Dear brothers and sisters,

We hope we find everyone well . We want to thank all of you for all your prayers and support. 

The beginning  of this summer brought us many storms.  Last months we were floded for three times. The Lord protected our home, but the water destroyed all our tools, the sound sistem and the wood shalther.  As we told you before we had planned to have a baptism last months. Because of the very cold wether and of the storms we were not able to have it yet, because it was suppose to be outside the village by the river. Insteed we organized an evangelism in the culture hall from Calatele were we invited a Christian gypsy band to sing. The Lord blessed it and we had the plesure of having the baptist and pentecostal churches  from Calatele joinning us. They canceled their Sunday morning church services and all of them  came to evangelism concert. They said it was for the first time when in the Culture Hall of their village takes place a Christian event. We spent a nice time together.  We were also blessed to see that eleven gypsies received the Lord in the end.

For the last two months we have a elderly Romanian couple from the Romanian baptist church comming on regular basis to our bible studies  and chuch sevices  in the gypsy communities.  The Lord broke down the prejudice that they have against the gypsies and now they enjoy the fellowship together with us there. We are praying that the Lord would bring more of Romanian christians to have fellowship with their gypsy brothers and sisters.

Now we have more gypsies who want to get baptised. We scheduled to have a baptism on the 22nd of August and we are praying that the Lord would use this event so that more gypsies would know the Lord, especially the families of those who get baptised. Please pray with us that wether would be nice.

This week the gypsies from Sacuieu moved their camp in the mountains . They do this every summer  to collect mushrooms and blueberries. We are going up there every week to have church services, together with the gypsy brothers from Calatele. Last summer it was a great opportunity to share Christ, since in the evening all the gypsies come together around the fire, not having anything else to do, and they came and joined us in worship songs and prayer. Please pray for their hearts to be open for God’s word.

May God bless you all with His great joy and peace!

In His grace,

Hagiu family

Prayer needs:

· For those who recently received the Lord, to stay strong in God’s grace;

· For the baptism and evangelism that we will have next month;

· For the gypsy brothers and sister to be a light to their families and relatives;

· For church buildings in both villages;

·         For us to stay close to the Lord and allow Him to work through us.