Zechariah 4:6.... Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit saith the Lord of Hosts. We just returned from the annual foundations conference in Vajta, Hungary. In one word WOW, what a great time of spending time in the word, fellowship,prayer, and the breaking of bread. The speakers were Tom Stipe, the Senior Pastor of Crossroads church of Denver, John Chubik, Associate pastor for Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, Justin Gerry, The Senior pastor for Calvary Chapel Celje, Slovenia, Janos Nemeth, Senior pastor from Calvary Chapel Tatabanyam Hungary and Kurt Kula from Poland.
Everyone of the messages were both encouraging and challenging for all of us to really become completely dependent upon the
Holy Spirit for every aspect of our life. One of the messages that specifically impacted me the most was a message from John Chubik during the men's session. He was drawing our attention that while the theme of this conference was about the power of the Holy Spirit, 4 of the messages were specifically addressing prayer. He then began to share that prayer is what unleashes the power of the Holy Spirit into
peoples lives, situations, and needs. That through prayer we can start asking the Lord to work in our communities in ways that realistically is an impossibility for our churches.But that in prayer we can ask for God to get us ready and make it
happen. That our prayer time in our churches is in reality the life of the church. That it needs to be taken serious and passionately by us. Overall just a wonderful message to bring refocus.
The weather was not that great most of the week but by Thursday and Friday it had really heated up nicely so that we spend some time in the pool. The kids look forward to the pool every year and so they were not disappointed at all with us spending a couple of afternoons there.
Overall we had 28 people from our church attend the conference. All of them were extremely
impacted by the word and we are looking forward to what the Lord is going to do as he continues to work these messages into our lives.
The Month of June also signifies our oldest son Kaidon turning 6 which he has been extremely excited about since approximately January. Its very amazing to us to see our son continue to grow and become very much a young man.
Knowing that in a few more years he will be a teenager. We continue to keep him in prayer that the Lord would use him here in Romania as he grows spiritually. In many ways its amazing to think of Kaidon having the ability to truly crossover into a culture, for that matter all of our children as they grow up here and go to school here. They are truly a blessing from God and we get the privilege of sharpening these arrows to be sent out to where He would have them.
Prayer requests:
Pray for the our church to really make and impact in this small city and even beyond that
Pray for the equipping the saints conference July 9th-11th, the speakers are Andrew Mccall and Tom Valesco.
Pray for the body to be unified
Pray for the church to continue to grow in Faith, Hope and Love.
Prayer the our return visit to the states this winter. Specifically logistics
Prayer for a new building to meet our needs
Prayer for the teams that are coming for safe travels and logistics.
Prayer for the harvest, that the Lord would soften the soil of people's heart.
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