Category: Family updates

Back 2 Cluj

This afternoon we returned to Cluj, to get back into the ministry here after a 7-week, 3 state trip in America, during which time we had blessed ministry at 8 churches. It was a great trip and we very much enjoyed the time ministering to and with our brothers and sisters in Texas, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. We’re looking forward to seeing what God does in partnership with teams later this year who might join us in Cluj for evangelism.
Now, after a couple days to try to adjust to jet-lag, etc., we’ll be back into our regular ministry schedule, and looking forward to proclaiming the message of salvation in the Easter season.
Our family is glad to be back, and our daughter Briana is reunited with her precious kitty, Phoebo, which is making both of them happy.

Thanksgiving List

Before you get to making your “Christmas wish list,” don’t forget to make your Thanksgiving List.
Here’s the one from our family for this year:

1. We thank God for our marriage, our family, our home, and His protection of our health and lives this year.
2. We thank God for His salvation through Christ who died for our sins, and His continual outpouring of grace and mercy on us.
3. We thank God for giving us a ministry, for the opportunities to proclaim Christ, for the many who have believed the gospel, for those of them who have gone on with the Lord in growth and discipleship, and for the opportunities we have to continue ministering to many of them in the church in Cluj.
4. We thank God for His goodness and faithfulness in continuing to provide abundantly for all of our financial and material needs.
5. We thank God for our colaborers in ministry here in Cluj, and for our supporting churches, families, individuals, friends, and prayer partners in the US.
6. We thank God for letting us live in a place and time where His precious Word is so readily available to us, combined with the freedom to both read and teach it.
7. We thank God for the gifts and talents to do the ministry to which He has called us.
8. We thank God for the blessings of technology that help us both in ministry and in keeping in touch with others around the world.
9. We thank God for the assurance that Christ is coming again, and for the joy of knowing we will be together with Him forever.

Happy Thanksgiving, and God bless you and your loved ones!

Dave, Lili, and Briana Bunnell

Family pictures

Here are a couple pictures from downtown Cluj yesterday, one I took of my precious wife Lili and daughter Briana, and one that our 4-year-old photographic prodigy of a daughter took of us.

Briana & Lili

Lili & Dave

Briana & Ajay

Briana & "Uncle" 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.

Briana’s Fourth Birthday Dance

Briana dances to her “Uncle” Ajay’s worship song “Above All Names” before celebrating her fourth birthday with a princess party.

Back home

Briana is now safely back home from her vacation at her grandparents’ place in Slobozia. She had a good time, and she is happy to be back, as we are happy to have her. Tuesday, we’ll celebrate her fourth birthday.