We are doing better and better as a church. God is answering our prayers and more and more people get back their faith and love for God.
Happy New Year or as we say LA MULTI ANI!
We thought we would encourage you with some news from Bucharest!
We love this church and these people so much. We feel really home here. I learn more and more Romanian and Kamilla, our daughter, does also. It’s a great advantage that Anni speaks the language already.
Our past months were spent in getting to know the church and the people. We formed some Bible talks, and that was a great help that people were taking part of a group. We now lead the singles and the campus. Until now we have kept these two groups together because of the lack of leadership. We formed little discipleship groups also that still need some encouragement to work regularly, but at least we are on the way. We had a married’s retreat in the mountains in October of 2007 which was really encouraging. We had such a bonding time together with much laughter, many conversations and many Bible teachings. And as a gift from God for Sunday morning, 50 centimeters of snow fell that made the whole time even more special.
We have also had our sad times, because in the beginning of November one of our sisters passed away unexpectedly. She was an older sister who was the mom of the church. She and her husband were leading one of our married bible talks. She has meant so much to the whole church and especially for the women. We were all very sad in a way, but happy for her reaching to our Father in Heaven. Her husband, although he misses her a lot, has not stopped serving and loving, which is also so encouraging to our hearts.
We have many, many new babies also. Emma was born in July, Melania in October, Eduard in November and Carina in December. So God has blessed us in so many ways. Now we have to find a new place to meet because our Kids Kingdom room will not be enough. Actually this was a joke between us until now. But now we are really searching a different place because our landlord would not love to have us there anymore. So we are searching with faith. (Picture by Camil Ghircoias from Sibiu, Romania)
For this year our theme will be to help each other spiritually and to share the good news all around the world, but starting in Bucharest. People seemed very excited about it when we first have said this. We will have our new year workshops on this weekend, and we really hope it will be a life changing time for us.
God has taught us so many things in these past few months since we are here. He convinces us day by day that in fact he is leading this church and he has great plans for it. He had taught us how powerful prayer is. He challenges us day by day to look at him and not to give up our faith but to keep it and to be brave to share his will to the people. And we are so thankful to God that he teaches us and cares for us constantly.
We really hope you are also doing great. We can hardly wait to get any news from you. And if you have any ideas, advice, any input, feel free to share it with us.
We love you very much and it means a lot for us to know that you are supporting us in so many ways.
All our love,
Gyuri & Anni & Kamilla from Bucharest
