Adolescents outreach

This is a picture of the adolescents group that a team of our believers led by Igor and Tanya are working with.

About 30 come each Tuesday to the group and share friendship in games, etc but also split into groups for a bible study designed to show them the way to a relationship with Christ

Only 4 of these kids have families that come to the church.

The series of studies are designed to reach a climax at around the new year in a 4 day winter camp we hope to be able to do again this year as we did for the last two years in Chisinau using the premises of O.M.

Two years ago saw Doina and Aliona commit their lives fully to Christ during this time and they were amongst those who were baptised this October

We ask you to pray with us that we are able to do this 4 day event again this year and that similar responses occur that lead to changed hearts.

We hope to run the camp Dec 25-30

Pastor Mark

Tony Anthony

We were priviledge to have former 3 times world champion in Kung Fu and now international evangelist Tony Anthony with us in the South of Moldova from Nov 7-16.

Here is one of the outreach meetings he did in Vad lui Isaac.

In total around 5000 came under the sound of the word of God through his ministry during the 9 days here in 22 different locations.

Tony also did 2 Release conferences with over 500 believers in total getting teaching and training in evangelism that leads to them being better equippped to share the gospel themselves.

Although Tony spoke to bigger crowds (over 1200 in Colibasi)

I found this event in Pelinei particulraly encouraging.

Pelinei is one of the church plants we are working with and they have just 22 members but here around 250 people attended the cultural house and heard the gospel clearly preached.

These ones came not only from Pelinei but also 3 other nearby villages where the church in Pelinei is working.

Speaking to Misa, the pastor afterwards we both felt that a week long mission in the cultural house surely must be done to follow up on what is a notable interest among these villagers.

Please pray for this.

Please also pray for Tony who left immediately from us to the Ukraine for another 10 days of mission and has his calendar booked for speaking engagements of all kinds until 2010

Pastor Mark

Eurovangelism Conference

Thank you all for your prayers for our trip to England to attend and speak at the annual conference of Eurovangelism.

Eurovangelism has been working in Eastern Euopre since the 1960's and has thousands of supportes in prayer and finance throughout the world as well as 100's of churches.

They work at encouraging, resourcing and equipping churches throughout Europe ( primarily in Eastern Europe ) in whatever way the church partner wants.

We've been working with them for around 3 years now receiving aid, support for pastors and training courses that we wanted which has assisted not only the work in Gotesti, Chircani and Constantinovca but also in 7 other church plants that we are also involved with.

We had a lovely relaxing 3 days before the conference staying in the missionary flat above the offices of Eurovangelism in Bristol and then a thoroughly encouraging time at the weekend conference.

We met so many people of the same mind and heart regarding the work in Eastern Europe and heard of much that was encouraging.

We also had many encourage us before and after our presentation of the work in Moldova.

Our final engagement before returning to Moldova was to speak in St Botolph's C of E near Kettering where again we had a lovely encouraging time and made new friends who want to link with us.

I am sorry to say that I was so intensely involved in the events in UK that I did not take one decent photo of any of the above but if you want to see more or find our more about Eurovangelism as an organisation please check out their web site

www.eurovangelism.org.uk

I thoroughly recommend them

Pastor Mark

Mission and Baptisms

Thanks to you all for your prayers for the mission that we ran from Thursday - Sunday 23- 26 Oct

Here we see Viorel giving his testimony during one of the meetings

Each of the 6 from our villages being baptised gave their testimony during the week.

We had a good numer of people respond to gospel appeals during the week and we have many people to follow up in these coming weeks

This for example is Stefan, the husband of one of our members.

He is 55 and has made various responses before but he came this time wanting his whole to belong to God.

Pray for him - he is working in Russia and just back for 15 days before returning. Thus there is little chance for him to get follow up.

This is Costa ( on the right ) with our youth leader Igor after responding in the mission on Friday night night

Pray for him as he begins studies to help him better understand the decision he has made.

And this is 12 year old Vitali who responded on Friday also.

He is the son of Lilia, who you may remember as the mother of Tolia with the deformed hand.

Pray for him and his mother that we will be able to give them the follow up they need to grow.

We were very encoruaged once again by the turn out at our baptism meeting with over 200 adults attending

Some also joined us from Baurcii as Br Vasile Culin ( seen here on the right behind the baptism candidates ) had brought one of his people ( Vasile, extreme right ) to receive baptism also

Four from Gotesti, one from Chircani, one from Constantinovca and one from Baurcii made up the 7 people who were baptised.

The atmosphere was especially joyous as we were celebrating the opening of our new indoor baptistery

( Just finished on Thursday and built with the financial support of some brothers from the UK )

Nearly all who were baptised left with shrieks of joy as they departed through the back gangway

And I truly felt like baptising all 200 people in the building. May the Lord make it happen in reality

Pastor Mark

Bayfarm With us Again

It was great to have the team from Bayfarm Community church with us again this year.

Here Michelle from Texas is giving her testimony in the Harvest service on Sunday morning in Gotesti church.

They were fully involved in an intense programme that was prepared for them including 9 kindergarden visits 3 schools a medical centre and two centres for children

Here Tim is giving his testimony in the harvest service on Sunday morning.

It was very powerful and also fitted very well into the gospel message that was later preached

Kim, the leader of the team and with her back to the camera is doing a story with the kids in the Kindergarten in Baurcii, one of the church plant villages we are involved with and trying to help.

They were very warm as was the school in the same village and the kindergarten in Ursoia where the other half of the team went to for similar kinds of meetings

All of these kindergartens are very short of materials especially sheets, pillow cases, duvets and mattresses and the team have gone home seeking to find support to equip as many as possible of these kindergartens with these essentials to enable them to function.

Chris, now an old hand having been on the team last year, preached on two occassions, here in Baurcii church plant and also at our Thursday night meeting in Gotesti

His message from Mark 4 was on how we, like the disciples of Jesus keep on rowing hopelessly in the midst of an unassailable storm in our lives instead of waking up Jesus who is nearby asleep to take over and calm the storm.

There were many in the meeting touched and also with us for the evening

were our esteemed head teachers from the Chircani and Gotesti schools.

Eugenia ( left ) and Olga (right ).

Pray for them. It is a difficult job with much responsibility and little pay

What a Harvest!

We were very encouraged with the turn out for our harvest service on Oct 5.

Especially so since many were still working in their fields.

The mayor and his wife were there as well as the head teacher of the kindergarten in Constntinovca

In total around 150 non Christians were there from our 3 villages including many new faces and around 30-40 made a response to the gospel.

Pray for us as we try to get to all of them and help them in their first steps with the Lord

Farewell Chris

Well, Chris Elston of England and Slovakia has now left us and returned to his work in the latter country.

We had a wonderful month with him as he taught our members English in groups like this picture and with personal lessons

We saw noticeable improvements in all our English speakers

He also took private lessons with several pastors and leaders twice per week

Here he is with Gelu, the leader of the youth work in Emanal church Cahul

Chris also assisted our ministry here in Gotesti, Chircani and Constantinovca by visiting and encouraging believers as here with Vasile from Chircani and he also went to visit those who don't yet know Christ as their personal savour taking the opportunity to share the gospel message with them

He and we are praying to see if he will return in January. The Lord's will be done