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We continue to see God's blessing on the work here in the Brasov area.  Last week the Brasov Church voted to pay their Pastor's monthly salary.  This is a huge step forward!  The also have begun to take more responsibility for the care of their building and have assumed their part of the utilities for the Brasov Building.  Pastor Luci is doing a great job as Pastor.  I am overjoyed to see him taking the leadership role.  He is showing great maturity and wisdom.  The Church at Brasov enjoyed a great attendance this past Sunday.  Also services in Feldioara were attended well.

 

The Church in Feldioara last week extended a call to Bro. Ioanuts (Johnny) from Constanta, as their Pastor.  Bro. Johnny has accepted and will be moving here to the Brasov area in March.  Bro. Johnny has been preaching since he was 14.  He is now 26 years old.  He has worked with Bro. Gary Santino in Constanta and also worked with Bro. Jim Black for two years in Bucharesti.  I look forward to his coming to work with us.  I will work along side Bro. Johnny to help bring the Church in Feldioara to greater stability.

 

Kim has continued to work with the Children's Home.  Today she helped Hospice with some special request needs.  The help is for terminally ill patients and their families.  Also they are trying to get permission to return to some of the area orphanages to do Bible studies with the children.  We have done this for a number of years but when the change Directors we usually have to go through the permission process all over again.  Pray that we will be able to get back into the orphanages so that we can teach the children.

 

Also as a prayer request, we have requested 5 year visas from the government.  Pray that they will be granted.  We have been only getting 1 year visas and they are expensive. Also a 5 year visa saves the headache of all the red tape each year.

 

Thanks again for your prayers and encouragement.

 

Jerry & Kim

January 13, 2009

Once again I apologize for the long silence on this blog.  I find it hard sometimes with our busy schedule to find time to set down and update the blog.  I am thankful to have it and will try to be more diligent in this New Year.

 

I thank each of you for your faithful support both in prayers and finances.  God's blessing were many in 2008.  We praise the Lord for all that was accomplished.  There were several saved and baptized.  We accomplished a lot of work at the Camp and had a great Camping season.  We moved the children and their Foster Home Parents into an apartment created at the Brasov Church.  We had another successful Fall Semester in our Bible Institute.  We welcomed Brother Jim Black and his family to work with us here in Brasov.  Last of all we saw the Church in Brasov call Bro. Lucian Anghel as Pastor.  The Church ordained him on December 7th 2008.

 

We look forward to what God has for us in 2009.  We know as always there will be mountain tops and valleys.  I'm thankful for the valleys that make us appreciate the mountain tops even more.  We will begin our Spring Semester of Bible Institute on the 17th of January.  We look forward to the Medical Team from Faith coming in May.  We plan to come in for furlough after the Medical Team.  We have not decided as of yet how long we will be in the states.

 

Please keep us in your prayers.  I will try to keep the blog updated.  Don't give up on me.

 

Bro. Jerry

August Update

The last two months have continued to be extremely busy.  We are thankful for the souls that have been saved during our camps and also during our church services.  God blessed us with three great camps from the Brasov area.  The first week was teen camp which was then followed by children's camp and adult camp. 

We have now finished our renovation of the upstairs of the Brasov church.  This area now serves as a spacious home for our Foster Children and their House Parents, Lacra and Alex.  We appreciate each one who has worked hard on this project.  In July we had Kasey and Melissa Webb and Aaron Matherly.  They came and worked for the whole month of July.  Also we appreciate Bro. Jim Black for helping last week finish up the kitchen by helping with the cabinets and plumbing.

We are very happy to announce that Bro. Jim Black and his family are moving to Brasov from Bucharesti.  They will be working with us here in the Brasov area.  The Black's are sent out by Living Word Baptist Church in Lewiston Idaho.  We have been working together over the last 6 years in co-operation with our Camp and Bible Institute.  I am looking forward to having them here in Brasov and working together as a Team to bring these churches to greater stability, train workers and continue our evangelistic outreach. 

We are now preparing to attend the European Missions Conference once again.  This conference has served has a great blessing to us over the last 6 years that we have served here in Romania. 

Once again. we thank you for your continued love and support for Faith Romanian Missions.

 

Jerry, Kim and Amy

July 22, 2008

June and July have proven once again to be busy months.  In June we continued our work at the Church Camp and began to gear up for our VBS's.  We were greatly blessed by a two week visit from our daughter Kristin, our grand daughter Jillian, Kim's sister Laurie and my sister April.  God has also blessed us seeing another 4 souls come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

 

On July 2nd our daughter Melissa, her husband Kasey and their friend Aaron, arrived for a month visit.  The have also been a great blessing.  They have concentrated their time to help us work on the Children's Home.  We have been renovating the upstairs portion of our Brasov building.  When we finish this work, this will serve as a spacious home for Lacra, Alex and our foster children.  We appreciate so much the work that Melissa, Kasey and Aaron have done.  We have installed new laminate flooring and have repainted all the rooms.  Where my office has been, now serves as a kitchen.  Even during all this work we have managed to hold three VBS's and make a trip to Germany to pick up the truck that Faith has sent for us to use on the field here in Romania.

 

Next week we will begin Camp.  The first week will be Teen camp and after that we will follow it up with Kid's Camp and Family Camp.  Keep us in your prayers.  Pray for souls to be saved.  Also pray that our energy and health will hold up.

 

Jerry and Kim

June Update

Once again I apologize that it has taken so long to update our blog.  There has been so much going since we arrived back on the field the 1st of April.  In April we began a 5 week work project on the Church Camp in Stramba.  We appreciate very much all who came and gave time and talent to help work at the Camp.  We saw much accomplished.  There were visitors from Florida, Arkansas, Oregon, Kentucky and Idaho.  We also had our Bible Institute closing in April.  At the beginning of May we held our annual School Conference.  We were pleased to have Bro. Joe Morrell and Gedamines from Lithuania to be our guest speakers this year.

 

God blessed us with 4 saved and 4 baptized since we have returned.  We praise the Lord for these.  We look forward to a busy summer of evangelism.

 

Kim and I right now are enjoying some our family that is visiting from the States.  Kim's youngest sister Laurie, my sister, April and our oldest daughter Kristen along with our Grand Daughter Jillian will be with us for the next couple weeks.  On July 2nd  our daughter Melissa and her husband Kasey will be arriving with our youngest daughter Amy.  Kasey and Melissa plan to spend a month and help us work on the Children's Home.  We look forward to their visit also.  Also in July our truck will arrive from the states.  We plan to fly to Germany to pick it up and drive it back to Romania.  This vehicle will be very valuable to the work here.  Once again thank each of you for your prayers and support.  I'll try to do better about updating the blog.

 

Jerry and Kim

On the Road

I'm sorry that it has been a while since I have updated the blog!  We have been busy since we arrived back in the States.  We were glad to get to attend our daughter Melissa's Wedding.  Her and Kasey are very happy and are living in Danville KY.  We have been sharing what God is doing concerning the work in Romania with several churches.  So far, we have been in Arkansas, Kentucky and Missouri.  We will be giving reports among the churches until the end of March and then will head back to Romania.

 

In April we are planning a work project on our camp and also on our building in Brasov.  We ask that you be much in prayer for these projects.

 

Also be in prayer for Paul Parnick.  Paul is one of our young members in the church at Feldioara.  He has cancer and is very ill.  Please pray for he and all his family.

 

Thank you again for your love and support!

 

Jerry, Kim and Amy