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September 2010
Dear friends,
How great is our God...How organized He is, and how He plans each life...
Probably you will find this a long testimony, but it's worth reading to the end and we believe it will be a blessing for you and your time won't be lost.
A year ago, we received an e-mail and a phone call from a stranger from England, who works in Sofia, Bulgaria. His church is in Leighton Buzzard, UK and the name of the church is New Life. That man was looking up on the Internet for a church in Sofia, Bulgaria. He was surprised to see a New Life Church in Sofia. We met and told him about the things God was doing through us. His name is Ellis and his wife is Susan. God started to draw a beautiful picture...
Ellis and Susan visited our church for a year. We traveled together, we got to know each other better and ministered with joy. The company he was working for terminated his contract and they had to go back to the UK. We kept in touch and one day there was an opportunity for us to go to the UK and minister in New Life Church there.
This year in May we visited the UK again. After the service, a young lady came up and asked Mariana to pray for her. Mariana hugged her and said, 'Holy Spirit, fill her!'. The woman was immediately filled with the Spirit of God, she fell on the floor and started to shake, cry and laugh at the same time. Her husband who had never heard, seen or tried the sweet presence of the Holy Spirit was worried about his wife. Mariana explained to him that was the Spirit of God, but he was still worried. The woman stayed in the presence of God for the next few hours so she was given a hand and driven back home.
After that we heard of two kids - brother and sister born with cardiac problems. A handsome 16-years-old boy asked Mariana for prayer. God said to that boy that He was giving him a new heart. Mariana, Mitko and Kuncho went on praying and a few minutes later they understood that was the boy with the heart problem they had heard of.
A few days after going back to Bulgaria, we heard the woman was still in the presence of God and she didn't know if it was normal because it was an entirely new experience for her. A month later we heard their whole family was under this anointing. They have 6 kids - the oldest being 28 (married with two children), the youngest - 9-years-old. When they phoned us we understood that Ellis, Susan and some other people had started gathering in the house of this family (Debby and Colin) to get filled with God's Spirit. It's not the end of the story...
God baptized Debby in His Spirit and she started repeating three words in three different languages. She decided to understand what she was saying and found out the translation on the Internet. The words meant, 'Build a tent on the field'.The family are all wonderful musicians, so they organized a Music Festival. They invited us and our worship team, took care of everything and we were so surprised. On that Fest, more that 600 people came and the Word, the anointing, the joy and the love of God were spread everywhere. Colin (her husband) said that before Mariana hugged Debby his family was "normal and quiet", but now everybody was filled with the Holy Spirit and his family was different :))))
At the end of the Festival, Mitko and Kuncho prayed for a boy. During the prayer they realized that was the same boy with the heart problem. The father of the boy with tears in his eyes told us they went to a doctor and the doctor was perplexed. He said, 'I don't know what happened, but this is not his heart! He is much healthier than you and me!'. Today, this young boy wants to tell the whole world about the miracle in his life and he shows proves - the papers with his tests and examinations.
The last evening we were at Debby and Colin's home again. God came with greater power and again filled us with His Spirit. The picture is not finished yet! We know God has many things to do there. We are looking forward to the next part, which He is going to make us happy with.
Thank you for the patience and for considering the details of the picture. God gives us moments which are very important to be shared. We believe you were blessed. We have a great, loving, organized God!
Be blessed and be happy in each moment in your life which is planned and gifted from Dad!
Much love,
Zhoro and Mariana
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
August 2010
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We found a good blessing in the Bible: "But when you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind". Luke 14:13 We are very excited that with the help of friends from Global Celebration we made a feast and as the Word encourages us we invited and gave food to all the treasures in God from Brestnitsa. We gave them physical food and spiritual food.On August 20, hundreds of people hungry for lamb soup and the living word came. It was an amazing celebration and we are happy we were part of it. There was enough food for everybody, music and dances, word for the cross, much joy and smiles, prayers, healing and salvation of people. We are blessed to be God's hands that hug, God's heart that loves, God's voice to share the truth. It's amazing. Thank you! |
We are glad God led us to a new neighbourhood where we were surprised by the hunger in the eyes of the people for the Truth of life - Christ. These people live on the field placed near the city in small sheds without any electricity and water. They come to church in the last few Sundays - it's a group of 10 people whom we talk to and we know they live in a neighbourhood where many students live. We decided to visit them and we saw they lived in miserable conditions, but they are always neat and clean with no bad smell. We don't know how they take care of this good appearance, but the passion with which they asked us to tell them about God, touched our hearts.
Keep us in your prayers! We thank God for all of you; for all the prayer partners, for the friendship, for the financial partners.
Really, without you we cannot reach the people in this hard time. Thank you!
With love,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
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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