Here is Christina's group helping to serve the group from Zone 13 that we have been doing studies with every Thursday evening since July of this year. The lady in the middle is Donna who is a judge, she came to Christ by going through the "People who knew Jesus" study a couple of years ago. That is Mama Catie on the far right who is struggling with cancer but will not miss any of the Thursday meetings. She is very evangelical.
Roland made it for a little while and also brought a full box of oranges for us to pass around. He and I are going to Tulcea in the Morning to "kill a pig" for Christmas. The next blog should be full of interesting pictures! This is a Christmas tradition for the Romanians. Much like us killing a turkey at Thanksgiving.
It was great to have Matthew with us also.....I told a story about bringing our first born out of the Hospital that had the Romanians laughing!
This is Valireca who actaully gave me money to buy this fruit for the group. We were able to get three cooks to do the days work.....and they did great. For you that have been here and eaten at the church you know they can COOK! Counting everyone we had about 42 people. The group from Zone 13 brought 24 or so and we brought 18...it was great to combine these two groups and we hope to do more of this in the future.
We had chicken and pork and the main part of the meal but by the time everything else was added we were stuffed. By the time we added all the desserts we were stuffed.
During the meal the lights went out in the building. I used this as an illustration of how candles are like religion and better then completely living in the dark. But then when the lights came back on I said that we really don't need the candles any more just like after we come to Christ we don't need religion.
It is amazing how they sat and listened to every word spoken about Christ and the incarnation. From Luke 2 we told the Christmas Stroy. I was thankful for the Spirit's touch on the evening. It was a great night of fellowship with these Orthodox believers. They are very close to repenting and I believe some of them might have already.
This couple laughed alot, especially when I told them about our stress with our first born child. It was great to see the men show up to this meeting. They really did listen and seemed to have a great time.
This is Mehiella , Petru and Mehiella's mother, They are the only young couple in the group and are really special to me. I pray that this year we can get them in a group of people their own age. She is studying to be a lawyer and he wants to be an auto-cad draftsman. Her mother is always bringing someone to the group every chance she gets. She even tells her boss that she has to leave work early on Thursdays for the studies. He makes sure that he gets a full report each Friday.
This is Luminizta, (the blond on the right edge) the lady with the terminal illness. We lost her sister this year to the same illness. She is the lady that works at the Mayor's office and has connections to many villages. She is a real leader of this group. She is very educated and has a real strong belief in what we are teaching.....just has not repented yet.
Just getting starting with all the food. They cooks did a great job! It was such a pleasure to serve them in this manner. They fed us every Thursday so it was nice to return the favor.
You can see from Robert there in the front that it was a little cold. The heat didn't work that well but we did fine. I spent a few minutes encouraging them to follow Christ. I really felt the Lord's hand on the entire evening and was to thankful that this group has been to responsive to the teachings we bring them. I look for several to give their lives to Christ in the future.
We had chicken and pork and the main part of the meal but by the time everything else was added we were stuffed. By the time we added all the desserts we were stuffed. During the meal the lights went out in the building. I used this as an illustration of how candles are like religion and better then completely living in the dark. But then when the lights came back on I said that we really don't need the candles any more just like after we come to Christ we don't need religion.
It is amazing how they sat and listened to every word spoken about Christ and the incarnation. From Luke 2 we told the Christmas Stroy. I was thankful for the Spirit's touch on the evening. It was a great night of fellowship with these Orthodox believers. They are very close to repenting and I believe some of them might have already.
This couple laughed alot, especially when I told them about our stress with our first born child. It was great to see the men show up to this meeting. They really did listen and seemed to have a great time.
This is Mehiella , Petru and Mehiella's mother, They are the only young couple in the group and are really special to me. I pray that this year we can get them in a group of people their own age. She is studying to be a lawyer and he wants to be an auto-cad draftsman. Her mother is always bringing someone to the group every chance she gets. She even tells her boss that she has to leave work early on Thursdays for the studies. He makes sure that he gets a full report each Friday.
This is Luminizta, (the blond on the right edge) the lady with the terminal illness. We lost her sister this year to the same illness. She is the lady that works at the Mayor's office and has connections to many villages. She is a real leader of this group. She is very educated and has a real strong belief in what we are teaching.....just has not repented yet.
Just getting starting with all the food. They cooks did a great job! It was such a pleasure to serve them in this manner. They fed us every Thursday so it was nice to return the favor.You can see from Robert there in the front that it was a little cold. The heat didn't work that well but we did fine. I spent a few minutes encouraging them to follow Christ. I really felt the Lord's hand on the entire evening and was to thankful that this group has been to responsive to the teachings we bring them. I look for several to give their lives to Christ in the future. 
