited seven families in Mihoreni and they received us well. One of the women even came to church. I want to gather a group to help me plant a church in this village. I want to find someone to take over this responsibility.

The second village is Bicesti. I didn't even know about this village until this year. This is a real challenge. I visited two families and had a special fellowship with them. This village was greatly touched by the communistic way of thinking. It is mostly an atheistic village. I didn't meet many atheists in other villages, but there are many in Bicesti. However, I saw their need for God.

The villages of Mihoreni and Bicesti are both in Herta county which is part of my planting vision. Both villages are between Pasat and Stanesti. I invested in the church in Stanesti the last part of the past year because this church has the greatest potential from our area of supporting a new work. For this purpose they need training. God helped me to do some things for them. I want to continue this training. Then we will start to do evangelism in the neighboring villages. We will get involved in these two villages, Poleana and Pueni.