Empower families, strengthen co-workers in local missions

Dear ministry and prayer partners,

          We believe that we have been given a mandate to equip and strengthen many co-workers from that new generation of Christian ministers in the field of Bulgaria. They have started a family, went into the ministry in their 20s or 30s and today they face enormous challenges as they strive to fulfill the Great Commission and to be obedient to the higher call they have received from the Lord Jesus Christ. Our hearts are breaking for God's servants, their families and churches. This is the reason, we search for people who have the same broken hearts and seek to empower the Body of Christ in Europe and in particular in Bulgaria, a place which has for many years been hostile to evangelical believers.

Strong families, make strong ministries

     We thank God for His great work in our land! In the last 23 years, we have seen tremendous growth in the planting of new churches (many of them too small to be able to support a full-time minister). Nevertheless, evangelical churches have multiplied from around 50 to around 1,400 and that calls for our commitment, energy and work. We have been investing time, prayer and love for a project which our partners from Sarasota launched with us this summer. The heart of this effort is to strengthen the families of ministers - their wives and children - by coming together for a unique time of intercessory prayer for our families, nation and the world, sharing from the Word and ministry experience and personal interaction as we leave the routine of family and ministry agendas.

One of those mountain tops where we see God's beauty in creation

     Oftentimes, the children of ministers feel alone in our country. Today they face numerous and more subtle temptations and we really pray our young grow up to be strong, filled with boldness and joy from the Lord.
      They simply need to realize that there are other children and youth like them, who live in homes where dad and maybe mom do work, which their peers in school find to be very strange, to say the least. The children we had coming with their families met in a group like that for the first time in their lives! That really made all the difference. They played together, made new friends, exchanged contacts and now I can see our daughter Vicki talking to them on skype.

Children of ministers meeting for the first time

    As the Scripture says it, "iron sharpens iron", and our time with co-workers from 10 churches and several Bulgarian cities was very much like that. Our wives had the time to share and speak to us. We think that we really owe that to them.

Zdravka speaks on prayer and family relationships

And then the men felt comfortable to open up their hearts and pour them in prayer, and everybody shared out of their walk with the Lord and ministry experience.

 and we had some very refreshing moments walking up and down the slopes of this beautiful mountain forest.
We are very thankful to be in ministry and see how the Lord reaches His own servants and their families through our mission.
We cannot cease to thank God for our ministry partners from Southshore Community Church in Sarasota, FL.Their loving and caring hearts makes all the difference as we reach out to empower, strengthen and equip the mission efforts of our co-workers from various churches.

Team member Alex shares on "To obey God's calling for ministry"

        Please, pray for our team and consider supporting our ministry in Bulgaria!

       You can send your donations for Bulgaria to the offices of New Hope Int'l in Colorado Springs.

1. Pray for more than 1.5 million children and youth in Bulgaria who begin school Sep.15th
2. Pray for the children and youth from Christian homes to be bold for Jesus, filled with the Spirit of God as they face many challenges and temptations like we never used to. 
3. Pray for our nation which begins a new political season and pray for Europe which desperately needs a spiritual awakening!