By the grace of God, I am able to bring you a brief update about the ministry in the area where the Lord has placed me.
First of all, I would like to begin with a joy: this month, on April 28th, I celebrate 53 years of marriage.
The promise I received at the beginning has been fulfilled by God’s grace:
“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.” (Acts 16:31)
Regarding family life, I had a conviction early on: every evening we would have what we called “the family altar.” Before going to bed, we would take the Book of Psalms, each of us would read a portion, share what touched our hearts, pray one after another, sing a song, and then go to sleep.
The great joy I now have is that almost all of our children have their own families and are continuing the same tradition with their children.
Concerning the mission field, I am responsible for five localities where I was involved in church planting and which are close to my home.
I would like to mention them: Oiesti, Valea-Uiasca, Valea-Dumiresti, Rotunda, and Tigveni, where we also minister to a State Orphanage, which itself has branched into five different nearby locations.
I will not go into details for each location here, as it would take too much space.
Everything I share is brief, trusting that the Holy Spirit will fill in what I cannot fully express.
In each location, I focus on training workers for ministry, in accordance with the command of Matthew 28:19. This is also part of PIEI leadership’s vision. Every time Brother Cornel Ștef visited Romania, he would ask me about the disciples being trained.
Because the volume of work is very large, co-workers are necessary in order to work more efficiently and extensively.
It also lightens the burden for me personally.
As for my own spiritual life, I strive to maintain daily fellowship with the Lord Jesus:
I read four pages of God’s Word every day — which means eight pages total — and at this pace, I read through the entire Bible twice a year.
Every evening from 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM, I dedicate an hour to prayer, and all those I pray for are recorded in a prayer notebook.
I share these things to express the joy the Lord Jesus gives me when I have these precious moments of fellowship with Heaven.
From this vertical fellowship springs the joy of fellowship with others horizontally.
I pray for the PIEI Romania Committee — Brothers Timotei, Jenu, and Mike, along with their families — as well as for the USA Committee:
the families of Cornel and Gabi Ștef, Alex and Rodica Popa, brother Walter and brother Dragomir.
We also do not forget all those whose hearts the Lord Jesus has touched to support PIEI financially, and we pray that He will reward them as He sees fit.
I would also like to mention Ed and Dydi’s family, Matei Scheau’s family and Sister Naomi, and those from the Barac family, among others.
For all of them, I pray with joy that the Lord Jesus would reward them at His coming.
Prayer Requests:
• That my wife’s illness would progress slowly.
• That I would be accompanied by His grace in every place I serve.
I would like to close this update with a verse that has greatly blessed me:
“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty.
For all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours;
Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and You are exalted as head over all.
Both riches and honor come from You, and You reign over all.
In Your hand is power and might; in Your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.”
— 1 Chronicles 29:11-12
In the grace of God,
Traian Chilău - PIEI Romania Missionary










