My dear brothers who take part in various ways with us in the gospel field, words are not enough to thank you for your efforts.

Following your prayers and your involvement in various forms, we have reached the period when the evangelistic events also begin. This year, any action of the Church within the radius of the Schitu commune is approved, something that keeps us in a moment of gratitude towards our heavenly Father.

Along with these wonderful things that we do in God’s will come trials. I was very badly injured on the finger on my left hand, I didn’t had any means of communication for a while, the minibus with which I do various services in the mission and take people to the Church broke down, it doesn’t start anymore, at this moment I don’t have any documents, the wallet with all the documents simply disappeared. At this moment, when I am writing these lines preparing for Saturday’s evangelization in the Perieți church, our eldest daughter called me and gave us some not-so-good news, her father-in-law died.

We are in the time when the bad is good and the good is bad, as the scriptures say, well-spoken people go, but we have to work while it’s day.

Our dear brothers, thank you for your efforts. This year, thanks to the good God who gives us passage before the local authorities, we will have more evangelistic events. Pray that there will be as many people as possible who will participate in those events. The events are the only ways at this time that we can reach people with the gospel, the reasons being that people are busy, and during the summer I also have to go to work for my daily bread.

1. Pray that people will be touced by the Word of God.
2. Pray for the authorities of the communes where we have events.
3. Pray for the local church of Perieti to grow spiritually and numerically.
4. Pray for financial resources for the construction of Lisa, which we pray, will begin this year.
5. Pray also for us as a family that the Lord may strengthen and bless us in the ministry.
   

We stand in the places where the Lord has put us on guard, we look with joy at the works we have done together for the glory of God, the salvation of people and the building of the kingdom of God.

My dear brothers and dear Church, this year started with great challenges both personally and in the ministry, personal: I had to do several tests on the heart and lungs, so that some suspicions on the lungs could be eliminated, so that I could enter treatment for the heart and lungs.

In the ministry, we stand before the Lord and pray to help us start the construction in Lisa where there is a great need for a place where we can have Christian activities. I have started meeting groups in the villages of Perieti, Lisa and Schitu and I see how people have a reluctance either to be invited to my house or to invite me to their house, that’s why we need a meeting place in Lisa where people can come to be exposed to Gospel.

Prayer Requests:

• May the Lord give us financial resources for the construction of Lisa.
• May the Lord give me the health that He knows is needed in my body.
• May the Lord work on the hearts of the people who will be exposed to the word this year.
• May the Lord take care of us this year as a family.
• May the Lord be with our children where they are at school or at work.

We look back with joy and forward with hope that the Lord of glory and harvest will be with us in the next year, amen!

This year, as a servant of the Lord, I made the God’s ministry, together with you, through different methods and activities, bringing the good news to some villages. In this way I want to thank you very much. Today is  about you, I want to thank you for being a great help to us in the Lord’s ministry and to us as a family.

At the end of the year we are going through a difficult period because of my health condition, tomorrow on December 27th I will go for a CT scan. For the events of this period that you prayed for, you were involved in, the Lord gave a great blessing and in two localities, precisely in Valcele and Schitu, approximately 400 souls: grandparents, parents, children, were exposed to the Gospel.

Prayer Requests:

• Pray for the salvation of those who recieved the Gospel. 
• For the growth of the Church, spiritually and numerically.
• For my health condition and for my family: may God strengthen us.
• Also pray for resources in the ministry: human and financial.
• Pray for the decisions I need to make, that I will make them under God’s guidance.

I begin by thanking the Lord for you, for each one of you, as the apostle Paul also says (we are workers together with God). In the mission field, we pray that the good God will work in giving us new strategies to reach people’s hearts with the gospel this year. Our partners, the Ekklesia church, got in touch with the Association of Christian Doctors from Romania and together we organized a medical ministry in Schitu where approximately 100 people heard the gospel, 60 people also benefited from medical consultations. This mission had a very big impact among the people who benefited from the consultations in the village of Lisa, people talked until late at night. In the locality of Schitu, someone told me that there was talk even at the service of the Orthodox church.

Prayer Requests:

1. Pray for all the people who have benefited from the consultations, that we stay in touch and continue to visit them.
2. Pray for new souls To receive the Lord in their heart.
3. Pray that the good God will protect our family, girls at work, at college, among young people.
4. Please pray for divine intervention regarding our financial situation so that I will not be in the position of going to France for work until the end of the year.

I ask that the grace and blessing of the Father be with you every step of the way, all of you who, in one way or another, take part in the ministry of the Church in Perieti and the surrounding villages where I serve.

