Sunday: Thanksgiving

Gornesti church celebrated their Thanksgiving day with prayer time, a special time of the Lord's Supper, a meal together, and a afternoon Thanksgiving time. A great and new tradition for this young church is that the church families bring baskets of fruit, vegetables, and even bread to the church. They were beautiful. Zozo led the prayer using the story of the ten lepers and the one who was thankful. Floyd spoke on what is Thanksgiving? The morning service was followed by a fellowship meal of "hotdogs"--a type of sausage and bread. We had home cakes. In the afternoon service the children sang, the youth sang, and Zoltan (Zozo), Anika (sister), and Lala (brother) sang. There were testimonies. It was a great time. Following the afternoon worship time, the church gathered and ate the fruit, shared the vegetables and bread with each other. This was great.

We then hurried to the Reghin church for the afternoon service. This was a special time of being with the mother church of the area. The church is older but has a warm spirit--they are are people of prayer and encouragement for the work in Apalina.

The day ended with a great time of singing, praying, and preaching at Apalina. They are so loving toward us. Please pray for the believers and the church. The community has serious problems with spousal abuse and other family issues. Because they are new believers in a very difficult environment they have a very hard time. Attila spends a great deal of time working individually with families and the issues in Apalina.