A great visit

Left: We recently had a wonderful visit from my parents and brother from Clovis, CA. They stayed with Emma and I for 6 days and celebrated their 30^th wedding aniversary here with us. We through them a surprise party with all of our friends and family here. We truly had a great time as we were able to spend time with both mine and Emma’s families, as well as allow my family to see what Emma and I do here. They were very encouraged to see what God is doing in Targoviste with a group of on fire young people.

We are about to enter year #4 of our Internship Training Program “Project Mobilization”, and we have 4 students in mind for this year. We are very enthusiastic about investing in these young people and taking them through an intense “boot camp” for God’s Kingdom. We are aiming this year to emphasize discipline more and more in our lives: spirituall, physically and mentally.

Summer Intern Program

This year, for the first time, we have tried something new in our annual Internship Program “Project Mobilization”.

We decided to run a summer program that would be opened up to all of our young people, not just high school graduates.

The response we got far exceeded what we expected, as 35 of our up-and-coming servant leaders have signed up to be trained in the areas of: Guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboard, voice lessons, video editing, photoshop and drama/skits.

We are very pleased with how things are going and hope to continue this each summer as well as begin next year again with the full blown 5 month program.

Thank you Sandals Church College Group!!!

Thanks to the young people of Sandals Church in Riverside CA, over 50 young people in our church have new clothes for the summer.

We were given an opportunity to ship over these hundreds and hundreds of items of clothing, and before we knew it, the clothes just started coming in. The generosity of this college groups will not be forgotten.

In Romania, just like anywhere else, young people love to wear nice clothes; however, in Romania, nice clothes tend to cost more than they do in the US while the salaries are 5 times less.

Thus, many young people will save up their money for months just to purchase 1 t-shirt. This is no exaggeration. So we thank you all for giving from what you have to bless others.

Our church thanks you and prays God's blessing in your lives 100 fold.

Moreni Church Plant

Over the past 2 months I have had the priveledge of preaching in our church plant Hope of Life Church Moreni two times. For me it has been very encouraging because each week there have been new faces. More and more young people are hearing about this "new thing" in the city of Moreni and are showing up for the Coffee House, cell group and Celebration services.

Thank you for your prayers and support of this new church. We believe that God has big plans this summer for those young people and look forward to seeing what God is going to do.

Coming soon

Sorry guys. Our house has been without furniture as we wait for it to come in July. Thus, I have been a poor blogger. That excuse really doesn't hold up, because I could blog without a desk, just as I am right now, but I do need a little bit of sympathy from you. It has been rather difficult for Emma and I to integrate back into things here, especially since we were gone for a longer period of time, and we immediatly began some work on our apartment and thus have not actually felt "at home" until about 3 days ago.

Anyways, we love you guys and miss you. We are looking forward to an awesome summer as we put all of our efforts into investing in the young people of our church.

Take care and look forward to better blogging in the future.

Sorry to keep you waiting :)

We have officially and technically arrived back in Romania, however, we aren't yet home completely. We are renovating our apartment currently and there is dust everywhere. The communist apartment that we live in was made by Romania's past ruler Ceaucescu, and it was made quick and poorly. Thus we have crooked walls and holey ceilings.

So alas, we are stipping it all down and straightening it all out, painting and sanding, and in the mean time, staying at the inlaws :)

Expect more frequent posts from me now, as I have felt convicted for not posting often enough.

Emma is Driving!!!

That's right. Emma not only aced her written test, she also nailed the driving test (on the second time; but the first time was my (chad's) fault because I forgot to tell her to look over her shoulder when changing lanes, and I got the hand signs wrong too; she should have got a real teacher I guess; oh well).

So keep your kids off the streets for a few days, until we leave the country.

