Heart Cry Prayer Diary July – September

Prayer requests from across Europe July – September 2021 HEARTCry

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— JULY 2021 —

SINISA STOJKOVIC

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA

1 Join us in praying that more young people in Banja Luka will come to know Jesus.

2 We are praying that the teams from the US will greatly assist with the English clubs and outreach to students run by Protestant Church

Christian Fellowship this summer.

3 Please join us in prayer for more volunteers who are needed to help deliver humanitarian aid.

DANIEL & IRINKA STRACINSKI

MONTENEGRO

4 This summer we plan baptisms in Bar for four new believers who have given their lives to Christ.

Pray for them.

5 Daniel and Irinka are expecting the birth of their first child later this month. Please pray for protection and provision for every need. 7 Pray that God will enable us to hold our annual summer camp in the aftermath of the pandemic.

8 There are barely 200 evangelical believers in

Montenegro. Please pray for revival in this small

Balkan nation.

ALEX & MILENA VALKANOVI

BULGARIA

9 Volunteers play a vital role in the life of the church. Please pray for the team to grow.

10 Getting the right construction company to carry out repairs is so important. Do pray for this situation.

11 National elections take place today. Please pray that God will raise up godly leaders in Bulgaria.

PETRE & DANIELA PETROV

NORTH MACEDONIA

12 As mature leaders relocate to plant new churches, please pray that new workers and assistants will be raised up in Shtip.

MARINELA ROTARIU

ROMANIA

13 This month Emanuel hospice commences palliative care services in rural areas. Will you pray for the adults and children with life-limiting conditions reached through this initiative?

14 As new staff join us this month, please pray that the two doctors, two nurses, the social worker and psychologist will quickly adapt to their roles.

15 We are looking for a new fundraising coordinator to replace Damaris who has relocated to the US.

16 Pray for our colleague Dr Claudia Pele, who became a hospice patient herself after being diagnosed with advanced cancer with multiple metastasis. Pray for her husband Dacian, and the little girls Oana and Maria to have the strength to pass through this difficult time of trial in their family.

17 Celebrate with us 25 years of God’s provision and blessing that we experienced at Emanuel

Hospice ministry from Oradea, day by day, month by month, year by year.

BESA SHAPLLO

ALBANIA

18 At Mission Possible Albania we need our financial situation to improve to enable our team to continue to serve through the

Hope Centre in Bathore.

19 May God give us wisdom during this troubled time, in the way we speak and the way we treat fear that has gripped many people.

VANCE & TANJA GOLOMEOVI

NORTH MACEDONIA

20 After 15 years of service in the

Evangelical Church in Shtip,

North Macedonia, our family is relocating to Požarevac in Serbia to serve in the church. We value your prayers. 21 Join us in prayer for the city of Požarevac and the surrounding towns where we wish to see small student groups develop into new churches.

TRANSFORM EUROPE NETWORK

UK

22 Thank God for the network relationship TEN has with

International Cooperating

Ministries which helps churches in Eastern

Europe build and renovate church facilities.

23 Please pray for the completion of the bunkhouses for the Child Evangelism Fellowship

Camp in Serbia. And that the CEF camp will reach more children and young people with the gospel.

24 Join us in prayer for Danijel Reckovic our partner in Lebane, Serbia. With the support of

International Cooperating Ministries, TEN is helping Danijel to construct a church building in Brijanje, Serbia. Pray for the safe completion and opening of this new church.

25 Thank God for our network of UK church partnerships which enable our partners to continue in their ministry. Please pray for a strengthening and deepening of these relationships.

26 Thank God for TEN’s newly established Partner

Advisory Group. Please pray that God will use the combined experience to powerfully shape the work of TEN to best serve our partners over the coming years.

GAVRIL & AGHI COVACI

ROMANIA

27 Please pray for healing for our

Roma brothers and sisters with cancer including two members of our church community.

28 Thank God for all those who have come through the coronavirus and for others to be protected from it. We pray that this time of virus illness will be no more.

29 Rejoice in God for the 90+ people who have turned to Christ through the pandemic period and pray for God's peace for those who are preparing for baptism.

30 Please pray for God's blessing and resources for the expansion of the church building in Tinca so that all of those who turned to Christ in this period will be able to worship together.

31 Give thanks that exactly the right amount of money flowed in within hours of the prayer.

Over 230 people received medication and were healed through this time. Many of them turned back to Christ or turned to him for the first time.

