From Ion…Week 2 CampersFrom July 12 to July17, we had the second camp coordinated by Mihai and Elena Sarmaniuc. Considering the tragic situation of our country, the main provider of prostitutes to Western Europe, we decided to teach the youth the Precepts course, “Sex according to God”, which actually teaches about how to keep our vessels pure and holy in this world of temptation. We had 144 youth from the Central and Southern part of the country. Almost all of them were non-believers coming from difficult families – 60 % of them are coming either from families where parents left their kids with relatives and went abroad to earn money and support their lives, or from divorced families. Of the remaining children without parents, many of them got involved in immorality and other vicious things.Ion Teaching on Sexual Purity
All camp leaders, including the American and German teams (Konny from Magdeburg and her family who came to support us this year again), were blessed to witness the power of resurrection through the regeneration of 109 youth who prayed to receive Jesus as their Savior. They honestly prayed, and we suppose that they accepted Jesus in their hearts. But who knows what really happened? I told them, “If a desire for spiritual food appears in your life that makes you want to continue studying Jesus’ Word, then you will know that you are a born-again disciple. An amazing thing will happen. Step by step you will get to know the truth, becoming more and more free from the bondage of sin”. Knowing the context of their lives, I reminded them about the persecution which will be another sign of their repentance.
Every morning, at 6.30 we had a training for the leaders on discipleship strategy. Please pray for the mentoring process and a successful follow-up with them. As always, we have a big need in mature mentors who would take care of those kids.
We had many sincere testimonies from different boys and girls who discovered God’s mercy and love, crying, laughing and enjoying the wonderful care of their leaders.
Pray for the 109 Young People that Prayed to Receive Christ
Lenuta from Cricova wrote to us that for the first time in her life she felt God’s presence and understands how powerful His love is for us.
Madalina, another girl, said that she regrets that she had a life without the knowledge of God and now she finally understood what God‘s purpose is for her life.
My brother-in-low, who used to be really cruel to my sister, persecuting her for her belief, came to know Christ as well.
Thank you once again for allowing us to be a part of such amazing work which encourages us to stay focused on investing more and more time in spreading God’s Word and his Good News in this part of the World.
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from Ion… We experienced a real blessing, having children and teens from more than 10 locations attend our camps. At the first camp (July 5 to July 11th) we had 117 attend – 19 were believers and 98 non-believers. The last three days of camp we made the call to come forward and repent. All…
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