Dear friends and partners,

It's very hard to describe in a few words what God's done over the last few weeks. We've never experienced the kind of miracles I'm about to share with you!!!

My wife and I and four of our group went to Târgoviste for two weeks to help with the plant of a new church. Along with an American team and the local team and most of all with God's grace, we believed that "impossible" is not a word in God's vocabulary. Everybody's been saying how difficult it is to evangelize in the southern part of Romania, how people are not responding to anything and how it's impossible to get them to receive God.

Well once again God proved all men to be liars by showing us all that anything is possible with Him.

Altar Call at Street Rally
Târgoviste, Romania

We took our sound system with us because we were supposed to have about three street rallies every afternoon advertising the "Big Event" on Sat the 21st. Well the mayor and the officials were not in that much of a hurry so we didn't have the permits to do anything in the street for almost a week. When I said "anything", I meant anything that uses PA system with loud speakers. So we prayed and thought what to do. We decided we'd just go across the street from the hotel in the beautiful park where hundreds of young people hang out. So we took a few guitars and all of us went to the park sat down and started singing song in both English and Romanian. In just a few minutes we had a lot of young people all around us. So we started talking with them and invited them to sing with us. This went on for four days and by the end of the four days we had about 75 people attending our park meetings.

After six days we finally got permission to perform with loud speakers. We told all our new friends to bring their friends for the Tues night street event. Even though it was raining about 150 came to see us perform. At the end was the best part, when after I gave an alter call about 50 prayed with me, and then we spent another hour talking with them. While talking to them God would show us who to spend more time with and show more love towards. This one guy called Catalin around 19 years old was very captivated by the love he saw. His father left their family and he didn't really know what real love is until that night. He was absorbing every word from us and all of them didn't want to go home even though it was getting dark by now.

Catalin, "the muscle guy", joining in the drama

Next day at 2pm we invited all those interested in music, drama, mime, puppets to come to the resource center where we had four different rooms for the different activities. At 9am we'd usually have devotions with the teams, so Catalin, Victor and Ionut got invited to our devotional. As we started worshiping God, Catalin the "muscle guy" we'd call him, started crying and sobbing and couldn't stop. He felt so overwhelmed by God's presence that he could not hold hid tears. I told him that it was OK to cry or laugh or jump up and down in God's presence. Then Victor and Ionut felt like they should give their lives to the Lord, so right there and then they received Jesus in their lives. The atmosphere was so incredible, joy, tears, more joy and some more joy on top of that. At the end I said if anyone has any questions. Catalin's only question was, "When the Americans leave can I still come here?" We rejoiced over the fact that he and the other wanted to be a part of what we were doing. So at two a clock we had about 35-40 young people come to the Ministry Resource Center to be with us. Five of them brought their guitars, so Phil and I took all the musicians to a room where we had a drum kit and guitar amp to rehearse some songs for the night's event which was to be held in the hotel's conference hall. I must remind you that these are nonbelievers that came to practice with us. We also decided we'd let some of them perform in the different dramas so they'd feel a part of what was going on. Everybody had so much fun, and they were very happy and didn't know why. God was working on their hearts, getting them ready to receive Him.