The Gospel with tires

Dear brothers and sisters, I greet you with the peace of the Lord!

God called us to be ready to give the report of our faith every time and to be a missioner everywhere.

Recently, I had visited a tire fitting to change the tires of my car and I met the owners of this service. It's the family business with father Victor Kiorescu and his son Anatoliy. While they were changing the tires we had a conversation with them. They are orthodox and they were interested in our faith and how do we believe. For about half of the hour, I talked to them about God`s love, sin, repentance, and forgiveness of God.

Please, pray of them. They are opened to know Jesus and they are close to God.

With Love, brother Vasile Preutesa, pastor-missionary in villages Fagadau and Vanchikauts

The Beginning of Wisdom

I usually drive my granddaughters to school, so I know lots of people at school such as teachers, students and others. I am glad to talk to them about the Lord. They usually start the conversation first about the elections that are to be in March. They tell me that they have lost their confidence in all of our Ukrainian leaders. As a missionary I have the opportunity to tell them why is this happening with our country and Who can change the situation. I told them that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. Imagine that a person who fears God does not steal, he does not lie, he is not hypocritical, envious, cruel, brutish, wicked, mean, proud and so on. If only all our leaders, from the President to the prime minister and the deputies, were real Christians, our economical level would raise in a year.  People would have less accidents, people wouldn’t have so many diseases, cancer and diabetes, heart diseases and there would not be so much stress, so much hate and fraud among siblings, there would not be so many wars.

Impossible Things

All the teachers were listening very carefully when I was telling them all these things and answered me in different ways. Some of them told me that it is impossible to be honest and not lie. Others said that the rich don’t understand the poor. I told them that what is impossible to the world is possible to God. We have only to trust Him, repent and pray. We also have to read the Bible as only through it can we find the true way to the Lord. Please join in prayer with me for all the teachers and the people I reach. 

With the church from Fagadau we are studying the book of Psalms and pray for a spiritual awakening of the village. 

Thank you for your love and support. We love you and pray for you also. Love, Vasil Preutesa

Caroling Away

We started January by celebrating Christmas. Our youth joined the youth from Tarasauts and other youths from a nearby village called Buda Mare and went caroling at people’s houses in Vanchikauts and Fagadau. We were glad that all the houses we caroled hosted us well. A family that we were caroling liked the carols so much that started to sing with us. At the end they promised us to come to the Christmas service at church the next day to listen to more carols. 

Young Families

After Christmas I went to the village market and met a young woman there who visited our church with her husband at Christmas. I asked her whether she liked the Christmas program and she told me that her grandma was Christian and went to church. She told her a lot about Jesus when she was alive and now this young woman feels the need to repent. I have been talking with her for almost an hour and she asked me to pray for her and her husband to make the right decision. Please, join with us in prayer for this family. The wife’s name is Larisa, 46 and the husband’s name is Vasil aged 48. 

 I have visited another young family, Octavian and Lilia. They invited me for a cup of coffee and I gave them some tips about the family life, how should the spouses behave according to the Bible, which should be the relationship between parents and children, as well I told them Who is the family’s Designer. We pray for this family too. 

Thus, I had lots of opportunities to praise the Lord in January: through carols, poetry and sermons. We pray for each person on our prayer list. 

We thank you, pray for you and for the Stef family. We also pray for Pavel and Larisa Petihachny to be blessed. 

Love, brother Vasile Preutesa, pastor missionary in villages Fagadau and Vanchikauts

Celebrating A Long Life

Dear brothers and sisters, I greet you with the peace of the Lord!

At the beginning of the month I had the opportunity to be at the birthday of an old man from the village who was 104. A lot of people from the village, kith and kin came to greet him, even the mayor of the village was present there. Then the Lord gave me the opportunity to share to them the Word of God. At the end I invited them to come to the church so they could understand the Word of God more clearly. We do a Bible study every week at church. We pray for all the people I share the Word, that the Lord will work repentance in their hearts.

I also had the opportunity to share the Gospel at the village school and kindergarten, where my granddaughters Julia and Valerica recited poems and praised the Lord by singing. 

The youth of our church are getting ready for our Christmas celebration, which will be on January 7th. We will go caroling through the village and then we will invite all the people to come the next day to the evangelization at church.  We pray for this ministry. 

Thank you for supporting us in the ministry. May the Lord reward you with His rich blessings for all the sacrifice you do for us! 

With Love, brother Vasile Preutesa, pastor-missionary in villages Fagadau and Vanchikauts