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Newsletters 2009
Blessed New Year
Dear Friends, Blessings and health in the New year! For us it was a very blessed and also full of challenges year. We are happy for each saved soul and for everyone who is dressed and given food. We thank God for taking care and showing His mercy. Zhoro had some challenges with his health, but Praise God he's already well. We expect to see the new door God will open for us and the new path He'll lead us on. We are ready for more and more of the Lord.
We found a new Roma neighbourhood and our team will go and minister there to bring the Revelation and the love of God. After that we leave for Greece to water the seed we sowed there; we are excited about this time...
Thank you for everything you support us with and that you are with us and pray for us! Thank you that you're part of the blessing of many people and that through us you take part in the giving of love! Be blessed and we pray for health in your life!
Be blessed,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
Rumy
In the last few days we had the opportunity to take care of Rumy in her critical condition. As you know, a couple of doctors said her leg had to be amputated. Her parents were given a detailed explanation of what would follow after they were ready with the decision for the amputation; the long and difficult period when she wouldn't be able to walk and will need everyday care. After I drove her to the hospital to be prepared for the operation, the doctor examined her leg and found out a change in a positive direction!
Two weeks ago when I saw the terrible wound, I could even see the bone and it looked like there was no hope. Now I saw something like a new skin slowly closing the wound. The doctor said there was a chance to save the leg. He prescribed an antibiotic, a cream which had to be spread over the wound. When applying the cream it would hurt very much and so she will have to take painkillers.
We don't know what is going on but we believe God heard the prayers of the Saints. We believe for a miracle! If you could only see her face when she understood she will not have her leg amputated - she was all smiles, so full of joy, singing and praising God! I am glad I had the opportunity to share things about Christ with one of the doctors there who really took care of her, not looking for any kind of benefit for himself...
Rumy's treatment is connected with high costs and we believe God will take care of all her needs... Thank you for the prayers, for the attention and for the love...We expect your support to continue till we see the good result...
Be blessed,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
Boxcar and Brestnitsa
Boxcar - Winter is coming and we can no longer use the boxcar we used for church gatherings because the person who gave it to us went back there to live...Some drunk men broke down the kitchen and now it has no function... In the next days we are going to repair it again and restart offering food there... Now we do it outside, but sometimes it is too cold, or it rains and there is too much mud... Recently, the people from a medical organization examined the gypsies for tuberculosis and found out that many of them have it... They are going to be treated now...
Rumy - the condition of this 20-years-old girl with an infection of the leg is getting worse and her leg will be amputated... Mariana went to the doctor with her in a professional private hospital and after a detailed examination, the doctor there said there was no hope of saving the girl's leg unless a miracle happens...
There is one good news which brings hope to the people that those in power have started to get interested in the situation in the Boxcar neighborhood... We recently received a phone call from the office of the ruling government. They wanted to know what we expected from them to do. So we will have a meeting with the Mayor of the city and the Prime Minister to seek a change of situation for these people. WE WANT TO ASK YOU TO PRAY FOR BOXCAR, WE HOPE IT WILL BE THE LAST WINTER FOR THEM IN THESE CONDITIONS, AND FOR RUMY'S HEALTH!
Brestnitsa - The people there have many difficulties caused by the winter because the forest cannot give them anything they could use and later have food... It's a very hard time but the joy they have is amazing... We are looking for a way they could have food in their homes by buying them pigs but then we have to help them feed these pigs in the winter...
The baby/grandchild of pastor Toshko again had problems with the health. It was found it had a valvular heart (problems with the heart), and also he underwent a surgery because of a cyst in one of the testicles. Doctors say he will not have children, but this baby is a miracle and we believe for another destiny... God has the last decision...
Thank you for the prayers, for taking care, for the love and we know God will accept us not because of our education, position, wealth, but He will accept us because of this fact: 'I was hungry - and you gave me food, I was naked - you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me...'
Blessings and joy,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
Celebration
What a great time of celebration, joy, love and good mood in the presence of Dad with our incredible friends from Global Celebration...
God blessed us in every place we visited in Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. We were glad to hear many testimonies of healing, of which we would like to share
the most amazing one. It happened in Vidin.
