After a blogging gap of 6 days, there is a lot to review.

I mentioned Sunday afternoon plans changed. it was originally intended that the whole team would travel to a couple of churches west of here in the mountains, but Mircea felt that my teaching had been well received by the congregation at Simpetru (which continued to have about 40% of the congregation made up of new visitors) that he asked me to remain in Simpetru after lunch to be the speaker for his own evening congregation.

The Church building in Simpetru
- a converted house (forgive the pun)

In this little church there are three families whose serving is contributing to the teamwork and growth. One of these families is D & M, who together with their teenage son, recently started traveling 90 minutes each way to the church in order to provide and lead the music. What a difference the three of them make in the quality of the services!

D's work involves traveling to inspect mobile phone masts, so where they live is of little importance to his job. So they are looking to move into the village of Simpetru, if possible. They think that they can sell their small ground floor apartment for £3,000, but a small house that they have found for sale in the village would cost £6,000. It is symptomatic of the rural Romanian economy that these amounts, which combined are what we paid in stamp duty on our UK house purchase six years ago, are enormous sums and the gap between the sale and purchase price very difficult for them to cross.