With God’s help, it will continue to be a challenging year and it will be necessary to reach the local authorities in Schitu as often as possible. I want you to continue to pray for the mayor of Schitu, a young mayor with ambitions, when he became the mayor, the first thing he told me was that as long as he is mayor I will not get any approval from him for any spiritual activity within the radius of the Schitu. God changed his mind, softened his heart and every year I got at least 3 approvals. There were some events when I invited him and he came, please continue to pray for him because I still need other approvals from him.

Thank you for the prayers you raise for us who are in the field with the crops ready to reap.

Prayer requests:

• Pray for power to serve and proclaim the gospel in many forms, organized events, evangelism from man to man, visits with evangelistic purpose.
• Pray for the salvation of people. Pray for the Perieti Church to grow spiritually and numerically.
• Pray for God’s protection over the Vlad family, so that Rebeca does not have emotions at BAC (final high-school exam).
• Pray for the minibus with which we went on mission and with which we do many works within the church and community. Pray that the Lord intervenes so that we can purchase a new minibus for the Lord’s ministry.

I ask for the grace, peace and blessing of the Father in heaven to guide us this year as well, together to be the voice, the feet and the eyes of the Lord.

The holidays are over, carolers are over and we thank God. We stayed here with the people, to listen to their discouragement, fear of tomorrow, to be their encouragement, pointing to the Lord, where our salvation comes from, telling both children and parents that God loves us unconditionally.

I heard and saw with my own eyes the situation of a person who said: I still have a corner of bread and some splinters that I taked from the street, and then I don’t know what I will do.

Finding myself daily in the middle of the community, I noticed the need of a little child very dear to my soul, almost every day after school he wore rubber slippers on his feet during this winter time. I said the following: believe and seek the Lord, trust in God.

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. – Hebrews 11:1

Together we can enjoy the victory, because we are together workers with God and each of us will be found worthy in the work entrusted to him, amen, amen.

Prayer requests:

• Pray for all who are exposed to the word to be searched and saved
• Pray that by God’s mercy and grace we will have a new testament baptism.
• Pray also for us as a family that we can face the challenges, that the Lord will take care of us in every area of our daily lives.

At the end of this year, all that remains to be said is: glorified be the Lord. First of all, I thank God for all of you who took part in the spread of the gospel in the ministry area of the Perieti church and the surrounding villages. Despite all the obstacles that the evil one tried to put during this year, God listened to the prayers and used your resources for the gospel to be proclaimed.

Sister Veronica confessed the Lord in the water of baptism, several people from the village of Lisa participated in this wonderful event. It was a good opportunity for people to hear and see the Lord’s work.

Prayer requests:

1. Pray for the people who hear the Word on different occasions and events, to be saved
2. Pray for a new testament baptism in the year 2023
3. Pray for resources in the Lord’s ministry
4. Pray for protection and financial resources for us as a family.

In this way I want to thank God for all of you who take part with us in the work of proclaiming the gospel.

This year I wanted to take my vacation on the construction site, to go and preach the Gospel to these people where no one reaches with the Gospel, to have a penny for the work I do for 10 hours/day and in this way to be able to cover and part of the expenses for the girls’ school. The plan worked very well, I found souls eager to hear the word of God, to know another way of life apart from the one with scandal, alcohol, tobacco! I am also happy that some of them said that they will go to the Church with me.

Of course, there were also trials in my life, our car which I do ministry with broke down, the gearbox and several components from the braking system failed, this year the steering system has done thousands of km in the ministry, to help refugees from Ukraine.

Be blessed in all your work, amen.

We praise the Lord as a family, as the Church, in the ministry which the Lord has called us to serve Him: to make known to people the forgiveness of sins here and now, through the Lord Jesus.

In this ministry, on different occasions and in different ways, you took part and carried the good news of God with us!

This year in the ministry area we had a VBS where approximately 25-40 children were exposed daily to the word of God, some children were accompanied by their parents or grandparents. A grandmother testified that she also came to see what her granddaughter is learning here, that when she goes home from the program she tells a lot of stories until she falls asleep (and the somehow jealous grandmother wanted to specify: we are a family of priests). Indeed many parents with who I spoke to said that their children go home very happy, that they can’t wait for the night to pass, to come to VBS again. We made a lot of friends with this event and we want to share the gospel with them.

For technical reasons we cannot send pictures this time.

Prayer Requests:

• Pray for all children and parents, may the Lord bring fruit.
• Pray for new events where the word of the Lord will be proclaimed.
• Pray for our financial support, from this month our support is only 120 RON.
• Pray for Cristina and the women’s group, may the Lord bear fruit.