The evening of street outreach for me was the point at which I felt I really got started here and today saw things go up another gear for me. It was a blessed day. This morning I was sent to one of the daughter churches in Golgota {in Galati}while Paul went to Braila {about 20 minutes journey away}with Alina to translate. The morning went well for all of us and was a really positive time. The pastor of the Golgota church is Radu Pascan who is agood man of God and also knows Daniella Gheorghe. He has a heart for his community to see people come to the Lord. I cannot tell you how much of a delight it was to minister in his church. We have heard so much religious politics and general nonsense that this is a welcome change {more than that actually}. I am hoping to work with pastor Radu in his community in my final week here and I was also invited back to preach in the evening service. Last night I only expected to preach once but God put two sermons on my heart. Now I know why. Both were a great encouragement to the church and it was a blessing to be with them.
The ministry in Braila went well. They took Paul by surprise by asking him to not only play music but to sing for them. Alina reports that the whole thing went well. Paul and Alina were in the main Trinity church during the evening {Paul was doing a concert} and I am told this went very very well. We even had a good afternoon as the trinity pastor invited the three of us to his house for lunch. We are all very tired but it has been a blessed day all round.
On 9th September pastor Radu's wife is putting on a charity event where she is going to perform {she writes and performs her own music}and I have been asked to share my testimony and the gospel with the people. It will be held in a theatre and it is apparently going to be a big event. Things have really turned out for good here.
This might be a good time to give a short testimony. There was a certain church who invited me to speak for them on sunday morning and kick Golgota into touch. They said they would speak to the trinity pastor to o.k it but I felt this was not right so I decided to go ahead with the original plan. Now I have spoken twice in one day at a wonderful church, have the opportunity of a week long evangelistic work in the area and to take part in a very good event on the 9th. The guys who tried to convince me to change my plans tried to bad mouth the Golgota church and say it is a dead work. {I have good reason to believe it is the other way around}. I'm so glad of God's prompting and leading in all this. I felt it would be unfair to pull out on them and that I should honour the appointment even if there were only three people there as I was led to believe {The church has more like 30 people and there are young men saved in the last few years playing a leading role.} This whole mission is starting to look like it has God's hand on it.
points for prayer.
# Thanks for God's leading, meeting up with the Golgota church and the opportunity for further ministry there.
# Pray for Paul as he leads the christian youth bible study over the next three days.
#Pray also for the youth evangelistic meeting on Tuesday night.
# There is a guy called Narchis who needs our prayers. I can't go into details but just pray for him as the Lord leads you. {Lets just say he needs a very big wake up call}
After the morning with the youth we are going to relax tomorrow in the countryside. The weather so far has been lovely and warm without being oppressively hot. I'm looking forward to it.
Thank you all for praying and keep praying. We've needed it and it's making a difference.
God bless you...steve
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