SEASONS

“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—“  Ecclesiastes 3:1

Our family is standing in awe of our GREAT GOD and the way He meets us in the various “seasons” of life.

In May, we saw the Lord bring in approx. $3100 through the 2^nd Mission Romania Garage Sale.  He amazed us again with many donations and did above and beyond all that we could imagine.  We are so thankful to the team of awesome servants who have tirelessly helped in raising support for our family to depart.  As our children voiced their amazement in how God has been so faithful with the garage sales, the Lord put in our hearts to share with them to remember this season and all that our God has done.  There may be doubt and discouragement that comes after we get to Romania, but both Elli and James have been blessed first hand to see their God at work and know that HE wants their family in Romania.

Also in May, the Lord blessed us with an opportunity to ship our belongings for one “flat-fee” as we contacted a Romanian shipping company here that had a ½ empty container that needed to be shipped on May 20^th.  They would lose money if the container wasn’t full.  They even came to our home to pick it all up and will deliver to our door on the other end once we are there.  We spent 3 days working hard to get it all together and separated out all the belongings it was time to say “good-bye” to and get those to Garage Sale #2.  We praise the Lord this big portion of our move is complete and can focus on other details of the move and saying our “goodbyes”.

At the end of May, our God blessed our family with watching our son James win his 2^nd division Championship with his East Yorba Linda Little League team.  It was a season of life time lessons in trusting God and inviting Him into all that we do.  God taught us to let go of our son and let Him have James during game time; it was so sweet to watch James pray in one particular difficult moment when he pitched to get the last batter out of the last playoff game and the Lord to bless him with victory (plenty of David vs. Goliath moments).  Elli was blessed to testify of all that God did in our lives through this season and was amazed how “when mommy prays, things happen” (no, it is not my prayer but by GOD who I have great faith in).  She never cheered louder for her little brother as she did this season.  As we head into June, we have one last week of baseball as James’ team will play for the City of Yorba Linda Championships.  To God be the Glory!

We now have just weeks before our July 5^th departure and are praying for God’s hedge of protection about us and for the Lord to prepare the way as we are currently having someone seek housing for us in Cluj.  Please pray with us for wisdom and pray that our last weeks here with our beloved family at CCEA would be sweet and God would build us up as we head out on a new adventure for Him.

UPCOMING EVENT:   Farewell BBQ at the Chinn’s house.  Sunday, July 3^rd after 1st service.

WHAT'S NEW: APRIL 2011

CAR WASH:  Saturday, April 16th @ 8am in the CCEA parking lot.  All proceeds will go towards the purchase of a car for our family in Romania.

COUPON BOOKS:  Get $250 in savings to eateries in the No. OC area for just $20/book.  Mission Romania receives $9 of the proceeds.  Email us at jejeran@yahoo.com or visit the Mission Romania booth to get yours.

FUN STUFF:  Be sure to visit the Calvary Chapel East Anaheim (CCEA) website to see the video/interview of JeJe.  The website address is:  http://www.cc-ea.org/ then go to the Missions bar and select "Romania".

"'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit' says the Lord of hosts." Zechariah 4:6

Our family was so blessed to see God's hand in the Mission Romania Concert and Dinner at the end of last month.  It was a joy to see the church body gather to worship the Lord, break bread together, and find out more about our hearts for Romania.

Neither one of us has any experience in putting together an event like this.  From the beginning we gave it to the Lord and watched how He brought together so many talented individuals in the body of CCEA to make this evening glorify Him. 

We are so thankful for the Body of Christ at CCEA and all the prayers and support given to our family and Mission Romania.

"The condition of God's blessing is absolute surrender of all into His hands.  If our hearts are willing for that, there is no end to what God will do for us, and to the blessing God will bestow." 

Andrew Murray

PRAISES & PRAYER REQUESTS MARCH 2011

PRAISES !

* The awesome Concert/Dinner on Feb. 27th.  All the hands and hearts that helped put an awesome time of exalting Jesus together.

