That's us. In the picture there. Team Romania. This picture was taken in February in Chisinau Moldova. Since then we've had one new member to our team, Donna Perry. For anyone who doesn't know, Moldova is the country to the east of Romania. Just to give you an idea of the place, they were given their freedom in the early 90's and followed that up with having the first free elections the country had ever seen. They elected a Communist President. The tallest guy in the picture, that's Igor. He lives in the Moldovan countryside. Every weekend he hops on a bus with a small bag, some food his wife makes him, and all the other people, chickens, and whatever else they fit on the bus and heads to Chisinau, the capital. He only lives around 300 kilometers away, but it takes around 6 hours for him to get there. For those of us who can't translate this into miles, it's maybe 180 miles. That means the bus is going an average of 30 m.p.h the entire time! The entire church there is filled with people like this. Just imagine a country where a police officer makes $250 a month!!! Imagine one of these people getting saved, and the glory God gets from this. It's amazing!!! Well, that trip was almost a month ago. We are now back to working in the Greater Grace International School. Keep us in prayer, many students are leaving for many different reasons. We know God has a plan, but we are sad to see them go. Now we look ahead to EuroCon '09 and for the first time ever, RomaniaCon '09. We missionaries coming from everywhere preaching for the week after EuroCon. Keep that in prayer as we have many other Christians not in our church who will be attending and of course many unsaved people. Also keep in prayer the Youth night every Friday which we just started a couple weeks ago. Last Friday we had 16 people there! This Friday, Mike Brown will be preaching, even though I don't think he knows it yet. Keep Mike and Pastor Shibley in prayer as they get here the Friday before EuroCon (this Friday!) and spend a few days with us. Keep Pastor Stan Collins, Pastor David Stambovsky, Istvan Pirger, and Mat Laflamme (just to name a few) in prayer as they are all planning to come to Romania after the conference and will be just a few of our speakers for RomaniaCon '09. I ask everyone to keep the team here in prayer, our health, spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental, our finances especially, and our new oppurtunities in ministry. Many exciting things happening here, we're so glad we get to be the vessel God uses. Until next time...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Mission Trip to Moldova
That's us. In the picture there. Team Romania. This picture was taken in February in Chisinau Moldova. Since then we've had one new member to our team, Donna Perry. For anyone who doesn't know, Moldova is the country to the east of Romania. Just to give you an idea of the place, they were given their freedom in the early 90's and followed that up with having the first free elections the country had ever seen. They elected a Communist President. The tallest guy in the picture, that's Igor. He lives in the Moldovan countryside. Every weekend he hops on a bus with a small bag, some food his wife makes him, and all the other people, chickens, and whatever else they fit on the bus and heads to Chisinau, the capital. He only lives around 300 kilometers away, but it takes around 6 hours for him to get there. For those of us who can't translate this into miles, it's maybe 180 miles. That means the bus is going an average of 30 m.p.h the entire time! The entire church there is filled with people like this. Just imagine a country where a police officer makes $250 a month!!! Imagine one of these people getting saved, and the glory God gets from this. It's amazing!!! Well, that trip was almost a month ago. We are now back to working in the Greater Grace International School. Keep us in prayer, many students are leaving for many different reasons. We know God has a plan, but we are sad to see them go. Now we look ahead to EuroCon '09 and for the first time ever, RomaniaCon '09. We missionaries coming from everywhere preaching for the week after EuroCon. Keep that in prayer as we have many other Christians not in our church who will be attending and of course many unsaved people. Also keep in prayer the Youth night every Friday which we just started a couple weeks ago. Last Friday we had 16 people there! This Friday, Mike Brown will be preaching, even though I don't think he knows it yet. Keep Mike and Pastor Shibley in prayer as they get here the Friday before EuroCon (this Friday!) and spend a few days with us. Keep Pastor Stan Collins, Pastor David Stambovsky, Istvan Pirger, and Mat Laflamme (just to name a few) in prayer as they are all planning to come to Romania after the conference and will be just a few of our speakers for RomaniaCon '09. I ask everyone to keep the team here in prayer, our health, spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental, our finances especially, and our new oppurtunities in ministry. Many exciting things happening here, we're so glad we get to be the vessel God uses. Until next time...
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Hi there Micha and crew..I just wanted to give you a shout out because I saw your mother at Wal=mart the other day and Nick was wondering how you were.
ReplyDeleteYou and your family gave my boys Nick and Thurman (aka boots) skills that they still carry with them about God and the word,
It is grat what you have accomplished. Keep it up and even if only one person gives their life to God because of your work, it is worth more that anything you can receive.
this is my email address/ ggraphics06@aol.com I am sure the boys would love to hear from you or anyone there. thurman has been looking for a pen pal. maybe you can find some one who would like to write to him, let me know.
thank you for all you do and have done and please be safe in your journies!
Stephanie Hockett