A day to celebrate.

What a day! At last a breakthrough. Today we saw the first person come to Christ on this mission. {and today saw a confrontation too}

I don't want to go into a lot of detail on the confrontation issue here but enough to say I have had concerns about him and felt something ought to be said. I'm glad to say I kept my cool in the face of some pretty silly and harsh accusation but what I said to this person I fear has gone in one ear and out the other.

Nothing, however, could detract from what God did today. We met a group of people in the valley area and I shared a testimony and the gospel with whoever would stay and listen {This is what I am really here for}. One young lady by the name of Narchissa listened intently and was holding back tears when she heard what Jesus had done for her. She was more than willing to give her life to the Lord. I went through the seriousness of the commitment she was going to make to ensure that she knew fully what she was doing and what was expected of her {I don't want to mislead people into the whole 'just say a prayer and everything will be ok' thing.} but she was still adamant that she wanted to do this so I had the chance to lead her to Christ.

Later on we visited a man called Robert Aorel. Again I had the chance to share the gospel with him after speaking with him and finding out where he stood and what he believed. We prayed together and as he can read and has a dvd player I was able to leave some literature, a new testament and a Jesus video with him. Robert is still struggling with the idea of having an assurance of salvation. I asked him to pray until he had an assurance from God.

Robert has a brother who is in prison and due to come out in two months. His name is Serban. A christian group has been working with Serban in prison and he has been going through a series of bible studies with them. Robert was very encouraged when I told him there are people back home in England praying for us and really wanted us to pray for his brother.

So today has been a fruitful day. It ended with some time with the young people of the Trinity church playing sports. Tomorrow I will be with pastor Radu at the Golgota church and doing some door to door ministry. On friday I will be part of a big concert his wife is putting on for charity. It is the first time she has done this and a number of notable people are attending. {The whole thing is going to be filmed as well and presented by a celebrity from Bucharest.} They have asked me to do a 10 minute evangelistic address. I'm not sure if this is actually going to be shown on tv?! Anyway, it's a great opportunity to share the gospel.

Yeterday's high point was sharing the gospel with a man in his home whose wife is a christian. His struggle is with why there is so much division and difference of opinion among those who call themselves Christian and how can he know the truth for himself. We had a good long conversation with him. They are mr and mrs Luca.

Points for prayer....
# For the religious leaders in the valley area. There are serious issues with legalism and a condemning attitude that is seriously hampering the work here. Something needs to drastically change.
# For Narchissa and her new found faith in Christ and for the group of her friends around her who heard the sharing for the gospel.
# For Robert that he would find an assurance of salvation and for his brother Serban who is leaving prison in a couple of months.
# For door to door work on thursday in Golgota.
# For the man I shared the gospel with whose wife is a christian. {The Luca family}
# For the big charity event on Friday and for hearts to be open to help other s and to the gospel itself as well as for the pastors wife who has never put on an event like this before.

Dumnezeu sa te binecuvinteze. {God bless you}