In October 1999 we arrived in Moldova sended by Free Church of Järvenpää.
We settled in the town of Briceni in north of Moldova close to the
border of Ukraine. And established Mission Moldova. Local believers
joined the work and team was formed to reach Moldova with the Gospel.
Team included of our family and seven local workers.
The Vision and the goal of the team Mission Moldova is to bring
the gospel to the unreached places as The small villages where there
is no evangelical witness. In these kind of villages there is purpose
to plan a church with the local believers. The team is helping work
in such a villages where there is small group of believers, helping
them to preach the gospel and encouraging them to plant a church
in their own village.
Year 2001 we moved in the center of the country, city of Belcy where
we set up the base of the mission. We started to help the poor,
mainly the old people, by feeding them 4 times a week and helping
them in some of their necessary needs. We were also able to start
a day center for the disable children, where they can come four
times a week
to learn different things and develope their skills and to be integrated
to the society. In 2004 we delegate the work to the local workers
as our main vision is to pioneer a mission work.
Dina and Jura,both of them, have been with us since the beginning.
They are the one that directing the mission. Others activities
of the Mission Moldova:
Tent Evangelism
Prison Ministry
Youth work
Annual kid’s camp
Backround:
Former part of Romania, Moldova was incorporated into the Soviet
Union at the close of World War II. Although independent from
the USSR since 1991, Russian forces have remained on Moldovan
territory east of the Dniester River supporting the Slavic majority
population, mostly Ukrainians and Russians, who have proclaimed
a "Transnistria" republic. The poorest nation in Moldova
became the first former Soviet state to elect a Communist as its
president in 2001.
Location: Eastern Europe, northeast of Romania
Border countries: Romania 450 km, Ukraine 939
km
Population: 4,455,421 July 2005
Religions: Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Evangelical
churches.
Languages: Moldovan (official, virtually the
same as the Romanian language), Russian, Gagauz (a Turkish dialect)
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