Dear brothers and sisters,

 

During December, the Lord has worked greatly in our hearts, He has shown us how our great insufficiency can be transformed in a great joy when we realized that God dwells in us by grace, and He takes joy in our day to day faithfulness in the small things that He entrusted us with.

We have no great things to tell you about, we only continue to serve in the poor gypsy villages, praying that the Lord will open everyday doors to show His love for these people. Until now the Lord was faithful and blessed us with many opportunities to share His love by a open preaching of the Gospel through words, or by simply being there among them, the gypsies, helping them with whatever the Lord provided (clothes, shoes, medicines, kids vitamins) and being ready to pray for them whenever they ask us to pray for their ill children or for other kind of troubles that they may have.

This winter again we were blessed to receive the shoebox gifts from the Samaritan’s Purse Ministry. This gifts were a great blessing for the children since they were the only Christmas gifts that these poor children received. It was a great opportunity of sharing Jesus’ love for us all and a great joy for the children. We went to every house in both villages together with our gypsy brother, Fery, to deliver the gifts and to share God’s love for the gypsies. We had some extra gifts left, and we started to consider where we should give them. We were not sure yet. Our son had his class Christmas celebration. The children prepared a show for the families with Christmas songs. We all went in the town to school to watch the show. There we found the teacher worried because no gifts were provided for the children. We knew then that the extra gifts we had home are for these children. My husband, Nicu, had for a long time the desire to be able to go in this school at the religion classes to preach the Gospel. We took the advantage of this opportunity and offered to bring the gifts for children. It turned that we had exactly the number of the gifts for boys and girls that performed the show and also for the rest of the children who were in that room. They were a great joy for the children, a great surprise for the parents and a blessed opportunity for Nicu to tell the children and to entire auditorium about Jesus, the greatest gift that God has given us. We are praying that the Lord will continue to work in these children and adults, and will make the seed grow deep in their hearts. We understood then better the scriptures, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5,6

May God give you all a blesses new year,

 

Hagiu Family