— AUGUST 2021 —

DUSAN & MIRJANA BEREDI

SERBIA

1 Join us in prayer for the Rainbow

Rehab Centre in Novi Sad.

Currently, 30 guys live 24/7 with us - gamblers, alcoholics, heroin addicts. Pray for their salvation, but also recovery from their addictions.

2 Keep praying for the "Hand for a Friend" service working with the homeless, which is part of our church. We help really broken people. We need wisdom on how to help them. Pray for finances for this project.

3 Do pray for protection over Pastor Dusan

Beređi (Bera). We have become involved in environmental activism, and Bera has uncovered several cases of corruption that are also linked to the government.

4 We would appreciate your prayers for the summer camps - "Fathers and Children", children's, teenagers' and youth camps. Also a camp with the guys from the rehab centre.

5 Please pray for the training for leaders of Royal

Rangers for Serbia (Christian scouts), which we as a church are organising this year. The camp will be at the end of August. Leaders from North

Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina will probably join.

6 Thank God that in the last three months, four guys have successfully completed a rehabilitation programme. In June, 6 guys from the Rehab Centre were baptised, as well as four teenagers.

DRAGAN & SANDRA NEDIC

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

7 Please pray that Covid vaccine will become widely available across Bosnia and Herzegovina.

By June 2021, less than 10% of the population had received their first jab.

8 We ask for prayer as Kosevsko brdo church meetings resume in Sarajevo after months of closedown. We simply need a restart: new plans, new vision, new energy, new power of the Spirit.

9 We are considering the opening of a soup kitchen to feed the poor. Please pray that we would know God’s guidance.

DANIEL & VERA KURANJI

SERBIA

10 Thank God for his faithfulness in providing funds and food each month to meet the needs of the rehab centre.

11 As young addicts join the programme they need your prayers and even when they finally leave they continue to need His mercy and help.

12 Praise God for the provision of a van for the removal business that creates employment for former addicts.

SERGHEI MIHAILOV

MOLDOVA

13 We would value your prayers for the summer projects in order to reach out with Good News to 100 teens from the local community.

14 Please pray for the feedback and testimonies that will be shared following the School for

Parents academic year.

15 Give thanks for the success of "In the footsteps of Jesus" held during Easter at which 54 teenagers took part. Pray that they may truly experience God on their life journey.

16 We are thankful to God that during the period of quarantine and changing restrictions, we were able to continue the lessons for children and their mothers within the Early Child

Education Centre through social distancing and the creation of small subgroups.

VJEKO MRSIC

CROATIA

17 Your prayers for the four Fokus summer camps would be much appreciated. Camps for children, families, youths and an outback weekend for married couples.

18 Answers to prayer. Through the Alpha course, several people came to faith in Christ and four people have expressed their desire to be baptised. Praise God for His work in the lives of these people.

ANATOL DUNAS

MOLDOVA

19 We welcome your prayers for this year’s summer camps and especially that many will experience salvation. There are camps for various ages and a special

Taekwondo and Bible Study camp

20 Please pray for the successful restoration of the church entrance steps and building façade that became cracked and damaged over time.

TEN TEAM

UK

21 We are praying for James

Vaughton as he visits Northern

Ireland for a series of meetings from 22–26 August..

MIRCEA & RONELA CRISTIAN

ROMANIA

22 Thank God for all the people and churches who support the ministry of Rock of Ages.

23 Rejoice to know that many prison inmates hear the Gospel and receive Christ as a result of the ministry.

NESA & VESNA RADEKA

SERBIA

24 Please pray for successful start of our Nexusplay (soft play) room so we can start profiting as business for the mission.

25 Do pray for the maternity home, A Place for Me that we recently start building at a projected cost close to €300,000.

ANATOLI & DESI YANKOVI

BULGARIA

26 Give thanks that the believers in

Svishtov who went through Covid are fully restored.

27 We rejoice that the orphaned family, who were separated, live together again and work to restore their marriage. Do pray for them.

28 Please ask God to restore church members who became discouraged during the Covid pandemic.

BENJAMIN & MARIA ROSA MARTIN

SPAIN

29 Praise the Lord for having kept and sustained the Evangelism in Action team throughout the pandemic. His faithfulness always amazes us.

30 Do pray for the summer outreach. We plan brief spontaneous musical testimonies in streets and squares, some personal work and distribution of literature.

