Miracle needed

This is Lilia Probeag a lady from Chircani who gave her life to the Lord in March.

She is 34 and married to 39 yr old Tolia who is away working in Italy at present trying to earn money to support his family ( around 2 million other Moldovans are trying to do the same )

They have 3 children and here in Lilia's arms is their youngest

He is 20 months old and his name is Tolia after his father

He's bouncy and lively but as you can see in the photo below the fingers in his right hand are tragically deformed.

Last week we prayed in the church for him that God would do a miracle and heal this hand.

There has been no obvious answer to this prayer yet and so at Lilia's request I am asking for God to work miraculously in another way.

Is there anyone reading this who knows a medical way that this child might get a transplant of these fingers that are deformed.

It seems impossible to us but then with God nothing is impossible

If you feel God is leading an answer in this please contact me at the e mail address in the blog

Pastor Mark

Baptisms 18 May 2008

It's always a joyful day when we have a baptism meeting celebration.

Our celebration on 18 May 2008 was particularly special because we had 5 others being baptised with us from 3 other churches.

Here we see all 8 being baptised with their respective pastors standing behind them

From right to left me behind Vasile, Olia and Anisoara

Ion behind Victoria from Sharapeni

Vitalic behind Elena from Andrusul de sus

Luchian behind Tamara, Tanya and Larisa from Badicu. ( our friends at Eurovangelism will be glad to see the 2 young people from Badicu getting baptised as their financial support enabled the chruch building to be finished at Badicu which meant a Karis club was able to be started and these 2 young people came through to new birth and now baptism as a result)

Anisoara gave a very moving testimony before she was baptised speaking of how she had grown up in our church in Chircani knowing the truth but taking God's love and playing in sin at the same time.

Then just a few months ago she came under strong conviction that God isn't just love and mercy but he is also holy and she felt she could not play around any longer with His patience and so she gave her life fully to Him then.

She has already been leading worship in various contexts and we see God wanting to lead her in this.

The other wonderful news is that Jora, Anisoara's husband gave his life to the Lord after the Sunday morning meeting.

Pray for this smoldering wick of a committment

His family have already thrown Anisoara out of their home resenting her faith and they will be hostile to his new found faith.

He will also go soon to Romania to work before he has had much time to get established

Vasile was also one of those who got baptised on Sunday.

I trust you remember him from an earlier blog as the man with the big fish ( and the good testimony that went with that catch )

Keep praying for him as he still suffers pretty badly from the damage he sustained to the head after being badly beaten just before he got saved

Here are two wonderful photos of families rejoicing in their relatives making the decision to be baptised.

On the left Oxana, the sister of Anisoara,. Pray for her as she is close to giving her life to Christ but has not yet made the decision.

On the right, Mari congratulates her brother in law Vasile. Note the joy in her face - a result no doubt of the answer to much travail in prayer for Vasile

Keep us in your prayers