 

PRAYER REQUESTS

* Revival in the hearts of the people of Romania.

* The Lord to continue to prepare the soil for us in Romania.

* Everything to come together as we prepare our children, home, etc. for the move.

* God's hedge of protection about our family as we prepare to depart.

* Wisdom as to when to purchase our tickets, when to fly, etc.

* Housing.  Please pray for all the details regarding our housing. 

* Shipping.  What to/not to ship.

* Health.  Specifically healing of Coleen's migraines, back & ankle pains.

* God's provision for us spiritually, emotionally, physically, financially.

* Provision of a car in Romania.

"The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps." Proverbs 16:9

The vision we have for Romania is not about just one city, it is to reach the people of Romania (and others) with the Word of God and the love of Jesus, that they would be transformed in their inner man and live for His glory.  We want to see the body of Christ united in Romania, and healthy churches planted that will reach the unsaved and do good works for His kingdom.

As we have prayed over Romania and are making preparations to move there this summer, God placed on our hearts to pray for "worship" and a family to join us in this work.  In mid-January we received answers to these prayers:  we received an email from a long time Calvary Chapel friend who lives in the city of Cluj (the birthplace of our two children, Elli and James).  This friends name is Razvan.  He and his wife is Anca have two children - who are close in age with our children.  Razvan also leads worship!  His request was honest and humble:  the church in Cluj had suffered a lot of hurt and just two families remain.  He shared the vision the Lord has given him for Romania - to reach the whole country with His Word and to start with the university students - that God wants revival to happen in Romania.  We had not yet shared our vision the Lord had given to us, yet it is exactly in line to what Razvan shared.  He also included the scripture Ecclesiastes 4:12 "a cord of three strands is not easily torn apart".  The very scripture God has given us - we need the body of Christ to join us so that we can be strong for Him.  Again, Cluj would be the starting place for us to begin a "church plant" and we are submitted to the Lord for His plans in directing future church plants in Romania.

"O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together." Psalm 34:3

"O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together."  Psalm 34:3

Our hearts desire is that the Lord would be greatly magnified through Mission Romania - to the hearts of the unsaved, as well as His church here on earth.  That we would all have a greater faith in the God that we love and serve, and the unsaved would see Him through all of us and come to know Him.

Wow!  Did the Mission Romania Garage Sale accomplish this or what?

The body came together, in the love of Jesus.  The donations were incredible (both the physical and the financial).   Many came to shop, there was an "army" of workers - some worked the sales side and a large group formed a "protective wall" around the area to make sure things weren't taken.  We all got to see Him magnified in completely doing above and beyond what any of us could have imagined.  Who could raise over $5000 at a garage sale?  Only our God !  He will accomplish what He wants to, with or without our participation, but what a blessing it is to partake in His work and see Him first hand.

PRAISES & PRAYER REQUESTS February 2011

PRAISES

* God is on the move - preparing the soil for us in Romania.

* The awesome blessing of the Lord on the Garage Sale - a little over $5,000 was raised, and our family was blessed with several items we were hoping to take with us.

* Answers to our prayers for God to raise a family to be beside us in ministry in Romania when we get there and provide worship (see article entitled "The mind of man plans...).

*  Possibility that another family may also join us (a Romanian family we have known for a long time - also with children close in age to ours).  Keeping this in prayer.

* God's provision for the concert and dinner being held on Feb. 27th.

* For all the prayer warriors and servants God has blessed us with in this mission effort.

PRAYER REQUESTS

* For God to be glorified at Mission Romania dinner on Feb. 27th.

* Direction for preparations with move (shipping, sale of remaining household items, etc.).  God's perfect timing on when to depart (currently praying for end of June).

*God's hand upon our family.  To put a hedge about us (our children are excited and we

want it to stay that way - even when we get there)

*Continue to be built up in the Word and fellowship before we depart (and after)

* Health and healing.  Prayer for Coleen's back, foot, migraines, etc.  God to keep all of

us healthy and strong for service.

* Continued raising up of finances needed for relocation and monthly support