We visited the poor area of the Gypsy neighbourhood. There was music and songs when we decided to stop in front of a house and started to pray for the needs of the people who were gathered there. At once, we heard someone shout with joy and a woman came out on her shaking legs trying to make steps. As she advanced towards the gate, her steps became ever more stable. Her daughter was crying behind her out of joy. We were told that the lady had been confined to bed for 7 months after a stroke. Her daughter (who was 14-years-old) looked after her during all those months while the husband was working. After 30 minutes of happy dancing with this amazing healing, her husband came back from work and the woman ran towards him, her face beaming with joy, saying that God healed her. He stood frozen and couldn't understand what was going on...For the last 7 months he hadn't seen his wife walk and he was so shocked!
After Vidin we came back to Sofia to visit our friends from the Boxcar. There happened another amazing healing.
God healed a woman who was deaf in one of the ears and her hearing came back to her in the blink of an eye!
A man with very sharp back pain couldn't come near us but he prayed from where he was standing and after 15 minutes he came to share with tears in his eyes
that God had healed him...
God is an amazing friend and we are happy for all the healings and for the many saved people! We are happy we could share all these great testimonies with you and we hope you are encouraged...
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
Again and again we rejoice
God made a really wonderful healing during the Revelation Meetings we did in the biggest Gypsy neighbourhood in Sofia, Bulgaria! Our dear friends from Grant Rapids, US - Ron and Kim Cipcic - were visiting as well. On one of the meetings a woman came whose daughter had died and she was looking after her two granddaughters. She had developed severe pain in one of her hands as a result of stress and couldn't move it, which made caring for the kids very difficult. She cried out in front of God and He wasn't late - in a couple of minutes she was healed and praised God highly raising her hand!
We also ministered in the village of Dermantsi with our good friends there who are hungry for the presence of God. A new family had come to church with a great need - their 8-months-old baby had 6 cysts in the head. They accepted Jesus in their hearts and prayed God for mercy for their child. Just a week later they called to share their joy - the child had passed through medical check-ups and the doctors had said there were no cysts, the baby was entirely healthy...Praise the Mighty God!!!
We are sure you are blessed and we believe that these testimonies encourage you...
Love and Blessings,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
Glory, Glory, Glory!!!
We are really thankful to all brothers and sisters who sowed in their small, poor and modest brothers and sisters from Brestnitsa, Bulgaria so they may
have a strong roof over their heads and not to have the rain in their home. Thus, they will take better care of the baby they will have in a few weeks...
Thank you for being part of the joy of this family...Thank you for being obedient to God's voice and made this project real...
Already enough funds are gathered to start the repair of the roof...Soon we'll send you photos of the new roof and the joy of pastor Toshko's
family...Thank you and we pray for you to be abundantly blessed!
With love,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
More love from God
One more blessed month passed...We have the great pleasure to share with you the joy that our Dad sends us. We were in many beautiful cities in Bulgaria and Turkey with our dear guests from Texas, USA pastor Mark Bristow and his group...
We started from Vidin where there is an extremely great hunger for the work of the Spirit. At this place God healed a breast tumor, touched broken-hearted, and restored broken relationships. We wanted to visit Romania but after 3 hours waiting for a ferry we understood God had closed the door and we got back to Vidin...
We visited our Treasures in Brestnitsa. Our friends from Texas blessed them by buying flour for the whole church. They will have bread for a while and will be blessed. Next thing to do is to buy chickens again - 250 pieces for all the families in the church. Young people there are always hungry for God... In Samokov the biggest Gypsy church - 1200 people; God healed the curved spine of a 15-year-old girl who also had asthma and left the church entirely healthy and even filled up with God's joy... She was happy and laughing and God's Spirit kept on working in her.
Kazanlak was covered by God's presence. Before we started praying, while we were worshiping people started to fall from the power of the Holy Spirit. God's anointing was moving in such a mighty way.
In the end, Dad had prepared the best for New Life Church - Sofia...Again great healings happened, many people were baptized in the Holy Spirit, many lives were given to God, much joy, dances, celebration...We thank God for taking care of His children who are blessed every day...
