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Update from Pastor Ionut Dumitru in Soimus, Hondol & Mintia, Romania - 2011:

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
We are sending you special greetings from Soimus and we are so glad to be partners with you in the wonderful ministry that Jesus has given to all of us, the ministry of bringing His Gospel to the lost. Thank you so much for all your prayers and financial support, making our ministry for the Lord to be more powerful and efficient.
In the beginning of this year between January and March we have been involved as churches in a special timetable of prayers and fasting for the evangelistic events that we have expecting during this time. By God’s mercy we could have 9 special evangelistic meetings in the churches from Mintia, Somus and Hondol (3 meetings in each). In preparation of those meetings, besides prayers and fasting we have also gave 450 printed invitations in the three villages where the meetings took place (150/each). Each evening we have been impressed by the number of people who responded to our invitation. As a result of those evangelistic events, there where people who decided to receive Jesus into their hearts and life and we are expecting blessed harvest by His help into this fall in baptism services. One of the friends who came to know the Lord is Luci, whose wife Laura has been baptized last year in Soimus. At the beginning of this year they passed trough a dramatic event, because Laura was pregnant and she has lost the baby. Luci came to know Christ in March and few days ago Luci called me and he joyfully gave me the news that his wife is pregnant again but this time the doctor said that everything looks perfect with the baby and by God’s grace she will give birth in October. Please pray with me for this family to strengthening in the Lord and to also receive His blessings upon them and their family.
In Hondol, we have another testimony of a 45 years old man, who expressed his desire to receive Jesus and to be baptized. He was attending our church meetings for about a year but only at the end of our evangelistic time there he decided to withdraw his waiting time.
Regarding the children ministry in Mintia, we are glad to see that constantly more than 25 children are attending to our children meetings each Saturday from 16:00 to 17:00. The children are learning from the Bible, playing games and singing Christian songs and most of them as a result of their progress have been invited to sing into the best children choir from Romania (Crystal children choir) making their parents real proud. This ministry is attracting more children into Mintia and also we are glad to interact directly with their parents when they come to see their children praising the Lord for Easter and Christmas.
We have also started a new ministry in Mintia between the gypsies. I went together with a brother from Soimus and we have found more than 50 people coming together and carefully hearing what we have shared with them about Christ and salvation.
I have been preaching about Zacchaeus and his desire to receive Jesus into his house and we are planning in the first part of July to have a children ministry there between the poor gypsy children from Mintia.
Please pray with us for the people who have accepted Christ, to remain faithful in their decision, pray also for the counseling ministry that Saida is doing between the women from Soimus and also keep us as a family in your prayers. Pastor Marius shared how much commitment you have in your prayers for us weekly and sometime daily and we are thanking you so much for it.
May the Lord richly repay you and let you rejoice into His abundant grace!
In Christ, Ionut Dumitru