I met a great guy the day before yesterday at the Pastors meeting. He is Petreka who is a church planter in Braila county. He knows where every church is, how many members, if they meet in a building or house or room. He has a great heart to reach out but is extremely overworked. We went down the list of needs, the number one need...they need a plan! I am praying that we can move the Galati Plan to Braila and begin the work of training a couple of church planters over there. Here we are sitting in the Vision Room that now has maps of Romania and the city of Galati. Please pray that God will maximize this new friendship for his Glory! He is a law student and the manager slash chaplin at the medical clinic located in the church and does full time church planting activities.
After doing lesson five which is about the need to be Born Again, Chiprean prayed to accept Christ. He might have some shakey motives..(nuff said) but I pray that God showed mercy on his soul! He listened to the thirty minute testimony of a former Orthodox Priest who also gave his life to Christ. After the testimony he said, Every thing he said about the Orthodox is true. It is just tradition with no meaning. Pray for him as we continue to concentrate on making disciples. He will continue to do the lessons.
This is the map in the vision room. LOOK at the valley. The pink flags represent all the houses that we have a welcome invitation in. I think it is over twenty with some representing multiple families. It is probably more like fifty families with well over 150-200 people under the possible outreach potential. We praise God for one convert but this really is incredible what is happening down there....praise God and all the Glory goes to him. I think it is amazing that this was the product of SBC teams from America coming three years in a row to just say Hi and be apart of their lives while teaching simple lessons to lost people. God is so good to allow us to see this happen from nothing to this in just three years!
This is our prayer room...we just put the chairs in yesterday and had a powerful time of prayer with the brothers that operate the boys home. See the cusions under the chairs....for your knees!
I pray that we have a great out pouring of God's Spirit in this room when people leave the Vision room next to it and realize the great need for new churches in our region. Galati was just noted as the largest city with the fewest number of EV churches in all of Romania. This is why I believe God brought me to Galati and He has been so very gracious to show us how we can do church planting in a different way that concentrates on the lostness and not just keeping all the rules!