Thank you for reading these lines and we believe you'll be blessed from all the testimonies...There a lot more but we hope next time we'll share again about the powerful moving of the Spirit...Be blessed and let God makes you witness of miracles like we are...
With love,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
May 2009 - II
A great experience we had with Sandy in Istanbul...
After traveling for two weeks in many cities and countries, we had one day left to take some rest in Istanbul. We decided to take a walk in the so-called
Grand Bazaar and after the long day at the end we stopped in a shop for Turkey blankets. The boy who sold them was about 22-years-old and insisted
that we buy some. After long negotiations and much laughing we reached a good price. He asked us what our job was and we started to share about our love
for the poor, our love in Jesus and how we bring food, clothes and joy to people. He called his two brothers and in Turkish explained them who we were.
Please have them in your prayers and let God help for the development of the business of these young people!
Thank you for reading these lines and that you could become part of this experience...
Greetings and blessings,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
May 2009 - I
Wow! How much joy, love, hugs and many people saved...This is what God blessed us with in the last few days.
We've been to many cities and villages in Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Turkey with 20 wonderful teenagers from Joshua School of Life Center, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania...We can share many amazing testimonies that happened...
These young people met many friends everywhere we went. The way they ministered touched many people - with music and songs they were spreading joy. Dramas which they played touched even the hearts of the small children, they prayed and blessed everybody... Teenagers from Brestnitsa didn't want us to leave and were asking us to stay there for a couple of days more.
In Dermantsi, the pastor shared that his church started to grow so much that there were no more free places in the building and they had to make services outside... Praise God it is a good problem... God did some amazing miracles, for example healing from cancer...
In Vidin, we were glad to celebrate Easter with more than 2000 people who gathered on the square. Together, we celebrated the resurrection of Christ and danced till the morning came... On the next day we did an evangelization again on the square in the neighborhood and the students had the opportunity to minister with all that God was giving them... Pastor Aliosha shared that the teenagers from his church were so inflamed to share about Jesus that they had decided to gather scrap metal and return it for recycling and with the received money to start traveling bringing God's love to different places...
In Greece, young people were released from drug addiction and with tears in the eyes they gave their lives to Jesus...
In Turkey/Izmir, after doing personal evangelizations on the next day more than 10 people came to church and we believe they will devote their life to God...
We are glad we could share in short with you friends what God did in the last few days... It is wonderful we can make you part of our joy!
We thank God we have friends like you and we pray for abundant blessings, joy, anointing, love for you from His Heaven Kingdom!
Blessings,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
April 2009
It is amazing we could be happy again among our friends from Thessaloniki/Greece...
A couple of days ago we had the wonderful privilege to visit the poor neighbourhood in Thessaloniki. We were there with our friends Sandy Sandifer and two
other families from Greece whom we minister with. We are blessed to have Sandy with us... Brother Niko is a wonderful man of God and in his spare time he
blesses them with parts of the Word.
We are glad last year God sent brother Johny as a gift to us! In January 2008, Johny accepted Jesus in his heart and since then he reads the Word every day and gets filled with the Holy Spirit... We left this place extremely rejoiced because we saw God moving there and loving these people... More than 15 people accepted Christ in their life... There is no greater joy than the joy when people are being saved!
After that we came back to Bulgaria. A few days later we again left with Sandy and part of the Praise team to visit our beautiful treasures in Brestnitsa. Before that we were in Dermantsi village (15 min. from Brestnica). There were about 30 teenagers there in whom we saw extreme hunger for our Lord... Pastor Zhoro blessed them with the Word, prayed for different needs and the Praise team made God's anointing come among us. We had an incredible communication after the service with pastor Ivo's family. We encouraged them, blessed them and left for our next goal.
In our previous letters we had written for the new neighborhood which we found so we decided not to skip this wonderful village. We went to Osikovska Lakavitsa village and immediately everyone went out to welcome us again with love... We sang, danced, encouraged them with the word, prayed and got on the bus feeling greatly rejoiced in our hearts... For a long time afterwards we continued to talk about the gift our Lord gave us in the face of these wonderful people...
