In the ministry

Our dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,

We are glad to share with you some “hot off the press” updates about how God is using us for His glory at this time. We want to be used by Him and desire to be as effective as possible in our service, for the salvation of many around us.

After several months of delay, caused by the fact that the team of construction workers that was supposed to come had too much work, we finally managed to start renovating the church building in Mihalt. We removed all of the benches and other items from the church, took out the wooden floor, poured a concrete screed, painted the interior of the church and completed other works as well. We hope that through this work, even though it is more administrative in nature, we can be a good testimony to those around us.

Right now, we are blessed to be in the first camp organized after renovating the cabin at Necrilești, a location that is part of our organization’s property, P.I.E.I. Together with the leaders and the whole team involved in this work, we are striving to help the children understand God’s love for them and respond to that love by giving their lives into His hands. The central theme of the Bible lessons is: “Strong and Courageous like Joshua.” There are 24 children and 14 adults. We desire for the children to understand that what helped Joshua see the glory of God was the way he chose to obey God and submit to His will. We are so grateful to be see God at work!

Prayer requests:

·         For the children, that they may know God more deeply;

·         For the leaders, for strength, health, and wisdom;

·         For the local ministry of the Mihalț Church, a pure and impactful testimony among the residents of Mihalț and the surrounding areas.

In Him,

Petruț C. Daniel - PIEI Romania Missionary

The Celebration of Pentecost

Our dear brothers and sister in the Lord,

First of all, as we are currently celebrating Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit, we wish you all an abundant portion of the Holy Spirit’s guidance in everything you do, may it all be done for the glory of our heavenly Father. May you also be encouraged by our Lord’s promise to never leave us nor forsake us, as long as we seek God's righteousness.

We are grateful to the Lord and to you for the involvement and support that you give us so that we can be more effective in the ministry that God has entrusted to us.

We are glad to be able to share with you once again some of the work that we have done, for the glory of the Lord in the mission field in which God has placed us, in the past month.

On Children's Day, the 1st of June, with the Lord's help, we organized a special children's meeting. It was a beautiful meeting in which we sang together, played a couple of games and most importantly, we were able to reach the hearts of the children with the Gospel again. Using the story of the multiplication of the loaves, in which the child who had the two fish and the five loaves of bread gave them to the Lord, we challenged the children to mention a couple of things that they could give to the Lord. Then I told them that the most important thing is to give their own lives to God, so that in the end, we will all be with God in eternity. When we designed the invitations for this event, we mentioned that they were adressed to anyone who can still be a child at heart and we had the joy of welcoming 2 older people as well. Sister Neluta and her husband, Mihai, who has not given his life to Christ yet and for whom we are praying.

We have also enjoyed these peaceful and quiet holidays in our church and in our families, while giving thanks to the Lord for His grace and for being able to still enjoy peace in our country. Our neighbours across the eastern border have already been at war for 3 years and the news in our countries talk more and more about the very real possibility that Romania could be drawn in this war.

From the 30th of June to the 5th of July, 2025 the first camp in Necrilesti will take place, with God’s help. A camp that is under the administration of PIEI. We are working closely with the brothers in the organization with the hope that in this camp God will be glorified, while praying that the children who come, will know Him and surrender their lives into God's hands.

Reasons for prayer:

- for peace in our country, in Ukraine, in Israel and in the whole world;

- for the children we work with, that they may surrender themselves into God's hands;

- for the camp in Necrilesti;

- for me and my family: spiritual and physical health;

-for Mihai, for him to accept the Lord as his personal Saviour.

 Daniel C. Petrut - PIEI Romania Missionary

God's timing

Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,We have rejoiced in the Lord together with our brothers and sisters during the celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection, thanking Him for the love He has shown us. We believe that we have been united in this celebration by the Holy Spirit, both we, here in Romania, and you, in the USA.

At the Church in Crăciunelu, two people who are not members of our congregation expressed a desire to join us in worship and participated in the special meetings we held on this occasion. During these gatherings, we focused on the plan of salvation and the significance of the Lord’s sacrifice for us. Their names are Mary and John, and we pray that the seed of the Word remains in their hearts and minds and that it will bear fruit.

