Good Books Are Important

Dinu Moga, Director of Faclia Publishing House, Oradea, takes every opportunity to provide tools for ministry amongst Romanian believers. At the annual Baptist conference where more than one hundred pastors took part, various topics were discussed to help improve ministry and sound theological teaching in the churches.

Lydia Moga helps staff at the bookstall

Dinu displayed all their books and emphasised the need for every pastor to acquire commentaries and the latest theological textbooks. One of their latest publications on display was “A Call to Spiritual Reformation” by D.A. Carson.

This was published with a view to helping churches to get back to a devoted life of prayer and Christian living. It was translated and printed with the financial support of SGA.

At an important conference held last year in the Chapel of Emanuel University, Oradea, the aim was to bring pastors and Christian workers together from all over Europe for three days of Bible studies and prayer. All the seminars were dealing with the Biblical basis for evangelism and church planting. Romanian pastors from USA, Moldova, Siberia, Hungary, France, Italy, Spain, and other European countries came and gave reports about the growth and development of the Romanian churches abroad. More than four hundred people gathered. This was an excellent opportunity for Dinu to present all their books on a large display stand. Before every session Dr. Negrut, the rector of the university, presented two to four books.

Delegates attending the conference

These recommendations were very much appreciated and many people went back home with their bags full of the books. At this conference pastors were particularly encouraged to take back with them “Systematic Theology” by Wayne Grudem and the series on Romans and other books by D.M. Lloyd-Jones. Some of these were also recently funded by SGA.

The conference confirmed that Romanian believers are spread everywhere in Europe. It is estimated that there are between two and four million Romanians now living in Western Europe. Delegates were told that there are about 550,000 Romanians in Spain, 600,000 Romanians in Italy, and about 500,000 Romanians in Austria. This does not include UK, Republic of Ireland and other countries. The Romanian diaspora offers an immense opportunity for mission and evangelism among the unconverted Romanians from these countries. At the same time these Romanian churches need well-equipped leaders, preachers and teachers, as well as good books.

“As Romania is still a country in transition to a free market economy, we are still dependent on financial support for the translation and the printing of these books,” explains Dinu. “In this respect I wish to express my gratitude to all who have given us their financial support in the production of these books. Due to the importance of this ministry, I seek to produce as many books as possible and distribute them in every way possible, in Romania and among the Romanian believers in Western Europe.”

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