The Lord Is At Work!

Sorry it's been awhile, but a lot has happened in the past 2 months! (We are going to get better about posting I promise!)

Let's see...where to begin...

We had our 3 year anniversary, Kylie stopped army crawling and started crawling ALL over the place AND has been pulling herself up on things AND has a new tooth as well as 2 more on the way. We started a Bible study in the city center on Wednesday nights and Matt is teaching through the book of Colossians. The Lord has shown us favor by allowing us to have a Bible study at a coffee shop which is quite rare out here. So far we have had a good turn out and people have been very receptive to receiving the truth. The Lord has been really revealing His heart for the Romanian people which has been helping me to adjust and adapt because I have been able to see how much He desires for His people to know Him. Also things in the gypsy village have been going really well! When we first started maybe like 8 people would show up for church on Sunday (including children) and last Sunday there were close to 50 people (there's about 144 people in the village total)! Not to mention the men have been showing more interest in coming to church and have been more willing to talk with Matt and Steve. Amy has started a women's Bible study in the village with some of the women and Sierra has started the first ever worship group with some of the young ladies in the village. Things are moving forward quickly! It's been very exciting!!!

It's been exciting to see change already happening in such a short amount of time. Several of our Romanian friends who go to the village with us to translate have mentioned how they have been going to the village for several years and have been seeing a real difference in people since we started going there. What a great encouragement! I don't think that there has ever been a team of people who have consistently gone into the village to serve and share the love of Christ. They are used to Americans coming and going...it's really neat to see how being consistent and purposeful in building relationships can make such a huge difference.

So please continue to pray because we are most definitely seeing LOTS of answers to prayers and are thankful to be walking into all the prayers that have been laid out before us!