Romania Ministry of Buddy & Barbara Braswell: Aug. 22, 2010 Celebration Service for Renovations of Church in Cladova

This is a picture taken of the Baptist church in Cladova as the renovations are underway. Here the new roof is on but the finish work around the eaves is not completed. The new bathroom (outhouse) is started also with a storage area. The work included putting a foundation under the church, replacing the roof and building the new storage area and bathroom. We were blessed by being able to give a financial gift to help with the work.

This is the veiw of the back of the church.

August 22, 2010 Pastor Ioan Miraute welcomes the guest to the celebration service and gives thanks and praise to God for the work that was accomplished on the renovations of the church. He read a history of the church. It was started in 1903 and the building was constructed in 1909. So the church has a long standing history in the community.

Buddy shares how the church and village of Cladova have a special place in his heart and how it played a vital part in how we came to Romania to be missionaries. His first mission trip to Romania was in 1998 to work on constructing a church in the village of Cruceni. At that time the pastor of Cruceni also served as the pastor of Cladova. The previous year in 1997 one of the sisters in the church at Cladova shared a verse that God had given her with our pastor from the U.S. and told him it was going to be a long term relationship. No one understood at the time what all it meant and what all God would do in the coming years.

Bro. Tomeanu Tutu, a Romanian who lives in Arizona, U.S. shared a testimony. He contributed financialy to the renovation project. He shared it was God who was important in all that was done.