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Friday, 13 May 2011 18:30

We had a blessed time in the ministry this month. God blessed us with a few partnerships with churches from Romania. They will be helping us here. One of them will deal with the youth ministry. A team of people from Romania helped us organize a special youth service where 60 people attended.

Another good partnership is with people from Suceava. They have only visited us twice but they want to help. They already assist with the preaching. There are already eight churches from Herta and Hliboca. I invited people from Suceava to preach in all three churches I work with. We would like them to be able to help several churches in the future. They usually help us to organize evangelistic services in several villages and help us with the youth ministry and starting up a choir.

We had  evangelistic services in the churches I minister but no unbelievers showed up. We have a plan about that but I will share more with you later.

It is a strange situation here. The churches seem to have fallen asleep. People come to church but nothing happens. The ministers try to challenge them but it is still the same.

We don't have a youth ministry yet in the three churches I work with.  This is why we have not had any projects for them so far. But starting this summer, we want to do something that encompasses this age category. I have noticed that most people from the churches are older and the young ones are no longer interested. I have to do something to motivate the young people to come to church and be active. Young Christian people respect me and I will take advantage of this thing and motivate them to be involved in the ministry.

There is a young man, my disciple, that will assist me with the ministry starting this month. He has come with me before. We intend to get together once a week to have fellowship. Pray for him to be serious about this decision as he is still very young. His name is Roma.

Nothing extraordinary has happened in the church but we continue to read and study the Word together. We started to study about spiritual maturity in Pasat and Molodia.  Things are a little different in Grusevca.  Due to the fact that the people there were a little influenced by Pentecostal teachings, we had to study about maturity and correct the mistakes.

Several pastors from Arad invited me and a few other pastors to come and spend some time there  
over March 23-28. We visited eighteen churches and talked about the ministry and its needs here. I
personally preached in eight churches and shared a testimony at the local Baptist High School. I
was also invited to two Christian radio broadcasts. We had a good and beneficial time there because we shared some of our experiences and also made new friends. We hope we'll work together in the future. We found pastors who would like to help so we can take the gospel to as many Romanian people from the Ukraine as possible.

 
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