During the month of May, Master's Commission took its second and longest break, the equivalence of a Christmas break. Now, during this break I was rendered useless due to stomach issues, but our students were killing it. The majority of them had traveled to the west side of Romania to the city of Oradea for a Christian fine arts festival. The speaker of the festival had recognized our students from tour and asked them to close out the whole event. Oana gave her testimony before the altar call and as the last bang of the conference the MCR students did the stomp as one last final challenge to live as disciples of Christ. God has really been giving us favor with very influential people and it seems that word of this MCR's existence is spreading fast.
Even though I was incapacitated for break, towards the end I started feeling better. So, I attended my small group. At my small group, Oana and I have been reaching out to a young group of kids that live close to me. Oana had met the first few kids at one of our youth events, Crazy Love. Through Oana's small group those kids had given their hearts to God and made a confession of Christ as their savior. Well, over break the kids had invited a new friend of theirs named Roxan to our small group. During the small group Roxan began to pour her heart out about the witchcraft she had been messing with, and how because of the faces that she'd been seeing in her sleep, she was wanting to commit suicide. One of the other kids confirmed this saying they had stopped her from purposefully stepping in front of a car. So, with Oana as my translator, I began talking to Roxan about how messing with sin opens doors for the enemy. However, through the power of Christ those doors can be shut and the enemy locked outside! Bogdan then began to minister to her about what Christ did for her...and she accepted Christ. She has been regularly attending our small group since then.
The school in Teis has been extremely successful, especially since we introduced our new reward system. Oana and I, the heads of this project, knew that even though we had goals for the kids, they needed smaller goals for themselves. So together, we came up with a star system. The kids get a star for each task given to them that they complete. Their tasks are good behavior, finishing all of their work, finishing all of their work neatly, attendance, and returning their pencils. When they get ten stars they get a certificate of achievement with their picture on it. Those kids have been working hard for their ten stars. Beyond all of this, the kids have even begun to search on their own for knowledge. One girl even wrote her name on top of her paper. Sure she may not know how to pronounce each letter, but it just goes to show how hungry they are to learn. Right now the kids know how to write and read the letter 'A', count to ten, and write the numbers 1-3. Next class we'll introduce the letter 'M' and begin to teach them how to read and write words with the two letter's they know!
We also had the privilege of ministering in a college chapel alongside a very popular Romanian Christian band. At the end of our service, 23 college students filled out an info card for those interested in going to MCR. This personally excites me because after most college students graduate, it can take them years to find a job. So it's perfect from them come to our program and build a strong godly foundation, while getting experience they can put on their future job applications! In fact, in MCR, the majority of our students have finished, or are finishing, some sort of higher education. When they graduate MCR, they will technically have the licenses and diplomas to back up what they want to do with everything God has spoken to them in there time in MCR!
This past weekend was also host to Kids Day. So like last year, we put on a huge kids day event; however, because of the growth of our Micro Kids department, we had two parties. One in Ludesti and another in Doicest. From face painting to games, from the candy to the fun, both events were hugely successful. We had even seen kids we'd never seen before.
On top of these events we've been continuing our regular ministries. Something to keep in your prayers is our Youth Camp coming up on June 22-24. We'll be having young people all over Romania come and we want God to move powerfully in their lives. We also want the preparation for this event to run smoothly. Also be praying for young people who are deciding to come to MCR. And keep our regular ministries in your prayers also: School in Teis, Micro Kids, the girl's home, church's prayer, small groups, evangelism, etc. Thank you for all of your support, God bless.
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