Dear saints,

Thank you for all your prayers and support for our ministry. The Lord really blessed us this summer with two wonderful teams: one from Boise, Idaho and another one from CC South London. They were a great encouragement for us, and also for our gypsies. The Lord worked great things while they were here.
After the teams left, we continued to minister in the gypsy villages, helping the believers to grow in the Lord, teaching the children the ways of the Lord and praying that the Lord will bring more opportunities to share the good news with those that are not saved yet. The Lord sent a brother from London to come for 5 weeks and work side by side with us; he was an answer to our prayer that the Lord would bring other believers to join our family in ministering to the gypsies. Please pray together with us that the Lord will send other believers to help us in our ministry, because the ministry here has started to grow, and we definitely need more team members alongside my wife, our children and me.

This morning the Lord worked a great thing. Fery, our gypsy brother, visited us with his wife and children, and the Lord used this opportunity for Silvana to share the gospel with his unbelieving wife…and she received the Lord. She prayed with Silvana to be forgiven of her sins, and asked God to come into her life and change her. Praise the Lord, because He has heard Fery’s prayer (and ours) and saved his wife. Please, if you will, pray for her that she may grow in the Lord, and “… He may grant her to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in her inner being, ...that she, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to understand with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge…”

This month the Lord used a christian friend, Anna, who is working on a gypsy dialect survey, to provide the Jesus movie in our gypsies' dialect on DVD. It was a great blessing for our ministry, especially because our gypsies can't read, and we were able to give them the DVDs so they were able to hear the entire gospel in their own language. One evening, we went to one of the villages and showed the Jesus movie on a big screen outside there. It was a great opportunity to reach the men of the community who were there, having nothing else to do. After the movie, one gypsy man came to us and asked for prayer to receive Jesus. We are praying to do the same in the other village, Sacuieu, when all the people are back; they are in the mountains at the moment, collecting mushrooms and blue berries to sell, and they have no electricity up there.

Please also pray that the Lord will send rain in the mountains here, so that there may be more mushrooms for the gypsies to collect; at this time of year mushrooms provide the only source of income for the gypsies.

Grace be with you all,
Nicu Hagiu