Dedication of New Church Building at Baurci

This is Dorin Moga, leader of the church at Baurci, speaking at the opening ceremony of the dedication of their church building on 31 October 2010.

He and 2 other leaders in the church have been working night and day for months to complete all the work necessary for the building to be finished.

Various sponsors from the West have helped with the funding but no-one doubts that this House of Prayer was built by God and these faithful brothers.

Mari and I were invited to be one of the speakers alongside 3 other esteemd guests all of whom brought a greeting or message to what as you can see was a packed auditorium with many from the village and guests from other churches attending

On the left Andrei Ciobanu, pastor of Vad lui Isac and B.U superviser for the South of Moldova. In the centre Ion Miron, the current president of the Baptist Union who was the principle speaker along with on the right Ruslan Melestean, direction of the Bible Mission based in Chisinau.

Br Ion spoke on how we are here on earth to be lights while Br Ruslan shared on the word multumesc - thanks - and pointed out how we so often neglect to be thankful - quite a challenging word to us all.

We also had the extra blessing of participating in the dedication of the latest addition to the Moga family - 2 month old David. Here Br Andrei is praying for God's blessing on the child

The worship time in the service was richly blessed by guests - here in the centre of the picture are a husband and wife duet that are part of the Bible Mission's team and to the left of the picture is the choir from Vad lui Isac church.
There were many others that made a contribution to the worship

After the meeting was finished all present at the dedication were invited to pose for a picture outside the church building in, as you can see, bright sunshine.

Then when all the formalities of the service were over we all sat down to a nice meal prepared by the ladies in the church.

All in all it was a wonderful ocassion to be part of

Pastor Mark