August 2007 Update

Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. That was the theme verse from where Brian shared with the 250 people that showed up for the Down to Earth Tour. We were extremely blessed by the turnout for the concert in Bistrita. All of the musicians were fantastic and entertaining. Melissa Bent opened the concert and really surprised all of the Romanians by leading them in worship songs in their own language. The crowd really seemed to react positively to all of the bands clapping and participating in the fun. It was a lot of work to set up for the concert and make sure that everything was ready, but in the end it went over very well, with no real problems with the exception of one drunk during Brian's message that was yelling. But with help, Nicu one of the Romanians in the church, quieted the man down and did not distract anyone. To say that we were extremely excited about everything that went on that weekend is an understatement. We moved the church to a different building for Sunday to accommodate all of the Americans and anyone else who might show up from the concert. Melissa Bent led worship for us and Kelly shared
a message from Ephesians 2. We then had a church potluck afterwards with all of the church and American team enjoying all of the great Romanian food. What was even a more awesome experience was to have Jeff Anderson and Phil Wickham singing in our house and everyone in the church and the team were gathered around the main entry room with people spilling into the other main room to just sit and listen to some great artists sing and play their guitars. The team was only here a short couple of days but we had a great time with them and it was neat to spend some time with all of them.

After resting for a week we took 22 teenagers and college age up to the cabana for a couple of days. The weather was perfect with sunny hot days and cool evenings, with a couple of really neat lightening and thunder storms to watch also. Brian shared some lessons from the life of Joseph and was able to spend a lot of time just encouraging everyone in their walks with the Lord and being sold out completely for Jesus. Everyone was sad that it was only for a few days so next year we may have it for a week and move the retreat to a nearby lake.














Coming down off of the mountain with the college age we took another group back up for the kids camp ages 7-14.

Cynthia and I also had the pleasure of celebrating our 8th anniversary this August. Although with all of the things going on in August we are more likely going to actually celebrate it in September by taking a few days to get away.





Prayer Requests:

• Prayer for the new Foundation Class that is going to start in Oct 2007

• Prayer for the The Women's Tea Sept 22nd
  

• Prayer for the the church to grow in Faith, Hope and specifically Love in a greater way.
  

• Prayer for a digital projector

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

• Prayer for the key to the city of Bistrita
  
  • For the Lord's guidance on effective outreaches into the community
  • Prayer for ways to love people in very practical ways
  • Prayer for the training that we are going to start soon for those in the body who want to know how to effectively share the gospel with those around them. That the Lord would place on the right people hearts in the church.

• Prayer for Vasi to find a job

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