Sunday, December 16, 2007

School ministry

“Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes “ Isaiah 54 :2

We know that majority of missionaries got to a point of asking God to enlarge their area of ministry .We did the very same thing and after many prayers God did the miracle .

Even though in our country it is forbidden to talk about God in public Institution (in fact we were used to this from communism ),God opened up a door so that we can proclaim His truth in school system . and the opening gets wider and wider.

Recently went to one of the kindergarten and there was a teacher from another school just visiting She was trilled with the Christian program and insisted that we go to her class as well and do the same thing.

Another day we got a phone call .At the other end was a 4th grade teacher : “ Heard from one of my friends you do kids programs .Can you put my class on your list too? And the opening gets wider and wider without us having to run and get contacts .

What we do in fact? Our ministry involves bible crafts. Under communism we were not allowed to be creative and also we were not allowed to find ways to develop creativity .Now we want to use crafts to share the truth with the kids and on the other hand to help them be creative .Anytime we are there we do a bible craft ,but before doing it we need to give a Bible explanation of what the craft means .

God proved us that this is useful for children, parents and teaches as well.

Last week’s bible lesson was about God’s power of making miracles and how He multiplied bread and fish . Usually we ask the kids right before we get out of the class ,”what do we want the craft to remind us of?”

One of the boys from the class said “about the boy that fed God

Many times parents stopped us on the street and thank us ,some said “the only reason my child is willing to come to kindergarten is your program”.

We give glory to the Lord for many lives already changed..

However in the last 3 days Satan started to attack this ministry and there is a possibility of stopping the ministry in the whole county .The ex principal from the kindergarten in Grui wants bad to come back as a principal and the way she uses to be up on the top again is by attacking the present principal for allowing children to learn about God .Three days ago there was a sort of Christmas celebration and kids had couple of songs .There is no way to skip God’s name on this time ,you do not even have to have a relationship with Him to say Christmas is somehow linked to Jesus .Mares Gabi –the ex principal looks like she used that and made a huge deal out of it .Local Tv was present and a talk show started soon .We were socked and are still shocked .All parents that have kids in these kindergarten were asked in the talk show to take position and stop this in school system . They encouraged parents to ,take steps in stopping this and also authorities were asked to do something about it .

These days ,until Friday some decisions will be made regarding this and on Thursday or Friday we did not get an exact day ,an open talk show will be on at local TV .The man that does the show it is known as very against Christians .His name is Adi Popa .We beg for your prayers during these days .

Please pray for Mares Gabi-ex principal , David Luminita –the new principal -we pray for wisdom for her as she will have to be accountable in front of a whole county and her boss ,and may she have the right words and God will give her favor in front of all listening and watching .We also ask prayers for minister of education for our county and all authorities to realize the importance of christian programs in kindergartens and prayers for the parents to take good attitude about this .So far they were ok with the program and excited ,but because mass media put it in a bad light ,some of them started to change their opinion .

Satan is using another thing this days to destroy our word and favor as Christians .We were supposed to receive the shoe boxes about 2 weeks ago .So far they did not show up ,thought in most of the counties they were already distributed .

We are expected to do a Christmas rallies in some schools and institutions ,but the bad news is they take vacation in couple of days and there is no gift .The devil uses this to destroy our reputation .

It is Sunday and by Friday we were supposed to distribute about 4500 boxes and do a Christmas rally in some villages.

I (Estera) fight with God for few days already ,thinking that He knows the impact of this on the ministry and on us as Christians and still nothing happens .Please pray for our attitude in this trials and for God’s wonders to continue in this area…

Looking forward for more miracles

Vio&Estera