In this blog entry, we want to introduce you to Nicoleta Călugăr and the work she does.
Nicoleta is Pastor Rares's wife and she works for 2 years now with Mariene and Yvonne Kroon's Ministry in Floresti. They are a couple of Dutch missionaries that live in Romania now and work with the gypsy people in Floresti.

They work with the children from very poor families, helping them with their homework and trying to keep them in School, because it's quite common for the gypsy children to quite school.
This ministry helps the families of these children with food, cloths and even building them homes.
They also have a women's meeting once a week, where they try and teach gypsy women about God and about things that can help them in their every day life.

Nicoleta teaches as well the Sunday School in Micesti and she's quite good at it.
We want you to know she's a great support to our Pastor and she's an example worthy to be followed by every woman in our Church and not only.

Generational Blessing

Pastor Rareș had a message on how God blesses the faithfulness of one person, to a thousand generations. (Exodus 20:6)


Don’t be selfish and think that everything is just about you. Some people tend to say “well, it’s my life and I do whatever I want with it”. God is the one that gave you breath of life and your soul belongs to Him.
One should realize that what he does affects his brothers and sisters. Your sin affects me and affects the Body of Christ, both local and universal. And just the same, your obedience helps my prayers to be answered and helps The Kingdom of God to grow.
“If one part suffers every part suffers with it, if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.” 1 Corinthians 12:26
Know that your obedience, your faith and your relationship with God, meaning that which you build in intimacy with God, it’s an inheritance for those in your family and your Church. Generations to come, will benefit from the fruits of your righteousness.
“I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother, Lois and in your mother Eunice and I am persuaded now lives in you also.” 2 Timothy 1:5
2 Samuel 7:8 – 19
God can fulfill the desires of your heart through the lives of your children. Maybe your vision will be fulfilled after you will be gone. But you must have a vision for the generations that will come after you. You must prepare the ground for the generations to come. You must build the right circumstances for the future generations, so that they might finis what you started. Maybe just as David, you must fight the enemy that tries to steal the spiritual inheritance that you are trying to leave to your children. Maybe you need to fight during your life time so that your children will have peace to build the kingdom of God.
1 Kings2:1-4
In order that God might fulfill his promise to you, in the lives of your children, you must do your part as well.
“The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me, your love, O, Lord, endures forever – do not abandon the works of your hands” Psalm 138:8

At the end of this message, our Church honored the faithfulness of 3 ladies, to whom we owe the fact that we belong to God today.
3 Grandmothers influenced through their life, through their prayers and obedience the lives of many people in our Church and in the Body of Christ.
These ladies have been living their faith during good times and during bad times. They have been persecuted by the communists, by their families, by their friends, laughed upon, mocked, ridiculed, but still found through the race of God, the strength not to let go of what they believed, had the strength to keep on going for more than 38 yeas of faithfulness.
As a symbol, we gave them a diploma. We didn’t do this to praise them as people, but we did this to honor God’s faithfulness.

Our Praise and Worship Team

When we started this blog, we said it was meant to help you know us better, and to keep you informed about what God is doing in the lives and through the lives of the people in our Church. Due to that fact we would like you to get to know our (and God's) Praise and Worship team.
I do not know if what defines them is necessarily the fact that they are good musicians, but I know for sure that the main thing about them is that they are worshipers in Spirit and in Truth. They are the people that take us every time, as a Church, to the Father's throne.
All of them are extraordinary people and our Church is really blessed to have them leading us in praise and worship.


Ioana Sămărtineanu:

Ioana has been working together with Pastor Rares for many years now. She is a wonderful person and you can feel her heart in her worship before the Lord and before us. Ioana is the praise and worship leader and she plays guitar. She's also working as an accountant for the Church and I can say she does a great job. We can feel that God is with her in everything she does, both spiritual and natural.






Alina Goia:
Alina is blessed with a beautiful voice and a wonderful gift to take people in front of God through song. She is married to Corneliu Goia and together they lead the youth meetings in our Church.








Raluca Murăşan:


Raluca is a very cheerful and sincere person both in every day life and in her worship. She plays guitar and she's quite good with rhythm. Raluca is working with 'King's love' mission which is a ministry that works with the street kids in Cluj.







Diana Goia:


Diana serves the Lord in the team through her voice and she is a blessing to us. She is married to Samuel Goia and together they have a wonderful daughter, Sara. They are indispensable to our church both as a family and as servants and we thank God for them.








Florin Şumandea:

Florin is the only man in the team and in consequence he keeps the rhythm. He does a great job and he is a blessing to us both as a servant and as a worshiper.








These are our worshipers. They are wonderful through everything that each of them brings before God and before us.
For the members in our Church, we would like to encourage you to appreciate them more and for those of you that might wonder, NO, this is not an entry to sing praises to anyone, but as a Church we are proud of them and we love them very much, that's why we present them to you.
Please keep us in your prayers.
God bless all of you that read this blog!

The Father's heart

On Sunday morning, Pastor Rares had a really good message on 'The Father's heart'. Those of us that were present, felt the love and the message of peace that God, our Father, has for us, through a letter that Pastor Rares read to the Church.
Due to the fact that we were truly encouraged by these words, we would like to share them with you, through this blog.


