I Am Dealing With People's Souls

A Report from Tomotei Corches, Medias...

Tomotei and Lydia Corches, Romania

I would like to begin by thanking God for His grace because I am one of His co-workers. The ministry I am doing is great, because I am dealing with people’s souls which are so valuable before God. The ministry is not easy, but God’s power supports me and helps me to continue.

I know that the One Who can understand me most is Jesus Christ, who long before me took the Gospel from place to place. He is helping me also through you, because you have not stopped praying for me and supporting me. I know that if you had not been doing this, I could not have done this ministry.

The ministry I am doing in all these villages is one of mission and pastoral work. Even if there are hard times, when the faith of many is tried, I know with all my heart that the ones who are His will stay. All three churches have been born through the grace of God and He is the One who will sustain them. Our duty is to stay faithful in the ministry we have and to persevere in it.

Even if there are fewer people today who are accepting Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour, I pray that I will not be discouraged, but will continue to work. At our last baptismal service, one man from Tarnavioara was baptized. He had been saved at the beginning of 2006. The believers from Tarnavioara are gathering twice a week (Wednesday and Sunday). There is a Sunday school for children on Sunday morning. The majority of the members are older people. Some of the young people from our church have moved to larger cities and some have emigrated to foreign countries because of the economical situation in our country.

I am doing the same ministry in Alma Vii. The believers here are gathering twice a week. Also there is a children’s Sunday school. During last summer two people accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour and have now been baptised in Bethel Baptist Church in Medias. There have been more people saying that they are willing to follow Jesus, but at some point they stop coming. Pray that the Lord may continue to search their hearts and for the Word to bring fruit in their lives.

In Seica Mica, the ministry is harder and there are just a few believers. We are having services only on Sunday morning. Some of the believers moved away to Sibiu (a larger city nearby). Please pray that I would be strengthened in His service and that others would be strengthened in their faith. We ask God to bless the children’s ministry in these churches and to challenge the young generation, which is indifferent to the Gospel.

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