God has given us a wonderful promise that, if we call on Him, He will answer and show us great and mighty things. God is indeed answering our prayers.
All this last school year, we have been praying for a new school building to replace the one that Logos Christian High School in Timisoara, Romania lost last October. When we started the preschool in January, 1991, we were given the preschool wing of an elementary school. After we lost the high school building, we made due by dividing up the classrooms in that preschool building and running double shifts with the 11th and 12th grades in the morning and the 9th and 10th grades in the afternoon. It was a workable solution but barely adequate.
This summer the elementary school that was occupying the other wing of our preschool building moved to a new facility. We have now been given the entire school complex for our use. The necessary repairs and renovations are already under way and we are hoping to have everything ready by the time school starts. Instead of the eight classrooms we had before in our original building, we will now have twelve classrooms with special lab facilities for the nursing school and computer school. For the first time the preschool, high school, and colleges will all be at the same location which will improve ease of administration. Thank you ever so much for your prayers in this ongoing battle for our school building needs.
Because of the hunger in people’s hearts to turn back to God, many new churches are springing up across Romania. One pastor in Caransebes who was responsible for 30 churches has established 40 more churches in his region. He has asked us to help train workers to help pastors these churches. Yet this is not his greatest need.
Pastor Titus Coroban has such a burden for souls that his evangelistic efforts in Caransebes have caused the church to grow far beyond the capacity of their church building. The building has been expanded to seat 220 people but the church has grown past 500. Because the Sunday services last for three hours or more, multiple services are not an option. The building has no air conditioning so, in spite of every attempt to resolve the problem, people continue to faint in the summertime because of the heat and lack of oxygen. They have been forced to make due by only allowing half the congregation to come to church on any given Sunday and then rotating. Thus people can only attend church every other week! They desperately need a new church building. They have already bought the land and drawn up the blueprints for a new church that will seat 750. They have given sacrificially to get this far, one woman even selling the "extra" clothes in her closet because she had nothing else to give. Please help us to help them buy the materials for a new church where new converts will be able to find a place to sit. They will do all the work themselves as a labor of love but the money to buy the building materials is beyond their capacity during this time of high unemployment and run away inflation. Please join with us to reach out to them with love.
We praise God for answering prayer as we see the growing unity within the Body of Christ in Romania. One of the things that God is using to bring about that unity is a prayer movement among women called Deborah Arise Europe. At the prayer rally that Barbara helped coordinate in Timisoara on July 1, we had women from eight different churches of different denominations who came together to pray for the children of Timisoara and Romania as a whole. Every ethnic group in the city was involved as we set aside our differences to cry out to God in behalf of our children. In October we plan to have women from three different regions come together for a day of prayer for the children and young people of Romania.
We believe that God wants to do the same thing in America that He is doing in Romania and beginning to do in other parts of Europe. In addition to Deborah Arise Europe, God has already raised up a Deborah Arise Africa and a Deborah Arise Russia. We believe He wants to raise up a Deborah Arise America as well. He is raising up "Deborah’s" around the world - women of prayer who will cover the children and young people with a protective canopy of prayer so God can move among them with life transforming power. That is why we have enclosed this brochure to tell you about Deborah Arise America.
What is Deborah Arise America? It is a challenge to the women of America to respond to God’s call to pray for the next generation. What does that mean in practical terms? A woman (or man) who joins Deborah Arise America (or Europe) makes a commitment to pray a minimum of 15 minutes every day for her own children (and grandchildren), the children and young people in her home church, her city, state (or province), nation, and the world. She also commits to meet once a week with a handful of other "Deborah’s" to pray for one another, and to fast as the Lord leads the first three days of each month.
What is the focus of these prayers? We are praying that the lost will come to salvation, the "prodigals" will come back to the Lord, and that God will raise up an army of young people whose hearts are on fire with a passion for Jesus and a compassion for the lost that will cause them to do whatever it takes to fulfill the Great Commission in this generation. We also pray for special outreaches that involve young people.
We would invite you to join us and become a part of Deborah Arise and invite others in your sphere of influence to do the same. There are no dues, no tee shirts or bumper stickers to buy. If you would like to help cover the cost of getting the word out, it would be appreciated but there is never any obligation. Money designated for Deborah Arise will be used to cover the cost of printing and mailing brochures, maintaining a website, and strategically placing advertisements in magazines that target intercessors. We just want to challenge the women of God to a commitment of prayer. Young people today are under attack from every direction and they need our prayers, whether in America, in Romania, or elsewhere. We sense God wants to call forth 1 million praying "Deborah’s" in America by this time next year.
One thing we would ask you to pray for especially is a prayer rally that will be taking place on Labor Day weekend. "The Call DC" is a gathering of a million young people, their parents, and those who love them on the Mall in Washington D.C. on Saturday, September 3 from 6 AM to 6 PM (EDT) to fast and pray for revival to come to America and to repent for those sins that prevent God’s perfect will from being done in this nation. Please pray (before, during AND after) for this event, those who are leading it, and all those who will participate. We need God’s mercy and grace to be poured out upon our nation. His righteousness demands that He either send a spirit of genuine godly repentance leading to sweeping revival or else divine judgment. He desires to send revival if we will humble ourselves and call on Him.
Thank you for your prayers for America, for Romania, and for the ministry of Church Triumphant. It is your prayers and your faithful giving that makes this ministry possible. God bless you as you stand with us to see God answer and show us great and mighty things for His glory.