At the Church in Mihalț, two friends of the church, two men attend our meetings. One of them is John, the husband of sister Neluța, and the other is Romica.  Unfortunately, his family, especially his wife, does not support his decision to come to church. We are praying for him as well, asking God to strengthen him and help him continue to seek the Lord with an open heart.

By God's grace, we are also thankful for the young people in our church. We pray that they may grow in His grace and be useful in every good work that brings glory to God. Proclaiming the Gospel and making disciples have always been, and continue to be, central to the ministry to which the Lord has called us. Our goal is to help these young people mature spiritually through fellowship, prayer, and time in the Word of God.

Another important area of my ministry remains the school. Here, my hope is to be able to lead by example and, where there is openness, to share the Word of God. My desire is to show that the life of a practicing Christian is truly worth living, a life that brings glory to God.

Prayer Requests:

1. For the four friends we mentioned: the two people from Crăciunelu and the two men, John and Romica, from Mihalț. We pray for their full return to God with all their hearts;

2. For the young people in our church and those with whom we work. May God help them grow spiritually so that they may carry the ministry forward with strength and wisdom;

3. For the ministry that I carry out wherever the Lord leads me. My prayer is that the message and testimony I bring to the children and adults will remain pure and never be compromised by sin or personal negligence.

In Him,
Daniel C. Petruț – PIEI Romania Missionary

We rely on Him...

Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,

We are thankful to be able to bring you some news about our lives and the ministry to which the Lord has called us here in the Mihalţ Mission Center. By the Grace of God, we strive to live with a pure mind before our brothers and sisters and before the people from our village and those among whom we are. I hold the Word that says that we should take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ very dear to my heart. In this way, we strive to live a holy life among those we serve.

We are very thankful to God for our health and for doing well as a family. Right now, Teodora is at Cluj, at her University, while we are in Mihalţ, but tomorrow there will be, with God’s help, a family reunion in Ocna Mures. My mother’s birthday was this week, God helped her reach the age of 80, and on this occasion our whole family would like to gather together.

As for our involvement in the Lord's work, we strive to be close, first of all to our brothers in faith, who need our help. We also make time to be close to those who do not yet have a personal walk with God. Our desire is to help as many souls as possible to reach the Kingdom of our Father. Some of the work we do can be shared publicly, but there are also things that must remain confidential, for the protection on the people we work with. We continue to pray for sister Paraschiva. Beyond the health problems that she is facing, she is also struggling spiritually .We also have a problem that needs intercession in prayer. At the church level, we are facing a state of spiritual apathy, a reduced attendance at church services.

Prayer requests:

1. For Sister Paraschiva - for physical and spiritual health;

2.To be effective and impactful in evangelization and discipleship;

3.For our family: spiritual and physical health.

Daniel C. Petruț - PIEI Romania Missionary

We strive to be a positive exemple

Our beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord, 

We are grateful to the Lord for every day of life that we receive as a gift from the Him. We pray and wish that God will use us, as He wants. Through God's grace, we continue to work with the hope of being of help to those who need us, especially to the sick and widows.

Lately I have put aside more time for Ruben and Cristian, two young people who are very dear to me and for whom I pray that they will get closer to God and be useful in the Lord's work. Ruben  lives in Bucerdea Granoasa and is the son of Ionela and Elemer, the dear brother who passed away in 2023, at the age of 52. On this occasion, together with Rachela I also spent time with Ionela, who is going through a harder time. Brother Elemer was born in February and the day that would have been his birthday was a very hard one for us, but especially for Ionela and their children. A couple of days ago, it was also Sister Ionela's birthday. We try to stay close to them, encourage them in the Lord and offer support at least through our presence, prayers and words. 

As I have written before, during the winter months we gather on every Friday evening, for fellowship and prayer in the Word, in one of brothers and sisters house.  The nephew of a sister from the church, Peter, was also present at the last couple of meetings, along with his daughter, Anca. He also has a son, Ionut, who have participated in the last few VBSs that we organized. God worked in such a way, that following one of the VBSs, he expressed his desire to go to a Christian summer camp. Through God's grace, he spent a beautiful week there, learning more about the Gospel. At the end of the week, I went to pick him up and bring him back to Mihalt, where his dad, Peter, was waiting for him. That's when I have met him for the first time and ever since, we have kept in touch. We pray and we wish for them to know the Lord Jesus as much as possible and to surrender their lives into His hand. 

