Curtis Pugh
Missionary to Romania
Sponsored by the Grace
Bible Baptist Church
26080 Wax Road
Denham Springs, LA,
70726
Elder Jerry Dodson
Sr. - Pastor
(225) 664 – 3223
jerrydodsonsr@wmconnect.com
www.geocities.com/heartland/grove/3718
Field address: Curtis
Pugh
str. Izvor nr. 3
Bocsa, C-S, 325300
Romania
Telephone: 011 40
255 555 136
E-mail: curtis@xnet.ro
PRAYER LETTER FOR
AUGUST & SEPTEMBER, 2007
Monday, October 08,
2007
Dear Pastors and Churches:
“All that
are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be
with you all. Amen” (Titus 3:15).
Dear
Pastors and Churches:
Brothers and Sisters, we do appreciate your understanding. We intend
on reporting to you each and every month, but this prayer letter is for
two months and if you receive the financial report, you will receive two
– one for August and the other for September. This is because of
health problems and the lateness in which you would have gotten the first
letter. Our pastor, Brother Dodson, suggested that we put the reports
together and it seemed like a good idea to me.
Medical: As some of you have heard, I have spent a week in
the hospital in Budapest, Hungary under the care of a hematologist.
Numerous tests have been run including bone marrow and a bone sample.
I have received blood and am on medication to keep my stomach from bleeding.
I feel really good – the best I have felt in many months! I have
some pains in my upper legs and still have occasional spots, painful bumps,
sweats, fevers and temperatures below normal, etc. But at my last
visit to the hematologist, he didn’t know what to think! My hemoglobin
level was up a bit and that surprised him. My white blood cell count
and my platelets were normal also. These things are not supposed
to happen to someone with my disease, if in fact I do have myelodysplasia.
I may have an auto-immune problem after all. Actually, I don’t think
the doctors know for sure what is wrong with me, but our LORD does and
we look to Him for all things.
Extraordinary Expenses: As you know, the last of August we
had a car breakdown – a rear wheel came off. We are thankful it happened
a slow speed and not out on the highway where it could have caused a bad
wreck. God takes care of us and for that we are thankful! We
had to be towed to the dealer and wait several weeks for parts to be brought
into the country as is almost always the case here. The total expenses
for the towing, car repair, etc., came to $2,075.93. This expense
was paid for partly out of work funds but Janet and I had to get into personal
emergency funds to the amount of $1,390.18
My hospital and medical expenses for these past two months totaled $2,592.03.
Janet and I paid for this out of personal emergency funds as well.
So we have depleted our personal emergency funds in the total amount of
3,982.21 – and we have not yet received the bill for the week’s hospital
stay in Budapest and the blood test and consultation (our last trip to
Budapest, HU.) We think that this last hospital visit and outpatient
clinic visit will cost somewhere around $1,000 to $1,500.
So we ask you to pray about these things and if you are led to help us
financially and thus restore our personal emergency fund, we will be grateful
to you and thankful to Him who led you to help us in this way.
Bocsa and Filiasi: We have had returning visitors and first
time visitors here in Bocsa and returning visitors in Filiasi. The
Brethren seem to be encouraged and are faithful to the Word and to the
services. Brother Nicu took some anti-ecumenical literature and many
Gospel booklets and traveled to Sibiu where he distributed them during
a big ecumenical conference. Many Romanians took the materials, but
none of the visitors who spoke English would accept any of his literature.
After returning home, he was removing a heavy cement well cover and badly
mashed his right hand when it fell. He passed out and was later taken
to hospital. We praise the Lord that no bones were broken and his
hand is mending. Thank you for your prayers on his behalf!
Van Fund: The van fund reached more than $22,000 and we located
a van in Germany that we could afford. Due to the low U.S. dollar,
we took a real beating on exchanging the dollars to Euros. We contracted
with a company in Timisoara to bring the van into Romania. We have
it and now must pay a big first registration tax (about $4,200) and get
the paperwork done. Such is life in former communist countries!
We have the funds on hand for this and included this amount in the amount
needed for the van.
Russian Literature Project: We understand that the Russian
translation of Brother Tom Ross’s OUTLINES OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY taken
from T. P. Simmons book on Bible doctrine, is just about completed.
Hopefully we will have it to the Brothers in Siberia soon along with funds
to print it there. Thank you for your help on this unusual project!
Eastern Romania Theological School: I finally quit calling
the school “The Winter Theological School!” It has gone year ‘round!
The Brothers in the East of the country have been busy this summer working
on renovating homes and buildings. But they continue faithful to
meet and study our course on the free grace of God. This is an in-depth
study introducing them to real “meat.” I have made a little progress
on the new course, The Lord’s Church, and when it is finished it too will
be available to them and others. When Winter is actually upon us,
these men will be able to meet for longer periods and are asking us to
come again and teach them. This we want to do!
Again,
I am out of space before I am finished! It always happens, it seems.
Brothers and Sisters, it is through your prayers and faithful financial
help that we are enabled to stay here and labor in this needy field.
Romania is full of religion, ritual, and pagan traditions of all sorts.
The vast majority of so-called Baptists are ecumenical, Arminian, and tradition-bound.
Their ministry is for the most part mere priest-craft, i.e. preaching what
is popular in order to get money. Pray for us as we seek to be a
light to these people! Thank you, again, for sustaining us here!
In the cause of God and truth with you,
Curtis and Janet Pugh
curtis@xnet.ro
Preaching
Baptist Baptism, the Blood, the Book, and the Blessed Hope
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