Category: worship

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

Church Thanksgiving–Photos

Follow this link for a look at an album of photos (from my facebook) of our church in Cluj’s celebration of Thanksgiving this week.

Here is one additional photo, not in the facebook album, of the enjoyment of a wonderful meal that evening:

New worship song/our church’s team

For those who would like to see our church’s worship service, here is a clip from Sunday Sept 27’s service. The church is singing a brand new worship song written the week before by Ajay Torres, who ministered here with us for three weeks last month. The words in Romanian and English for the song, “Meriti Toata Slava” (You Deserve All the Glory), are printed below so that English speakers can know what is being sung.

Lyrics in English:
I want to give You my praise
I want to give all my worship to You
I want to give my whole life to You
For You gave Your life for me

You deserve all the glory
All honor belongs to You
All the world can know my love
I lift up my hands to You

Lyrics in Romanian
Vreau să-Ți dau lauda mea
Vreau să mă-nchin numai Ție
Vreau toată viața mea să Ți-o dau
Căci Tu mi-ai dat-o pe-a Ta

Tu mi-ai dat-o pe-a Ta
Meriți toată slava
Cinstea toată e-a Ta
Toți pot vedea iubirea mea
Mâinile Ție le ridic

Ministry Updates

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.