Chircani Building Progress

Our thanks to you all who have been involved with us in the construction of our church building in Chircani.
We have just received another gift from one of you that means we have enough funds to be able to complete phases 3,4 and 5a-c of the work. Basically this means that we will be able to finish the outside of the building and also the meeting room, 2 Sunday school rooms and the other facilities such as indoor bathrooms etc.

Now we are working with all our power to get the work done in time to have a church opening on Easter day 5th May here in Moldova and then follow this up with a one week mission the following week.

In the photos you can see how we have got the floors and the baptistery done and just last week the electricity has been laid and connected.

We will need to get the walls finished with spaclovca - a kind of white cement that makes for a lovely finish and then various other finishes need doing.

We start this week on the outside of the building with maybe 3 teams and we hope to get it finished in time.

Keep praying for this and especially for the mission we plan to do to celebrate the opening

Pastor Mark

Ladies Celebration

In Moldova on the 8th March every year we celebrate national women's day with a public holiday.

This is the equivalent of the Western mother's day celebration except it is for all women although in general the mothers get the most attention.

We in the church celebrated it this year by having a special meeting on the Sunday that followed 10th March.

We had a special meeting and invited all mums and other ladies to come and our kids from our various Sunday school groups did a programme.

 As you can see from this photo we have quite a lot of kids in our church and all the various groups did small programmes.

Many of our kids are from families that do not come to the church and most of these ones' mums came to the meeting which meant we had around 30 extra ladies swelling our numbers. Some were there for the first time.

It has resulted in some being willing to receive one of our visiting teams

We are praying that these ones will come to the church regularly starting with the baptism meeting we have on 17th March.( watch this space )

 Here are one of the groups doing their programme which included somne songs on "an appreciating mum" theme and also some poems.

Once they had finished they then went and presented all the mums with a hand made greeting card on behalf of the church.

We then shared a message on getting personal with God

All of the church members gave a sum of money and we were able to provide a meal after the service to which we invited all to stay

Most did and we had a nice time of fellowship

May the Lord draw these ones to Himself and then they come to know Him personally

Pastor Mark