Though we had no testimonies for great healings during these missionary trips, we are happy that the most lovely thing happened - people got saved and their names are written in the book of Life.
We'd like to thank you for all the prayers, for all the blessings and for the joy and the hope we could bring there!
We pray for you to be blessed abundantly and to go on serving as a blessing for many people!
Love and joy,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
March 2009
Yes, we have much joy and we thank God for every day!
Last month we had some difficulties with Zhoro's health. You know he was in a hospital. His diagnosis was bilateral pneumonia and also problems with the heart. But thanks to the prayers of everyone of you today he is much better... The doctors said he needed quiet and rest for at least 2 months... It's a bit difficult for us to do this because we have an energetic and playful grandchild at home. Praise God he is a funny little boy who wants to play with his grandfather and so on... To go somewhere is impossible for us now and he is recovering at home...Thank you for the letters, the prayers, for the love and the care! We can really feel your love despite the distance.
Today we are much blessed because we went to Brestnitsa where we visited our favorite friends with their pastor Toshko and Vaska...Here we want to thank from the deepest part in our heart to Georgian and Winnie Banov and Global Celebration. With their help we bought a house there with a big yard and now we have to repair it...The purpose is to make an Art School (drawing, music, dances and all kind of art), Bible teaching for leaders, evangelizators, missionaries and so on...Among these young people in Brestnitsa God makes wonderful things and we are happy God uses them to have influence in their small village.
They shared with us that Christians from neighboring towns who had heard for their joy, love and the miracles God makes in Brestnitsa wish to visit them and receive from this anointing...We believe that through this Missionary Center God will do many things with these ordinary people... If you want to be part of the big blessings in this place we would be happy for every seed that could be useful for the repair of the Missionary Center. We'll pray God to speak to people's heart so they could feel the importance of the Missionary Center and see the future.
While getting back from Brestnitsa God drew our attention aside the highway where we saw a small Gypsy neighborhood of about 15-20 houses. We decided to stop and check. We were surprised to see young and old people come immediately to see us. We started to talk about Christ on the Cross and they were all fired up to listen and we saw hunger in their eyes for God...They invited us in their houses to pray for different needs (a 8-year-old boy born with paralysis who cannot talk, a woman who wants to have a baby and many others). They didn't want us to leave and asked us to go back there again...
Lord, how much thirst for Him...We promised to go there again. Our friend and missionary Sandy was with us. We are very blessed to have her with us.
We came back home full of joy and experiences... Amazing day in which many people started to feel God like a friend who loves them...
Thank you friends that you pray for us, support us and that we can feel your love!
We pray God to bless you abundantly and to take care for all your needs...
Joy and love from your Bulgarian friends in Christ,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
Prayer Need for Brestnitsa
Dear friends,
We are very blessed to be back to work and do Dad's will...
After the situation with Zhoro now when he is much better, although he still needs rest, we are happy again of what God is doing through us...
Now we'd like to share something really important with you and to ask you to pray... We know we live in difficult economic conditions and it's
hard to take part in any financial projects, but we want to encourage you that even in our most difficult times God tells us to bless...
You are all a great example of giving and we know God blessed you for your generosity...
Last week, we were in Brestnitsa to visit our small, beautiful treasures whom we love so much and like apostle Paul we can say that we are proud with their faith and the joy they have in God... We talked to pastor Toshko and with much pain in his heart he shared his need...
The house where he lives, we surely can say there is no roof... We asked him to allow us to make some photos and what we saw was really tragic... You can see for yourself...
It made us sad because when it rains, it rains right inside the house... They are a poor family with no jobs and, of course, they have no way to repair their home... That's why we want to ask you with all our respect as God's people let us help... These people had given the other part of their home to the church which also needs some repair, but it's much better there, now what is important for these people is to have a secure place to live in... Their son will have a baby after a couple of months and the conditions are really bad...
Things are now like this:If they choose the cheaper option - to repair the roof with cheap materials, this means that a couple of years later he'll have to repair it again - the cheap option is $2000, but doing it with good materials and a guarantee for long years safety roof then it is $4000... Like a family we are going to bless them and put the beginning of the joy in their home...