A Tribute to our friends

These are the people who have taken us into their homes, spent time with us, let us in their lives and encouraged us during our time here in the states

To all of you, we are in debt

You have helped make our time here easier, and now because of you, we are torn in leaving...our mixed emotions are your fault, and we wont let you forget that

We love you guys

Our Team

Our Team is awesome. We call our team the "Dream Team". I'm referring to the group of individuals in Romania that have chosen to give their lives to Christ and join the family of God, but who also have decided that life in Christ is synonymous with complete surrender to God. They are the leaders of tomorrow. Many of them were just saved 1-2 years ago, and yet they are leading more people to Christ than I ever did or have ever seen for that matter. They are taking it upon themselves to chase old friends and rekindle relationships; they are not ashamed, on the contrary they are so proud to be counted among God's children. You cant stop them, you cant convince them that life in Christ is a hoax; they're already sold on God's love.

All you can do is release them...

That's exactly what we're doing in Romania...releasing leaders...world changers...normal people, who have been captured by God's love and can do nothing else but share it with others...this is our team...The Dream Team

Is it just me or are our friends' kids the cutest ever?

No lines...the Mummy...King Kong...and Crowder

soherewego...This was Emma's first time to Universal Studios Hollywood, and what better setting than the threat of rain (just a threat) giving us virtually no lines to wait in. We joined up with great friends Bogie and Becca and Dave and Amanda Lebda as well as fellow Romanian missionary Allan Taylor
We saw King Kong, the Mummy, Wisteria Lane and Matt Damons parking spot. It was awesome!






areyoureadyformore...What made our day even better though was the David Crowder Band / Third Day concert that evening. Crowder rocked! I loved his "rock opera" "You are my joy". Emma snuck up into the expensive section to get this pic, cause we were chilling in the nose-bleeds; but that didn't affect the sound. Crowder, you're my hero.

God has provided

Thank you for your prayers...
God has answered and provided
us with a van for our ministry.

Cell Church Conference

Myself, Emma, fellow missionary Allan Taylor and his pastor John Holloway recently attended a Cell Church Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was so great. We learned so many valuable things and gathered so many useful tools for our work in Romania, where we have been functioning as a cell church for about 2 years now.
We are so excited to take the dvds and cds and books that we purchased back and pound through them with Pastor Mihai and the leadership team. We really believe that this conference was vital to our church and were so blessed to have gone.
Below, Pastor Cesar Fajardos pastors at Mision Carismatica Internacional, where over 250,000 members worship God. We were priveleged to hear from pastors like him and others who have seen the cell church proven in their countries, and this gave us so much faith and expectation for what God will do in Romania

A few for the road

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."


Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.


I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.


I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.

Deep Thoughts...and painful laughter

........................Wow! I honestly forgot how funny some deep thoughts were, and when we gathered to celebrate my 27th birthday party I didn't know was I was getting us into by telling everybody to come with their favorite deep thought.

It was hilarious...as Blake James and Brian Hale traded off reading some of the most far-out and yet knee-slapping deep thoughts, the rest of us were on the floor.

It was great.

So yes, I am now 27, or as the Romanians would phrase it, "I have 27 years". Alongside my family and dearest friends we ate, we laughed, we had our cake too, and then we watched Jack Bauer take on the world.

LIFE Reunion...it's been a while!

..............................We didn't actually attend a 25 year reunion; I mean, I wasn't that much of a child prodigy to have got my college degree at age 2. However, we did recently have the opportunity to attend my 5 year LIFE Pacific College reunion. We had a great time seeing old colleagues and professors.

...........................We enjoyed watching the first basketball game of the season where LIFE Pacific College lost to Southwestern at their homecoming. The campus looks absolutely beautiful as always, and as we walked the campus and passed by old "study spots" I reminissed about old times and wished I could just go back and be a part of the "Bible College" experience again.

Breathing Clovis Air

..................Hey everybody!

Well, here we are. We are breathing good old Clovis air again and working hard. Emma and I both got hired full-time at San Joaquin Valley Farms for three of the four months that we are here. She works in the office answering phones, filing and doing other exciting office work. I'm working on inventory control at the plant where the pistachios and almonds are received, processed, stored, roasted, packaged and shipped. It's pretty fun!

We appreciate those of you who have been praying for us and for God's work in Romania. We are planning on flying back to Romania on April 14th. We have begun to raise money for the van that we need for our intern program. If you have any ideas for fundraising, or would like to help us fundraise in any way, please let us know. You can email us at chad.and.emma@gmail.com

God bless you!