Elder
Curtis Pugh
Missionary
to Romania
sent
by the
Berea
Baptist Church
P.O.
Box 39
Mantachie,
Mississippi 38855
(601)
282-7794
PRAYER LETTER FOR
MAY, 2003
Tuesday,
June 10, 2003
Dear
Pastors and Churches:
"Grace
to you and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ' (Philippians
1:3).
What more can we want than those two things which Paul desired in his letter?
Possess all that you may, without saving grace and soul satisfying peace
for this present life, of what value are possessions? But with Christ life
is worth living! May and the first of June have been one of those difficult
periods, but God has seen us through it! We have not been faced with major
trials, but lots of little difficulties common to all of us. Car repairs,
computer problems (which continue to this date), and two emergency trips
to Budapest, Hungary for medical reasons are some of the little things
we faced this past month. But God was gracious in all these things and
we have been able to go forward with various projects. (The medical trips
were necessary in that my left eye, which had been irritated for some weeks,
grew worse and developed an edema so that the protective covering separated
from the white of the eye in one place. After consultations with three
doctors and now that I am using the third different prescription medication,
it seems to be getting better and the doctors assure me there is no danger
to my vision at this time.)
The mission "Adonaree Baptistilor" (Meeting of the Baptists) here in Bocsa
meets Wednesday evenings. Sunday mornings and Sunday afternoons. Our attendance
has remained basically constant this past month and the people seem genuinely
interested in the truth of the Word of God; and, praise the Lord, they
are standing firm in the midst of much opposition from families and Arminian
zealots. Our greatest number in attendance since my last writing has been
14, all adults except one teenager and one pre-teen. I am doing all I can
to feed the sheep the Word through expository preaching and teaching of
Bible books. I have completed teaching through the Book of Jude and the
Book of Malachi. Brother Raul has been preaching on the sacrifice of Christ
in types and aspects. We are presently studying
in
Acts and I am preaching through Hebrews. We have yet not been able to obtain
a meeting place in Bocas Romana, but hope to meet with both the director
of the school and the Mayor as soon as they can see us about renting a
schoolroom. Please pray about a place to meet. We are glad to have these
people meet in our living quarters, but we think others might come if we
were in a more public place nearer to them.
We have picked up 5,000 copies of THE TRAIL OF BLOOD and have begun some
distribution of these. We are preparing to print and bind several more
publications ourselves (soon we will have 28 titles in our inventory) and
these we will distribute along with this new edition. We are excited about
the prospect of getting this literature into the hands of interested readers.
As our materials are in demand, several unscrupulous Romanian "Christian
Baptist" pastors have been selling our free publications! In an effort
to stop this, we now print on the covers of each one that they are free
copies. One Romanian Brother who has a small Bible Institute here in the
Banat has requested 50 copies of all our titles to give to his students
as well as some CD's. One pastor's widow who has a small religious bookstore
is giving away free copies to some of her customers.
We were given a special offering of $250 expressly to purchase sovereign
grace books for the theology students at the Baptist Institute in Bucuresti,
With part of that money we have purchased 50 copies of THE SOVEREIGNTY
OF GOD by A.W. Pink and these we will include in a special packet along
with other things to each of these young people. We want to purchase another
suitable title in Romanian to include in this packet. Sound materials in
the Romanian language are very difficult to find as not many sound Baptist
materials have been translated thus far.
The Brothers in Oltenia continue to request and distribute our materials
and are seeking to influence as many as possible toward the truth in their
circle of influence. In addition we have had 4 or 5 letters of inquiry
about literature and spiritual problems. One young man wrote that he knew
he was saved, but his friends plagued him in that they continue to tell
him he was not saved because he had not gone forward in a religious meeting.
We have prayed for wisdom and have answered these letters as God has given
us wisdom.
In addition we have gotten the dirt dug out of the driveway in front of
the gate, the curbs repaired and a load of smell gravel hauled in and spread.
Now the drivewaywill not be all ruts and mud when it rains and people can
come to our meetings without getting their shoes muddy.
Thank you for "holding the rope for us" so that we can remain here in Romania
and do the work God has set before us. We solicit your interest and continued
earnest prayers on our behalf. We recognize our many weaknesses and are
constantly in dependence on our sovereign, omnipotent God! Please pray
for us, for the mission work here in Bocsa and for the outreach in otherareas.
And don't forget to prayfor the Brethren in Siberia, Russia who are facing
many difficulties due to their stand for the Word of God.
In
the cause with you,
Curtis
and Janet Pugh
curtis@xnet.ro
CURTIS PUGH
str. Izvor nr. 3
Bossca 1, jud. Caras-Severin
1725 Romania
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