Dear Milan Bible Church,
    We’re back to school after a summer with lots of wonderful activities. How can I thank you for all your prayers and support? I wish I could send you all the pictures we took at the many places I was this summer. We did youth training at Schitu Duca, about 25 km. from Iasi, with a couple of groups; we trained them to work with children and even do children’s camps for a couple of days. After the training they were the ones who put together mini-camps for the children in their own churches. By doing that two purposes were accomplished: the youth got the training and the children benefited by their “expertise”.
    We also went to the Republic of Moldova to a little village called Brinza, which means cheese, where there is a big church with many children and youth but with little Bible training. The pastor’s name is Dimitri; he is not paid because they don’t believe in paying their pastors and also because they are poor. The pastor asked us to go back there and do some Bible training for the men in the church to be able to preach and in the evenings do a week of revival preaching ending with a baptism service on Sunday. We spent a couple of days there at the time and did a children’s program, worked with the youth and preached (obviously not me, I only did the translation and helped with the children!). Later in the summer we went to the Ukraine where something similar happened: we did some teaching and presented the school at Schitu Duca and its emphasis on evangelism and discipleship. The group of preachers and women who attended the teaching asked us to return and do more training for both men and women. That is exactly what we did two weeks ago. Daniel Rusu, my colleague from CIBB, the Bible School in Iasi, came with us and taught How to Study the Bible and Preaching - how to put together a message (for which he used some of Pastor Kutnow’s material on Homiletics). Separately there was training for children’s ministries.
     I have so many reasons to be thankful to the Lord. Here are some of them:
- the many opportunities to translate in churches and at Conferences
- youth training to work with children
- opportunities to go out to Moldova and the Ukraine and present the two Bible schools, work with children, youth and help with training.
- our students, new and return, at CIBB in Iasi and Schitu Duca
- the Word of God being preached and learned.
- the Cristia Club for girls
- discipleship training in churches
       Please continue to pray for all these ministries God in His grace allowed me to serve Him with. It is such a privilege to do it but prayer is most important so that in doing all these things I never forget who I do them for and grow in my relationship with Him. His be the honor and glory for ever. The rest of the year is also quit busy with classes in Iasi and Schitu Duca and other opportunities to serve the Lord in churches.
      I pray for you, dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, that as a church you continue to grow in the knowledge and wisdom of God so that He will accomplish great things in and through you.
With love, in Christ,
Marcela