Monday, August 1, 2011

Dedication of Sasa




At the church we do several dedications each year usually of babies whose parents are members in the church.

They are all special to me and the church.

Many are often children of a couple who were both saved in the church and baptised as adults.


Some of the parents were saved as children and have grown up in the church


So I trust you can see why they are all special to us but this one had even more significance




This is Sergiu and Lilia Traistar dedicating their first child whom they had named Sasa, after Sergiu's late father.

Why is it particularly significant? Because Sasa Traistar was the brother who planted our church in Gotesti.

It was in it's infancy when he was discovered to have terminal cancer. He worked until it was no longer possible for him and then moved with his family including the young Sergiu to USA to get the care he deserved until he died.

A few years ago for various reasons Sergiu came back to Moldova and to Gotesti where he met Lilia whom he later married and here they are dedicating and praying along with us for the young Sasa to grow up in his grandfather's footsteps in the very church that his grandfather planted those years ago.

I am sure Sasa senior was in that cloud of witnesses watching on with his hands raised in praise to God the pose of him most remembered by those of us who knew him
I know I was thinking of him as his son prayed for his grandson.

What a faithful God we have

Pastor mark