Spreading the Gospel in Southern Oltenia RESO

NEWSLETTER March 2014

For we are laborers together with God 1 Corinthians 3:9

Costea Raul- pastor at Hope Church Draganesti-Olt, Romania / RESO Ministry Coordinator











The
harvest is
plentiful
but the
workers
are few.
Ask the
Lord of the
harvest,
therefore,
to send
out
workers
into his
harvest
field.

In the context of the reorganization
RESO mission, several questions came
into to my mind. How will hundreds of
thousands of people from Oltenia hear
the Gospel? How they will be discipled?
How will we plant other churches?

These challenges led to a greater
dependence on God, and gave me the
desire to pray more that the Father
would send out workers to his harvest
field. Every morning from 8-9, we prayed
for this with the 9,000 souls project
workers. From 10 to 12 I interceded
again with other groups helping our
missionary work.

This overwhelming sense of urgency and
need for workers led me to look for
other sources, for the recruitment of
workers both short and long term. This
search was answered in March, when
sister Rachel Martin confirmed her arrival
as a long term missionary in our area.

We need prayers for the ability to
recruit other workers and to make
new, local, or regional
partnerships.

I get great satisfaction every Tuesday
evening when I see the men that I train
for preaching. Their Hermeneutics and
homiletics skills are growing more and
more.
We feel great joy when we plant a new
church, preach the Word, or even recruit
new missionaries. I think nothing compares
with the joy of seeing people converted.

In March I had the opportunity to baptize a
sister from America who decided to obey
God, confessing Him in baptism.
During this special event, God wrapped us
with His Holy Spirit and other people
began expressing their desire to obey God
and to be baptized.

Spreading the Gospel in Southern Oltenia RESO
NEWSLETTER March 2014
For we are laborers together with God 1 Corinthians 3:9


Comani- Costea Alexe
As we all know, March is a special month for
women and mothers. And so we began the
month organizing a special event for them on
March 8th. Florina Darvell and Veronica, my
wife, organized this event; they expected
around 50 women to come. They asked me to
buy juice and cookies. I believe it was the
Spirit of God that inspired me to buy food for
100 women. We had 95 chairs and two
benches all filled and even women standing!
A woman involved in witchcraft even came to
the event, but God made everything turn out
alright, just as we expected.
Together with the parents of the Word Race
missionaries (Parents Vision Trip) we visited
our friends who regularly attend our church
programs. We have prayed regularly for three
years for one family, Jeni and Cornel, to get
married. During our visit with them, we
received the news that after 22 years of living
together they have decided to get married. I
was very happy with this big decision in their
life, because Jeni said this was one obstacle
between them and God. We continued our
ministry with the help of WR missionaries
through prayer, English courses, visits,
construction, and street evangelism. Veronica
went out with the WR missionaries to do
some street evangelism and was surprised to
find people that do not know Jesus; she
expected they would at least have heard His
name before, but they had not.
Brother Michael Dailey ministered to us
through preaching and visits to our friends.
Veronica began taking lessons at the driving
school and needs prayer so she can learn
well. She will take the theoretical examination
soon.
Prayer Requests
-wisdom in ministry
-protection of our family
-Corina, Leana, Nicusica, Jeni, Cornelia,
Catalina, Gabi, Ionut
-a van for ministry
-funds for finishing the construction
-Easter event
Stoica Marian-Daneasa, Maruntei This month we went to
Germany with the whole family. We used this opportunity to visit
new churches, as well as churches that partner with RESO ministry.
We were glad to find brothers and sisters willing to support us
either in prayer or missionary visits.
Philippians 2:13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act
in order to fulfill his good purpose.

Spreading the Gospel in Southern Oltenia RESO
NEWSLETTER March 2014
For we are laborers together with God 1 Corinthians 3:9

Opris Daniel- Draganesti-Olt, Coteana

God is working in the lives of the people who
attend our Bible study meetings and come to
Hope Church in Draganesti. Our brothers in
Coteana are doing evangelism and visiting the
unsaved.

Changes are being seen in some people. One
woman broke up with a man because she
realized she was living in sin, and she stopped
bringing alcohol into her house. She now invites
her neighbors and relatives to come to her home
where she shows Christian movies and testifies
about the Lord. She has asked to be baptized.

Lidia and I are investing in the lives of three
teenagers from the time they came to our kids
groups in Coteana. One of the girls was asked by
a teacher if she is attending our meetings. The
girl said yes and the teacher was curious as to
why she attends the meetings if she is an
orthodox believer. The girl replied that she likes
going and feels good there.

A different teen was told by her school teacher
that she will commit the biggest sin if she turns
away from the Orthodox faith. Lidia told her that
it is not a shame if someone wants to follow
Jesus, and urged her to obey God rather than
men (Acts 4:19).
Please pray for them to be strengthened in their
faith.

Dorothy Reid Draganesti-Olt, Calinesti

March was the month of conferences! We were
blessed as children's workers to have two men
formerly from Nigeria, brother Moses and
brother Tayo, come and share from God's Word
and encourage us in the ministry of reaching
children with the Good News and discipling
them.


