Training in Suceava
We just came home from a meeting with our volunteers and students where we trained them how to share their faith using a set of questions about Easter. Wednesday and Thursday we will go in campus and talk with students about Easter, the meaning of the Resurrection of Christ and we will share them about Jesus. Thursday evening we will show Jesus film in the public university!
Please pray for fruits, students that will come to Christ! We need to find open persons that will be ready to talk with us and will come to our next follow up meetings!
Read MoreMinistry updates – March
In one of the past Sundays the pastor of our church stopped me and told me: “The whole week I have been talking to myself about the success of your meeting”. He was talking about our latest event for students in which he was invited to speak.
Maybe it is different in the United States, but for Romania, it does not happen often for a Christian community to have over 50 non-Christian guests, coming for the first time and ready to hear the Word of God.
In the same Sunday, Mihai, one of the students that joined our ministry entered in a Christian church for the very first time. During the sermon, he raised his hand several times, because he needed clarifications about what the pastor was preaching. In our student gatherings we do encourage students to ask as many questions they need in order to understand what the Bible is teaching and Mihai was doing just that in a larger context. It seemed a little funny at the time but he got his answers, and we realized his spiritual hunger . There are many like him, some do not dare to even speak about this very deep and personal need, some try to fulfill it in wrong ways, but those few that choose to trust the Lord, need a loving place to grow, patient Christians to clarify their questions, mature people to guide them in this process . So we pray for more volunteers, for open churches and pastors ready to be amazed by the mighty work of God and ready to anticipate in this plentiful harvest.
THANK YOU!
Read MoreGreat event in Suceava
We just came home from our evangelistic event that we organized in the city where we live – Suceava. The hall was over capacity, 900 students stayed on the stairs and filled every empty space in the venue. It was a great event that God coordinated in small details. We have hundreds of contact cards to follow up this year. The Gospel was very clear presented and our Father was glorified.
Thank you for your prayers, we saw God’s hand working in front of us!
Read MoreOctober news
We are happy to let you know about some of the things that we are passionate about in the ministry God has called us to, that is to take the Gospel to those who do not know our Lord.
It is 2011, ten years after the release of the first issue of the Fitzuica magazine, the tool that helped us reach 1,000,000 students with the Gospel all these years. It’s such a blessing to have seen God’s hand at work during these ten years. He provided for the magazine to be published and distributed in time in almost all universities in our country. Fitzuica has energized our campus ministry, offering us thousands of contacts whom we pay visits to afterwards, for one-on-one talks leading to the sharing of the Gospel.
These days, we and the team of volunteers in Suceava will distribute the latest issue of the magazine to the students in Suceava. Together with the magazine, we will also give invitations to two events unfolding over the coming weeks: an evangelistic event at the Culture House in Suceava, on the 12th of October, and a joint event with Luis Palau Association and ten churches in Suceava.
We will have some busy weeks, so that’s why we ask you to join us and pray for the 700 seats of the venue to be filled by young people who can hear the Good News.
The Big Jackpot
Blasphemed by some, adored by others, ignored by the majority during good times, desperately sought during difficult times… God. Google scans 3,390,000 pages that use the word “God” (in Romanian – Dumnezeu), compared to 3,750,000 that mention our president. Perhaps this is an odd sort of search on Google, but the point is clear, Basescu is more discussed than the Creator. We are a Christian nation, and we work so hard to promote our image as a spiritual people. But are we really who we say we are? Are we spiritual? Do we know our values? Would we really want for others to call us spiritual? Is that how you the reader would like to be known? Would you like for your reputation on campus to be ’John spiritual?’ or ’George religious’? or perhaps ’Cristy who believes in God’? Let’s suppose that you meet a beautiful girl, a philosophy student, who shares with you her atheistic worldview…would you really tell her what you believe, knowing that might be your last walk together in the park…or would you just nod your head as if you agree with her every word?
