Mission continuing

The mission has been continuing to go well with up to Friday night 26 adults having responded to thr gospel as well as several children.

Ruslan has been counselling them after their response and it apears that many have understood well the gospel and made serious responses

Pray for the first new believers discpleship course that will take place at 15.00 on Tuesday 23 october

Alexei, the former mayor of the village and former head teacher of the school was one of those who responded this week and his wife the following day.

In fact we have up to now had 3 married couples respond this week.

On Friday night we had Angelina Vasilache a well know gospel singer come and do most of the programme for the meeting as well as give her testimony

Meanwhile the Bayfarm team have been continuing on daily visits.

Here they are doing a programme in one of the 3 Kindergartens in Gotesti.

We were able to leave some games for the kids like leggo etc as none of these Kindergartens have any games

The team has also been doing visits to poor homes giving aid and also piglets the funds for which have been supplied mostly by Eurovangelism.

Many of the poor people they have visited have also come to the meeting during the week

Pray for the final two days of the mission that there would continue to be more new unsaved people come to the meetings and that they get saved

mission day Oct 16

Thank you for continuing to pray for the mission and all events surrounding it. It is going well with plenty of unbelievers coming and hearing the word - some for the first time.

Here are two ladies that responded. They are mother and daughter and were visited by the team earlier in the day.
Natasa in red has been coming to the chruch for some weeks but her mother Olia was there for the first time on Tuesday night.

The team did a play in the meeting called measuring up which really spoke of a man trying to keep the law to measure up and be accepted but then finding his rest in God. Sandra Newton also gave her testimony of how she was called by God to salvation at a youth for Christ rally many years ago.

Earlier in the day we had been to the local school which has 600 pupils

The photo to the right is the team meeting Olga the head teacher and below is Kim giving her testimony to the teachers in the room that Bayfarm church and friends have given a gift to refurbish it with double glazed windows, tables and chairs carpet etc

The team have been doing other visits to Kindergartens in the village and in the afternoons they have been visiting people's homes and sharing the gospel with them and inviting them to the meeting in the evening.

All this having travelled 10,000 Km to get here - not bad for a bunch of jet lagged oldies.

Pastor Mark

Mission Week

It is our special week this week when we have an outreach mission for the village.

This year we have a team with us from Bayfarm Community Church, California

After a 10,000 Km journey to get to us you can imagine how tired they were and yet they have been fully involved from day one.

Sunday morning. the gospel was preached in our 10.00 am meeting and 5 people responded including Larisa in the centre of the picture who had been close for many weeks.

Then in the afternoon we were invited to a harvest service in Pelenei where pastor Misa ( see photo with M&M) gave us the full programme.

Chris Modic ( see picture) gave his testimony and there were also 5 people who responded to a gospel appeal.

The mission in Gotesti starts on Tuesday evening 16th and will be every evening until Sunday 21

Keep praying for us

Mark

Harvest Service

Ignore the date on the bottom of the picture this is a shot of our harvest service on 30 September 2007.

We had a lovely time together thanking God for what He has done for us this year despite the fact that in general harvests were very poor in Moldova.

There were 53 non Christians at the meeting including the mayor and his wife who gave a short at address at the start of the meeting.

The youth did a programme including some songs and various others took part in the day such as Aliona's twins The harvest is past the summer is over and WE ARE NOT SAVED is the text that was used in the message. Jer 8:20

An appeal was made and 4 adults and 3 children raised their hands wanting to receive Jesus into their lives.

Another 23 people completed response forms of which 5 recorded that they had asked Christ into their lives and 17 said they wanted someone to talk to them about what it means to have new life in Christ.

We now have much follow up work to do especially since we have a mission coming up 14-21 October

Pastor Mark

Police Conference

The third Annual Conference of the Christian Police Association

Both Mari and I were invited to participate in this weekend held Sep 7-9 at Dusa Suumer Camp as guests speakers.
The Theme of the weekend was “Who is your security” and around 40 families attended including several non Christians.

