Dear Ted, please pray and encourage others to pray for my trip to Poland this Friday to Monday where I will have an SBC training not far from Rybnik. I have spoken with Gienek this week and I hope to see him on my way.
I will keep you informed about how the Lord Jesus is using us for His ministry!
In the week end of 26-27th of November 2016 we had another SBC training event in the Oltenia area situated South-West of Romania. This area is well known for the witchcraft activities and for the hardest opposition to the Gospel. We have been invited there to help them and to provide resources for the ministry (also for the Children ministry) because the number of evangelicals-real Christ followers is very few. In this town of Horezu. It is considered quite an important location, the only evangelical church there that has 8 members and there is a huge evangelistic effort in the last 17 years but limited results. We had the privilege to have this meeting also with leaders from the churches around, some of them from a long distance because the closest evangelical church is 35 kilometers away. We had a very good time together, they were encouraged and they considered this teaching very useful for understanding the spiritual battle field in that area of the Christian life. They appreciated also the books we gave them and the next day we continued the SBC teaching during the Church service. We were very glad to see a new passion for continuing the ministry there in spite of the trials and opposition. The Lord is amazing and the testimony of His children as they become well equipped with SBC training to fulfill His plans in an area like this. We were all encouraged because we saw here how Jesus started a new local church, how He saved some precious souls and how He put in them a hunger and thirst to know more about Him and about His spiritual weapons for defense and attack. May the Lord bless you and us in this process of blessing others and may Lord protect our brothers and sisters that were trained!
Samuel Mitrofan
SBC INTERNATIONAL TEAM LEADERS 2019
Pastor Groves and SBC team leaders west allis, wis.