The Galațsi Plan

We have been in Braila, Romania (our final destination) for about a week now and I finally have enough time to write and share what we have been able to be a part of. We are working with a missionary named Troy, a 22 year old intern named Justin, and some of the local Christian Romanian leaders.

Our team has been blessed to join these missionaries in literally breaking ground for work in this city. Braila is a town of about 300,000 in the southeast corner of Romania not far from the Moldova border. This town has many ties with the mafia and is known as one of the most dangerous cities in all of Romania (sorry Mom)! Troy has designed a very intricate plan that he has implented in another nearby city known simply as "The Galatsi Plan." Much like in American, the traditional church structure and mindset is doing almost nothing to pentrate the overwhelming lostness in this area. Most of the local Romanian Baptist churches are very legalistic and will not leave the safety of their nice buildings to share the Gospel. The Galațsi Plan is designed to confront this type of dying Evangelicalism with a living, communal, New Testament cell church movement.

The different phases of this plan look something like this:

street evangelism--in home Bible Studies--Cell churches (in homes)--leadership training

If you know me, you know that I very quickly caught on with this revolutionary type of evangelism and church planting. When the Church moves out of exclusive buildings full of bored spectators and back into the home and streets, we will certainly see an awesome move of the Holy Spirit!

Anyway, please pray for our team as we prayer walk this city and make contacts for the future Church God will raise in this city. Also, check out Troy's blog which will have updates and pictures from this project: www.seekandsave1.blogspot.com
In Christ, Matthew

P.S. If you are reading this posts and praying for our team please leave a comment so I can see who all is keeping up!