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Great testimonies!
We are very excited about the testimonies we want to share with you and the great God we have!
We are happy to see God's mercy in the challenges we have.We had the opportunity together with some ministers from New Life Ministry to go to London and minister at some churches. One of these churches was a Gypsy one. Pastor Stevo had Prophetic words about pastor Zhoro. He told Zhoro that within four days God would give him the opportunity to pray for a woman with cancer and that God would heal her upon this. On the forth day we were on a service in a very big Gypsy church. There were about 1300 people. At the end of the service, the woman with cancer came in front.We told her how four days ago God had talked to us about her healing, we prayed and the woman was encouraged, had more strength, the color of her skin refreshed, she started to walk and with a big smile she left.
Her friend who didn't know Jesus, accepted Him in her heart. God filled her with the Holy Spirit, healed her hurting back and everybody was happy. We left this place with great joy in our hearts. We are happy God used us and His name was glorified. All the Glory is for Jesus!
God continues to make miracles.
A week ago, a young woman came to our home church with a rash all over her body that came from pills that the
doctors had prescribed her. She was in a very bad condition and couldn't move. She had passed through many medical tests and was told that she
probably had a Lupus disease. We prayed for her and God's power was upon her in a mighty way. She was filled up immediately with strength, she stood up on
her feet and praised God for almost an hour without sitting down.
She went home and later brought her deaf-mute daughter. We prayed for the child and God again did a miracle - a week later the child could hear and started to talk. Later on, the mother had more tests that proved that she had no disease and that her skin was cleared entirely. We are happy about all these miracles God did!
Pastor Toshko is home, also entirely healed. During these few weeks, Dad gave us much joy and many gifts to his children!
Thank you for being patient while reading these lines. We believe you were abundantly encouraged and blessed! God is good and takes care of His children in the best way!
Blessings and joy in your life,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
April
It was a very Happy Easter for us!
Part of our people from the Ministry came with us to Greece - Thessaloniki where we celebrated together with our friends from Pereya. We met them on April 4 when we arrived there and what we saw amazed us. They were roasting a lamb and we were in a holiday mood... Beautifully dressed children surrounded us, women were setting up tables with a variety of food on them, men were taking care of the cooking of the lamb. We talked about the tradition they have and it is a rather interesting one.
Firstly, they gather round the table and communicate, next thing they do is they visit their neighbors, sit around their table, and this continues till night time. We ate, talked, sang, danced, Zhoro shared some good words about the sacrificed lamb and all were encouraged. We felt sad to leave this place but we had to come back to Bulgaria. Still, we were blessed to be with our friends from Pereya, Thessaloniki.
Also, we blessed our friends from Brestnitsa and we visited them with another team from the NLM. They welcomed us and we were very happy to see pastor Toshko in his home. He is now healthy, but feels a little weak and it is important for him to eat strong food. As always, there was much joy in the church! Everyone from our team ministered with their gifts and it was amazing. We bought for the people in Brestnitsa cakes, soft drinks, some sweet things for Easter. We gave pastor Toshko some special food: veal, fish, some vegetables and other things...
After the service the pastor's family invited us in their home and shared with us their worries. The trouble was what had happened during their absence with a man in their church. You know they don't have job in the winter and that man has a family and a baby and it was difficult for him to take care of them. Hunger made him steal from some houses food and other things to sell and buy some food for his family. The police caught him and beat him up. This made us very sad. Pastor Toshko is also in a very difficult situation. We encouraged him to treat that man with love and to try and find the best moment to speak to him for a change. It is difficult when you have no place to live, nothing to eat, no hope and you have the responsibility for a family. We believe God will arrange things in the right way and that the homes of people there will be a blessing. We would be happy if you have in your prayers the people from Brestnitsa...
Thank you for spending time to read these lines and for being sympathetic to the joy and the problems of these people! Be blessed and let God's love and joy coming from the Cross fill your life abundantly!
With joy in the Lord,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
January - 2nd part
We are back again at home!
After 20 days in Thessaloniki, it is a miracle we could get back in Bulgaria without any problems because for 2 weeks the borders between Greece and Bulgaria have been closed. There is a strike in Greece which covers all border areas with Macedonia, Turkey and Bulgaria, but we managed to go back home by God's wisdom before they closed all borders...Glory to God!