We know that in these times, these are big sums for our human minds, but we know God is above these sums and He can bless you much more... Let's make together a stable roof for them! We ask you to consider this need as if it were yours and sow in this family...
Thank you for your sensitive heart and for your love... We are happy you hear God's heart and obey His Word... And we pray that He bless you abundantly so you can be an example for many others... We love you and we are happy to know you...Thank you so much!!!
Blessings and joy,
Zhoro and Mariana Penchev
New Life Ministry / Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia
zhoro@riverlution.net
mariana@riverlution.net
cell: +359 888 316 736
Testimony from Boxcars
Dear friends,
We want to share with you a wonderful testimony from Boxcar!
We always have a service on Thursdays there and the last time a lady shared her testimony that made us all really happy and we decided it was good for you
to feel blessed too...
She loves God with her whole heart and she prayed to God for a long time to give her a job, and so as of January she goes to work. She likes the job and she is pleased by the payment. But that's not all. Before starting this work God took care of her and her family in an amazing way!...
One day she and her husband were out to gather iron scrap which they exchange for money; that day they found a lot of alluminium and cardboard that they put in their cart. When they started to sort out the scrap in their house, she suddenly found American dollars among the garbage. She is not educated so she couldn't tell us how much exactly the money was but it was a lot and we are ready to believe her because they were able to pay the electricity bill which she hadn't paid for years. Gypsies in Bulgaria usually don't pay their bills for years and the sum can amount to $2000... She also shared she had some money left and she bought wallpapers and repaired the boxcar she lives in (she works for a street cleaning company). She said Dad went on blessing her because afterwards she found golden teeth, which she sold... How great God is! We are so happy for what He is doing for the people there...
Another thing we want to share with you is a great need for a prayer...A couple of days ago we were at the home of a family with a 19-year-old daughter who had undergone several different surgeries. At present, the girl's heart is being treated as she had a heart attack just before New Year's Eve. Her left leg is infected badly and may need to be removed because of the pus. The pictures are small to see but the sight of her leg is really horrible. The family cannot pay for doctors and medications and so the girl just stays at home and her mother takes care of her.
We prayed for her and we believe God will make a miracle for her. When we entered her room we saw a girl smiling with hope. This encouraged us that she was strong enough to fight these challenges. She sings to the Lord and smiles all the time. When we told her it was time for us to go she wanted us to stay and share her small bed :))) Praise the Lord for the joyful heart which brings this girl healing!
If you have words from God, words of
encouragement or some kind of support for medicines, food or if you just want to bless her, you can write to us and we'll give you details...
We decided to find a doctor who will take care of her if God hasn't done a miracle...
Thank you for everything you do for these people in this part of the world to be blessed! With your prayers and giving you are part of these miracles and blessings...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
February 2009
Our Jesus is so good…
A couple of days ago we came back from a blessed missionary trip which we made in Bulgaria and Romania... We visited our friends in Vidin where pastor
Aliosha's church welcomed us with much joy... Pastor Marc Bristow had the privelege to visit that church and see the broken synthesizer they play
music with and praise God, so he sent us some funds and we bought a new one. They were jumping with joy around the new playing instrument and were
happy like small kids... We danced and praised the Lord together, we were happy to be in His presence and with much joy shared His words, and the
hungry for life people there accpeted them...
After that, together with pastor Aliosha and his wife, we decided to go to Romania - Kalafat... We took some food and visited our new friends... It was
a big surprise for them... It was our third visit there and we are happy God uses us in this city... People there are also poor... For a short time,
30 people gathered together with great expectation... We encouraged them, they sang songs in Romanian, we prayed and we left much happy that we did God's
will... God connected us with a family with 7 children that are really poor. They live in two small rooms, have no timber for heating and the weather was
really cold... Our friends from Switzerland blessed the poor with food and timber so we gave them some funds to buy timber. They thanked God for His mercy...
God sent us there in the right time... It is great to do God's will...
