This was an awesome week for us here in Galati. God did his handy work one more time and showed Himself to be faithful. This is the prayer room where we prayed and at times we were so moved by the spirit tears were shed and His Spirit also cleansed us of our own sin. We had 100 NT on that table hoping to give them to people in Zone 9 this week. We found that the area was more open then last year and we believe it was the day of prayer that changed that for us. We had many great encounters and were able to enter one mans house. This is only the second apartment we have entered since beginning work there almost two years ago. His name is Mario so please pray for him. We did lesson one with him yesterday. We had many great encounters met Hindus, Muslims and of course many orthodox believers with the Gospel using SJWF.
Here is Yolonda, Bill, Marshall, Randy and Ed all in the vision room pointing to the target, Zone 9!
Here we are in the mobilization room talking about the things that were on our hearts. How to reach a lost and dying world, starting with Zone 9 and also how to reach Southeast Missouri with the Gospel.
Marshall, we have to go, we have to get people out of the church, we can't wait for them to come to us.....! His pastor was there on his right to keep him in line....Brush Creek sent a great group and made up more then half the team!
As a group we discovered that Christ is the head of the church..not us! He opens doors no one can shut and closes doors no one can open. So we learned to daily depend on Christ and not our own understanding. This was THE LESSON of the week and what a sweet lesson that is for those of us in the west that want to see things happen....RIGHT NOW!
Once again we had so many great prayer meetings I will never forget this because they were the first prayer meetings in our new location! You just want to pray when you get in there...you are truly in the Holy of Holies, next to the feet of our wonderful God and Saviour. We felt the presence of the Lord in ways that I have not experienced for a long time.
Thanks Cane Creek for sending the point people, the exploration group, the marines, those that will go and recruit the next squad. They left about 1 million people that don't know Jesus behind and now have a great responsiblity to pass on the need to others in Cane Creek. We are now focusing on trying to get a group started in Zone 9 as soon as the Lord will show us just HOW we are to do this. Please pray....- Highlights included
- Madalina working with the team and doing street evangelism just after being saved
- Our wonderful translators-Adriana, Carmen, Anda,
- Preaching in all four Baptist churches here in Galati and Braila-all baptist work combined
- Working with Golgotha again after two years away
- Using the Regional Training Center for the National Bible Reading Campaing for the first time
- Witnessing to Muslims that are refugees here from war torn Africa
- Finding some people who were very open to the Gospel
- Refocuing our efforts on Zone 9
- Meeting with Pastor Ovi was very encouraging
- Randy and I going to see Mr Sing at the Steel Factory finding out that he is NOT a born again believer as once thought and reported. He is Hindu...and needs to be saved.
- Seeing the humility in this group of pastors was very encouraging to me.
- Handing out about 45 New Testaments to people who first heard the Gospel through SJWF
- Discovering a new way to reach out to people in the concrete aparments, (jungle)!
- Use of the flip camera to do street interviews...very, very effective.
- Randy and Teresa stay here and didn't leave with the team.....
May God get all the Glory for what He did through our humble efforts this week!
