“By awesome deeds in righteousness You will answer us, O God of our salvation, You who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth” – Psalm 65:5
Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord.
Six months ago we were very troubled, I’m talking about me and the church in Ponorel. The old fence at the cemetery was completely torn down, we wanted to build a new one, but a family of unbelievers put great obstacles in our way. We have no documents on this cemetery that belongs to the church (we will make these documents after January 1, 2025)
To get to this cemetery from the main road, we had to build a road, but this road passed over the place of these unbelieving neighbors. Part of this road was an ugly swamp, and we needed to put some drainage pipes for the water that passes over this part of the road to the cemetery. When we saw that we could not get along with them, I and the church in Ponorel started to pray for them that the Lord would change their mind and heart.
Blessed be the Lord, for He answers prayers - a miracle happened, and in November, they called me to talk and I went, they invited me to drink coffee together and they said: we are sorry that we shouted at you (they behaved very, very badly with me when I asked them to let us work on the road to the cemetery and on the fence there) now their attitude was radical - I was simply stuck, it seemed that I was in a beautiful dream.
Great is God, great is His power, so, in November we started working at the cemetery:
120 meters of new paved road to the cemetery (a row of smaller stones still needs to be placed)
4 meter metal gate at the entrance to the cemetery
250 meters of new fence around the cemetery with wire mesh
3 water drainage pipes that pass over the road to the cemetery
cleaning the cemetery of many old willows
We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for praying for us; when it is hard and difficult for us, we feel you close to us, and we are overwhelmed by your love.
Florin & Magda Botar, PIEI Romania Missionary