We are very happy to share with you how blessed we were to see our friends in Greece. Perea is a Gypsy neighbourhood that was put in our hearts directly from the Holy Spirit. A major challenge was the language, but the love of God removes all obstacles. Everyone was happy to see us, they hugged and kissed us, they started to call out loud their neighbours inviting them to come and see us. We are ambitious to learn the Greek language and to communicate easily with the people there.
We shared the Word, some testimonies, we showed them photos and video materials, we prayed for different needs and we were so happy to see the son of a couple we know well to be burning for the Word of God. He reads the Bible, prays and in the last year we feel that God wants to use him as a leader in his neighbourhood. He asked us many questions and we were very excited to answer them. When we first found this neighbourhood, thats boy was 10 and now he is 17-years-old, he has a wonderful smile, full of joy and enthusiasm. We see the leader in him and we pray for God's protection in his life.
Dentropotomo is another Gypsy neighbourhood where we rented a house in 2008 and used to help the church there. Pastor Stefanos is a blessed man of God, he is Greek with a heart full of love for the Gypsies. After 2 heart attacks, he continues to take care of the people, to love them and to be there while God is giving him life and strength... We went there without warning anybody and about twenty children rushed toward us and started to kiss and hug us, and all friends were happy to see us. Of course, they wanted us to share some Word and encourage them. We saw work-worned people who were hungry for the fresh words.
In 2008, God gave us a Spiritual child and we were happy to see him now. He doesn't stop searching the truth for Christ on the Cross. We are glad he is not hungry for religion but for the joy of the truth... We met many Bulgarians living in Thessaloniki and they welcomed us with joy and wanted us to start a church in their neighbourhood. We saw the enormous field God has and also the harvest which is too much for us and we cannot do everything. We pray for "workers" and we believe God will take care.
We are thankful for every support and we are happy we are not alone and have friends, brothers and sisters with the same heart! We also saw some houses suitable for a Missionary Center which we want to build there. Next month we'll see a few other places and we believe God will show us what He has for the Ministry.
We believe you are blessed and encouraged. We know God has much to do there trough us. Thank you!
Blessings,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
January - 1st part
Dear friends, we are already in Greece and we are very excited with the new challenges and blessings waiting for us! With God we are ready to welcome everything He puts before us!
God gave a word for us this year and it is: "to restore, to renew, to rebuild"; a time when we'll see His love with new power; time when the Cross will be clearly raised and the new life he gave us will be shown in a new way; the love and the joy we bring will restore, renew and rebuild... We put our life in this and we know He has a great plan... We believe we'll share soon the new testimonies...
We are thankful for each prayer and financial partner because we know that without your help it would be difficult for us to be HISTORY-MAKERS. We are blessed to know each one of you and we pray God to fill you more and more with His Grace and heavenly gifts will be widely open around you!
Blessings, joy and love,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
2010 for NLM
We want to share with you friends how excited we are about the blessed time we had in Brestnitsa. What joy, what love, what hunger for God! We really haven't seen another place like this one... Princes and princesses of the Great and the Mighty.
The wind of the Holy Spirit moves there with great power. It could be named REVIVAL! People from nearby villages go there to see what's going on with those people... WOW, that's amazing! God touches our hearts through them and we have tears of joy and love in our eyes. Pastor Toshko shared with us they asked him what they have to do to feel like Mariana crying from joy:))) They look for a way to comfort God, that's amazing...
We also visited Boxcar and unfortunately, we cannot say there is the same joy there. There are big challenges, because of the change needs grow larger. They need fast change in their social life, they need a good leader, they need to be taught how to be responsible; they are losing the love and the unity between them and this makes their life worse with each new day. We saw a lot of pressure and despair...
We'd like to ask you to pray for this place and if God gives some word and wisdom, please share it with us. We had some meetings with the mayor of the area and he wants us to write a letter in which to describe what we want, and we are going to do this. But the truth is that the Government doesn't want to do anything to promote change in the life of these people, that's very sad.
This month we are in Greece and we'll be glad and thankful if you support us in a prayer...We go there to water what we sow and let God make it grow...
Thank you for all the support and let HISTORY-MAKERS like you be abundantly blessed,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
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