SGSO Spreading the Gospel in Southern Oltenia Ministry of PIEI-ROMANIA

Costea Raul- pastor at Hope Church Draganesti-Olt, Romania / SGSO Ministry Coordinator PIEI Office
Address: 5518 W. Diversey Ave. Chicago, IL 60639 Phone # 773-202-8500 "I work slowly but constantly" said one of the most influent missionary of India, William Carey. I experienced his words, this month in the service of to the Lord in Oltenia. Despite the fact that I wanted to see an immediate change, however, working with people its need to be done slowly and continuously. And even if it requires an effort and sometimes its a burden, Ive seen the results. One of the results was engaging in both for brothers and for unbelievers. One of these events brought together over 150 people, some of them for the first time in an evangelical context. Pray that the seed of Gospel may bring fruit in these souls.

Web Site
www.piei.org/romania

U.S. Contact
Cornel Stef,
PIEI President Cell Phone # 312-972-4262 E-mail cornelstef@gmail.com cstef@piei.org

evangelism and discipleship ministry of brother Sorin Caragea. This month he was included in the team who is working for the "9,000 souls" project. Seeing him and the others coming each morning for prayer and equipping, and then in the afternoon for evangelism and discipleship I had the satisfaction that we are heading in the right direction slowly but constantly. Through his visit, Brother Ionel Sofrac

PIEI-Romania Contact
Pastor Marcel Cordos
PIEI National Director marcel_cordos@yahoo.com PIEI National Committee Alba Iulia, Romania

ministered our

missionary team and his

preaching led several souls to Christ. These sunny days were interrupted by the sudden death of brother John Maior. We have been active participants in the funeral but the gap left behind by Pastor Maiors death in Oltenia can hardly be filled by someone. Please pray for the mourning family.

Andrei Dragomir

Secretary E-mail: andrei@pie.ro

Pastor Raul Costea

Email: costea_raul@yahoo.com

I challenged youth from the World Race By God's grace we organized the first meeting for non-Christian people engaged in leading position in town. Even if it was a shy start, I felt fully the grace of God not only in the context we created but in the testimony of people. A deputy mayor said: "I feel like a burden was taken off from my soul." Together with youth from the World Race we organized fellowship and evangelistic events, groups to do mission and by the end of the month, a young woman, Sara, responded positively with a desire to return to Romania, in the missionary work. Father in heaven! We have been invited to the annual National Youth Conference, organized by the Citadel church from Alba Iulia on December 1 (the National Day of Romanians). The conference theme was Be there! We attended together with youth from local churches but also with All glory be to our

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our friends. Young people were warned about the lack of meaning of life without God. On the last evening, the participants were challenged to draw a mental line for their final destination. Those who wished to enter the Heavenly City were asked to come on the stage and symbolically, to put their finger mark on a tree of life posted on the stage. In this way they promised that they will be there, in the presence of Him, who is expecting them. We pray for those who have been with us to have a sincere desire to be there, in the city of God!

Comani- Costea Alexe

November was the month of miracles. We saw God's hand at work especially regarding the construction of the church building, but also in people's lives. God is good and He did great things for us. Activities and Events Churchs building construction We succeeded to purchase and put the sheets roof, to install the entrance door as well as the boiler system for heating. Now that the cold weather came, we thank God that we have heat. We succeeded with Gods help to install the windows for the first level of the building. We built the stairs in front of the building. We had to build an outdoor room for the boiler system. In all of this we have seen the hand of God and how He has guided the decisions we had to take. If you choose to listen the Holy Spirit you will be blessed. We have seen this! During the first Sunday meeting, with heat, people were so glad that they no longer have to freeze

that they broke out into prayers of praise and thanksgiving.

We have been blessed with a WR team who served in different ways: daily prayers, in construction, giving brochures on the street, they made visits and organized English lessons.

Every Sunday morning we have church service in Comani and, in the evening we go together in Drgnesti. It is hard to deal this situation just with the personal car we have (our family counts alone 6 people). Please come in prayer to God. That He may bless Comani ministry with a good buss. I think it will be a great help both for transportation and also for children ministry.