Beyond the ministry in the churches, we are moving forward with the work in the school. We strive to be a positive example, both for students and for those who are employees of the school. We face all kinds of challenges, but with the help of the Lord we move forward. 

Prayer requests: 

1. For Sister Paraschiva, who is in convalescence; 

2. For Ionela and her children: Darius, Damaris Deborah and Ruben.

3. For Cristian, the young man from Mihalt Church. 

4. That we may serve the Lord with passion and wisdom. 

Be blessed! 

Daniel C. Petruț - PIEI Romania Missionary

Loving God and loving each other

Our dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

 We thank the Lord for the way He uses us in mission, sometimes in the most unexpected ways, as we seek to be sensitive to the whispering of the Holy Spirit and to continue to let ourselves be led by Him in everything that we do.

We have entered the new year while being in the village where Rahela was born. Even though they are old now, her parents are still active and enjoy raising animals and gardening. One day, while her mother was taking care of the animals, she fell, dislocated a vertebra in her spine, and was bedridden for more than a month. In this context, we have spent most of the first two weeks of this year there, trying to encourage them and be helpful. While there, we have attented and got involved in the local church and in a smaller church in a nearby village and served during Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday church services and meetings with young families and youth during the other days of the week.

I was very happy to be able to reconnect with people I hadn't seen in many years and to see how, despite the long time that has passed and the different stages of life that we have been through, we can still have fellowship in the Lord and talk about the Scriptures together with a great joy, being bound by the blood of Christ.

If you feel the desire to, please pray for my mother-in-law, she has a little bit more mobility now and can take small walks, but is still in a lot of pain. Likewise, unfortunately, we have seen the same issue that we have in the churches from our ministry over here, there as well. Churches that used to be full of life and love for the Lord and His Word, are becoming more and more empty. Our churches and communities need revival, please pray about this too.

When we have returned home, we had a couple of meetings with the young people from here. We appreciate every opportunity that we have to try and be close to them, to motivate them and encourage them to serve the Lord.

One thing that has been going well and that we praise God for is the opportunities to visit the believers from our churches and their families. We have been trying to plan more of these visits and use the doors that are open to us for a while now and recently, we had the opportunity to visit a sister that gave her life to Christ a couple of years ago and is the only believer in her family. During this visit, I was grateful about the opportunity to talk to her husband, gently approach the subject of salvation and be able to invite him to church. I pray that he will come. We also continue to take care of the sick brothers and sisters in the church, sister Paraschiva is better, but she still isn’t able to come to church, because of her health issues.

Thank you for keeping us in your prayers and hearts, God bless you all!

Daniel C. Petrut - PIEI Romania Missionary

In service for His glory

Beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord,

We must humbly and thankfully acknowledge that if we have reached the first month of 2025, it is only due to the grace and mercy that we have received from our heavenly Father! We greet you with joy and wish you all to remain in the abundance of God's protection and blessings in this year as well. We are grateful, to God and to you, for the spiritual and financial support we have from you. May the Lord reward you abundantly!                                                                                                                                

The last time I wrote to you, I have also mentioned the project that we were in the process of organizing for the children, in order to celebrate the birth of our Savior together. By God's grace, we had the joy of having a blessed time together. The meeting took place at the PIEI center in Alba Iulia and we were all happy, both the leaders and the children with how it turned out. We sang together, Teodora spoke about the birth of the Lord, we had a skit, a craft and a few games. We believe it was a time well-spent, in which the children had the opportunity to learn more about God's love for us.                                                                                                 Also, with a group of brothers and sisters from the church, on Christmas Eve, we visited several families from the village, sharing the message of the birth of the Lord through songs and the Gospel with them. I saw the joy of those whom we served in this way. Together with Rahela, Teodora and Filip-Emanuel, I went to visit Sister Sabina as well, the oldest sister from our Church. She is now 95 years old and a living testimony of God's grace. 

