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A healthy Church 2 - Pastor Matthew K. Elliott

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Help before Passover

Before the Passover, our Church organized a humanitarian action, intended to help families with difficult financial situations, around the village of Tureni. We were able to provide 35 families from 5 different villages (Tureni, Comșești, Mărtinești, Ceanul Mic and Micești) with food supplies .

We were supported in this action by the mayor or Tureni, which pointed us towards the poor families, that had limited income or in some cases, none.

People were really surprised to see us at their gate carrying these packages, because some of them have never been helped before.

Our Church is working with people from the villages for 10 years now, having our ministry base in Micesti, and this humanitarian action has opened many doors for us to be able and show God's love in a more practical way. We met a lot of new people and established a relationship with them, which will help us in the future because we intend to go back and be a support for these people, both material and spiritual.

In the village of Ceanul Mic we found many people that were open to the word of God and we want to go back this summer and spend more time with these people.

On Thursday, we went to the Emergency Hospital for Children, Department of Clinical Pneumofitiziology where we gave the children hospitalized there sweets, so that we may bring at least a smile on their faces.

We really appreciate all the help we got from those that chose to give for the Kingdom of God. All praises be to Him that blessed us to be a blessing.

The story of a young man that used to be a priest in a Christian Monastery

Eugen is a 26 year old young man, that chose to run away from home when he was only 18, and found refuge in a Christian Monastery, in Moldavia. For 3 years he served there and made progresses very quickly ending up by being called a priest. Every day he performed a 'divine service', without ever feeling any closeness towards God. In fact in all these years he never read the Bible. He never had a personal relationship with Jesus, neither was he concerned with this, because nobody ever encouraged him to do so. After these 3 years he ended up disappointed, because of those around him that were supposed to serve God and they were not living what they were preaching. After living this experience things started to go really bad for Eugen because his father didn't receive him back home and disinherited him. He ended up living on the streets, earning his living from selling drugs and doing all sorts of illegal stuff. I don't want to emphasize how bad things got for this young man but rather to tell you what God did in his life in 2 years, starting with an encounter Eugen had with a young Evangelist from our Church, Cristi Istrate. Cristi found Eugen on the street and invited him to a Church meeting. Eugen answered 'no, you have no idea who I am. I am an evil man ...' Cristi told him 'you are exactly the person Jesus is looking for'. He ended up going to that meeting and then Cristi spent a lot of time with him leading him to The Lord. Eugen didn't honor his decision but God didn't give up on him. For 2 years Cristi kept in touch with Eugen and has been a constant support for him. Two months ago, after wondering around the entire country, Eugen came back to Cluj, where he started to look for Cristi. He was ready to let go to his past and change everything. He started attending Church services every Sunday, constantly being discipeled by Cristi, that spent many, many hours trying to build up the Kingdom of heaven in Eugen. His heart became really sensitive to the things of God and he understood that he must fulfill what the Scripture is commanding and so he asked to be baptized. Sunday afternoon, together with all the Church and people from the village, we were honored to perform his baptism. After 2 days, Eugen said that now he feels really reconciled with God. His desire is to stay in Cluj (because he's from another city) find a job here and start a normal life, serving The Lord. He is aware that God will use all his past to reach other young people that are struggling and he already started to tell people around him abut the miracles that God did in his life.

Jesus said that we should go into all the world and make disciples, baptize them and equip them so that they may start bringing fruits of their own. This is our desire, to form disciples not to indoctrinate people and converting them to a religion.

We want to thank all those that have been close to us and supported us in everything we do. I want to thank the people from 'Way of Faith' Church that pray for this vision and believe for this vision. I want to thank my Pastors, Matt and Denise Elliott, for all their trust and faithfulness towards us. We all build the Church of Christ and His Kingdom, that will be revealed soon, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

May God Bless you all
Servants of Jesus:

Pastor Călugăr Rareş şi Nicoleta

From darkness to light

The night always leaves people with a feeling of insecurity, especially when there is no source of light, when you can't see anything but darkness.
In moments like that you have o idea where you're stepping, what you're heading towards - you trust only what you can touch and fear covers you.

Imagine what would it be like to live like that, not only for one night, but covered in thick darkness years and maybe even forever...
Most certainly those would be some terrible years, having no purpose.

Did you know that is life without Christ?

When you don't have Him, you're confused, you live in fear, you hurt yourself with the things you bump in to because you can't see.

Something else that you must realize is that this darkness is brought about by Satan, because he wants to destroy you, to make you feel paralysed and in the end, end your life, because you lack the ability to find purpose and meaning in life.
The only way you can escape this situation is by realizing you need Light so that you can see clearly, to know where you're going, to feel the safety and the warmth that the Light brings.
Jesus is the Light that you need in your life.