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Opris Daniel- Draganesti-Olt, Coteana
In Coteana I made visits to people with whom I stay in touch. Both me and my wife we did Bible studies and prayed with several people. I continued to meet with a believers family, with their unsaved neighbors and with their relatives. I talked to a boy who had a surgery and he had to stay in bed. Before he wasnt willing to hear the Word but now he is listening. I want to keep in touch with him. A social project that we have is to provide monthly food for some poor children to make their sandwiches for school. God helped us this month much more than we expected. Regarding children's ministry, we continued the meetings we have and we explained to children through the pictures what sin is and that is a bad thing and it can separates us from God. Lidia presented them God's plan of salvation. Children were given short books with Bible lessons. I visited them at home to see if they wrote something on their books. by Andreea in Stoenesti (see photo). God also did something special this month while visiting the widows. At the first stop, the topic of sin came up and 86 yr old Fanica said, "I have never sinned." That opened a door to share the meaning of sin and what Christ has done about it. At another home we were met at the gate by a woman who asked for advice. She is caring for her 3 handicapped adult siblings, but her husband's drinking and aggressiveness is causing immense stress in the home. One of our miss'ry men has agreed to go and speak with this husband. Please pray that God will guide in the timing of the visit and give our brother the words to say. At the final home where we went to drop off a bag of groceries and package of Depends (pampers) for a bedridden widow, her daughter came towards us and crying told us: "S-a dus! Mama s-a dus!" (She's gone. Mother is gone!) She had died just hours earlier! I and the young women with me from World Race were invited in the house to see the body. The women who sat about crying said, "The priest told us she is in a better place, but we don't know." I sensed the Lord moving me to say something. That very morning at our 8 am ladies prayer group, Ana Costea the pastor's wife, had played a message on heaven and hell. I shared with the ladies in that small village home in Radomiresti what the "priest" had preached on and how he said that NOW is the time to put our trust in Jesus. After we die it is too late. Pray for Paula that God will open her heart to the TRUTH. She does not yet trust in Jesus as her personal Saviour and all these years of caring for her sick mother she has been told by people that God will give her a great reward. When I visited her one day after her mother's death she broke down crying saying she does not understand how punishment could await her after all she has done and suffered in this life. Pray that she will understand His salvation is not based on our good deeds but is a free gift of grace.

Dorothy Reid Draganesti-Olt, Calinesti

The Lord gave us an extra long Fall which was a blessing for our children's groups which meet outside such as the group in Farcasele Saturdays with Andreea Condrache (see photo). Two special blessings for me personally this month were an outing with some children during their week of vacation (see photo) and participating at a young teen event held

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Stoica Marian- Draganesti, Daneasa si
resources and the right people. God opened up doors! Pray to stay opened and to bear fruit that will glorify His goodness and love which accompanied us fully this month! We continued evangelism in various forms: childrens groups and discipleship. Pray for us! In December we want to invest in a boys group in a different context: we want to have lunch together and after that to study Scripture. Andrea, my wife will cook every day and then, we will cover each day one chapter from the book of Proverbs.

Pestra

Evangelism through English classes. This month we built up our groups and the relationships that we have by organizing English classes in the

We thank our God who brings in His time the right

parents houses. Such opportunities help us to relate to parents and to serve them practical. A mother that we met had a problem with an outlet. The fact that I offered to fix it was for her a pleasant surprise.

Social
Inspired by Matthew 9:35, we managed to reach a few families with clothing. A special case was of a middleaged lady. Is bedridden because of the

Activities and events

Childrens groups in Frunzaru and Sprancenata villages. With youth from WR we managed to reach these groups more than just once a month, as we usually do. Due to the cold weather, in one day, we had to meet inside the car with about 12 children. In a pleasant way, this brought more heat in the car as well as in relations between us. Children had the opportunity to hear about Jesus through the World Race missionaries and also to take part to English lessons.

problems she has with her back. For many

years she alone had to take care for her sick parents. And this had caused her illness and now she lives with her married son in the same house. Their income is just the social aid which not allows her to see a doctor or be hospitalized, especially

Evangelism / Discipleship
A form, in which I mixed those two, was to invite with me in ministry is in a the person who

now, when she said, all the doctors expect to receive money.

process of knowing God as a Savior. The ministry was to translate the English lessons Race. organized from by World missionaries

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received from them.

