Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Hello friends of the ministry!
There are a lot of things that happened over the summer. First and foremost, the Lord enlarged the ministry team to 4 families in just a period of 3 weeks. Praise the Lord! John and Charity Maury moved from Vladeasa, another couple, Dave and Lili Bunnell moved from Buzau and yet another couple that came to Cluj to start a maternity clinic have joined the team as well. Secondly the ministry opportunity increased. We have an open door in Gherla and we already did some counseling there and I think that it's a matter of time for the Lord to start a church there. We also have a house there that we can use for free to do ministry. We are also going to oversee the work in Vladeasa. So, in fact, Nicu and Silvana Hagiu are part of the ministry team as well! They are staying there in the region and Nicu took over John's responsibilities as the pastor. John and Charity felt that the Lord is leading them to Turn the ministry in Vladeasa over to Nicu and Silvana and that He is calling them to eventually move to Sweden. They don't know when will that happen but as they were considering the option of coming to Cluj as a transition period, Ken asked me to step aside and let John take the leadership of the team. Here in Cluj the students started coming back from vacation so, we'll be opening soon the cafe and the bookstore. Our rental contract is about to expire in a few weeks and we will need to move. We need a bigger place anyway. We found one on the same street that could fit as much as 50 people and right now we're waiting for the Lord to provide the money for the rent which is substantially bigger.
God bless,
Razvan