 We want to continue to put ourselves in God's service for His glory. We remain focused on the visits we want to make and to support those who are in need. A little while ago, sister Paraschiva was admitted to the hospital with severe pain in one leg. At the medical consultation, it was discovered that a blood clot was blocking the circulation and the sister went through a great danger. By God's grace, sister Paraschiva is better now, she is at home and recovering.                                                                                                       

        Prayer requests:
- For guidance and divine power in the work that we have been called to do;
- For spiritual and physical health;
- In order to bring as much fruit as possible for the glory of the Master;
- For the involvement of more believers in the Lord's work      

 Daniel C. Petrut - PIEI Romania Missionary

Winter is the summer of the soul

Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,

As we are all preparing to celebrate this wonderful season, rejoice with our loved ones while serving and praising the Lord for His perfect plan of salvation, we want to wish you all the peace of God that surpasses all understanding, joy, victories in prayer, blessings and hope, while knowing that all of those are only possible because our Savior came in the flesh, in the world and sacrificed Himself for us all. By God's grace we want to share with you again some aspects of the work in which the Lord uses us. One of our old Romanian proverbs says that "winter is the summer of the soul". The explanation would be that, because it is very cold outside, people spend more time inside their houses. This is why we have decided to use this time in a wise manner and be intentional about making a few visits in the village. The strategy is to reach out to families where there is one believer, but the rest of their relatives do not come to church. In this way we try to bring the Gospel to people who have not made up their minds to follow the Lord Jesus yet. We spent a good time with them and we wish and pray that God will work in their hearts as well. Two men with whom I had had more profound conversations in this way are called Nelu and Mihai. Let us pray for them!

Also, since it became cold, we have started the house meetings during the week again. On Friday evenings we gather together and sing, pray and read the Scriptures with all those who want to come to these meetings. Another project that we are working on is preparing a meeting with the children that have participated in the VBS this summer and later on in the Thanksgiving meeting. We are praying and hoping that most of them will decide to answer to our invitation in a positive way and join us. The meeting will take place at the PIEI Center in Alba Iulia, with God's help. We hope that this meeting will help them get closer to God.

Prayer requests:

- For the conversion of the two men about whom I have written to you: Nelu and Mihai;

- So that friends and relatives of the believers come to the Friday evening meetings and that we will be able to share the Gospel with them;

- For the planned meeting with the children at the Center: we pray that many of those who will come will also decide to start a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Daniel C Petruț - PIEI Romania Missionary

Thanksgiving

Shalom, beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord!

        With God's help, we want to share with you some of the things that God has done with us and through us during the last month. 

        We were so happy to be able to have a Thanksgiving celebration especially for the children from Mihalţ, the day before we could celebrate it with the whole church. We served pizza together and Teodora surprised us all with the sweets that she had brought back from the States. She didn't carry them for nothing, they were very much worth it! We sang together and prayed that God would help us to always be grateful! The main verse that we've talked about is Proverbs 15:15. We've also had a craft. On a piece of paper, we've painted a tree and each of us received a colored paper leaf on which we've written one reason that we are grateful for and then glued it wherever we wanted on the tree. Most of us wrote about being grateful for our families, for being alive or being healthy. It looked beautiful in the end. 

        On the following day, when we celebrated Thanksgiving with the whole church, we had the joy to see our church overflown with people. There were people from the village that positively answered to our invitation, there were brothers and sisters from several churches and we ended up having four more pastors with us, so it was a beautiful day filled with God's grace. We wish that the people from the village that came were touched by the Gospel through the Holy Spirit and that we will see them in church again soon. 

        We still need prayer for the project that I've written to you about, the project with the families. We have the materials so we can start the study, but we don't have the families yet. We want to start this project and for it to be a blessing for the families that will be involved in it. 

        Let's also continue to pray for the work with the children. We wish to be able to see teenagers arising from among them who will dedicate themselves to the Lord Jesus Christ with all their being. 

        Sister Ema, about whom I wrote to you before, needs our support in prayer. After brother Beni went to the Lord, Ema decided to stay in Romania, even though her relatives insisted that they would return to Austria.
        Thank you so much for your support, we appreciate you in the Lord!
Be blessed!