2011. An extraordinary year. We are a part of the European Union, and now we can travel to France, England, Spain, Portugal and Italy. We have low-cost travel packages, malls in even the smaller cities, university degrees that take a shorter time to get, more jobs, money that is worth more, more sophisticated technology, blogs and forums, podcasts and Facebook, virtual albums available in seconds, telephones with TV reception and Bluetooth earpieces, minds that are more relaxed, skin that is softer, nights that are shorter, and bigger smiles. We seem to be in a race trying to make sure that we don’t finish behind our ancestors.
Read MoreBorn again with no Coke Zero
I was waiting in the fast food line, anxious to order my favorite menu. It’s no secret that I don’t care too much about my food. The heavily sweating lady before me was frantically searching through her purse for her wallet. Her generous size suggested the same carelessness about food. It was then that we heard that known question, ‘Hello, what can I get you?’
Holding her forefinger on her pursing lips, she took a lot of time before deciding. She finally chose a huge burger. The cashier asked if she would like a large order for just 1.5 extra lei. She nodded in satisfaction, ‘O yes, please, make it large!’ ‘Would you also like two pieces of beef for 2 extra lei?’ ‘Two pieces, you say? Sure.’ ‘So, you have a large order, two pieces of beef, mayonnaise, a large order of French fries. Would you like mayonnaise or ketchup to go with your fries?’ ‘Mayonnaise, please.’ ‘Can I give you anything else, dessert maybe?’ ‘Absolutely, an ice-cream and a pie.’ ‘OK, a chocolate ice-cream and a pie.’
In the meantime, the lady was wiping her sweat off with a crumpled tissue.
Read MoreTreasures in the garbage bins
I have recently heard the story of a 60-ish homeless man from Bucharest, Romania. Ion Barladeanu used to live in the garbage room of a block of flats in Bucharest and eat out of garbage bins. Disappointed in his father, a Communist, he left home at 18 and tried to make a living as a grave digger, a dock worker, a writer on crosses, and held many other odd jobs. In his spare time, he would take scraps of discarded newspapers and magazines, cut them out and create collages. Over time, he created more than 900 collages, which he stored in a suitcase and carried them along wherever he went. One day, a heaven-sent artist ran into old homeless Ion Barladeanu. He was stunned on seeing his collages. In a short time, he organised an exhibition, and arranged for him to show his works in London and Paris.
Now, Ion Barladeanu is regarded as one of the greatest Pop Art artists. A collage of his sells for over 3,000 USD a piece. Adding two and two together, we can see that the old man was carrying along a treasure of nearly 3,000,000 USD. Nevertheless, he would eat leftovers out of the trash and live in a mess beyond description, unaware of the incredible resources nearby.
As I thought about me and all of us, as a matter of fact, I realized that so often we behave like old Barladeanu. God presented us with so many opportunities, gave his only- begotten Son to die for us, offered his salvation, and still so many times I would rather watch the mess around us and complain about it, while keeping my eyes shut and not seeing the treasure that I can have for free. So often I look at the world, but not beyond it. Back to the story, the artist who discovered Ion got him a place of his own after a while. But after spending several days in this new and clean place, Ion went back to his nostalgic garbage.
Read MoreOliver’s story
Over 1000 visitors acces everystudent.ro on a regular day. Some of them pray to receive Jesus and they let us know about it. Oliver Supp, a student leaders from Cluj is one of them.
Oliver grew up in a Catholic church. As he went to the university, the questions in his life became more profound. He felt he needed something deeper in his relationship with God, something more personal. He didn’t know where to start his search but he took the Bible and read it thinking that there might be some of the answers he was looking for. Nobody really knew about that as he was afraid he will be labeled as a freak. On the 20-th of January he was in his room, just surfing the net on a website he doesn’t really remember. Suddenly he noticed this link to everystudent.ro and he clicked. It was a Wednesday and as Oliver says, almost every Wednesday something unexpected appears in his agenda. This unexpected event, was about to change his life for ever. After that click he couldn’t stop reading for a few hours, as he wrote in en email to Mihai that night.
Read MoreEnglish summer camp
We were involved this summer in the summer camp with students. You can watch bellow a short video with testimonies from the camp.
Read MoreCome with us!
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