History repeats itself!

In November 2011 while travelling with the Bus4Life, a reporter and cameraman from the local TV turned up to report about the bus. Spiridon gave an interview and the bus and their visitors were filmed. That same evening this was shown on TV and on the internet. Many positive reactions were heard after this and also the sunday after that, many more people came to church.

Yesterday history repeated itself: the local TV from Nisporeni came to the Bus4Life and the guy who interviewed us, was a Christian himself so he encouraged us to share cleary about our motiovation for coming with the bus and selling Bibles for 15 Lei/ 1€. So that's what we did!

Next monday the reportage will be on TV so we will have to be a patient for the final result but praise God that He gave us this opportunity to share about Him to an even bigger public!

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One week with Bus4Life...

Starting tomorrow we will be involved for 1 week with the Bus4Life. While travelling with the bus we will be visiting 4 different places: Nisporeni, Calimanesti, Huzun and Micleuseni. We will organize kids programs, youth programs and of course invite as many people as we can, to come and visit the bus. While drinking a cup of tea they can have a look at the Christian literture and we can discuss with them about God or challenge them to buy a Bible for only 1€!

We pray that in the coming week God will bless us with wisdom, daily strenght and energy, his guidance, dry weather, protection and a lot of creativity! We pray that many people will hear His Word and respond!

The bus in a village

Christian literature for sale

Kids in the bus watching a animation film

A family visiting the bus

The winter of 2013 is coming

As we are entering the winter of 2013, OM Moldova will again be involved in different winter relief projects. For example, 1150 familie will be visited every month (December - March) and besides sharing the Gospel and encouraging the family, also a food parcel will be delivered. As I was preparing today a report about some foodparcels that have been delivered in the last month, I came across the below story of Lucia. She is just one of many who are in need of help. Let us pray that this winter many, many people will be reached with the practical help they need but also with the spiritual help!

Lucia lives in Bender together with her 4 children. Lucia was married but her husband was drinking a lot and was beating her very often. Three years ago he took a knife and stabbed her with it. For two years Lucia stayed in the hospital until she recovered. Her husband is still in prison. When she was released from the hospital, together with her children, she went to live in the house of her mother in law. It was an old and broken house made of wood. After just a couple of months, the house burned down and so again she was left with nothing, living on the street. At the moment Lucia is renting an apartment and she has a job at a factory where they dry fish. Her job is to wash and clean the fish but the solution they use for this is very strong and the skin on her hands is badly affected by this. But even if her hands hurt she continues to go to work because this is the only way she has some income and can pay the rent for the apartment. Her oldest son is not developing like it should and so after paying the rent, the rest of her salary she spend to buy the needed medicines to treat her son. Lucia tries to save up some money because she knows that in February 2014 she will need to leave the apartment. She can only rent the pace till that month and so she will need to look for a new place, which probably will be more expensive than the rent she is paying now so that’s why she is trying to save some money now. If she doesn’t find a place, than again she will be living on the street.


As you can imagine, the food parcel she receives is a very big help and encouragement. The children were invited to come to the Day Centre at the church and now the whole family attends church on Sundays. Lucia’s oldest daughter is 11 years old and after she attended for a while the Day Centre and the local church, she gave her heart to Jesus and we pray that God continues to work in this family.

Happy children & thankful mothers and fathers in Lozova

This afternoon we were thankful to see how the room of the house were we gather in Lozova, filled up with many people. We had brought some extra chairs and praise God, all of the chairs were occupied. After a welcome, some songs and a short message, it was time for the children to pick new clothes. We had put the clothes in a small room and so one after another the families entered and picked shoes, jackets, trousers, gloves, socks, sweaters etc. etc. Some of the families that came were not on our list that we had from the major but they had heard from their neighbors about the clothes for children and they decided to come also.
Many children were a bit shy but after a short time many of them got excited and at the end they were smiling and thanked us with a big smile.

Seeing some of the parents made us realize that also they could use some good clothes and so when we saw that some of the bigger clothes were left over, we decided to bless also the parents in need.
For example, Julia is a 7 year old girl and she just started in class 1. Julia is blind at one eye and so this means that it costs her extra energy to make her homework and often she is teased by others. But despite her situation, she convinced her father and mother to come and so as a family they came to church. Both of the parents don' t have a job and looking at their shoes and clothes, we could see that they also needed help. After 10 minutes the whole family was dressed: Julia was very proud of her new jacket and sweater, father was content with his new shoes and mother didn't want to take of her new shoes and coat anymore.

We invited all the people to come back next week and for some of the children who didn't find the right clothes or shoes we will try to still buy something so next week we can make them happy too!
We praise God for the way all worked out and we pray that the words that were spoken and the deeds that were shown will be a reminder of Gods Love for all!

Julia and her parents

Mihai is 9 years and although he was very shy, he was quite happy with his new clothes!

Winter clothes for children in Lozova

Many children in Moldova come from poor families. Families that do not have enough income or at least not enough to buy for their children warm winter clothes and good solid shoes. With support from outside Moldova, the church in Micleuseni got the possibility to reach out to 26 children in the village Lozova. Praise God for His provision! After we contacted the local major and told her about the project, she was happy to give us a list of different families with children who could use some good clothes. Next question was: who from the church in Micleuseni is going to buy the clothes? Surpirse: we were chosen! So last Wednesday we went to Chisinau to the second-hand market and bought many, many clothes and shoes in different sizes and colors!

When you shop for children in need and you just know that you can bless them with something they really need and make their face light up and smile, also knowing that many of them come from families that are broken and that they often don' t receive love and positive attention, this makes you enjoy the shopping even more....but we even experienced bigger joy beacuse.....when the local sales-people on the market heard that we bought clothes for children from poor families, they started to call us to their boutiques and gave us extra shoes for free, thick sweaters and all kind of other clothes and shoes with big discounts. So after two hours of shopping and filling big bags, the back of our bus was nearly full! Praise God for His help and for softening the hearts of the sales people.

Next thing to do is to hand out the clothes and make the kids smile! Coming Sunday afternoon we will hand out the clothes during a church service at 15 hour. We invited all the parents to come with the children to the church and we pray that the Orthodox priest will not make any problems and that we will be able to bless the children and share the Gospel in word and deed! Please join us in prayer!