April 2007 Update

Ephesians 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the Fear of God.

This month Brian had the great pleasure of ordaining Adi Blaga as an assistant pastor for Calvary Chapel Bistrita. Adi has been serving in Bistrita for many years and in various capacities. With the changes that are being implemented in New Beginnings and with the growing need in the church Adi will be overseeing the development of the children's program for Calvary Chapel Bistrita. He will be organizing the summer camps for the kids and looking to develop a good core group of Sunday school workers for the Calvary Chapel Bistrita children's program. Brian is excited about this new season in Adi's ministry and looking forward to seeing the fruit from his hard work.

The main changes that are happening in New Beginnings is the addition of a new administrator from America. Chris and Faith along with their two children Levi and Chloe have come over to take over administrating New Beginnings. Chris has a lot of experience in this area and we are excited to see what the Lord is going to do through Chris as he learns his job in the Romanian setting.

This month was also a blessed time of celebrating the resurrection of our lord Jesus Christ. It was exciting to see some new faces show up Sunday morning to receive the Word. It could not have been a more beautiful spring day. There is nothing quite as inspiring then waking up to the sound of church bells ringing throughout the city. It just makes it that much more special to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior.



One big answer to prayer this month is that we received our approval from Bucharest for our religious association. With the new law that was signed in January we were not sure if we would get the approval but the Lord took care of it as always, so we are continuing in this process here locally. The tough part is done now. We want to thank all of you for praying about this matter as it proves that no matter what the world has planned God is sovereign.


This month we managed to hold the 1st annual marriage conference for Calvary Chapel Bistrita. We took a few nights to study in depth marriage the way God intended it along with focusing on the roles of a husband and wife. We had a few couples come and participate along with some new people. We also had a good showing from the youth. We are hoping, Lord willing, to make this an annual spring event and that more people step up to work on building their marriages up.



This month we also celebrated our youngest girl Sage's 1 Year birthday. It turns out that her birthday is within a day of Chloe, Chris and Faith little girl. So we combined the parties and celebrated both their birthdays.

Praise Report:

• We received our approval from Bucharest for religious association. We now have to work through the process here locally.

Prayer Requests:

• Prayer for the August 11th Concert outreach in Bistrita.

• Prayer for the rest of the process to register our religious association in Bistrita would go without any problems.

• Funds for replacing the roof on the ministry house.

• Continued healing for Leana and her mother from the car accident

• Prayer for the the church to grow in Faith, Hope and Love

• Prayer for a digital projector

• Prayer for the Romanian General conference in May 21-25

• That the Lord would use the little church as a light to the city of Bistrita

• Prayer for more workers for the Harvest
  

• For the Lord's guidance on effective outreached into the community

• For the Youth to catch on fire for the Lord

• That the new believers would be grounded in the Word of the Lord