Daniel C. Petrut PIEI Romania Missionary

Feedback From VBS And Daily Ministry

Our dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,

We want to use this opportunity to share with you some thoughts about the things that have been happening lately in the mission field where we serve with God’s help.

We are very thankful to the Lord that after spending the last 4 months in the United States at her summer work program, our daughter Teodora, has returned home safely. We are also very thankful for the brothers and sisters that have supported her in prayer, warmly welcomed her into their homes at the end of her program or helped her see the beauty of God’s creation in every little thing and enjoy every place that she’s been to.

With God's help, we kept meeting with the children. In the first meeting, we tried to concentrate on a summary of what they had learned this summer at the VBS about Joseph. In the second meeting, the theme was “Friendship: how we choose our friends and who is our best friend.”

With God’s help, we want to be the first to practice living our lives the way we are teaching others to live theirs and together, to serve the Lord with everything that we do everyday. For the most part of the month we have been visiting brothers and sisters in need and trying to help them out, to bring comfort to those going through trials and tribulations, to be with those that need our support. This month, I had a harder time doing this after receiving some sad news. A faithful and close friend, a brother in Christ named Beni has gone to the Lord. He was only 38 years old and left behind a young widow and 5 children.

We want, with God's help, to start a new project this Autumn and approach the Friday meetings with the families from a different perspective. The theme that we want to address refers to harmony within the family.

Reasons for prayer:
1. For work with children
2. For the meeting with the families
3. For the churches where we serve: Mihalt, Craciunelu de Jos, Bucerdea Granoasa
4. For Ema, Beni's widow and for her 5 children

Children's Ministry

Dear brothers and sisters

I hope you are well. We appreciate you praying for us, we are grateful for the blessing that it is knowing that people like you are praying for us and God’s ministry here in Mihalt.

This time specifically we would like to ask you to pray for a meeting that we are going to have with the children and teenagers that have participated at the last VBS that we had at the center in Alba Iulia, through God’s grace. We are planning to have this little event on Friday, where we can meet with the children again and continue to share the Gospel with them. There are also going to be songs and games. We do not want to lose contact with them, but hopefully become closer to each other and together, closer to God.

Please pray for the children to come with open hearts and for us to have a wonderful time praising the Lord together.

On the other side, Teodora, our daughter is doing well. Besides work, she has found a church close to her that she goes to every Sunday, met with the Pastor there, and a few other families that have been blessings to her. More than half of her time there has passed and we can’t wait to see her again and have her back in Romania, but for the time being, we are grateful to see God at work in her life as well.

If you would like us to pray for anything, please let us know!

Be blessed!

Daniel Petrut - PIEI Romania Missionary

Heartfelt Thanks

Dear brother Kim and sister Jenny,

We love you and want you to know that we greatly appreciate your spiritual and material support.

I'm glad to be able to tell you a few things about us and how God uses us in His work. With God's help, we had a good time at VBS. Every day we had between 60 and 70 children. We had 15 people as leaders for the children's ministry. With us was brother Cornel, together with a team from Liberty Church, Indiana. We have a 7-minute video, but now we're working on a shorter one. The children were happy, they were very active in the activities. A girl named Sofia told me, "I wish it didn't end this day.

Prayer Requests:

• For the children who have been to VBS. May the Lord continue to work on their hearts;

• All this week we have activities at the center: equipment, mentoring, and counseling. May the Lord help us to be prepared in everything so that through our service we may bring Glory to him! 

• For me and my family: for divine protection, for spiritual and physical health.

In Him,

Daniel Petrut - PIEI Romania Missionary

Spring of Grace

God tells us that by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, we should always present our requests to God ( Philippians 4:6). We cannot let this Spring go by without remembering the Grace that God showed to us so many times and be thankful for everything that He has done for us, as he always remains faithful to his promises.