DARIO & SILVIJA KAPIN

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

31 Your prayers for our evangelistic outreach into the cities of Zenica and Derventa would be much appreciated.

— SEPTEMBER 2021 —

ZOLTAN & TANJA VEGEL

SERBIA

1 Thank God for "divine encounters" when our church members meet with unbelievers who are searching God.

MARIAN & IONICA ŞERBAN

ROMANIA

2 Thank God for all the children and youths who were able to attend the summer camps. May the Holy Spirit be at work in their young lives.

3 We praise God for a former resident beneficiary of Casa Benjamin, Viorel, who confessed Jesus publicly and has now been baptised in water.

DRAGAN & BILJANA MANEV

NORTH MACEDONIA

4 Pray for the success of the

TENteach online project that aims to teach English to local children via Zoom.

5 Pray that the building of the second phase of the Hope Centre in our town Resen will be completed.

6 Please pray for Kirche, a new believer in our church, who was recently baptised. May he grow strong in his faith.

ICO & JAGODA MATULIĆ

CROATIA

7 Starting in September will be

The Turning Point, a two-month series of seminars aimed at the unchurched. Please pray that many would hear the Gospel.

ARBEN BEDULLA

ALBANIA

8 Please pray that the Lord would guide us concerning our plans on building a church meeting place in the village of Zvezde.

DARIO & SILVIJA KAPIN

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

9 The Biblical Protestant Church in Zenica needs a spiritual breakthrough. Please pray that lives will be changed.

10 The bee project is doing very well. We are now praying for funds to install piped water to the site where we harvest the honey.

ELIJAH SORITAU

ROMANIA

11 Please pray for the new students at Emanuel University in Oradea who commence their studies this month.

12 Every five years the university undergoes a review of its accreditation. Please pray that the upcoming review will recognise the high standards we currently enjoy.

ANDREI GHIDION

MOLDOVA

13 As a result of a special meeting held on International Women’s

Day in March, several women have started attending meetings and some have joined the Alpha classes and expressed interest in water baptism.

Please pray for God to move in the lives of more women.

14 Pray for the children and youths who attended the summer camps and especially for those who came to faith.

15 We are thankful to the Lord that there haven't been any more people with Covid-19 illness among the believers.

MIHAIL HIORESCU

MOLDOVA

16 For some time a young man called Valentin keeps coming to our church gatherings. He used to have problems with the law and he prayed and saw God's hand at work. He now accepts God's Word. Pray that the Lord would keep him in His grace .

17 Pray that the Lord would be at work among us and that every person who comes to meetings would feel His presence.

VASILE GRIGORITA

MOLDOVA

18 We invite you to pray for the congress in September to elect new leaders for the Baptist Union from Moldova. May God give the elected brothers wisdom and a clear vision for leadership for the next four years.

19 We thank God that He protected us and there have been no more deaths due to Covid-19 in village Brinza. God is good.

RUSLAN TELPIZ

MOLDOVA

20 We praise God for his provision for all our ministries; Day Care

Centre, Widows ministry, English ministry, Sunday School ministry, etc.

21 Please pray for the future Taekwondo ministry combined with Bible Studies to be run by

Ruslan and Ilie after they have been trained as instructors.

MARINELA ROTARIU

ROMANIA

22 The management-fundraising team do a great job in raising the needed funds so that we can restart the building works at the new hospice centre. Please pray that they may know God’s wisdom. 23 Dr Daniela Dic commences employment at

Emanuel Hospice this month. Please pray for her as she develops the palliative care services for children with life threatening diseases.

SERGHEI MIHAILOV

MOLDOVA

24 The team would value prayer as they complete the design of a special manual of 10 meetings, entitled "Just about the Important" using art therapy. This tool will allow Christian leaders to bring healing and restoration in the lives of many people in trauma and pain.

MIRCEA AND RONELA CRISTIAN

ROMANIA

25 Please pray that the Lord would enable us to sell the current office building and relocate to a new place, much smaller and less expensive to maintain

26 We rely on God for our health, strength and wisdom in leading the ministry. Please pray for us.

27 Praise God for his faithfulness in sustaining the Rock of Ages prison ministry for 25 years.

DANIELA ENCHEVA

BULGARIA

28 Praise God! We saw God's miracles in the lives of 18 women at this year’s Restorational

Programme. Do pray for their continuous healing.

29 Forty youths from different denominations attended the Mission Possible summer camp in Bulgaria. Please pray for their increased awareness of God.

30 We praise the Lord for all of the young people who came to the Youth Academy Gathering this month aimed at raising tomorrow’s ministers.

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