September 2009 Update

We started the month with a leadership retreat for all of the Calvary's in Romania. The location was in the city Oradea which is on the border with Hungary. The Guest Speakers this year were Ken Sutton from Calvary Chapel Everett and Ed Hickey a Calvary pastor from Canada. Ken started the sessions off by teaching on the need to filled and continually refilled by the Holy Spirit for the work that the Lord has for each of in our respective cities where he has planted us. Ken was emphasizing that we what don't need is better programs or nice facilities but simply the power of the Holy Spirit. One thing to really stuck out to me was the fact that we can be gifted and dynamic in everything that we do. But if we do not do those things by the power of Holy Spirit nothing eternal happens. Ed Hickey complemented Ken very well by teaching about biblical leadership from a more hands on practical side of things. The place that we stayed at was extremely nice and relaxing for our families to stay and have fun. In fact we are going to try to hold the National conference for all of Romania

in the Spring at the same place. Overall the teaching was very good and there was a lot of time spent just crying out to God for each other and for our cities and for the country of Romania.

This month also gave Brian that privilege of dedicating a new addition to the church family here. Paul Bozbich, the new son of Adriana and Vasi. His big sister Patri was very excited to be a big sister now and keeps busy being the big helper for Adriana while she is home.

We do have some sad news though at least for us. Meaghan Alverson who came over as a intern from Calvary Chapel Boise returned home at the beginning of this month. We are really going to miss having her here. She was a great help with all of the projects we had here and also giving our teachers time off from teaching Sunday school this summer.

Lastly school started up again. Kaidon is officially starting the 1st grade now and is very excited about going to big school and doing his homework although we need to remind him to just do what the teachers asks him to do and not jump ahead. He seems to be adjusting well to the differences from kindergarten and is already making new friends. Sedona is very excited to be in the large kids group for kindergarten this year and Sage is doing well in the small group.

Prayer requests:

Please pray for Ioana. She is a girl that Natalie works with and was hit by her boyfriend which broke her cheek bone. She is in Cluj currently for Surgery is not going to press charges against him. Please pray for us to have wisdom on how to help her. We are considering taking her in on a discipleship basis to help her grow spiritually and also for her protection.

Please also pray for Natalie and the work that they are doing with the Gypsy kids. There has been a huge scandel within that community due to us reporting to the police about some sexual abuse. They are threatening us because they are upset we would report it. Please pray for the Lord to calm the situation down and to protect all of those involved.

Please pray also for Cynthia's mom who is going through chemotherapy for cancer. Things are going well but its always stressful when you here cancer.

Please also pray for Natalie's foot as she is been having some chronic pain in it lately.

We also have an opportunity to purchase the property that we are currently using for the church. The purchasing price is 140,000 euros. We are asking prayerfully for those of you who would like to help us purchase this property to help in the following ways.

1) We would like to give 50,000 dollar down payment and set up a legal agreement to purchase the house.

2) We have 900 dollars a month currently we need to raise that support for the building another $1000 dollars so that we can buy the property completely in 5 years.

If you would like to help in this we would greatly appreciate it.