Success and More Success

Success and more success! This phrase sums up the last two weeks. You know that you have God's favor when the good just keeps getting better. Now, I would be lying if I told you that these past weeks have been easy. In fact, for me it has been just the opposite. These past two weeks have been very busy and stressful...but hey, tilling up ground is always the hardest part of growing the garden.

First of all, the girls have been tearing up the outreach that MCR does in the women's home. Right now MCR is the only outside ministry involved with the house. Ever other week our girls make the hour trip to the women's home and actively take part in the transformation process of these girls who have been rescued from sex trafficking.

Due to this being the hardest winter Romania has seen in six years, we haven't been able to really pursue Micro Kids. However, the weather is starting to mellow out and we resumed Micro Kids at our most frequently visited sight, Ludesti. We had over 115 Kids and adults present!

The MCR students also just got finished with their outreaches at the hospitals, which they planed and put together! The students are split up into two groups called "force teams". Half of them are team "Passion" and the other half are team "Justice". Throughout the year these students will have the opportunity to create ministries which they will lead and plan. Last year was the first time a force team did a Hospital ministry, and now many, including a small group lead by MCR alumni Carmen Marin, are involved in ministering to the terminally ill!

However, when I say, "Success and more success" I think of an event that we did for Valentines Day. It really took place on the 11th and not the 14th, but for arguments sake, let's just say that it took place on Valentines Day. Our theme of the night was "Crazy Love." This was an evangelical event with the soul purpose of getting people connected to MCR's home church, Speranta Vietii.

We had rented out a restaurant, asked a good friend of ours, Oana Petre, to decorate, and spent the last three days handing out fliers for the event. Then, during the night of the event, a snow storm blew in. It was so cold, and there was so much snow, we weren't sure if anyone would show up. However, 50 people braved the frigid downpour and attended the event!

We had games, food, a dance, and then we did a Drama I had written and directed. The Drama was called, "Crazy Love Boat." In this drama, Cupid had invited three timeless couples to the Crazy Love Boat, to make them fall in love with each other. The couples were Jack and Rose from Titanic, Romeo and Juliet, and Edward Cullen and Bella Swan from Twilight. Due to Cupid's Assistance's blunder, the wrong love potions were given to the wrong people, and everyone fell in love with the wrong person. Hilarious chaos ensued, and even Cupid in the end couldn't get everybody to return to their first love. All of this was a allegory to support what Pastor Florin would say that night.


Pastor Florin talked about how sometimes we love the wrong thing, and then ultimate about the love of God. God touched many hearts that night and many from that even attended our church the following Sunday. Many from that group have continued to attend Speranta Vietii! This week, on a Wednesday night, six youths from the Crazy Love event attended a small group lead by one of MCR's second years, Oana Neacsu, and were lead to Christ! Oana says that when everyone bowed there head and was asked if they wanted to receive Christ as their savior, they didn't even hesitate. All six hands shot up in the air...Creative Ministry! I love it!

To me it is so cool how God will take all sorts of people with gifts, talents, and abilities, and bring them into one place, all for six young men and women. God is moving so powerfully in MCR and these things are evidence of his power. Mother nature and all her furry couldn't stop what God wanted to do. From fifty came six...that's more than 10%.

This is what I call Success and more Success!