Whenever I am afraid,
I will trust in You.
In God (I will praise His Word),
In God I have put my trust;
I will never fear.
Ps.56:3
How truthfull are these words. As we served the Lord here amoung the gypsies and faced all kind of challengings, our refuge was in God and in His Word. We continued every day to go to these villages knowing in faith that God will make the seeds of His every word to grow in the heart of the gypsies. The ground was hard, with lots of weds, and Satan tried to steal away every seed we planted. But praise the Lord we could run to our God and ask Him to take care of his fields.
As we already said in our last letter, He sent us a group of gypsy brothers, a band, who came along our side for one afternoon and worket together with us in planting the Gospel in Calatele. God worked greatly that day and many gypsies responded to the altar call to give their lifes to the Lord, or rededicating their life again. The folowing weeks, people in Calatele continued to talk about the evangelism event that happend that afternoon and how blessed they felt. Danut, a gypsy man who receive the lord that night, since then he started to come to every church service in Calatele and also in commming with us every time to Sacuieu. God has changed Him a lot in the last month, he was an alcoholic, and since then stoped drinking alcohol and started to take a better care of his family. Seeing him changed and comming to church, his brother Mircea, (who received the Lord fourteen years ago in the prison and was baptised there, he was for fiveteen years in gail for murder), started fo follow Danut and came back to the Lord. Also Baba Maria is doing much better in her relationship with the Lord, and other few old ladies are attending church on regular basis.
two weeks ago, some Romanian christian men heard about Fery and the other gypsy men who received the Lord, and how a lot of people talk about their changed lifes, and they asked Fery where is our meeting place, our church. He answered them we meet under the open sky, we have no building, nothing. When they heard this they called a gypsy man who is a president of the Christian Gypsy Union here in Transilvania. He said that he would like to come and see the village and the condition in together with another Romanian guy who leads an organisation that have place a program called In Every Gypsy Village A School And a Church. They came together with other people and did an evangelism in Calatele. They told the gypsies they want to help us build a church and a gypsy school, and also a day center for the children there. The news were very good received by the people from Calatele. We now are praying that the Lord will do His will in this regard, we would be very happy for this to happen, but we don’t know them. We had a talk before this with the gypsy guy who came and had lunch with us before the event and we wanted to see what they believe in, what is their doctrine. They seem ok, but we really don’t know them. We are afraid of them not keeping their promises and then the gypsies would blame us. Please pray for this.
The news brought a lot of joy in Calatele, but not the same we can say about the people in Sacuieu. They are now very upset on us, because everything happened in Calatele, and they consider that we don’t care about them. We tried to explain them it didn’t depended on us, and this was totally from God, but they are very stubborn and limited in their comprehension. Now they are on strike! They said they are not going to come to church because we didn’t bring them anybody there to do for them the same. They are frustrated because they don’t have a church building of their own, we rented a shack until the month of August, when the gypsy family will be returning home from Spain.
Indeed our greatest need is a church building before the cold weather. Having a church building in their gypsy village we believe would give them more confidence and something that will show them every day that God is there with them, that they are not forsaken. We know their desire is a good one, but we are so limited, we can’t do anything except God would work a miracle. We pray that this miracle would happen in both villages. Also another great need is the transportation issue. We live in a village between the two gypsy villages. There is no other way we can get to the gypsies except by car. There is no bus, or train. In the last months our car kept breaking almost every week. It is an old car, but also the roads we go to these villages are in really bad conditions. Now during the summer time, the gypsies from Sacuieu keep moving from a mountain to another and camp there to pick up mushrooms and blueberries to sail to have money for their day to day living. We have to follow them, drive where they are to minister to them. Sometimes we wonder how much the car would resist to all of this. Please be praying that the Lord would provide relying transportation mean for the ministry here and some church shelters for the winter.
We are confident He can work great works as we seek His face and guidance.
In His grace,
Hagiu Family
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