Pastor News around Romania!
Come Meet Diana Bocsa while in Texas
RPF is happy to announce that Diana Bocsa will be traveling to Texas, May 23rd through June 25th. Diana is a native Romanian who works for Josiah Venture and BIG Impact and lives near Arad, Romania.
She will be helping to prepare future Romanian short term missionaries with language and culture training. While in Texas, Diana will also be speaking to several ladies and youth groups in different churches across the state.
If you would like to attend Diana's classes, or hear her speak, contact RPF for more information.
While in Texas, Diana can be reached through the Contact Us page, or by calling Hayley Pennington @ 817-694-1193.
March 2012
RPF Board Members Head to Romania
Steve Pennington and John Jennings leave for Romania March 11th for a two week trip to deliver some much needed electronics and clothing. While there they will spend several days with Romanian pastors in their ministries to continue to grow in their understanding of how to better help them.
We hope that you will be a part of this trip by praying for Steve and John as they travel, and as they minister to those in Romania. Pray God will use them abundatly, and make His will known.
Febuary 2012
From Seleus Romania To Seleus Serbia
With economies as diverse as those across Europe, it's not surprising that many Romanians look beyond their borders for the hope of better wages in wealthier countries, but did you know there are communities of Romanians living generationally in poorer neighboring countries?
One such village in eastern Serbia shares the name Seleus with Pastor Emi Moisa's village in Romania.
Pastor Emi and his congregation decided to encourage them and minister to them in any way they could, so they traveled (about 160 miles) there.
They took the youth from the church, along with the brass band, and sang in public places. Emi preached the Gospel and held services in two churches.
There was also an opportunity to work with two groups of children.
Join us as we pray that God will continue to open doors for ministry to the children and families in Seleus Serbia.
Pray for guidance for Pastor Emi and his people as they serve Jesus by helping those less fortunate.
Get the Place and the Pictures!
January 2012
Historic Gathering in Iermata
Six evangelical congregations In Western Romania, three Baptist and three Pentecostal, gathered together to celebrate the birth of Jesus on the second day of Christmas 2011.
Yes, in case you were wondering, there are two Days of Christmas in Romania. The Pentecostal Church in Iermata hosted this historic joint service of worship and fellowship. The hope is leaders of these churches will study and pray together for a common vision so that God will use them to do a great work in their area for His Glory!
Praise God for bringing His children together in praise and worship!
October 2011
Pastor Titus Teaches In Sovata
BIG Impact held a conference in Sovata Romania, October 25th through the 29th, called, Managing Church Growth. The purpose was to train pastors and leaders from 
their teams, teaching them techniques to help make their churches more effective in changing times.
Pastor Titus was excited to introduce new resources from Crown Financial Ministries recently translated and produced in Romania as part of the conference. These new materials are a valuable asset for teaching the attendees God's principles for how to handle the money He entrusts us with.
Please pray for God's provision to continue to translate and produce more resources from Crown into Romanian.
Baptizing New Believers
June 2011
The baptism of new believers is a great time of celebration, with many family and friends attending the service, who are not regular church goers. This gives pastors a great chance to present The Gospel of Christ to those who would otherwise not be receptive or even there.
Praise God for the opportunity for these pastors to preach to the lost as they work together to expand His kingdom!!!
Sandu, Toni, and their team are excited to baptize this big group of new believers in Carceni!
Emi and Vasi pray for a candidate for baptism in a church in Fersig.
The church in Carceni is full of excited family and friends awaiting the baptism.
Youth Rally – Seleus, Romania
March 5, 2011
On the 5th of March the group of youngsters from Seleus organized a meeting at Seleus for the young people from the villages and cities around Seleus.
The theme of our meeting was the fifth season.
Our small church quickly filled with a little more than 100 people at around 7:00 PM. Youngsters from Seleus, Ineu, Pancota, Moroda, Sebis, and Bocsig.
Christmas in Romania
December 2011
Christmas is celebrated with great enthusiasm in Romania! It is a time of joyous singing by young and old alike. There are two days of Christmas celebration along with caroling on Christmas Eve.
I was blessed to spend my first Christmas in Romania with my wife Mary and daughter Hayley. It was a time we will never forget as we shared in the joy of the birth of Jesus our Lord and Savior with all our friends there.
We traveled to Romania with the intent to take gifts and blankets to children in Oltenia. There was a lot of snow across Romania for most of the trip and the normal eight hour drive to Oltenia would take at least thirty hours if we could make it at all.
The decision was made to see what God would have us do in the Western part of the country in the area we were in.
God was faithful to show us plenty of families who needed the blankets and goodies we brought for the children.
The children were very excited and it was wonderful to visit their homes and pray with them and their families. We were also blessed to get to help give out Christmas boxes filled with gifts for children of all ages from Team Hope. These boxes are a wonderful outreach to many needy families and very well received.
Thanks Team Hope (Ireland.) Even though we had plans to go to another region in Romania, God, as always, provided us with the ministry He prepared where we were. Praise God! He is always faithful!
Christmas in Romania
Steve Pennington
October 2010
Update on the youth!
from: Cornelia Medrea
Since June, when you have received the update about romanian young people ministry from Seleus, there happened a lot of good things among us, praise Lord!
On the beginning of July we had a wedding in our church in which have been involved all the young people from our church. Then, on the end of July we had a baptism in our church when 5 young people proclaimed Jesus as their Lord and Saviour and were baptized.
Sept 29th, 2010
Pastors Heading for Texas
Pastors Sandu and Pastor Emi will travel to Texas in November 2010
Please pray for our brothers Sandu and Emi as they travel to Texas to share their vision for ministry with many across the state. The trip will include preaching in churches and inner city ministries as well as much fellowship with friends and new acquaintances.
Please contact us for complete information and details about their visit.
June 30th, 2010
Youth News From Romania
From: Cornelia Medrea
In order to get to know more the Romanian young people from Emi Moisa’s church, I will tell you a few things about their Ministry.
They have two kind of activities: they meet Friday evening for Biblical Study, where they have discussions on different subjects and a time of worship and they also meet Saturday for different activities (visit orphanages, participate to young people meetings in their area, sport activities, rehearsals for different events in their church).
Read more about the youth in Romania!
May 1st, 2010
Youth on the Move!
On April 30th Pastor Emi will lead a group of at least 35 youth from Seleus on a three day spiritual retreat in Oradea, a city in North West Romania.
This program is designed to allow the youth from the church to build relationships with the youth not involved in church. The hope is to lead them to Christ through these relationships. There will be activities and special 
services through Sunday, then a visit to a local church in Oradea before returning to Seleus.
Please pray that God will bless their effort and encourage them to continue to lead others to Christ.
Pastor Titus Heads to Poland!
April 30th, 2010
Pastor Titus Pastean will head to Poland in June to attend a Crown Financial training conference. Titus preaches sound Biblical principles of finance all over Romania.
Ongoing education is crucial for Titus to be effective as he speaks to Christians in Romania about God’s plan for how to handle their finances.
Pray for safe travel for Titus and financial help in this difficult economic time.
June 2010: Undate on Pastor Titus trip to Poland