Gina and Petrica worshipped at Rayners Lane Baptist Church for some years while studying at London Bible College. They came to us from First Baptist Church Timisoara where Petrica is now the senior pastor. Pray for Petrica who is very busy with his responsibilities of leading a congregation of over 1000 and give thanks for the way in which the church is growing.

LATEST NEWS LETTER fromGBINA and PETRICA

Dear Friends,

It has been a long time since we managed to give you an update on our family, please accept our apologies for that. Our life is very hectic and the days are far too short for all the things that need to be done, but even when we do not write, you are often in our minds and hearts, and we thank God for blessing us with such special friends. Please allow us to share you a few things that are going on in our lives.

Petrica is very busy at church, so the rest of the family rarely gets to see him during the day. Apart from the usual pastoral and administrative problems that come with the job, he felt led more and more to emphasize in his preaching and personal life a constant preoccupation with holiness and conformity to Christ's image and call. Please pray that God's Spirit will accomplish His purpose both in his personal life and in His church. Petrica is also very aware of a deep need in our church for trained people that can take over some of the ministry tasks. As a result, he started and oversees a mentoring and discipleship ministry among the men, continues to support and teach at the Missions School in our church that he began over a year ago and very enthusiastically trains in Homiletics a group of 10 young preachers. Pre-marital counselling still occupies a priority on his agenda and with God's help will organize a marriage encounter camp for families for our church this August. On a more personal level, he is often tired but never for too long discouraged, and keeps praying for increased immunity which has never been a problem in the past but now it seems to fail him. Please pray for Petrica: for wisdom and authority for the Holy Spirit in matters related to church government; for good health and increased immunity; for greater personal discipline in arranging his schedule so that his activities will not take too much of the time that he feels should be dedicated to prayer and study; for greater discernment in selecting the priorities in the ministry. Pray also for our family unit, that in spite of a very busy schedule we can find time to be just a family and enjoy the very little time we have left for just the four of us, bofore the kids leave home.

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