Sunday: Worship, Birthday, and Soccer

After a wonderful night’s sleep, we woke up well rested and ready for a full day on Sunday.  It was a good thing too because it was a busy day of worship and celebration!  Floyd, Zechariah, Attila and I went to Gornesti for the morning prayer time and worship service.  Adel stayed in Reghin and attended church here.

In Gornesti, we had a beautiful baby dedication.  Samuel, Zozo and Alena‘s new baby boy and LaLa and Esther ‘s little girl whose name is also Esther was dedicated.   Esther joined her big sister, Miriam in the family in early December about 7 weeks early.  Samuel was born in January.  It was both of babies’ first trip to Church.  Zechariah gave his testimony. He did a great job!  Floyd followed him with the morning message.  The worship time closed out with the Lord’s supper.  We had fun making “ family” pictures with our new little grandchildren after the service.

 

Sunday lunch was delicious as usual.  Adel is a wonderful cook and hostess. Joseph Kovas was in the area for a weekend gypsy ministry training and joined us.  A Swedish woman who had done ministry in Romania years ago was visiting the area and also ate with us.  After lunch we had a birthday party for Kaleb. He was so excited.  Like many little boys these days he loves Spiderman and for his big day the cake was made like a web with Spidey in the middle! The dining area was decorated with balloons and a birthday banner. After  singing Happy Birthday and blowing out the candles over and over we enjoyed  that cake  It is so hard to believe he is going to be four tomorrow!  Tempus fugit!

 

At four o’clock we worshipped in the Reghin church. The group was small but they are so warm and friendly to us.   After the Reghin service we headed off to Apalina.

 

The weather here has started to warm up and some of the gypsies have already left the country to find jobs on farms in the surrounding countries. For this reason several of the “regulars” were not at the service.  I pray for a day when the economy is better in Romania so they can stay in the country and earn a living.  It is so difficult on the families and they are away from the church and Attila’s spiritual guidance.

Floyd brought a powerful message. Zechariah spoke again about his walk with the Lord.  Today is the first time he has ever spoken using a translator.  It went well.  Attila translated for him twice into Hungarian. At Apalina Adela Nagy  did the translation into Romanian.  Until he finished and sat back down Zech didn’t realize the difference.  I am sure by the time we leave will be able to differentiate the two with ease.

Can you believe it?! After such a full day the guys went off at 9:00pm and played soccer!  They returned home at 11:00 ready and hoping for another good night’s rest.