As you may recall I am the pastor at the Holy Trinity Baptist Christian Church in Victoria. During these last months of the pandemic the church meets every evening via Zoom for prayer. We have suspended worship services on Thursday and Sunday aftenoons. Instead we meet every evening to pray, thanking God and making requests and means for our brothers and sisters from all over the world. We include fellow PIEI missionaries, their families, their existing churches and the newly established community outreach locations. We feel useful in the Lord's work not only locally and surrounding areas, but also in God's work throughout the world.

Acts 15:36 says: “Let us now go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord with many others.” Last week I completed my first goal as PIEI's national director to visit Mihail Geabou and family. https://www.piei.org/mihail-geabou-updates I visited brother Cuc Gabriel and two brothers from the church in which he serves.https://www.piei.org/romanian-pages/cuc-gavrila On the way home I visited brother Liviu Costea from Craiova. We discussed the construction completion of the Craiova church!

Three to four hours Monday though Thursday evenings last week I participated in a seminar on Religious Freedom. About 80 Orthodox Church priests enrolled and some Baptist pastors, too. The concerns consisted not only about the information provided, which were related to politics, legal media … but also the formation of a community to promote public policies aimed at religious freedom. It was a pleasure to take part in this seminar, receiving personal benefit as well as specialized information on this topic for the brothers. Also keeping in mind 1Thessalonians 5:21: “Test all things; hold fast what is good.”

I am thankful for the family that supports me in the ministry to which I have been called. My children and their wives are believers, too.

PRAYER REQUESTS

For the salvation of my son, Timothy, who is 17 years old. My wish and prayer is for the Lord to have mercy on him as well.

Working with PIEI missionaries: new applications; spiritual support to build and grow them in their likeness to the Lord Jesus; open doors for them to preach the Gospel; protection for them and their families and homes.

Timothy Stanea – PIEI Romania National Director

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You may not know this, but I was the first PIEI missionary in Romania. Right after the revolution and the fall of the Romanian dictator Ceausescu, God put it in my heart to plant a church in the city of Victoria. There were no churches in that city, not even Orthodox churches, because Ceausescu’s wife Elena declared that there would never be a church there. However, by the grace of God I worked with PIEI to build a church in that very city! I’m so excited now to be coming back to PIEI as the new National Director of PIEI-Romania.

My first goal is to get to know PIEI-Romania as it is now. I do not want to create a vision that doesn’t work with what PIEI already has in place, so I have been spending all my time with the people and missionaries involved in PIEI to learn all about what we are already doing. I am determined to get to know our national missionaries, go to their homes, spend time with them, get to know their families, and learn their visions. I want to know their mission areas, the villages and locations they serve, the strengths and weaknesses in those villages, and their plans for 2021. Once I get an idea of what each missionary is doing, experiencing, and is in need of, I can then begin to envision what direction PIEI-Romania as a whole needs to go in for the future.

One incredible tool that PIEI-Romania has been blessed with is the Youth Center in Alba, so I would like to explore its potential to use it to the fullest. I would love to use it to meet with Pastors and other church leaders, creating relationships with all the churches in Alba and surrounding areas and allowing them to do their own ministry there, as well collaborating with them for some events. It is also a great location for the youth for sports, activities, Bible Studies, discipleship, and more.

Even through this Pandemic, I would like to see how we can use the internet to do ministry right now. For example, we are exploring the possibility of Gabi Stef leading an online women’s Bible Study right from the States.

A little while ago I had the chance to go to the south and spend time with some of our missionaries there. I spent a lot of time with Eugen Stef, Emanuel Joldos, Mihai Geabou, Florina Darvell, Moldoveanu Cornel, Cuc Gavrilă, and Marian Leonad. Yesterday I went to the Apuseni Mountains north of Alba to meet with Florin Botar, Relu Rodean, and Daniel Petrut to learn more about them and their ministry as well.

I am excited about this new role that God has given me, and I pray that God can use me to further promote the Gospel of Christ in the country of Romania.

Timotei Stanea, PIEI-Romania National Director