Hope for the Comunnity Organization

During brother Sofracs visit, we distributed within SGSO ministry salami and sausages products that we have Also, there were distributed material goods as: clothes, shoes, furniture, canned vegetables, etc.) which were donated by the Netherlands Organization HOE. Both the food and the other goods were a real blessing for many families in need. We thank to all our partners for their gifts and for their participation.

A wonderful picture, which you can watch in this world, is a young family, surrounded by children running joyfully. In November I had the opportunity to see the opposite of this picture. Visiting a family to tell them about the glorious news, salvation through Jesus Christ, I had the chance to find two spouses accusing each other without taking into account that in front of them that are three strangers (us). For an hour we talked to them about salvation, about family and relationships built on Christ as a result of spiritual birth. The man listened and said that he want this way of life but the woman, who accused the most, remain indifferent to all that we discussed. Pray for this young mother. The man began to take care of children but we do not know anything about her intentions Activities We have made a new step forward into the mission. We started Bible studies in the homes of three families. Dan and Cristina, Nicu and Mariana and the third family Ana and Cristi. All these families are young. Our prayer is that they may be born again and then to take part in spreading the Gospel in southern Romania. With God's help we managed to cover some needs of several needy families

Kevin Weppler- Comani

Kevin's father, Leroy passed away after a short diagnosis of bone marrow cancer on Monday Nov 11th at the age of 77. We returned to Ontario on Nov 13th to attend the visitation and funeral. Please prayer for Kevin's family, especially Kevin's mom during this time of

Prayer All young family members to be born again Those who are receiving material help to put their trust in God Understanding the priorities God has for us.

morning. We have extended our stay in Ontario 2 more weeks and will now leave again for Romania on Dec 11th. Pray for us to have peace in leaving family behind in Ontario as we travel to Romania.

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the churchyard that he remained without a pastor.

shepherded.

The

entire

community of brothers from Oltenia regretted what happened. We have been also motivated to unity and prayer for his family and also for the church which

We give thanks to our Lord for his rich grace showed to us in his ministry here this month. The Lord teaches us not to give up but to move forward to proclaim God's Word in spite of opposition, ignorance or sin that reigns in this area. Our Lord teaches us this in the parable from Luke 11:9-10, we have to ask, to seek and to keep knocking. We believe that the Lord will answer and He will bring the light of his Gospel that will shine over the dark peoples hearts and the desert shall blossom as the rose. Paul said that he did not lose his heart because the inner man is being renewed every day (2 Cor. 4:16). We want to be daily renewed in our inner man so that we can handle all the fights. This month we had a missionary team from abroad and with their help we have served in four villages in children ministry and street evangelism. In Farcasele we continued our weekly meeting for the two kids groups. We do not have a location but the children said that they would come to meetings even if it is cold outside. These meetings take place on a football field and on the Olt river shore. May the Lord bless His Word in the hearts of these children who regularly attend the groups. We had an unpleasant event. Our oldest daughter fell down and she was taken by ambulance to the hospital. After a general check the doctors concluded that she is suspected for epilepsy. We did a series of investigations and nothing from what doctors initially said was confirmed. Because we called the ambulance, doctors rushed to make a wrong diagnosis. We thank God that all is well and Sara is healthy. Continue to pray for us as a family, to have protection from Gods power and to live in His will. The unexpected departure of brother Nelu Maior to be with the Lord, profoundly affected our lives and ministry here. Without suffering from any disease, he died inside

During the week we meet in small groups to study the word of God. As a church we pray for sanctification and deepening our life prayer. We really want in May God help us in this! A conference for business people was organized. We have invited mayors, teachers in order to show them how to lead godly. Not all of them came but we pray for those who attended to be Lord. We have organized meeting for young people in Stoenesti. We were able to draw closer one each other. One of my goals for 2014 is the discipleship of young people. Thank you so much for prayers and for financial support. God bless you! changed by the our life a clear separation from the world and from all that is worldly.

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