Pastor Jay //

We are grateful to have a story in the local paper (here - Citizen Observer, March 15, 2007, A7-8) about our upcoming 3-team mission trip to Romania. However, I would like to clarify a few of the statements.

• “yearly mission” - we have gone each year, but we have not made plans to go yearly in the future.
• “Our goal…is to help people build relationships with God.” Yes, but, more importantly, with Christ. Most of the people of Romania seem to believe in God. They just believe that God is unknowable in the sense of having a relationship. When we go, we talk about the “National Bible Reading Campaign” and encourage the Romanains to read the Bible for themselves.
• “When buildings are put up, you automatically eliminate a group of people and their chance to experience a relationship with God.” I think what I actually said was something like “as soon you build a building, it immediately limits how many people can come.” We are focused on starting house churches that can spread more rapidly than building buildings.
• “Many feel that they are not even allowed to establish a personal relationship with God.” It is not so much that they think they are not allowed, they just don’t know how or know that they can. Their concept of church is that you follow the rules, pay the church, and attend church to get to heaven. Many do not live transformed lives. Our missionary Troy Geddes, calls them “repenters” instead of believers, because they exhibit changed lives.

 I’ll stop there. Thank you Cameron-Citizen for the exposure. We are exited to see what God will do with this work in Galati, Romania and how that will positively effect Cameron. Everyone who goes comes back as a better citizen of Cameron to make an impact here at home. Thank you for supporting the trip.