About a week ago, Pastor Niculescu asked if I would preach at his church, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Suceava, Romania. I told him it would be a privelege and an honor to share the Gospel with the people of God at his church. The worship experience has been very interesting and challenging these past several weeks, here in Romania. In the other two parishes in Bucharest and Brasov, the services were done in English and Romanian because there were English speaking people like Jo Ann and me at the services. Here in Suceava, because everyone's primary language is Romanian, Pastor Traian gave us a condensed version of his sermon in English which was very helpful. However, the entire liturgy is done in Romania as it should be.
Yesterday, when I was preaching, I would preach about a paragraph of my sermon and then Traian would read from an English copy I gave him preaching the message in Romanian. The sermon was actually only 12 minutes in length but when you multiply that times two is was closer to 25 minutes. The people very excited and grateful that I was able to share the Word with them. All praise be to God. I also communed Pastor Traian during the service. The young man carrying the Crucifix and ringing the church bell is Ciprian Bangs, the son of the couple who is hosting us while we are here. Jesse Bangs was self taught on the keyboards and did a great job playing at the worship service. I have a picture of Jesse and his son Ciprian our hosts. I've also included a picture of Pastor Traian Niculescu and his wife Otilia with Jo Ann and me. Please also note that in the first picture is a copy of their hymnal. The liturgy tunes are from our service book Divine Service, Setting Three.
Enjoy the pictures.
"Where's Pastor?!"
Luther Quote of the Day
“If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.”
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