Tirgiu Jui Report

Dear Elders

We praise God for His faithfulness and grace toward us. He is not changing even the circumstances of our life and ministry change.

We continue to meet in our house on Sunday for worship, prayer and fellowship. We are 8 people that come regularly. We meet with the men for prayer 2 times a week.

Offering an English class is one of the ways we try to develop new relationships, and this is a very encouraging ministry for our group.

Also we are volunteering for Campus Crusade trying to reach the Students from our city, over 5000 students. We distributed a Christian magazine for students and we are in contact with a few new students.

We have the blessing of having a missionary family that works with MTW in Romania, ministering with us, Kim and Carol Watne. They moved in Targu Jiu 3 weeks ago. We meet every day and we study a book of Piper, What to do when we don't desire God – How to fight for joy. Our goal is to restore our spiritual life and grow in our faith and love for our Lord.

I assist one of the men from our group, Samuel, who is studying different Bible courses, searching in prayer God's will for a call to ministry. He's desire is to be a pastor.

Another very encouraging thing for our ministry is that we are in the process of receiving a land donation, and more help to develop a ministry center. We are working on the plans for a multifunctional building to be uses for meetings, café house type ministry and for a day care center for the children in that neighborhood of Targu Jiu. Also the complex will have a sport base and land for growing vegetables. This is developed in partnership with a wonderful Christian family from England, Dave and Chris Townsend, and with the help of a charity mission, "Project Rachel" started in England.

Our relationship as Romanian IPC pastors id developing very well. We had good meetings face to face or via Skipe communicating on different aspects of our ministry. One of our important goals is to see a Romanian Presbytery developed in the next years.

We are also working on developing the partnership with MTW Romania. Our relationship is developing well, and we had the chance to meet and communicate, learning how to grow in love and unity, with the goal of working together in developing a church planting movement in Romania.

Some of our prayer needs are:
- That God's grace will be abundant as we are searching spiritual revitalization for our lives.
- Power, wisdom and courage to keep sharing the Gospel through which God can change our nation.
- Direction regarding finances in the context of the world wide economic crises.
We praise God for all His work in our lives and others, and we give Him all the glory. Thank you for your prayers and support.