Stronger together

In these times of uncertainty and instability, we are grateful to God that we have Him and the faith in His Word that generates the spiritual comfort and peace of mind we need.

Although we are going through a more difficult time, the Church has the mandate to fulfill the Great Commandment and to be a blessing to the community.

With this in mind, on January 16th we organized at the PIEI Christian Center in Alba Iulia a meeting with pastors and missionaries in the area to design together a missionary action plan for the region.

During this meeting, several missionary and spiritual projects for the future were proposed, targeting both the city of Alba Iulia and the entire county of Alba.

• Monthly meetings with pastors and missionaries for fellowship and prayer and also for current studies and discussions for pastors and church work;

• Meetings every two months with the working brothers in the churches where the pastoral brothers serve for their more efficient preparation and equipment in the work;

• Weekly meeting with children from Baptist churches in Alba-Iulia and their friends, outside the church, for floorball activities and Bible lessons;

• Weekly meeting with teenagers and young people from the Baptist churches in Alba-Iulia and their friends, outside the church, for floorball activities and spiritual lessons.

• Meeting and mission with the young people from Alba Iulia in the villages of origin of the young people from the villages near the city of Alba Iulia.

• Summer camps with evangelistic and sports activities - floorball with children and teenagers from Alba Iulia

• Summer camps with sports activities - floorball with children and teenagers from the villages near Alba Iulia

• Apologetics courses in which students and young people from the community are invited

• Homiletical courses for preaching to youth leaders and working brothers in local churches

• Online Bible study with sisters in our churches and all Romanian PIE missionaries.

• Support in prayer, for each other, every night at 9PM

Also presented are some principles that we want to be the basis for the cooperation of the ministering brothers:

• Mutual service must prevail;

• Equality of brothers in the service of others;

• Development of a common strategy;

• Ability to learn from each other;

• Together we are stronger

The pastoral brothers appreciated the proposals made and offered their willingness to get involved in the future in all these aforementioned projects.

Prayer Requests:

• Unity and harmony between servants

• Perseverance in the development of these projects

• Ability and humility to accept each other and learn from each other

• Protection and health for servants and their families.

• Team formation for each proposed project.

We thank God for this meeting and we are confident that in unity and connection God's work will be fruitful and effective.

With brotherly love,

Emanuel Joldos

My Vision for the Youth Center

As the new Director of the PIEI Youth Center in Alba Iulia, I would like to share with you my vision for it. Please pray that this vision will be fleshed out and fulfill the needs of the community and bring the Gospel to those who need it.

Emanuel Joldos, PIEI-Romania Missionary

Objectives:

• Formation of an apprenticeship group and initiatives regarding the county mission work

• Preparing and equipping young people to serve through the Word

• Evangelism and working with children locally

• Forming and equipping a work team as spiritual and sports mentors

• Training and preparation of floorball instructors / coaches

• Training leaders with spiritual involvement

• Discipleship of young people in the Church

• Saving young people

• Establishing good and trusting relationships with their families in order to save them

• Occasional mission in village churches

• The inter-relational connection of the young people from the city with those from the villages

• Strengthening and deepening relations between zonal workers.

Projected Activities

• Weekly meeting with children from Baptist churches in Alba-Iulia and their friends outside the church for floorball activities and Bible lessons

• Weekly meeting with children from Baptist churches and their friends outside the church, from villages near the city of Alba Iulia, for floorball activities and Bible lessons

• Weekly meeting with teenagers and young people from Baptist churches and their friends outside the church, from villages near the city of Alba-Iulia, for floorball activities and spiritual lessons

• Meeting and doing missions with the young people from Alba Iulia in the villages of origin of the young people from the villages near the city of Alba Iulia.

• English Language Club (2 days a week)

  • Teaching English to the group (s) of children at beginner level

  • Teaching English to the group (s) of children at intermediate level.

• German Language Club (2 days a week)

  • Teaching German to groups of children at beginner level

  • Teaching German to groups of children at intermediate level

  • Teaching German to groups of children at an advanced level.

• Christian counseling (4 counseling sessions per week):

  • Providing guidance, emotional, socio-affective and spiritual support to parents with various needs

  • Providing spiritual-behavioral psychotherapy sessions for children

  • Family and couple counseling sessions

  • Concrete and specific interventions to improve, solve and prevent significant problems of children

  • Parenting sessions and courses

Summer Camp- Floorball/Sports

• Evangelistic and sports activities - floorball with children and adolescents from Alba Iulia (three days)

• Sports activities - floorball with children and teenagers from the villages near the city of Alba Iulia (three days)

We are in need of

• Synthetic ground, materials (gates, edges, clubs, balls, equipment) for Floorball

• Snacks

• Language and counseling center:

  • benches

  • chairs

  • stationery

  • teaching materials

  • blackboard

  • desk

  • playground

  • laptop

  • printer