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." - John 8:12

You don't have to live in darkness anymore, now you can step in to the Light! The apostle Paul got this calling from Jesus:
I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' Acts 26:17-18

Jesus wants to forgive your sins and set you free from the devil's grip, so that you may become a child of God, enjoying freedom and Light.
All you must do is pray a prayer like the following:
Lord Jesus, I confess that I've lived in darkness and in sin, I proclaim that I want to be Yours and to let You be my Savior, my Lord, and the Light that will light my life. From now on I will pray knowing that you can light me and lead me through this life.
Please forgive me for every mistake and bad deed that I've made in darkness.
From now on I want to be only Yours and follow only You. Amen.

Now that you've prayed this prayer, Jesus Christ has come in to your life and forgave your sins. From today on your life will have purpose and you will have the Light you were begging for together with the inheritance of eternal life.
Whatever your circumstances will be from now on try not to forget what the book of Psalms says about God:
"even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. " Psalm 139:12

From today on you don't have to live in fear, dare to step firmly, to keep going on this Way filled with Light.

Cristian Istrate - Evangelist

The Baptism of a born again Orthodox Christian

Sunday, the 10th of January 2010, I had the privilege to baptize a born again Orthodox Christian. Rareș Rus, is a 26 year old young man that has been seeking The Lord having a relationship with Him ever since he was a child, his father being a deacon in an Orthodox Church in a quarter of Cluj. This inclination towards the spiritual things made it so that Satan stepped into his life fully aware that God has a plan with this man. Evil spirits began to manifest in his life through nightmares during the night, suicidal thoughts, sleepless nights, many days of torment and depression. All that didn’t happen by itself, but it was brought about by people that spoke many curses over his life, and Satan, having found an open door, went in and tried to destroy him, as he did with most of us before we chose to follow Christ. But when God has a plan with someone nothing and nobody can stand against it.

Three months ago, we organized in our Church a concert together with a Christian Band called Acces. Corneliu, a member of our Church and a friend since childhood with Rares, invited him, and starting with that point began a time of restoration for Rares. Every Sunday morning Rares was attending the services with a strong desire to be helped to fight against the spirits that were trying to control him. After many prayers and fasting, Rares has been set free. He accepted Christ’s dominion over his life and decided to fulfill everything that is written by accepting the New Testament baptism as well. As you probably know, our Church’s vision is to see born again Orthodox believers that come to know all the truth and are in need of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, being baptized and equipped so that in time they can witness to their family, friends and people around them.

In Romania there are millions of Orthodox believers that need to be born again and our desire is to get to their hearts by creating a bridge between us and them. We believe that love can break doctrines, religiosity and pride on both sides. We all have sinned and fall short of His glory in the eyes of God, but Christ has paid the price for that. We all need His grace and a fresh revelation of what He represents for our lives.

If you are an orthodox believer and you are looking for a place where to worship together with other Christians, a place where you wouldn’t feel judged because your way of worshiping is different, or that your payers are not spiritual enough, or that you still struggle with sin in your life, then please join us Sunday mornings starting with 10:00, to experience God’s acceptance through Jesus Christ and acceptance from the people that you’ll find here. Don’t be embarrassed if you feel in your heart that you are not convinced whether to believe in God or not, if you are still searching, just know that we are here to help you. We are not here to change you so that you become like us, but we want to help you to become like Christ.

Pastor Rareș Călugăr

Acces - Romanian Christian Band needs help to record their first album

Hello dear friends,

We are posting this entry as a support for a Romanian Christian Band that needs all the help it can get to record their first album. The reason we are behind this project 100% is because we saw God changing people through their music in our Church.
Last year we organized a concert together and as a result God changed a young man's life. His name is Rares Rus, and we baptized him last Sunday. We really believe that he is a result of this band's effort to touch people's lives through music, and they are an amazing blessing to us. That is why we encourage you to bless them and help them record this album. You will be rewarded in heaven for every teenager that will be off the streets because of this band that uses music as an evangelistic tool, a tool that we've seen working.
Thank you!

2009-2010

We are truly happy to say that God was so good to the believers of ”Way of Faith” Church, in 2009. We saw many analysis about this past year, but all we can say is that God did amazing things in us and through us in 2009. We have been rebuked, we have been encouraged, we have been dazzled and blessed by God through His Word, through prayers, through, unity, through music, through each brother and sister in our Church.
We really don't want to overspiritualise when we say all these things,, all we want is that the people who are interested in this blog and in what God is doing in our Church, should know that He started a work in us and He is the One that will finish it. We just can't wait to see what God will do in 2010 in our midst.

Before the end of 2009 we had a french brother that had a really good message that blessed us a lot and we want to share that with you. Be blessed!


Jean Francois Gotte - Needing the Holy Spirit / Nevoia de Duh Sfant
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