On the next day we left a lot of food in Vidin which we had bought with the help of GVC church in Switzerland. We gave to those who needed and our
hearts were filled up with joy... We went to Brestnitsa and there we felt really blessed to have joy with the treasures there... While traveling by car
to there we stopped in a shop where we bought food for the kitchen in Brestnitsa... When poeple there saw the car they immediately came... They want more
and more from God's word... So much love, joy and hunger for God we haven't seen anywhere else... It was a really blessed time...
This time we didn't hear about healings but next time we hope to hear testimonies. Still, we are very happy that a man accepted Jesus and gave Him his
life and this is the most important part when somebody gets saved, we could give food to the hungry people and got back home happy...
Many thanks to all prayer partners and thank you for the financial support...
Blessings, peace and joy be 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
January 2009
God is really good…
During the amazingly blessed Christmas and New Year holidays we had much joy, celebration, dances and Dad’s love was everywhere we passed through…
Immediately after the short rest we again started the intensive ministering. The first Sunday we had the privilege to minister in River church in Dobrich where God’s anointing was flowing sensitively and we were all filled with freshness from His Spirit…
After that we visited our friends (treasures) in Brestnitsa where God’s joy never leaves but is comfortably placed there and blesses the thirsty hearts… We enjoyed a good news: in the last year and a half we prayed for the daughter-in-law of pastor Toshko to have a baby… She was worried there was something wrong with her and that she could not give birth to a child, but every time we encouraged her that God was preparing joy for them… Now she is pregnant and they are all happy… We’d like to ask you to pray for them and mostly for God’s protection over her because when we heard her on the phone recently we were told there was a mumps epidemic in the neighborhood, which can be very dangerous to the pregnant girl. But we know God is in control.
Next big joy for all of us is that a great dream of our hearts is becoming a reality… Our wish is to have Missionary Centers in the places where God puts us… For a long time we looked for such a building in Brestnitsa, the other place is Thessalonica-Greece, Sofia-Bulgaria and Turkey… And now we are in a process of buying a building in Brestnitsa… Our plans are to open an art school for musicians, artists, singers and of course for God’s word, the revelation for Jesus on the Cross… The price is not big: $14,000 and if there is someone who wishes to take part and bless this project in Brestnitsa we will be much thankful… You can write to us for details on how you could put seed in this art school…
Boxcars is another place which God put in our hearts… It’s really hard there, there is no hope coming from this world for a change, but we have hope in God… The whole country had difficult time as the Ukraine gas for Europe was stopped in the coldest day, so for many people January was the hardest month, but praise the Lord everything now is in order…
A couple of days ago we heard a disturbing news from our brothers and sisters from Boxcars… One morning a bus full of police officers with masks
surrounded the whole place. Some of them walked into some of the homes… Young boys, teenagers, young girls, a pregnant girl, women, children were all
beat up seriously and the reason was that the police were looking for an escaped prisoner there… It’s really inexplicable… We are seriously worried for them…
Unfortunately, this is the attitude of Bulgarians towards gypsies… It's tragical and sad…
Please, have these people in your prayers and may God give us wisdom how to help and protect them…
We are happy God blesses our work in Greece…He blessed us there with a Greek family which is fired up to serve in the group which we take care of in Pereya neighborhood in Thessalonica… Now we don’t have the financial possibility to go there often, but we are happy that God has always His way… Our wish is to be there and have an accommodation again where God’s word will be spreading… We pray for this and we believe that soon God will make a path to there for us… If God puts in your heart a wish to be part of the project to rent an accommodation in Thessalonica, please write to us for more information (usually the rent of a place there is about $400-450 a month...)
We have also devoted ourselves to helping in Vidin. Last year the church there was happy to have its own building where people feel free to praise the name of Jesus… With the help of our old time friends Georgian and Winnie Banov from Global Celebration we bought church premises for pastor Aliosha. We also want to thank pastor Mark Bristow who took part in this project and now all are blessed…
In the past month our work was very intensive but this is our life and we are happy God is doing things through us… We are blessed to know you!
Many thanks to all prayer partners and financial partners… We pray that God keep on blessing you abundantly and all together to be happy with what
He has prepared before us…
Love, peace and joy,
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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