" Teach me how to do your will..." Psalm 143:10

     I invited some of my friends from college to the program on Sunday nights and I wasn't expecting them to come, but they came . And after the program they told me they've never seen something like that before . They said we are so different , in a very good way of course , and they said they felt better there than going to a concert or something like that . I was encouraged by that, God is working .
    These two past weeks were very busy for me , we had so many things going on at the church and I had to study a lot for school and many times I felt exhausted , but at the end I can see the results and I can see the people's joy coming from what we're doing for them , and it feels so good .


   Three weeks ago, we had a concert . Cristi Golas talked with a christian band and the were willing to come and perform for the Roma people . There were many people, lots of kids and teenagers and they really enjoyed the music . For me , honestly, the music was kind of different from what I'm used with , but it was ok .I think God worked that night and He touched lots of hearts
   

Last Sunday at the kids program we had to reward the best kids there and we prepared lots of gifts for them . They were so happy .

we also had to choose our best soccer players and give them prizes ,
these are our best players, we gave them soccer shoes and soccer balls .

Pastor Cristi giving diplomas to kids

Yesterday and today I had the opportunity of going and downloading big trucks filled with New Testaments in Bucharest . Me and two other guys from the church went there with a van and took few thousands of New Testaments for the people in Pitesti . It was great .

This is Laurentiu, one of the guys from the church

me

we spent four hours moving boxes from one truck to another

Prayer needs 

- my spiritual growth

-my family

-for the church in my hometown , in Bircii

-for my friends that came at the program 

-support raising

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Starting to adapt...

   Last Sunday, after the service , the youth group was asked to say few things in front of the church, and everybody had to say something . And it came my turn to say something, and I said that I am very thankful to God for being the church in Pitesti , and even if I'm not a part of their family yet, I'm glad to be part of their ministry . Before I left, a man came to me, and he said the next words : " I want to tell you something, I already see you as part of our church and our family , and we are blessed to have you here " , that was all that he said, and he left . It was amazing for me, I just stood there and think a few moments at what he said . It was so amazing because I really needed to hear something like that , God is awesome , and he He never stops to amaze me .
   I invite you to view some few pictures to see what's been going on lately in Pitesti and also in Bircii ( my hometown )


  Prayer requests :
  - I want to start with my spiritual needs, sometimes I feel like being blocked spiritually and I need to spend some more time in reading the Scriptures and praying .
  - the church in Bircii
  - my adapting here in Pitesti, so that I could start feeling like part of the church here
  -my parents, they have a hard time now, my dad is trying to find another job, because he has a bad boss, he's accusing my dad of stealing and cheating all the time and my dad doesn't feel like keep on taking all the lies and accusations .

    I invite you to view some few pictures to see what's been going on lately in Pitesti and also in Bircii ( my hometown ) :
 

In Bircii we had Thanksgiving, all the
people brought vegetables and fruits
and the youth group decorated the church
very nicely

I think this picture was made by Paula Roberts, I love this picture

The children singing, the one in the left , the taller guy is my brother, and the
 one in the front with blue jeans is also my brother

Ron and Pavel preaching

the youth group in Bircii

Sunday school with Paula Roberts and Monica Nicolae

I helped Ron with his work on the
house , he's amazing, he just built his own
house . Maybe I can do that too , one day.

This is my apartment in Pitesti . Ron had this great idea that all the youth
from Bircii that are in Pitesti for college should meet once a week for a bible
study and he was willing to be our teacher . 

Pitesti Bible study group 

The soccer ministry with Roma kids is going great . It's just me and Florin Soare and another guy from the church that take care of this , but it's going great . The day I took the photos it was so cold , but all the kids came, it was amazing.

they like pictures very much

This is Marius

The interesting thing is , if you can see , there's no leader in
this group , I was taking pictures , Florin was doing something else,
and the other guy I think he as talking on the phone . The kids, by
themselves started to warm up , it was the first time when we
didn't have to yell at them and to try to put them together in a circle

That;s Florin Soare , the other I.M. missionary

Cristi Golas ( the pastor from the church in Pitesti ) decided to start a youth
group in Raboieni ( Roma neighbourhood ) and he asked me to help him with this,
we meet every  Thursday night .We have games and music and we do Bible
study with them . 

   

some of them playing foosball