Every month here in the South of Moldova we pastors and leaders of various outreach works meet to encourage one another.

We plan outreach missions together like the Tony Anthony mission and we also plan training conferences - at the end of the month Mission Without Borders are coming to do training for all our Sunday school teachers.

We also have a time of sharing and praying together. This unity is, I believe, one of the main reasons why the Lord is moving much here in the South as well as being really refreshing for us all.

We tend to move the venue for meeting together to different locations and this month was the turn of Gotesti.

Always we have a fellowship meal together after the "business" and this gave us an opportunity to invite all the leaders and their wives to come to a meal in our newly opened Karis Pizza.

Usually around 40-50 leaders and wives come to these meetings but on Monday we had 87 attend.

Poor Mari, my wife, who was organising the meal kept telling me "We can't do it! We can't do it"

She was right - God did it!

In fact I was amazed at the effeciency of our team of cooks who got out 48 pizzas in total, fresh, hot and without any serious waiting time.

It gives us courage to realise that we could indeed cater for a wedding here both for service and space.

We also had a lot of very encouraging feedback from all who attended about the quality of the pizzas and also the look of the coffee shop.

Do keep praying for this project. We are holding our weekly Alpha course here every Sunday and are also touching the spiritual objectives of having opportunity to talk to and befriend unsaved that would never come to the church.

Pastor Mark