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June 29, 2009 - Monday - This past Thursday and Friday I (Scott) served on the teaching team for another History Makers "Journey." These journeys are week-long, intensive retreats where young adults with leadership potential (as nominated by their local churches or places of ministry) come together to study and begin practicing eight core values for history-making leaders. This time I taught the core value of "Family Priority." A Romanian friend of mine is the regional coordinator for these events that are held 2 or 3 times each year. The next one will be in September. It is very encouraging to teach at these events and interact with and invest in the young adults (about 15 this time) whom God is raising up as the next generation of Christian leaders for Romania. Thanks for praying for this event.

This weekend we attended a crusade-type conference sponsored primarily the Pentecostal churches in Arad. The speaker/evangelist was Cecil Stewart from CCN (Christian Communication Network) based in Northern Ireland. A number of people were saved over the course of the weekend, and several healings were reported as well. Pray that God will bring lasting fruit in the lives of all who were touched by God this weekend.

Today Lydia is beginning a summer high school course in Spanish I. She and we would appreciate your prayers for her to be able to complete the course successfully by mid-August so she can test into Spanish II for the regular school year that begins in late August. Making time for study will be a challenge in her summer schedule, and she's concerned about losing or confusing her Romanian language :-).  Scott

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June 22, 2009 - Monday - Just to bring all of you up to date... I (Paula) went to a "western"-style medical clinic in Budapest on Friday to get another opinion on my mysterious leg infection. After several people expressed growing concern, I decided it was time to seek further attention. I was actually thinking I would need to have the wound lanced, and I didn't want that done here if possible. To make a long story short, the doctor feels that the infection just needs more time to heal (continued antibiotic) and to be kept moist and clean so it can drain properly. So, I am continuing this course of action and will depend upon your prayers to bring on the healing. :-) I am shocked to report that the appointment did cost me $200...this made me feel more sick than the infection itself! However, I am trying to remember that this was not a surprise to God and He will provide.

Yesterday a dear friend of mine from our church, Roxi, was married. Scott performed the service in English AND Romanian. He did a great job! :-) Scott and I were also asked to be the Naşi (pronounced nahsh, roughly translated as god-parents) for Roxi and her new husband, Mac. I was thinking during the ceremony how blessed we are to have gotten to know so many people...and to love them and be loved in return.

Thursday of this week, I will have the awesome privilege to sing with a new friend of mine from England, Lara, who has moved here to work with worship leaders. It is certainly a blessing for me to "hang" with her and share our mutual passion for worship and worship leaders here in Romania. I never in my life imagined she would ever ask me to sing with her...but she did. (You can check out her songs on YouTube under Lara Martin.) Please pray for me...this venue on Thursday will be a businessman's breakfast led by Cecil Stewart, a well-known Irish evangelist. I desire to be a blessing...!

Also on Thursday, Scott leaves for the popular Romanian resort town of Baile Herculane to teach at another History Makers conference with young Romanian leaders. Pray for his teaching time! Paula

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June 17, 2009 - Wednesday - An update on Paula’s mysterious leg wound. With some guidance from a medical friend in the US we were able to find a different antibiotic here that is more specific for skin-type infections (yes, we can still get most meds here without a prescription). She has been self-medicating with this new antibiotic along with frequent cleaning and a disinfectant solution given by the doctor here. The wound has improved in terms of being less sore and the size of the hard area under and around the wound shrinking. However, the center of the wound is still open, sore, and showing significant infection. So while there is some improvement, there is also still a long ways to go.

Paula will finish the first course of antibiotics today and then begin a second course. We are also consulting with a doctor-friend in the US and are considering going to a high-quality medical clinic in Budapest, Hungary. Thanks for continuing to pray for Paula and this concern.

