Pure Celebration

Today, I witnessed the pure joy and beauty of baptism at the Fieni church. Christis (I don't think I spelled his name right, sorry) started coming to the church around the time we came last year. He had really been struggling with pornography, drinking, and just bad influences in his life. Florin and Marian had witnessed to him and told him about Jesus before, but he just ignored them. Weeks later, he decided to open his Bible randomly. He just happened to open up to Romans and began to weep. He knew there had to be a change in his life. After that, he received salvation from repenting of his sins and fully relying on God. He came to the Fieni church and a few weeks later, met some of the men from our church. They said that they would continue to pray for him and his struggles. Throughout this year, his mother saw the changes in his life and also received salvation. So today, Stuart, the Canons, and us Ayoubis went to the Fieni church where Christis and his mother were getting baptized. It was so cool to see that OUR God is an awesome God and He has believers all around the world that continue to glorify Him and strive for His word.

Today we had an evening service in Pucioasa. It was filled with lots of singing, lessons, and testimonies. I loved sitting packed together in the small church and being with fellow believers, or as they would call themselves, repenters. At the very last second, Russ asks my mom to share her testimony. She did an amazing job. Afterwards, we had an intense volleyball match. Score: Americans-2, Romanians-1. Whoop whoop!