Ephesians 5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the Fear of God.

This month Brian had the great pleasure of ordaining Adi Blaga as an assistant pastor for Calvary Chapel Bistrita. Adi has been serving in Bistrita for many years and in various capacities. With the changes that are being implemented in New Beginnings and with the growing need in the church Adi will be overseeing the development of the children's program for Calvary Chapel Bistrita. He will be organizing the summer camps for the kids and looking to develop a good core group of Sunday school workers for the Calvary Chapel Bistrita children's program. Brian is excited about this new season in Adi's ministry and looking forward to seeing the fruit from his hard work.

The main changes that are happening in New Beginnings is the addition of a new administrator from America. Chris and Faith along with their two children Levi and Chloe have come over to take over administrating New Beginnings. Chris has a lot of experience in this area and we are excited to see what the Lord is going to do through Chris as he learns his job in the Romanian setting.

This month was also a blessed time of celebrating the resurrection of our lord Jesus Christ. It was exciting to see some new faces show up Sunday morning to receive the Word. It could not have been a more beautiful spring day. There is nothing quite as inspiring then waking up to the sound of church bells ringing throughout the city. It just makes it that much more special to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior.



One big answer to prayer this month is that we received our approval from Bucharest for our religious association. With the new law that was signed in January we were not sure if we would get the approval but the Lord took care of it as always, so we are continuing in this process here locally. The tough part is done now. We want to thank all of you for praying about this matter as it proves that no matter what the world has planned God is sovereign.


This month we managed to hold the 1st annual marriage conference for Calvary Chapel Bistrita. We took a few nights to study in depth marriage the way God intended it along with focusing on the roles of a husband and wife. We had a few couples come and participate along with some new people. We also had a good showing from the youth. We are hoping, Lord willing, to make this an annual spring event and that more people step up to work on building their marriages up.



This month we also celebrated our youngest girl Sage's 1 Year birthday. It turns out that her birthday is within a day of Chloe, Chris and Faith little girl. So we combined the parties and celebrated both their birthdays.

Praise Report:

• We received our approval from Bucharest for religious association. We now have to work through the process here locally.

Prayer Requests:

• Prayer for the August 11th Concert outreach in Bistrita.

• Prayer for the rest of the process to register our religious association in Bistrita would go without any problems.

• Funds for replacing the roof on the ministry house.

• Continued healing for Leana and her mother from the car accident

• Prayer for the the church to grow in Faith, Hope and Love

• Prayer for a digital projector

• Prayer for the Romanian General conference in May 21-25

• That the Lord would use the little church as a light to the city of Bistrita

• Prayer for more workers for the Harvest
  

• For the Lord's guidance on effective outreached into the community

• For the Youth to catch on fire for the Lord

• That the new believers would be grounded in the Word of the Lord

Acts 2:44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common

This last month has been a very busy one to say the least. The youth have just finished studying the book of Daniel so we took a break for one Thursday and decided to take them all out for a night of Bowling. It was a lot of fun to see. Some of them had never been bowling, which was good luck for us because it had been a while for the adults also. Natalie was the big winner for night with a whopping final score of 120.


Pastor Brian came in second but was hampered by an injured thumb compliments of Nicu, while playing soccer the week before. Being the man that he is he played through the injury. All of the kids had a great time learning how to bowl and also just hanging out with one another and fellowshipping together. For all of the pictures of this fun night please visit our church website. www.calvaryromania.org/bistrita/

This month we also drove down to Bucharest for the monthly pastor's meeting. This was a special monthly meeting because we managed to bring everyone's families together also. We had a great time of worship and fellowship. Calvary Chapel Bucharest planned a nice meal for everyone and it was great to just spend sometime with all of the families that we usually don't get to see. We all managed to coordinate a group picture children included this time.

We also got to celebrate our middle daughter Sedona's birthday. We had a few family friends over and Sedona was the person that was the focus of all the attention, this is usually her preferable position, so she was one happy girl. Mom made a carrot cake which her brother at first was protesting due to the perceived vegetable content but in the end liked it. She had balloons, flowers, things in pink, everything a little girl could want. Mom and Dad even bought her a pink bike, with a Hello Kitty logo.

The thing that has been keeping us the most busy this month is working on Cynthia's b-day present. Brian decided to do a low budget kitchen renovation at the ministry house. With the completion date set for March 22nd. So all of his Tuesdays are engrossed with sanding and painting and fixing the existing kitchen. The hard work is paying off though and it's almost done. Cynthia is very excited about the changes that have been made and can't wait for the final finished product. Its been a lot of fun for Brian also because this is the first time he has ever renovated a kitchen.

The last thing to mention this month is that we are adding Romanian translations to the website. This is going to be extremely helpful for Romanians that visit the site and want to know more about us. We have also added updated pictures and added a prayer tab with updated prayer requests. We are continuing to develop this website as a communication tool so things are always changing.

Praise Report:

We received the last of the funds for the heating for the church. So we can have the work start this summer.

We saw Leanna and her mom this month and they are doing much better recovering from the car accident

Prayer Requests:

• Prayer for the completion of the religious association papers for the church

• Prayer for the the church to grow in Faith, Hope and Love

• Prayer for wisdom in leading the church and the household

• That the Lord would use the little church as a light to the city of Bistrita

• Prayer for more workers

• Prayer for the Marriage conference in April

• Equipping the saints conference July 4th-6th
  

• Concert outreach August 8th
  

• For the Lord's guidance on effective outreached into the community

• For the Youth to Catch on fire for the Lord