Last year in February and March we saw doors that appeared to be closed open for the first time in a long time, along with new ways to serve the people from our community, as the school principal welcomed us to work with the students during the program that in Romania is called: “A different kind of school week” and many people from the village started welcoming our visits. During that week, on Monday, we have been given about 2 hours at the school in Mihalt. We split up into 4 groups, each of us had activities in different classrooms where we sang Christian songs with them, had a craft, a Bible story, and a skit.

I remember that we were so grateful for being able to reach the children at their school and to be able to invite them to the event that took place on Tuesday at the Cultural Palace in Mihalt, even showing them a bit of what was going to happen, making them...I hope more eager and excited to come for more activities. That afternoon, we split up into 3 groups and visited about 10 families in need, mostly widows and orphans. We had a blessed and emotional time and on more than one occasion, we felt encouraged by the people that we were supposed to encourage.

On Wednesday, we were supposed to welcome the children younger than 12 at 2 pm, but they started coming at 1:20 pm and just kept coming. Some of the teenagers helping us said that that was a moment they would remember forever, they kept asking if all the children were even from Mihalt, as it is a small village and they did not even think that there could be so many children there. The whole room was full, the children and some of their parents were pushing each other to enter the doors of a Christian event. We prayed for this and yet, when we saw almost 180 people besides us filling up the Cultural Palace, we were amazed. About 70 other teenagers came in the evening, and we thanked the Lord that everything went extremely well and the children heard the Gospel.

We saw almost the same thing happen again during the Summer VBS when we were once again welcomed to have activities with the students at the school, and then again this Spring. We only had access to them for two days this time, but the important thing is that the children heard the Gospel once again.  With the help of some dear brothers and sisters who are close to my heart, on the 1st day, we managed to work in the kindergarten and elementary school, and on the 2nd day with the children from the the middle school. They all had the opportunity to watch a really beautiful skit that showed the sacrifice of our Savior on the cross, other little skits, games, and Bible stories. They seemed glad and excited to participate in this event and we were grateful to see more than 200 children hear the Gospel. We are also trying to keep up with our visit plan and we pray that God will water the seed that has been planted as we are hopeful to see the children and the people that we visit hopefully grow in their faith in the future.

Daniel Petrut - PIEI Romania Missionary

Be Ready

Our dear brothers and sisters in Christ, 

I would like to start by telling you again how much we appreciate your involvement in our shared purpose of being faithful workers in the Ministry that God called us to. A lot of years have already passed since we first met each other and started to serve the Lord together and for that I am grateful. God bless you!

As time goes by, I begin to wonder more and more about two things in particular: how fast time passes (and we along with it) and how rapidly things change worldwide. The Ukrainian war is directly threatening Romania. The Israeli-Palestinian war is dividing nations from all around the globe into being either Pro Israel or Pro Palestine, all of those only showing us how close we are to the moment when the Lord will come back for us. Maranatha!

The month of December of 2023 was quite an active month for us. Our major focus was planning an evangelistic event at the Community Center in Mihalţ. To do our part, we have spent a great deal of time giving flyers away, sharing invitations, and putting up posters all over the village, at the bus stops, shops, and public places to make sure everybody was invited and knew about the event. We are thankful to the Lord for the people that came and we are continuing to pray so that they will also receive the gift of salvation. Knowing that people are more open to receiving visitors and hearing about the Gospel during this time of celebration, we have also tried to visit them, encourage them with our presence, and tell them about the Good News.

The time of celebration and the winter holidays have quickly passed and here we are already, in the middle of January of 2024. The beginning of the year represented a hard time for me and my family as we have all caught some bad cases of colds, for me, it lasted for more than a month, but we are all feeling better now, by the grace of the Lord.

January is also the month when, along with the whole church, we will have an evaluation to make, about where we are based on what the Scripture says. I’m praying that God will give us spiritual wisdom so that we will be able to make an honest, correct, and biblical evaluation of who we are in the Light of the Scripture and where we are headed if we continue to go on this path. May this walk be one where our eyes will be fixed on Jesus, the pioneer, and perfecter of our faith.

On the very first day of this new year, our sister, Maria Dusa has been called home by our God. She lived to be 94, a model and example of God’s faithfulness to us all.

