April, May Update 2008

Hristos Inviat, this a common greeting this time of the year. We celebrated the orthodox easter this year on April 27th. Its amazing to see all of the life that is starting to come up after a long cold winter. The flowers are in full bloom and the land is full of color where ever you look. It was a real blessing to see new faces in the church. To be able to share the celebration of the Lord's resurrection to a country that is in desperate need of Joy. The message this year was out of 1 Corinthian 15 Christ's victory our victory. I was able to share that our victory over, death, sin and the law is found in Christ. We followed church up with a nice meal that Cynthia had prepared for the family. In April we also celebrated Sage's 2nd birthday with our friend Chloe who turned 3. We invited some friends over and enjoyed some cake and snacks. Cynthia is adding to her skills in making special fancy cakes for the kids. Sage's cake looked a like a wrapped gift box. She got a new tricycle, water doodle pad and pen, and a doll from Spain via Natalie. 

In the month of May we had the Romanian national conference. To say that it was a blessing would be a understatement. We had guest speakers, Brian Broderson, Ken Sutton, and Phil Metzker come and share on the theme of Joy Unspeakable. The People were really blessed and we had a really good turn out for the conference. I think that final number was ~130 people. We just want to thank all of you for your prayers about this event, because everything ran fine and pretty smoothly despite finding out that we lost more beds than we had anticipated. Every church took turns working with the kids and everything came together really well. The fellowship and spending time with people that you only see once a year sometimes was priceless. It felt just a like a family reunion in seeing familiar friendly faces. We can't wait until next year.

Praise report:

We purchased a projector finally praise the Lord.

Praise for a great conference

Prayer request:

For the Lord to Guide the church into effective outreaches into the community

Prayer for the ministeries within Romania for all of the changes

Prayer for the equipping the saints conference in Bistrita

Prayer for the Fouts' visit home this fall. That all of the finances & logistics will fall into place.

Prayer for the congregation to have a greater understanding of a Gospel of Grace

Prayer for unity within the body of Christ