We are off to a great start here this week with First Baptist Cameron. I know they look like they are from Romania but they have come to help these nationals start a church in Zone 9 and that is exactly what is happening. This is a group from my Sunday morning class that is going out to find one person, ask one question and teach one lesson! The lady in the blue dress, blond hair wearing the glasses is the Lady I put in the car over a month ago. She is the one that we SAW get hit by the car and thought that she was dead. Now we call her 'miracle.' This was the first time that I have seen her since I visited her at the hospital over a month ago. It was so wonderful to see her, hug her, kiss her and also know that she has a story to tell to the people in Zone 9!
This is the group on the way out the door into the streets. Look at this army! We are truly blessed to have this team form Cameron with us. They reminded me of a commando squad when they all came marching into the apartment! Team #1 is led by Lanny Wake,(above) here in the orange shirt and back pack along with his daughter Whitney who is on her third trip to Galati and has a wonderful heart for the Lord. His team has already found enough people to begin lessons with. They are on lesson three with a small group next to the Hotel. I think nearly everyone has been able to have great encounters on the street and are amazed at the openness of people on the street. This group from Cameron is stepping out into total spiritual darkness and bringing the Light of the Gospel to people with NO HOPE! I challenged the team to go and try to find one repenter in Zone 9. There are 40000 people out there, "Good Luck" trying to find a true repenter!
This is Andrew leading us in some worship before we went to hit the streets. I dearly want to unleash his talents and put him out on the street but I know it will draw such a big crowd it may get us in trouble with my neighbors. I have to be careful!This is Alex helping with the worship. I didn't really give them much of a chance to prepare but they got us singing and united in spirit. It was great as it was the first time we have had instruments in our training center.
We fill up the apartment rather fast when everybody that works doing the street evangelism converges on the training center. This is my favorite part of the strategy. Seeing so many people together with like minds and like hearts to reach people for Christ. This is being led by nationals but the teams bring so much energy and focus to the plan. We love teams! Having them at the Hotel is a HUGE benefit and greatly increases our ability to reach this area of town.
I am so excited at how this training center provided by CCSBA is working to make my dream of having a "Cell Church" in Galati is working.
Here is Pastor Jay Raines, his son Joel, and myself on our way out to lead by example! We don't ask anything of our people that we won't do ourselves. We witnessed to over thirty people in just under two hours and also found one thirty year old man that wants to do lessons from the NBRC. Jay and Joel actually worked without a translator and had a great encounter with someone as a father and son. We have an appointment with him tonight at 6:00.
Showing the way! This was a very common site last night. Many people heard the Gospel. We sent out at least five or six groups that all spoke to several groups of lost people. So even in the modest of estimates our NBRC teams spoke to nearly 200 people in just under two hours.
Here is Christia, Cutalina and Karla speaking with several young people. The girl in the white was so excited to hear about Jesus it was incredible. She knew absolutely nothing about Jesus. This is across the street from the training center. Tracy Smart was also with this team but not in the picture. She is a second grade teacher back in Cameron and is with her son Caleb. It is great to see and hear what God is doing in her heart. They actually found a person we were working with in the valley that has moved to Zone 9. This lady lives only two buildings away from us. I truly believe with all of my heart that this is a move of God because it is focused on reaching the Lost for the Kingdom and nothing else. This is what it is all about. Amen, praise the Lord, hallelujah, may all the honor and glory and praise go to Him and HIM alone!
I am so thankful for Pastor Jay and Micele Raines who have been so incredibly supportive of our efforts here in Galati. Pastor Jay is truly amazing as he came four years ago with a team of three, scouting out work in Romania. This year Lanny, who came on that first team is leading team # 1, and Nacny who was also on that first team will be on team #3! Pastor Jay has gone from bringing three people to sending three teams of prepared, trained and fired up people. This is what missions is all about. On this team of ten we have Pastor's Jay's family, Lanny and his daughter Whitney, Tracy and her son Caleb Smart. So He is all about family and getting them involved in missions also. Jay is the very loyal grandson of Bill Davis, the founder and president of Church Starts International whose materials we use in the National Bible Reading Campaign. They were written by Ted Lindwall who has written and developed the 20 lessons that I LOVE to teach to these orthodox people. I am so thankful for the Church Starts International materials. I believe God has anointed these precious little studies and that they are the REASON we are making so much progress here in Galati.
We fill up the apartment rather fast when everybody that works doing the street evangelism converges on the training center. This is my favorite part of the strategy. Seeing so many people together with like minds and like hearts to reach people for Christ. This is being led by nationals but the teams bring so much energy and focus to the plan. We love teams! Having them at the Hotel is a HUGE benefit and greatly increases our ability to reach this area of town.
I am so excited at how this training center provided by CCSBA is working to make my dream of having a "Cell Church" in Galati is working.
Here is Pastor Jay Raines, his son Joel, and myself on our way out to lead by example! We don't ask anything of our people that we won't do ourselves. We witnessed to over thirty people in just under two hours and also found one thirty year old man that wants to do lessons from the NBRC. Jay and Joel actually worked without a translator and had a great encounter with someone as a father and son. We have an appointment with him tonight at 6:00.
Showing the way! This was a very common site last night. Many people heard the Gospel. We sent out at least five or six groups that all spoke to several groups of lost people. So even in the modest of estimates our NBRC teams spoke to nearly 200 people in just under two hours.
Here is Christia, Cutalina and Karla speaking with several young people. The girl in the white was so excited to hear about Jesus it was incredible. She knew absolutely nothing about Jesus. This is across the street from the training center. Tracy Smart was also with this team but not in the picture. She is a second grade teacher back in Cameron and is with her son Caleb. It is great to see and hear what God is doing in her heart. They actually found a person we were working with in the valley that has moved to Zone 9. This lady lives only two buildings away from us. I truly believe with all of my heart that this is a move of God because it is focused on reaching the Lost for the Kingdom and nothing else. This is what it is all about. Amen, praise the Lord, hallelujah, may all the honor and glory and praise go to Him and HIM alone!I am so thankful for Pastor Jay and Micele Raines who have been so incredibly supportive of our efforts here in Galati. Pastor Jay is truly amazing as he came four years ago with a team of three, scouting out work in Romania. This year Lanny, who came on that first team is leading team # 1, and Nacny who was also on that first team will be on team #3! Pastor Jay has gone from bringing three people to sending three teams of prepared, trained and fired up people. This is what missions is all about. On this team of ten we have Pastor's Jay's family, Lanny and his daughter Whitney, Tracy and her son Caleb Smart. So He is all about family and getting them involved in missions also. Jay is the very loyal grandson of Bill Davis, the founder and president of Church Starts International whose materials we use in the National Bible Reading Campaign. They were written by Ted Lindwall who has written and developed the 20 lessons that I LOVE to teach to these orthodox people. I am so thankful for the Church Starts International materials. I believe God has anointed these precious little studies and that they are the REASON we are making so much progress here in Galati.