Prayer requests:

• For a clear guidance from the Holy Spirit;

• For being able to do all things with all of our hearts, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, full of passion and zeal for the House of the Lord;

• For spiritual and physical health;

• To be ready to meet the Lord on the clouds

Daniel Petrut - PIEI Romania Missionary

Desire To Grow

Our dear brothers in Christ, 

By God’s grace, we want to share with you some of the things that God did with and through us last month on the spiritual battlefield that He brought us. Because it has always been our desire to grow relationships with the kids and teenagers here in Mihalţ, this Autumn, we have started a new Bible study with them. It is called the “Alpha study” and it implies 9 meetings, talking about 7 important subjects such as: “Who is Jesus?”, “Why, how, and to whom should I pray ?”, “Why did Jesus die?”, etc. While at special meetings, for Christmas and Easter for example, or the Summer Bible School, about 60-70 children come, we only had about 10 children coming constantly for these meetings, which has been a little bit of a disappointment and wonder to us, making us try to think and figure out what is something that we can do to improve and maybe make them more interesting, but in the same time keep the essence and the biblical truth in the center of them all. Nevertheless, even when we can sense the clear fight for these souls, we are thankful for the children who do come to every meeting and grateful for the time that we have to grow deeper relationships with the children from our churches and for them to talk and know more about each other.

On November, 19th, we had the Thanksgiving Holiday celebration in our Church from Crăciunelu de Jos. We were glad to see that about a quarter of the people in Church that evening were unbelievers. We had a blessed time together singing about God’s greatness, and His blessings and listening about how even and especially His love for us is calling us towards Him.

We are preparing, with God’s help, an evangelistic event at the Cultural House in Mihalţ. We have obtained legal consent from the local authorities, gave out flyers, and put up posters, but especially we continue to pray for God to move the hearts of the people living in this village and for them to come, listen to the Gospel, and let It change their lives. We would like for the main purpose of this meeting to be the birth of our Savior and what it means for all humanity.

Prayer requests:

• For the evangelistic event from December the 9th. For the presence of The Holy Spirit and for the people’s hearts to be moved.

• For the remaining meetings from the „Alpha Study” 

Be blessed, 

Daniel Petrut - PIEI Romania Missionary

God's Plan

Grace and peace! 

With God's help the first month of this new year in His mercy has passed. This month we sought God’s guidance in fasting and praying to understand His specific will for us and in which projects He wants us to be involved.

God has led us to this search for His will. For a week we were in quarantine with Rahela and Filip. This year we are looking for new partners in the work. We thank God for the partners we already have and for their faithfulness over the years. We have known their spiritual and financial support.

The vision that we have received from the Lord remains. To highlight our work it extends over a large geographical area. In the nearby villages of Mihalt, there are no evangelical churches. We believe that God's will is for His Gospel to reach with power into these localities as well.

February 26-27 we are organizing two evangelistic evenings at Ocna Mures. May the Holy Spirit convict many people to repent.

"The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest." (Luke 10:2)

Prayer Requests:

• For spiritual and physical health 

• For understanding and fulfilling God’s will 

• For God to sent us new collaborators for the work

• For God’s help in organizing the evangelistic evenings at Ocna Mures. Pray that many will respond to the Gospel.

Daniel Petrut - PIEI Romania Missionary

A New Year Preview

By God's grace I've come to the end of 2021. With God's grace we and Teodora, our daughter, together with Ruben from Bucerdea Granoasa went to Sinaia for a biblical discipleship course. 

This course helped them grow in spiritual maturity. We enjoyed this opportunity to better prepare ourselves for working with children and adolescents. Mihalt is not far from Alba Iulia that we attended an evangelistic evening, commemorating the Birth of the Lord. The brothers from Vladimirescu, sang songs, and the biblical message was brought by brother Daniel Cioban from Sibiu. At the end of the meeting I gave each of those present a small gift in which I placed two brochures about salvation through the Lord Jesus.

During the holidays, God opened a door to Ocna Mures through gifts for children given to us by a Christian organization. We enjoyed the way God guides us! By God’s grace, in January and February, we are praying and preparing a few evangelical evenings in the church where we are involved.

