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| "Tie your shoes and pray for the Hughes" |
Dear
Friends,
August began with a week of VBS at our rental location. With several ads posted and invitations given, we had no idea how many children might come. It ended up that our numbers were just slightly higher than last year- 22 different kids throughout the week with a high attendance of 18. Overall the week went smoothly and the children listened well to the Bible lessons. In fact, some of them posed good questions that showed they were comparing what they were hearing with what they had been taught. When an invitation was given on Friday, several children responded, with four girls calling on Jesus Christ as Savior. It was a blessing to have some visible results of our labor with the kids!
Being
maybe the biggest vacation month for Moldovans, August is a good time to
evaluate the ministry. Our team got
together for a few days to thank the Lord, pray, discuss and plan. While some decisions were made (to expand
some ministries and start others), there are still a few opportunities we are
considering and need to decide if we should pursue them and, if so, when they
would fit into our weekly schedule. We
want to do all we can, but we also want to be careful to neither overpromise
nor overextend ourselves. Would you take
a moment now to pray that the Lord would help us discern His will regarding
these opportunities?
In His
service,
Jacob and Viola Hughes
For Prayer:
1. The start of some ministries and expanding of others
2. Wisdom for other ministry decisions
3. Believers to grow in their faith and the lost to believe
For Praise:
1. Salvation decisions made at Soroca VBS!
2. A productive and enjoyable team retreat
3. Jacob taught an adult lesson in Romanian for the first time
August began with a week of VBS at our rental location. With several ads posted and invitations given, we had no idea how many children might come. It ended up that our numbers were just slightly higher than last year- 22 different kids throughout the week with a high attendance of 18. Overall the week went smoothly and the children listened well to the Bible lessons. In fact, some of them posed good questions that showed they were comparing what they were hearing with what they had been taught. When an invitation was given on Friday, several children responded, with four girls calling on Jesus Christ as Savior. It was a blessing to have some visible results of our labor with the kids!
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Kids getting ready for a game
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| Jacob teaching the lesson |
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| The Grosses, Sarah Bodaly, and us |
Jacob and Viola Hughes
For Prayer:
1. The start of some ministries and expanding of others
2. Wisdom for other ministry decisions
3. Believers to grow in their faith and the lost to believe
For Praise:
1. Salvation decisions made at Soroca VBS!
2. A productive and enjoyable team retreat
3. Jacob taught an adult lesson in Romanian for the first time