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June 10, 2009 - Wednesday - A special request for prayer... Paula has developed a serious infection in a wound (of mysterious origin) on the calf of her right leg. She has been to a local doctor twice, is on antibiotics (starting a second kind today), and is keeping the wound as clean as possible. As well as this normal course of treatment, she spent one night with a slice of tomato tied to the wound (a recommendation of a Romanian friend to decrease the infection...the doctor suggested a crushed cabbage leaf). This is the second skin infection she has had in the last couple of months. This morning she and the doctor discussed her family’s history of diabetes (from which her sister died of complications), but her glucose test came back well within normal limits. Please pray for the healing of this infection. Thanks!

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June 5, 2009 - Friday - We've recently had a new Christian radio station (102 AltFM.ro) start up here in Arad. One of our good friends (he's also one of church leaders), Casius, has been invited to host the morning show from 7-10AM every weekday morning. The show is a mixture of contemporary Christian music (English and Romanian), news, current events, and interviews with different people from the community. This morning, I (Scott) was the invited guest and was live on the air with Casius for almost 20 minutes. The interview focus was twofold: 1) telling people why we are living in Romania,  and 2) a little introduction about what the "Free Methodist Church" is (Methodism is almost completely unknown here). Casius' show was also focusing on Pentecost today as this coming Sunday is Pentecost Sunday on the Orthodox church calendar, so he asked me to comment on the significance of Pentecost for me and the church I represent. To be honest, I was a bit nervous as I sat down in the studio because I've never done live radio before, but after we got started talking things seemed to go pretty well. If you'd like to hear the interview in full, right-click HERE and save the mp3 file to your computer. Then you can play it whatever audio program you choose (or put it in iTunes and play it on your iPod). Oh, the interview is in English and Romanian. We chose to do it that way because, while I do speak Romanian, it is nowhere close to good enough for radio :-). Scott

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May 31, 2009 - Sunday - As I write this update I (Scott) am on the train (yes, the new train cars here have electrical outlets for computers!) returning from a weekend visit to the southwestern city of Drobeta-Turnu-Severin. I've written previously about my visits to this city and the growing relationship between myself and Ionuţ Corlan and the Smirna church plant that he has been planting in this city. This was yet another visit for relationship-building, encouragement, and teaching/preaching, and a great visit it was! Church planting can be pretty lonely at times even in places where Christians get along well, but in this city (and Romania in general) there are many divisions and significant suspicion between different churches and pastors. So for a church planter like Ionuţ who is establishing a very different type of church from traditional evangelical churches in this country, ministry can be even lonelier.

Spencer, our new colleague in Arad, accompanied me on this trip (pictured here with Ionut and Jenni's youngest son). We began the weekend by attending a Friday evening Bible study led by one of the church leaders and hosted in the home of a new believer. Saturday morning Ionuţ gathered his church leaders and one other church planter from the area (others were invited but couldn't make it), and I taught some church planting principles from my own experience and from Neil Cole's book, "Organic Church." Saturday afternoon and evening was hang-out time with Ionuţ and his family (wife Jenni and 3 kids). Then this morning Spencer shared his testimony and I preached for their Sunday worship gathering.

For about two months now I have been working with another church plant, this one in our home city of Arad. "Adoram" (Hebrew for "God is exalted") consists of a core group of 20-25 young people (late-teens and twenty-somethings) who feel God's leading to begin a new church that steps away from some of the traditional expectations of Evangelical

churches in Romania and that is specifically designed for and focused on reaching the younger generations of Romania. No one in this church has training or much experience in church leadership, let alone how to start a new one, so God has brought together their hunger to learn and my calling to coach and train. I've been teaching nearly every week at their Thursday night gathering, and a great relationship is developing.

So as you pray for our ministry, pray especially for these two new Romanian churches: "Smirna" and "Adoram." Pray for their healthy development, for growth in their leaders, protection from satan's attacks, and multiplication of these "new wineskins" for a new Romania. Scott

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Thanks for stopping by for a visit. We arrived in Romania in January, 2006. After several years of ministry in the USA, God has given us an opportunity to come alongside some great people in Romania who are living for Christ and wanting to share Him with others. God has called us to help extend, through leadership development and church planting, what He is already doing in Arad, Romania and beyond.

 

 

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