Prayer Requests: 

• Thank God for our spiritual and financial support, our brothers from MBC, and how God used us in 2021

• Pray for those who heard the Gospel on the occasion of the Birth of  Jesus Christ

• Pray for an efficient and a clear guidance as we serve Him

Shalom!

Daniel Petrut - PIEI Romania Missionary

A Fanfare for God

Beloved brothers in the Lord,

We thank God for every opportunity to preach the Gospel to those who do not know the Lord and are without salvation. In these difficult times we thank to God we can bring encouragement to brothers and sisters of faith. God blessed us with sister Daniela Lacatusu in Bucerdea Granoasa and Mihalt. Daniela ministers for God through her singing. I have seen these churches encouraged by the songs sung to the glory of God.

At Ocna Mures a group of brothers near Oradea sang with musical instruments a fanfare for the glory of God. Their pastor, brother Ilie Șorițău, preached a biblical message. At the concluding call a friend of the church stayed last, and the pastor prayed for her. Glory to God!

With the help of God we are now thinking about the meeting at the Christian Center in Alba Iulia at the at the end of this year. We will be working to collaborate with our partners at MIA, Mission In Action. Prayer is needed so that this work will be done with God's blessing. We can and want to provide the administrative oversight for this meeting. Pray that God will give us wisdom in all things.

Prayer Requests:

• For salvation of those who heard the Word of God in recent evangelistic outreach.

• For an effective collaboration with the missionaries of MIA.

• For new opportunities to preach the Gospel and serve people with humilty and denial of self.

Be blessed in Him!

Daniel C. Petrut - PIEI Romania Missionary

Collaborating with Mission In Action

Beloved brothers in the Lord!

     We were so pleased to meet again at this time with brothers who came from United States. Sister Gabi, Damaris and Emanuel Joldos and I went to Ocna Mures for a meeting with the sisters. It was a blessed work, which the sisters enjoyed. The fellowship in the Word ended with a feast which the brothers prepared with love for this occasion. The meeting with Rodica and Alex Popa was also an occasion of joy for us and especially for me. We thank God for the guidance of the Spirit, through which we can live in holy unity.

Increasingly, the possibility of working with the missionaries of the MIA (Mission in Action) is being conceived. After the summer’s work with the children from Mihalt, the mission director together with Iulian Avramescu  and some of the staff wanted to see the Christian center in Alba Iulia. God has arranged things so that in this exact period of time we met at the center with brother Cornel Stef, Emanuel Joldos and Walter. We hope to be good partners for the MIA missionaries and they for ourselves and together to serve the glory of God by salvation of the lost.

Prayer Requests:

• For an affective and spiritual collaboration with the missionaries of MIA

• For the complete physical recovery of the brothers who went through covid

• For the sisters who were at the meeting of the sisters at Ocna Mures 

In Him, 

Daniel C. Petrut, PIEI-Romania Missionary

Work in the Light

Beloved brethren in the Lord,

We strive, with the help of the Lord, to work while there is still day. Darkness will come when no one can work. May the Lord help us to fully understand and fulfill His will!

With the autumn season we celebrate Romanian Thanksgiving, what we call the "Fruits Festival.” We rejoiced and expressed thanks with the brothers from Mihalt, Ocna Mures and Bucerdea Granoasa for everything God has given us this year in His goodness. In Mihalt and Ocna Mures, Magerusan Stefanhere, a dear, blind brother, was with us. God has replaced this brother's lack of physical sight with a spiritual insight that provided encouragement and conviction. Also, the young people from the Baptist Church from Sebes were with us in Mihalt.

At Bucerdea Granoasa we had with us the Mesaj group of four brothers from near Arad. They praised God in singing and were also a source of joy and encouragement to the brethren. The night before, the same brothers served the Lord at an evening of evangelism at the church at Ocna Mures. May the name of the Lord be glorified in all these things. May those who have heard the Gospel message to turn to God with repentance and faith.

Prayer Requests:

• For guidance in other opportunities to reach the souls of the lost people with the Gospel

• For a contented heart and gratefulness to the Lord

• For those who attended the evangelism evening at Ocna Mureș.

In Him,

Daniel C. Petruț - PIEI Romania Missionary