The LeFevres Missionaries to Eastern Europe

April, 2008
The harvest truly is plenteous.  (Mathew 9:27)

 We write this letter from Constanta Romania, where we have met with our other missionary brethren for a week of English church.  We are all excited about all the testimonies that each of the missionaries bring in from their respective villages.  We're all anxious to see what the Lord will do in the days ahead.  Right now we're planning on recording some more DVDs.  Perhaps this month we'll have three or four meetings in Dabravino and bring in people from different villages each time for recording the testimonies and preaching.  The DVDs are going out everywhere including to the Moslem Turks (not just the gypsy Turks).  One such Turkish man watched the DVD several times and requested a New Testament to read (which is a miracle).  In other villages the real Turks are beginning to come to our meetings and ask for prayer.  The miracle is two-fold.  Not only are Moslems coming to a Christian meeting, but "higher class" Turks are coming to a gypsy meeting.  Brother Ralph also wants to begin printing some New Testaments for distribution in the future.  Right now we need to make several hundred hymn books.  They cost a dollar a piece.  I'm not sure what the New Testaments would cost.

 In some areas the police and authorities are beginning to question our work.  Thankfully we have all the legal documents we need to justify our meetings.  In one village the police came to question what was going on, and Brother Robert could not communicate with him in Bulgarian very well.  One of the sisters explained what they were doing.  When the man threatened to arrest her she put her hands together and told him, "Get out the handcuffs."  They had been preached to that it is easy to have faith and boldness in the church and in the company of other believers, but what would they do when the trials come?  She responded full of joy.

 In other areas the villages are harder Moslems and haven't even heard of us believers.  In those places there is stronger opposition.  In one village the family believes, but no one else does.  They told us it might be better if we would come after dark so that no one else in the village would see us.  In another village the men gathered to ask the family what we were doing there.  We had only had two meetings there.  After much talk and many accusations they saw that the one or two believers would not back down so they threatened that the believers could come back to the village again, but "they had better think about how they're going to make it out of here".  Please pray that God would shine the light in these dark places.

 In other areas people are eager to come to church.  They come to the meetings, and invite the believers to their houses for prayer.  People who had never heard the gospel are now believing God.  Churches are opening up almost every week.  One family had a child that was afflicted with a certain sickness that caused him much pain.  We began praying for the boy and he got better.  The father was off working in another city for a month or more and didn't believe it when his wife told him on the phone that the boy was healed.  He came home and spent a day with the boy and saw how well he was, then told his wife to have the believers pray for him.   In another village there were some deaf people that started coming to the meetings.  Deafness ran in their family.  They can talk fairly well, and can read lips, but can't hear. 

After a few weeks of praying in the church the one girl began to hear in one ear.  She's able to speak to people on the phone now.  The entire village was amazed at this.  No one can deny that God has performed a miracle.  Many new people came to the church after this.  Needless to say the church is packed.  There's not even room to sit comfortably.

 Brother Alish now has over twenty villages that he goes to a week.  He cannot reach that many himself, so we have separated some of the churches for Robert to take over, and some others Brother Frank will take over.  Alish will continue traveling, doing the work of an evangelist in the region where God is moving.

 Here in Romania the DVDs are going out and everyone loves them.  I suppose you heard the testimony about the woman who took a CD of the hymns and listened to it on the bus ride to Istanbul.  When she got there she realized she didn't have the address of her sister in her purse, so she remembered what she heard on the CD about praying to God.  She said a quick prayer then walked from the bus station to the nearest market.  At the market someone called out her name, and it was her sister.  In one of the largest cities in the world, that has over ten million people in it, God brought the two sisters together in answer to prayer.  They both believed through the CD and then took it to the sister's place of work where the boss played our hymns over the intercom to 250  Moslem employees.  I personally sang with the Turks on some of those recordings.  I never thought my voice would reach that many people that far away.  What a blessing.  One of the believers here in Romania has a business selling music cassettes and CDs.  She is saved and gives our gospel CDs and DVDs free of charge to everyone she meets.  Recently business has been poor here in the city, so she travels to several villages now selling.  God has opened the door for the gospel to go all over Romania, and we don't have to pay a dime to send it out.

 Everything is exciting here.  God is moving, and we recognize it.  Have everyone to pray and help us get in on this "wave" to get the gospel out in Bulgaria now more than ever.  Since Bulgaria and Romania have joined the European Union big things have happened.  One, the cost of living here has doubled.  Our American dollars aren’t worth half of what they used to be.  The other thing is that the poor people here are going into every country in Europe looking for work.  And they're taking the gospel with them.  Help us to send it to them.  We need more CDs, DVDs, gas money, and men to preach the gospel.  Pray the Lord of the harvest!

       In Christ,     Zachary LeFevre

"Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;"

 Sent From:  Prayer Baptist Church 855 Edwin Westland, MI 48185