I preached an opening ceremony short address and preached a final meeting evangelistic message while leading a discussion seminar on the Saturday afternoon at the same time as Mari took the ladies group.

There were guest speakers from Holland and from Romania and several people responded in various ways over the weekend

There are around 15,000 policemen in Moldova and yet there are only around 25 members in this association who are Christian and probably not that many more in the whole country.

It is a fledgling work and yet the 5 members of the board are dedicated and gifted men of God with a big vision for this work.

In my view this is one of the most significant works in the country. If the police force had a significant number of committed Christians what change this would bring to the country and it’s future as a whole.

There is a big need here of sponsors for this work. All the leaders are working full time and each has to have a second job to be able to support his family as the police salary is about 90 pounds per month and they need at least 120-150 per month in the capital to live if they are not to fall into debt.

The association has no funding. We at Moldovan MIssion Mission mostly funded this weekend summer camp conference. Around 10 pounds per person was need to cover food, accommodation and transport. Due to these funding limitations they were only able to fund around 40 families when the venue would have accommodated 120 families.

If there are any of you reading this that feel you would like to become a sponsor

(Victor in blue shirt has been blind for 17 yrs

after a driving accident)

of this work in some way or you know an organisation or a church or a group of people who would like to help then please contact me on markmold7@hotmail.com

Christmastiem will be the next major outreach

they will want to do to make the most of the

festival opportunity

Yours and His

Mark

Mssionary Conference, Chisinau

We were privileged to be invited to be a speaker at this years Baptist Missionary conference which was held at the summer camp resort of Vad lui Voda August 1-4.

Around 70 missionary families sent out by the B.U. to places like Afghanistan, Iran, Alaska and all the different regions of Russia were in attendance as well as a portion of those the BU has sent out into Moldova to church plant.

Mike Grevette, director of missions for the Georgia Baptist Union, USA was the main speaker, while Valeriu Ghilecthi and Ion Miron president and vice president of the BU ( see photo ) where there the whole 4 days.
Another speaker was Fitalie Fedula pastor ( see photo with his wife Larisa ) of the biggest evangelical church in Moldova Jesus the Saviour with 1500 members

We heard testimonies form the various missionaries of God’s faithfulness especially in Muslim countries where freedom is not permitted for the gospel.

A team from the USA took our children from 10.00-13.00 for games etc while we had the seminar times and in the afternoon everyone was able to relax in the swimming pool or volley ball or soccer fields or the many other options that were available.

I think we could say with confidence that everyone found a blessing in these 4 days of conference.

Physically Disabled Outreach

Our apologies to any of you looking at this blog site and finding no change for the last number of weeks ( feels like at little bit of déjà vu as I write )
We have been in the UK then in Romania and the at a missionaries conference in Moldova.

You’ll remember the story of Nicu, the young lad blind from birth who got saved and baptized in February.
Well it as if God had to save a physically disabled person to awaken us to the need in general of the physically disabled especially in our village.

One thing led to another and in May we had a special outreach meeting for the physically disabled in our village.

As you can see from the photo we had around 40 come to the meting we ran ( and that did not include those from Chircani or Cosntantinovca ).

We had an able bodied brother from Germany take the meeting and indeed sponsor the cost but Dima (a paraplegic who’s been a Christian for many years did the preaching and Gregory, blind from 10 months led the worship )

We had a meal afterwards and each was given a gift of food and a small money gift.

Everyone who attended said they really enjoyed it and wanted to come again so we plan to do another in September.
There is a very big need in this area If you look at the picture you’ll see around 4 with wheelchairs but there are at least another 10 there who need them.
There are also blind and partially sighted there who have no help – not even a white stick.

We made a contact in USA that would be willing to send a container load of wheelchairs to our nearest port ) probably Constansa ) free of charge but it seems the government has restriction on getting them into Moldova such that we might only get about 10% of these to use as we see fit.

So we need much prayer in this area for wisdom how to go forward and help with the many needs

Mark McCormick 1 August 2007

P.S.

The man int he wheel chair front bottom is now coming regularly to the church