Florin Stan pastors the Fieni Baptist Church in Fieni, Romania. In his monthly report he shares of the effectual door that God has open to a local public school:
We had an intense activity this month. We received about 200 Christmas presents for children from Samaritan’s Purse. This was a good evangelistic tool for me. I organized three meetings for children. The first one was in the school in Runcu. We want to begin a fellowship group in this village. The Lord has opened a large door for us in the school in Runcu where we have a good relationship with the school principal and with the teachers. About 50 children attended this meeting.
We had a program for the school meeting which was the same for the other two meetings. I spoke about mankind’s serious problem of sin. Then I explained that each person would be held accountable for his or her sins before God on Judgement’s Day. I told them that the wages of sin was death, in which I explained is eternal separation from God. After I shared these things with them, I told them about God’s love for us; that He sent His Son into our world to save us from our sins by dying on a cross in our place and paying for them. I used an illustration to help them understand what the Lord Jesus had done for us. I took a magnet, fine sand and iron filings mixed with the sand. I put the sand mixed with the iron filings on a sheet of paper and told them that the sand represented us, while the iron filings were a type of our sins. The magnet represented the Lord Jesus. I asked the children what I should do with the magnet to attract the iron filings. They told me I had to bring it closer to the sand. I did that and the iron filings stuck to the magnet. I told them that the Lord Jesus, just like the magnet, cleanses our sins when we believe in Him. Both the children and the teachers listened to me very carefully. Then I gave them the Christmas presents and a little book with the Gospel message.
Don is serving as the HeartCry Coordinator for Eastern Europe. As an itinerant evangelist, his pulpit ministry is directed toward preaching on the inner life of the believer and the spiritual need of the lost. With HeartCry, his ministry includes organizing Bible conferences and corresponding with the HeartCry missionaries in Europe. He and his lovely wife Cindy live in Tuscumbia, AL.
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