January 2008 update

2Ti 2:15 Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
that was the goal of this month's pastors conference that we hosted in Bistrita. Last summer at foundations I had met with Andrew and we had been talking about ways to study the Bible and which ones are better then others. He brought up his study style which is using the IBS method for study preparation. For those of you who don't know what that it. Its stands for inductive Bible study. To put it simply you only use the bible for your preparation. No commentaries, other teachers, cd's etc. The more we talked about it the more that I thought it would be a great idea for him to come over to Romania and teach the pastor's here.
Schedules finally permitted Andrew to come over for a couple of days and teach us through this method. It was really different for myself and some of the guys who had never used this method but in the end I really like it a lot. In fact all of the guys were blessed with the training that we received. We ended up with most of the pastors for the two days and combined our monthly meeting while we were all here. We just want to thank Andrew again for his hard work and great heart.
Brian had the privilege of attending the senior pastors conference in Siegen this year again. The speakers were Joe Focht of Calvary Chapel Philadelphia, and Bill Gallatin the conference was amazing and a real blessing for all of the guys that attended. The main point that Brian was touched with was living an altered life as a pastor. An extra bonus was that they were able to drive out to the castle where Martin Luther translated the NT into German in 10 weeks. The castle was amazing the history absolutely fascinating.
This month we also managed to finish the painting in the whole house and replaced all of the floors in the two main rooms down stairs. For the last 3 years we have had flooring that was in desperate need of being replaced, lots of water damage and just years of hard usage had taken its toll on the floor. But this last month we received a donation to replace all of the floors and its been a lot of hard work but in the end it has been worth it and it looks great.