Ministry

 

All I can say as I sit to write this letter is what a mighty God we serve, since our last letter we have seen the Lord meet many needs and bless richly. Perhaps the most exciting prayer answered is that God has given us a property for the church and it is better than we could have asked for. We held our first services in this property on June the 4th where we had 11 people in each service, 3 of which were visitors. The exciting thing about that is that our grand opening is not until the 25th, we haven’t even started advertising and God is giving us visitors; that is an awesome answer to prayer. Concerning our grand opening please keep us in prayer as we prepare the property and begin really pushing to advertise this special service. I am having 25,000 flyers printed and will go door to door distributing these with gospel tracts as well as giving them during our Saturday street ministry. We are also holding midweek services already in the church where I have chosen to try my hand at preaching in Romanian. This decision was made because currently everyone attending our services speaks Romanian and on Sundays we are translating the messages for those who require it, but in order to move away from the need of a translator I felt the Lord would have me to take the very very little Romanian I know and put it to use beginning on Wednesday nights. There is a high population of Romanian speaking people in Gent and so if we can minister in English and Romanian we will be able to reach most everyone in the city, until I can start Dutch language school in September. In addition to the normal preparation for a church building we were able to partner with a church here in Belgium to help them get pew chairs they were trying to raise money for, allowing them to get theirs cheaper and for us to starts off with nice chairs, which should arrive in August.

Personal

 

Our biggest news has already been made known to many thanks to social media, but Lory and I are expecting a son, he is due the first week of September. So far according to the doctors he is healthy and developing perfectly, but please keep momma and baby in your prayers. This has been a lifelong prayer and desire of mine, to one day have a child of my own, so I cannot express how blessed we are to be able to say that the Lord has saw fit to give us the desire of our hearts. Along with a property for the church we were able to rent a building that works perfectly for us to live in it as well. I will include pictures in our next prayer letter of the property, once I have finished decorating for the church. Instead of a page of pictures, like I would normally send, I am attaching a letter written by Lory to thank all the churches for their kindness to her while in America.

 

Prayer

 

Pray our grand opening on  June 25th

Pray for the street ministry here, that people would continue to be receptive.

Pray for Lory and the baby to stay healthy during the pregnancy.

Pray for my visa for Belgium as it is almost complete.

Pray for the group of believers that I preach to both in Belgium and in Romania, that God would bless them and help with some housing and work related needs they have

Pray or the remainder of our needed support to come.

Pray for the shipping container and chairs, for God to provide in this cause.

Pray most of all for the work we do here in establishing a church, that God’s hand and anointing would be on us and that He would be glorified.

 

Thank you all for your faithful prayers for us, you are a much needed part of this ministry and will never know how much of a blessing you are  to us; at least not on this side of eternity.

With sincere gratitude,

The Haleys

 

Lory’s Letter

 

To our Friends and Family,

With much gratitude I want to start this letter towards you all, but first of all I give thanks to our Heavenly Father, for all the blessings and care He has given us. I asked my husband if it was possible to let me write some to you directly from my heart to yours, because how can I be silent when I’ve been so loved over measure, and blessed by you during my time in America. I just thank you all for your kindness, care, generosity, hospitality and love which you have shared towards me personally. You took care of all my needs while I’ve been there and so much more. Therefore I have no greater words to than to thank our Lord for you and to ask Him to bless you in return. You have opened your homes for us to have a place to sleep, you have given your time for us to be more than comfortable during our stay, you have spent time in prayer lifting our names above, and you have done many sacrifices for us to have more than enough many times.

“I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: ”
Philippians 1:3-6 KJV

 

As you already know it has been two months since we left America for Belgium… What an adventure and what a blessing for God allowing us to come back and serve into this country.
We started going soul wining from the very first Saturday we have been here. Each time we are out on the streets the Lord shows His blessings and His faithfulness and gives us the eyes and hearts to see the need and the importance of the Gospel to be shared to this lost and dying world even more.
Thank you all for your partnership with us in prayers for our house and church place as well. The Lord bountifully blessed in His time for it and gave us more than we had imagined or asked for.
Thank you as well for praying with us for our documents; my green card has been approved and Junior started his visa process.

BLESSED NEWS
As some of you heard already, Junior and I are expecting a very sweet little blessing , yes our son. We thank God for allowing us to hold such a precious thing, and we ask Him to help us to raise this son for His Glory, for His will and way. Please pray with us for this, and at least know I am praying for you also. I am praying for many churches in America, that God will restore their first Love for Him again, to humble and seek after God again. Pray for us brethren as well, for our eyes to be focused on Him only.

Grace be unto you,

Loredana Haley

“To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever Amen.”
Jude 1:25 KJV

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