Truth Training Towels and Tears

Here is our God Squad! We met yesterday July 12th. We had another great time talking to LOST people about Jesus. This team went out in the Valley (Zone 6) everyday from 2 to 4 working toward finding some more people for Bogdon to do studies with. They were armed with the TRUTH and went out with expectation in their hearts. This is a great group of people and I am very proud of Bogdon and Mihia who have risen to the occasion and become real leaders. This is really the first time we have been able to use the Z6 Small Group Training Center with a team and it was nice. The team knows there is something special about this picture....do you see it? Roxanna who just came to Christ on the 10th is now part of our team! She went out with us as a Born Again believer. This is a BIG part of our strategy. The traditional church waits and waits and waits and waits and waits .......well you get the picture! I understand that the catechism class Bogdon is in to be baptised into the traditional church has gone from 23 candidates down to 9 and they still have the interview with the pastor coming this week. A couple more will probably be sorted and sifted out of the original group. We will see if Bogdon and his mother make the cut! Pray for them this week. In all fairness there is a great chance that some of the 23 weren't even repenters BUT we must be careful not to hurt the wheat as we pull up the tares.....much better to let them grow together until the harvest in my opinion.

Here is one the a new families that we picked up this week. They were so attentive to the studies and want to do more. I will personally work with the three young men over in the training center. The grandmother is so sweet and really has a great deal of faith in God already. She wants to learn more. Rosmarie and Evelyn were prayer partners in this study and were amazed at the receptiveness of this family to the Bible Study.

Mihia, Zach and Bogdon's father. Bogdon's father is the one who let us rent the building he is not a believer and Zach tried to explain the Gospel to him and found out that this man is very confused! Pray for Nicholie as we would love to see him come to Christ! Thanks Zack for your faithfulness and preparedness to work some seeds into this man's heart.

Here is Roxanna translating for us with some more that we are trying to lead to Christ. The lady in the chair is the one that was in the horrible car wreck two months ago. She now is serving God and gives Him credit for saving her life. She is Danuts, KOT's niece. The one that we prayed the Lazarus prayer for and God brought her out of the coma that day.


Yesterday we had our first group meeting in the Zone 9 apartment. This is the group of ladies that will help me start the cell church in this area of town. We moved this group out of the church and into Zone 9. We will systematically study the Second Reformation and begin to use it as our play book. We also picked up Pastor Ovie's nephew to be our administrator connecting the workers with the work. This was a special day for me as a leader. They are following and being a big help. We start our second group in Holy Trinity this Sunday. Pray for us to keep learning and developing this according to God's Spirit looking for a new fresh style of church that transforms lives....not one that traps sinners in a web of tradition and legalism.

Cornel, another new believer...our first convert from Zone 9 ...Zack and I ran into an Orthodox Priest. We started to talk with him and Cornel who is still Orthodox told him the Baptist are teaching more about the Bible the you guys. "Do you have a Bible study?" he asked. The priest said yes...invited him to it....touched his head three times and gave him some Holy Towels. Well, Cornel DID NOT like the three taps on the head....wanted to retaliate right there but the HOLY SPIRIT kept him from it ..gave me the holy towels and then well Lanny got a hold of the holy towels and started a puppet show with them. Then brought our new convert into the charade until I finally had to end it with some form of respect for the concept of religion, something that has escaped my dear friend LANNY who has no sense of living in a box at all. May God give my brother a clear understanding of how wrong it is to take holy towels from an orthodox priest and begin to do a "squeaky voice" puppet show in front or our new converts!






Well it is 7:38 and I have to pick up the team at the Hotel in just twenty minutes. Needless to say that we had a tearful time of departure. Bogdon and Mariana could not hold back the tears as others also were so sad that this week was over. Bogdon was telling my on the way home that he now knows what Jesus meant when Jesus said, "I want to give you abundant life!" The tears of joy and sadness. It was a great month as Lanny and Whitney have been here the entire month, Pastor Jay and his beautiful family stayed two weeks, three teams from Cameron. Thanks FB Cameron you have made this missionary very, very happy and I priase God for you from the bottom of my heart! You all have a safe trip home and please share all that God is doing here in Galati with everybody you can to Him be the Glory and Honor for ever and ever......well it is now 7:51 I have nine minutes to get your team "Pastor Jay" thanks for getting me hooked on blogging ....now I have even less time to do the work of the Lord! They use to do clogging in Missouri now they are all blogging!

I don't have time to make sure the text lines up with the pictures so have fun sorting it all out...