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.