What's been going on

Hey everyone! Just thought I'd write an update on how things have been going. Well as you know we've been doing Awana club for about almost 4 weeks now. We have about 30-40 kids that come that we split up into two groups and one group come on Tuesday and one on Friday. 8 of the kids have earned their uniforms and handbooks. We've also been doing some extra English tutoring for the kids on Thursday. The time originally was from 2:00-4:00, but we had so many kids we had to do an extra group from 4:00-6:00. Today Irina's youngest sister is coming from Iasi to stay in Valcea for a week to help us with Awana and English. Her help will be Greatly appreciated. In two weeks we leave on vacation for 5 days and while we're gone Cristi is going to get some of his brothers to come help with the English and Awana Programs.

Our church attendance has been kinda low lately. Three Sundays ago we had 2 or 3 people come and the past two Sundays just one. That's a big difference of the 16-18 we had 4 or 5 weeks ago, but God is good and he has a plan!

Well that's about all we have going on at the moment. I'll try and put up a new post next week, in the mean time keep us all in your prayers!

Awana Club!

Hey everyone! As you may know we started up Awana club today! We had 29 kids present out of the 31 that signed up. Today we just went over the rules, gave them there entrance books, and played some games. They seemed really excited about getting the uniforms, awards, and (most of all) the Awana money. Since the group is so big we will be splitting up into two groups, one on Tuesday and one on Friday, from 2:00-4:00. Like in the states we'll have something fun once a month like crazy hair day, crazy sock day, or something like that. For the first day i think it went very well and I hope that, even though our space is limited, our numbers grow. Either next week or Friday I'll try and take some pictures to post up on the blog so everyone can see what's going on.

Also tomorrow, Wednesday, we will be starting our adult english courses once a week from 7:00-8:00 and on Thursdays we will have english for the kids from 2:00-4:00.

Everyone remember us in you prayers!

Check out the new Blog In Romanian!

Hey everyone I've gotten Anca to translate the blog so on the right side you should see a Romanian flag to click on and this will take you to the Romanian site. All future Blog post from here on will be written in both English and Romanian. We'll have some new post in a few days! Keep us in your Prayers!

The Blog is now in Romanian and English!

Hey Everyone! I Just wanted to let you know the blog is now in Romanian too! You'll find the translate button on the Right hand side column. The Google translator does it and Yes I know it's not the greatest translation but at least everyone will be able to understand it. Hopefully I can get Anca to come and translate it correctly for us so you won't need to use Google Translator.

Sunday!

Hey everyone! Today is Sunday and as some of you may know Cristi and Irina are on vacation in Turkey. Since Cristi wasn't there to preach today we had Mike Babcock delivering the message with his wife Elvira translating. I thought Mike did a really good job with the passage he taught from, 2 Timothy 3:16. In the passage it says:

All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness

Mike gave an illustration that I thought was a good analogy. He said "some people view Heaven as a place on top of a mountain and that there are many ways to reach the top. This doesn't agree with what the Bible says though. The Bible says that there is only one way to heaven and that way is Jesus Christ". This is so true but so hard for many people to understand. Many people say or think they can get to heaven if they do more good than bad in their lives and can get to Heaven on works. Of course we know this not to be true and we know that the Bible says that our works are like filthy rags to God and that there is no way to get to Heaven by works. I thought Mike did a great job want to thank him for his time and effort.

This Morning we had 16 or 17 people attend our service and we hope for even more in the future. The area that we really need more attendance in is our Sunday afternoon youth meetings that are for teens from ages 14 to 18 on Sunday afternoon from 5:00 till 7:00. If you know anyone who wants to come just invite them and tell them to call me at 0788254664 and I can meet them in front of the Nr. 9 school so they can come. Anyone from 14 to 18 are welcome!

Oh and one more thing tomorrow I'm going to try and get the blog translated into Romanian so that everyone can read it!

Whats been going on.....

Hey everyone just thought I'd give an update to whats been going on and what we have planned. We just finished up our homework help, the English program, and had our Skit(with the kids from the English class)for the parents. We had about 110 people or so come and this gave us an opportunity to gather all those people in one room and share the Gospel with them. I feel like it went well and we had a great opportunity to share Christ's love with others. I've already posted some Photos and Videos of the Program and skit we had, if you want to see more you can look there.

Now here's a list of things we have planned and want to do in the future. We will be starting the homework help back when school starts. On June 16th we will be starting our Awana program and we will have it two days a week, on Thursday and Friday, from 2:00-4:00. On June 17th we will start our summer English program for kids on Wednesdays also from 2:00-4:00. We've had quite a few adults ask us if we were doing adult English classes, we haven't been unfortunately, but starting June 18th we will be doing adult English tutoring every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 p.m. We also want to do more street evangelism and maybe some skits. We haven't been doing much evangelism lately because Cristi broke his foot back in February/March and it's hard to do without a translator but, Cristi is doing much better now and can walk on his own two feet so we should be getting to do some street evangelism soon!

We're really excited about the new English and Awana programs that we can use as tools to help share the Gospel with others. We have about two weeks of down time left until we start all of these new things then after that it's busy, busy so be in prayer for us, Cristi, and Irina as we get ready for this summer.

Our english Program

English Program

Our English program

Here's the videos of our English program we had

My new blog

Hey everyone this is my new blog and in this blog i want to write about whats going on here with us in Rimnicu Valcea. Keep reading in the future for more post!