Another blessing was having the parents of the
World Race youth team with us for a week in our
homes and on mission. My group visited widows
and delivered bags of groceries.
In spite of the week-long rain God worked in
wonderful ways: one of the mothers who stayed
at my place with her daughter, Katie, chose to
follow the Lord in the waters of baptism while
here.

Spreading the Gospel in Southern Oltenia RESO
NEWSLETTER March 2014
For we are laborers together with God 1 Corinthians 3:9

God also used our team of W.R. to bless the
children at clubs on Thursdays and Saturdays, as
well as at Sunday evening Sunday School.

Dorothy Reid
Children's ministry coordinator


Dumitru Mircea- Corabia

During this
month, with
God's help, we
began
implementing
two projects.
Together with
our brothers
Daniel Dumitru
and Doug
Droll, from
Craiova, we started teaching basic literacy lessons
to seven people.

These people desire to read the Bible but they do
not know how to. This action is a part of a larger
project, which is called Prepared for life. Together
with the same brothers and youth from World Race
we started to preach the Gospel in order to find six
people willing to study the Bible with us. We
started by talking to people near the area we rent
for our Sunday morning meetings.
For our prayer requests I that want to introduce two
people in this update. Doina, the woman we rent
the space from for our church meetings, has begun
to ask several questions about religion. In one of
our discussion I shared was able to share the
Gospel with her. Although she was very polite I
noticed she rejected the message. Pray that her
heart would be opened to the Lord.
The second person is Florin, my disciple with whom
I meet each week to study and teach how to
become a man of peace. He was the one who
wanted to change his life in this aspect. Pray that he
may became a person who would resolve conflicts
in a godly way.


Serban George- Stoenesti, Farcasele
Thank God for His grace poured out upon us this
month. We recognize the need for His grace upon
us and the mission here.
This year we plan to visit each house in order to
evangelize to every person. Satan does not like that
and he wants to stop us through his interventions.
We want to thank everyone who prayed for our
protection.
In two of the villages were we are involved in, two
families disappeared with all their children. Seeing
us in the villages, people spread rumors that we
took these families. Some of them stopped me on
the street asking if what they had heard was true.
We realized it was an attack from the Evil one. He
wants to demoralize us, and in some ways he
succeeded. But we want to again thank everyone
who prayed for us!
On another occasion, I was stopped by the police
and asked who we are and what we were doing.
After a long discussion, our purpose was clear to
these people. We want to continue to tell people
about Jesus and the Good News.
For a week, a family of missionaries from Alba Iulia,
helped us in ministry by equipping, preaching in
church, and encouraging our family.
Spreading the Gospel in Southern Oltenia RESO
NEWSLETTER March 2014
For we are laborers together with God 1 Corinthians 3:9

We ministered in the following villages: Farcaseele,
Gostavatu and Stoenesti. We prayed going through
them, and then we distributed Christian literature. I
saw the power of prayer when people who received
literature expressed a desire to join a Bible study.
Others were happy to have literature, saying that
they want to come to our Church program.
We thank God for our daughter Sara. She came to
me one day and told me she wants her school to
become a Christian school.

I encouraged her to pray for her peers. She did
more than that, she asked for New Testaments to
give to her peers; the next day she was so glad she
did this! She gave New Testaments to all the
children in her class, to the teacher, and even to
children from other classes who asked for New
Testaments. Praised be God!
Thank you for joining us in this ministry, may
God bless and reward you for all you do.

Berechet Octavian- Maruntei
Thank you so much for your continued support.
March was a great month full of many blessings. I
am excited to share with you the things that God
has been doing in our community.
We were visited by
teams from the
World Race, and
they were able to
help Veronica and
me with kids club,
as well as sharing
the gospel with
youth in the community. We also had the
opportunity to work with a Parent Vision Trip (PVT),
a week where parents of world racers come and
work alongside us in the field. It was great to see
the families listening to God and remaining open to
how the Spirit was moving. They really enjoyed
sharing the gospel and praying for the people. We
did prayer walks where we prayed over each home
individually, asking God to stir in their hearts and
praying against any evil spirits. We also had a
special meeting with a young man named Ioni from
Maruntei, and I was able to talk with him about
Jesus. He was open and after the meeting he left
with a genuine interest for God. Please pray that
the Lord continues to work in his heart and that he
would remain open to the Spirit.
My family was very blessed to be visited by brother
Moses and brother Tayo from Grace Evangelistic
Ministries. They were able to build me up and give
me confidence in regards to spiritual warfare. They
filled my family with encouragement and Godly
advisement.

Spreading the Gospel in Southern Oltenia RESO
NEWSLETTER March 2014
For we are laborers together with God 1 Corinthians 3:9

Prayer Requests:
Ioni Pray that he would remain open, and
that God would give him an intense desire to
learn more about Him.
Please pray for Gods provision for the
ministrys needs.
Pray for God to give us wisdom about how
to share the gospel with the people in our
community.
Spreading the Gospel in Southern Oltenia RESO
NEWSLETTER March 2014
For we are laborers together with God 1 Corinthians 3:9








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