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
JULY, 2007
Thursday - August 09,
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).
All of us here rejoice to know that there are some who “love us in the
faith!” And that love is reciprocal! You are often in our thoughts
and in our prayers daily.
Medical: I reported to you last month about the success of
the steriod that I took. But as you may have heard, the side effects
were really bad. Shortly after the treatment that made me feel so
good, I began to hemorrhage from the stomach. The hemorrhaging stopped
suddenly and for this as in all things we give our Sovereign God the credit
and glory! As a result of the blood loss, my hemoglobin, which is
usually low anyway, dropped to 4.2 and this made me almost without strength.
Brother Raul drove me about 3½ hours to Szeged, Hungary and an emergency
room where they kept me most of 2 days and gave me a total of 7 units of
whole blood. Almost immediately I felt OK. An appointment with
a hematologist is to be scheduled.
Bocsa and Filiasi: In both locations visitors come from time
to time – and some return. Some are satisfied with their alien immersions,
but enjoy hearing grace preached and others are not saved. We try
to feed them the Word of God. The Brothers there conduct services
and teach when we cannot be there. We ask your prayers for one of
the licensed preachers at Filiasi: Brother Virgil. He has some continual
and serious health problems and the doctors do not seem to be able to do
anything for him. The newlyweds, Aurel (of Filiasi) and his wife,
Estera (Esther) are now expecting their first child! Pray for them,
please. Estera works in a very hot bakery and her hours are from
1:00 AM until 9:00 AM so she must try to rest during the daytime.
Aurel works at construction, usually in the city of Craiova, about 20 miles
distant from Filiasi.
U.S. Trip: We had asked you to pray and the Churches involved
have prayed and we believe the will of God has been done. The visa
agents at the U.S. Consulate in Bucharest have rejected a second time the
applications of Brother Aurel and Broter Raul. So they cannot travel
to the U.S. as we had hoped. Because their income is so low and they
lack important positions and significant real estate holdings, they cannot
satisfy the U.S. visa agents that they would return to Romania if they
were allowed to enter the United States. So they were denied the
privilege of traveling to America. We thank you for praying about
this and thank Grace Baptist Church of Stanleyville, N.C. for their financial
backing of these applications and all the expenses involved.
Van Fund: God has moved upon several of His Churches and as
of the date of this letter, we have $20,000 on hand to purchase a used
van! How we praise the Lord for this! Due to high prices and the
continued and worsening low value of the U.S. dollar, we estimate that
we will need about $24,000 to purchase a good second-hand van with 9 seats
– and we are almost at that target amount. We are in the process
of transferring this money to Romania where we are buying Euros as they
are the most stable currency right now and are the currency used in making
such large purchases. Pray that the right van can be found, please!
Russian Literature Project: Your love for the Lord, His truth,
and our Brothers and Sisters in Russia and the Ukraine has flourished and
we now have sufficient funds to pay for the translation and printing of
Elder Tom Ross’ outline study of T. P. Simmons’ Systematic Study of Bible
Doctrine. We thank all of you for praying and are grateful to those
of you whom God enabled and led to give to this project. The translation
should be completed sometime this Fall. Praise the Lord!
Special Trip: In September there is to be an important ecumenical
conference in Sibiu, a city in central Romania. Brother Raul has
done much research and has written an expose’ of this movement and the
Romanian Baptist Union’s involvement in it. Brother Nicu of Filiasi
has a burden to travel by train to Sibiu during this big meeting.
There he plans on distributing our gospel tracts and hopefully some copies
also of the article against ecumenicalism written by Raul. Pray,
please, for his safety and that God will give him open doors to speak to
many and to be able to distribute much gospel literature while there.
Brother Nicu was, you may remember, a drunkard for many years, but now
God has turned his life around and he is zealous for the Lord and His truth!
Winter Theological School: I suppose we ought to change the
name of our school in the eastern part of the country, as it is now going
on all year. The men are busy in construction, some working together
as a team, on various projects in different locations. While they
cannot meet as often or as long as during the winter, 8 of them continue
to meet studying our course on the doctrine of grace. They are asking
for us to come and meet with them to discuss questions that they have on
this and the subject of scriptural baptism. We hope to be able to
go in the next month or so. Some, we believe, are earnest about following
the Lord.
Conferences: Several men have received our literature and
after reading it have questions on the Bible truths presented. A
few of them are pastors. As it is so expensive for the 3 of us (Raul,
Aurel and me) to travel by car, plus the fact that my health condition
presently necessitates the rental of hotel rooms, we are planning on Brother
Raul and Brother Aurel making some trips by train to confer with these
men. In many cases they will be able to stay in the homes of those
with whom they meet. Often these are many flights up in apartment
buildings without elevators. My anemia will not allow me to climb
many stairs, but the men are young and healthy and able to do so and are
knowledgeable in the Word and well able to answer the questions put to
them. We believe this will be an efficient use of the money available
and that such conferences will be spiritually profitable in promoting the
truth of God’s Word in various parts of Romania. Pray about this,
please!
Again, I am out of space before I am finished! Thank you for reading
our reports and for your interest and help in the work here. We depend
upon the Lord and trust Him to work through you all in enabling us.
In this way we are truly workers together. Pray for us as God brings
us to your mind, please!
Pray for us here, please!
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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