Merry Christmas in Zebil

A message from Vlad Pogor, FGCI's Romania Representative:

[English Translation]

Peace, dear brothers and sisters. I have the honor to share with you the challenges and joys I had in the center where we presented a Christmas program. There were about 140 residents at the center for adults that we visited. I could see that there were many residents and workers who were touched by the Word that I spoke from the Scripture. On the day when we were supposed to go do the Christmas program, I had an extraordinarily big headache. I vomited because of the headache pain. I was on the verge of giving in and not going to the center for the Christmas program. But, I felt your prayers, so I decided to go... When I was talking about the Lord Jesus, there was an extraordinary presence of God, and I understood why the devil did not want me to go to the center. Some of the workers told me that in no other year was the program as good as it was this year. We give God the glory for this! I believe that God has plans for the people in this center; I saw how God touched them. Our FGCI team did a great job with the schedule and preparing the gifts and other things. My wife, Carolina, led us in singing with the guitar, and it was superb! So, God blessed this wonderful trip.

[Original Message]

Pace dragi frați și surori. Am onoarea sa ma împărtășesc cu voi provocările și bucuriile pe care le-am avut in centrele Zebil. Am făcut spectacolul de Crăciun și u fost aproximativ 140 de beneficiari. Am endentificat ca au fost foarte mulți benificiari și lucrători atinși de Cuvintul pe care l-am vorbit din Scriptura. In ziua cind trebuia sa mergem sa facem spectacolul de Crăciun am avut o durere extraordinar de mare de cap, am vomitat din cauza acestei dureri, eram pe punctul de a ceda și nu a merge la centru pentru programul de Crăciun. Dar am simțit rugaciunile voastre. Ca am hotarit sa merg… si atunci cind vorbeam despre Domnul Isus, a fost o prezenta extraordinara a Lui Dumnezeu, si am înțeles de ce diavolul nu a dorit sa merg la centru. Lucrătorii mi-au spus ca nici într-un an nu a fost așa de bine cum a fost in acest an. Dați Domnului slava pentru acest lucru. Cred ca Dumnezeu are planuri cu oamenii din Zebil, am văzut cum Dumnezeu sa atins de ei. Echipa cu care am mers sa descurcat de minune cu program si cu pregătire cadourilor si alte lucruri. Carolina nea condus cu chitara si a fost superb. Deci Dumnezeu a binecuvintat aceasta călătorie de minune

July Update

So. Much. Has been happening! We are, quite frankly, overwhelmed, and your prayers are appreciated more than ever! BUT - God is good, all the time, and He's moving in mighty ways!

Summer Bible Camp season at Camp of the Good Shepherd has now come to a close. What a season! We had tons of kids, tons of fun, and tons of learning. Praise the Lord! If you haven't connected to the camp's Facebook Page, you should head on over there and "follow" the page so you can keep up with what's happening!

We are still providing a ministry of relief to Ukrainian refugees. The media may have quieted down about the war, but make no mistake, there are many, many people still in need of help.

A note from Joel:

Praise God! It seems that we are going to be receiving a large quantity of baking flour to distribute in Ukraine. Mihai and I have been working with an organization called Orphan Grain Train to get 24 tons of 25 kg bags of flour to give to needy Ukrainians. We will also be purchasing some cooking oil to go with the flour. I am praying that this will be the first of many collaborative projects with OGT in the future to help our work in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. Orphan Grain Train is based in my old home town of Norfolk, Nebraska! They’ve been great to work with. Pray for all of those involved in this effort to get flour to the most needy folks in Ukraine.

Praise the Lord! IDES (International Disaster Emergency Services), of Indiana, has sent us the last part of their grant to us to help hungry and needy Ukrainian refugees and displaced Ukrainian for the months of July and August. Vlad and Mihai have both expressed much gratitude (passed along by Ukrainians with whom they’ve been working) for all of the support that IDES and FGCI have been sending to serve Ukrainians in need.

Please continue to pray for our kids in Romania and Moldova. We have not been doing as much with them over the past year as we would have liked, due to Covid and changes we’ve made in staff here in the States and over in Romania. God has also opened new doors of service with us among Ukrainians, as you have seen. Pray for the kids/adults in these countries that we may be the light of Jesus to them.

The pictures below are from both Vlad and Mihai, our representatives in Moldova and Romania.

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