This evening Ajay and our church worship team will have an open-air concert for outreach in the neighborhood of the church, for which invitations have gone out to all of the people nearby. We pray that this will be a fruitful time and that it will also draw some to join us for worship in the church tomorrow morning. Our study through the gospel of Luke brings us tomorrow to a passage that is evangelistic in nature, so pray also for my message to meet ears prepared to hear and hearts prepared to understand and believe the gospel.
Tomorrow evening, Lord-willing, we’ll be having our second baptism service of the month, which is something to praise God for, so the service will be a praise service with a lot of singing.
Month: September 2009
Briana & Ajay
It has been a great blessing to our family, as well as our ministry, to have our friend and worship minister Ajay Torres join us for these three weeks in Cluj.
Stand! Galatians 1b
Tonight’s home fellowship study was part 2 of Galatians chapter 1. The recording is online for your listening pleasure here.
Cluj and the Jewish holocaust
The building pictured above is in the neighborhood where our church meets. We stand in front of it while waiting for the bus to take us home after each service. The plaque on the front of it, pictured below (with English translation on the right), speaks for itself and shows why I have so often been in a very somber mood standing there.
It is financially the poorest area of the city. The Lord will bless those who bless His chosen people, and curse those who curse them.
Preaching to those in chains
We’ve returned from the men’s penitentiary in Aiud, after holding meetings for two sets of prisoners there today. Ajay did Christian worship music about a relationship with the Lord and seeking His presence, and the men were very happy he was there and listening to him with smiles. Between songs, at each meeting I preached a gospel message, one from Luke 23 for the first group and one from John 4 for the second group. All of the men were at the very least respectful and listening to the word being proclaimed, and some had a very favorable response to the invitation to trust Christ as their Savior. An ongoing open door for ministry remains open for our church there, and Liviu will continue to minister there at least once per week, as he did in the past and has been doing again for the past month, while I will also go on occasions when my schedule allows to teach God’s word there. Several also signed up for a mail correspondence course in basic Bible study.
Another possible door may be opening for outreach to a maximum security facility elsewhere.
Please pray for God’s blessing, guidance, and provision for our church’s work to make disciples of Christ among those in prison.
Tomorrow I’m going to prison
Lord-willing, first thing tomorrow morning, my friend and visiting worship minister/musician Ajay Torres will join me and colaborer Liviu on a trip to the men’s penitentiary, where Ajay will minister to the two groups of prisoners in song, followed by my sharing of God’s word. Christ died for all of our sins, including those whose sins also offend man’s conscience enough to land them in prison. And I pray that tomorrow God will be present there in a special way, speaking to their hearts, and letting them know His love and receive His forgiveness, cleansing, and life.
Not another gospel
Tonight at the home fellowship we had a full room to begin our new book study of Galatians. The first passage of the book was taught and discussed and the recording of the message is available for your listening here.
Victor’s baptism
A clip of a baptism we did at a retreat for our church’s worship team last week.
Some still photos of the event can be found here.
Worshiping God Right
How do we worship God in a way that is pleasing to Him and beneficial to His people? Find out in the message from the church on Sunday on 2 Samuel 6. The recording is online here.
Mary Worship Quite Contrary to True Christian Faith
Pictured here is the view out our window of some of the crowd gathering to worship Mary today at the Orthodox Church. Today is one of several annual holidays in her honor. If they were to set aside a day to honor Jesus (they don’t), unfortunately there would be no such crowd to gather.
Michael Jackson’s eternity, and yours
A new meaning for “Corporate” worship?
It’s the weekend. Have a laugh.
Walk of Faith - Dave Bunnell 