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Wow, a lot has happened over the past couple of days. These fickle words will not suffice to explain how the ministry here is going. These experiences need to be shared around a coffee table on comfortable couches (Coffee Underground or Paris Cafe downtown Greenville would be nice). I would tell stories in stuttering excitement of how old ladies prod their cows down the street and then move to eye-glistening seriousness in telling of how a loving hand and a comforting word was given to a mother after losing her 17 year-old son.

For now, I want to share some pictures of expereince and people. I can tell you that the pictures will never do justice to what is going on here.



This is my first attempt at cooking for myself in the apartment. Because lunch is so huge, dinner is often more of a snack. In keeping the trend, this is just vegetable soup, ham, tomatoes, cheese (locally made) and olives. I'm trying to eat a little bit healthier here. We'll see how it goes.









is my good friend Shteffie (This is how you pronounce it). He is 29 years old and married to a wonderful girl named Laura. He faithfully serves in the villages with Luci. Although his English struggles, our relationship is very strong.






These two wonderful girls have been my translators over the past couple of days. Simona, the one on the right, has been a great help with showing me around town and eating at non-english speaking people's homes with me (I'm sure that she appreciates all of the free meals). With these people I often think a song with the line "Disappear from your hometown, go and find the people that you know." My closest friends will know the artist.

These next pictures are of a village called Culnic. This is a very difficult village to minister in because the people are not so receptive to the message. There are only about 5 to 10 people that I have been able to talk to in the past 2 visits. But, every time I go the villages like this one I am reminded that God calls people to himself and it is not by my own eloquence or meritt that people recieve the message of God's love. The building that the people are coming out of is where we meet to have a small worship service where we sing a song, someone gives a message of encouragement from God's word, and then we pray together.