"The Lord, your God, is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, he will rejoice over you with singing"
- Zephaniah 3:17

My child,
If anybody wants you to be successful, I do. If Anyone is on your side, I am. No one cares more about your happiness than I do and no one has even began to love you the way I already do.
Because I love you so much, sometimes I am even quiet. And I know that that is the hardest time for you. But do you know why I am quiet? Because I can't smile and talk at the same time (as if something is impossible for Me). Why am I smiling? Because I am overwhelmed with joy for you. I realize that you might find it hard to believe all these things, but I want you to try.
You're going to end up believing all this one day, so you might as well believe it now.
Read Zephaniah 3:17 and see that I am right.
You're not making a mistake to step in faith at this moment ... "for who despises the day of small things?" (Zachariah 4:10). Men do. Not I.
If you never step out of the boat, you will never know what it's like to walk on water.
Why not trust in My abilities to teach you and direct your steps? Do you know anyone better that can teach you?
Does an earthly father punish his child if e falls down while learning how to walk? Why then are you afraid of Me? If your heart is pure (like a little child's) then i dare you to dare.
Let's take a look again in My word:
"Commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him and he will do this" (Psalm 37:4)
My child, our Kingdom is an eternal one. It's built on solid foundation. You have my word, what else can you possibly need? Did I ever mislead you, or did I ever forget about you? Didn't my Son Jesus already promised that "whoever comes to me, I will not drive away". Then all you have to do is remember His promises and leave aside all doubts. I perform a work in your life the same way I did with all those that trusted me since the beginning of creation until now.
I am fulfilling My word in your life. Trust in Me now! If you do so, then you will never have to go through this test of trust over and over again.
Some things I allow in you life, not to destroy your faith but to help you grow in faith.
I want you to enlarge your heart so that I can fit a bigger faith in it. Don't let unbelief speak so loud that you can't even hear My voice anymore. I am keeping my promises. Please tell Me, do you have a better plan?
My Kingdom should be your delight and I will give you the desires of your heart just like I said in Psalm 37:4.
Do not be concern with 'overusing' My grace. Do you think a father gets upset with his child if the child uses the things that the father has put at his disposal? My grace is all you need to have victory in your life. If you don't use it, what could possibly help you? The power of positive thinking? Ha! - honestly that makes Me laugh.
Not long ago I said to someone "My grace is sufficient for you, for My grace is made perfect in weakness."
Life with Me is an adventure, not just adversities. Stop arguing with Me. Rejoice! Stop complaining!
Happiness is a choice. When you chose to be happy, then you chose heaven. Decide to begin and practice unconditioned praise.
When I ask you to sing Me praises and to rejoice in My presence, please know that I don't ask you that because I need you to encourage Me or anything like that. My commandment to praise Me is because I love you and I want you to enter through the gates that praise and worship access in to My presence. So praise Me!
And know one more thing: I Can't really sleep. "He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep" Psalm 121:4
I proved to you that I can't stay away from you and because I wanted you close I sacrificed everything I loved most: My Son.
I don't want you to just know things about Me, I WANT YOU TO KNOW ME! I want you to know all this because I am still here for you, for My Name is, I AM.
In closing, I want to ask you to share the love you felt from Me with the ones that never felt it. The only way I can show My love towards the ones that are lost, is through you. The Holy Spirit will teach you how to do that.
Until I see you in My Son's Kingdom, keep that which you have received , fight for what is true and don't forget: Your help comes from Me... Just lift up your eyes.
"I will lift my eyes to the hills - where does my help come from? My help comes from The Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth." Psalm 121:1-2

With love, Father God

Tuesday, 13Th of January, our Church had a prayer evening together with the Church ”Emanuel” in Turda.
We had a really blessed time together and we think God strengthened the unity between our Churches.

We also want to let you know about a prayer night that we'll be having on the 6Th of February, starting with 10 pm. Everybody that wants to join us is very welcome to do so.

May God bless you all!

COURAGE

-Courage is needed to be able to see reality as it is
-You need courage to admit you have a need.
-You need courage to change.
-You need courage to face condemnation.
Your life is made of your decisions and built by your words. Be bold, both in your words and in your actions. Success does not depend on your ability to say yes but on your need to say no to the things that seems good but you don’t need that in your life.
Many times, Satan is tempting you with things that seem good, but those things might end up controlling us eventually and push you away from God’s will in your life.
You’ll never have success in your life if you focus on your weaknesses. You can never have success through your own strength.
Your motivation must always be pure. God is The One that develops creative ideas in your mind. He gives you desires and then He empowers you to be able to fulfill those dreams.
Once you crucified your flesh:”get off the cross”. Jesus did the same. Live for Him.
All your decisions become energy. Decisions make you act. Once you take a decision, you need commitment to reach that goal.
A very important element that determines success is attention to details, because God cares about details. Write those details down so that you pay attention to them.
DECISION. COMMITMENT. DISCIPLINE. DETAILS
These 4 can be necessary ingredients so that you see fruits in your own life this year.
When you take a decision it’s good to write it down so that you stick to it.
Commit to your goal and discipline yourself to reach them. Pay attention to small details and take notes of everything you’re told and don’t seem important.
For example: “I want to God’s heart. Commit to this goal and start to study the word of God.
Let the discipline of obedience function in your life, not postponing but immediate obedience.
AN OUNCE OF OBEDIENCE EQUALS A POUND OF PRAYER.
Be like David, not like Saul. Make a change in victory, don’t be an example as of not to do.
That is my desire for you in this New Year, to make big plans because you serve a big God.

Pastor Rares Calugar
(some quotes are from - Edwin Louis Cole’s book: “Courage”)