I am finally able to download my photos from this past week. This is a photo taken on Sunday at church. Albert (aka Bubba), his wife Lavinia, and a friend named Bogdan are doing a church plant in sectors 5 and 6 of Bucharest. They will be doing the church launch in a few weeks and so right now the group is pretty small. We hope some of our students will become a part of the new church.

Although most of us were Americans, we sang the songs in Romanian. It was funny because I knew the tunes but could not sing the words and the Romanian next to me knew the words but not the tunes. After the song service, Albert preached one of the nicest sermons I've ever heard on being purified by Christ and being sealed with his blood. He used a wine bottle to demonstrate the sealing. After the sermon, Bogdan gave a talk on the meaning of the Lord's Supper and then we had about 10 minutes of meditation and singing. During that time, we could go up and take the communion when we were ready.

I am very proud of these three missionaries and the work they are doing to start a new church in this part of the world. Please keep them in your prayers. The church launch is on July 22.