Ephesians 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of the Lord. This is the verse that Paul uses right before he starts writing about how we are to serve each other in our personal relationships. The first one of course that he brings up is the relationship between a husband and a wife. This was the text that Brian used at the wedding of Daniel and Any. Any was one of the girls that has been in placement with New Beginnings for the ~ 5 years and while off to school in Sibiu met Daniel. After a short period of time they got engaged and on August 10th Brian officiated his first official wedding in Romania. In Romania people have a civil ceremony first which Dani and Any had in Sibiu on Friday the 8th. They then traveled up to Bistrita for the Church ceremony and another reception. It was a beautiful wedding and everything went very well. The reception was fun with games and food. 
Brian followed that the next morning with a trip to cabana with a group of 14 teenagers for a few days. What a great time of staying up really late and playing cards and talking with these young men and women about God and what the bible teaches about him. In the evenings they worked their way through the story of Samson. Brian had a great opportunity to sit with a lot of the kids one on one and just talk to them about the things of the Lord and about life. There were a couple of friends that came that were raised orthodox but had no idea what a relationship with Jesus was about. One of the guys after the last couple of studies wanted to know m
ore about what Brian was talking about and had never heard the bible taught so simply to where he was able to understand what was being said. It was a totally awesome to see the Holy Spirit working in the guys life and see him interested in the things of the Lord. So Brian just shared with him from the Bible and his heart and prayed for him and encouraged him to come to church and check it out. Please pray for Claudiu that the Lord would reveal himself to him in a powerful way. That satan would not remove the seeds that were sown into his life. Finishing out this month we had a our church picnic and a church baptism. Both of these were great times to see the church get together for fellowship and celebrating someone making
a public statement of their faith.
Praise note:
The youth camp went very well and it was great to see the Lord working within individual lives in a very real way as they seek him.
Doru, which a young man that came and did not seem to interested at the camp has started coming to church and the monday study. Pray that the Lord would draw him into a real relationship.
Cipri one of the young men that has been coming for year was baptized this month. Pray that the Lord would continue to work in his life strongly and use him be a powerful witness to his family and friends around him.
Prayer requests:
- Prayer for Unity with the youth group that they would have one heart
- Pray for those that are involved in relationships with unbelievers to be submitted to the word and will of God.
- Prayer for Claudiu, Doru, Crine that God would reveal himself to them.
- Prayer for Dorina that God would use her to be a witness for him in her family
- Prayer for strength for these young people to really live for Jesus and want to make an impact in their generation.
- Prayer for Dorina Dad, he is getting better but still has a ways to go. Prayer also for the family.
- Logistics for the Fouts family coming back for a visit to the States this winter. The dates that we are looking at are Oct 31st Cynthia and kids will arrive in Portland Oregon, Dec 16th Brian will arrive in Portland Oregon, God has answered the first part of our prayer for this with a really good price on tickets. Please pray that the Lord would answer the second part this with the rest of the finances to come in for them.
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