Building a fence (Ionut & Madalina)

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Building a fence

For a very long time we had a pile of unused bricks in our yard. Over the last few days we decided to build a fence with them. A fine, solid, straight fence was built by putting brick by brick together. While building the fence, using different tools and techniques, I thought to myself that we do a similar thing when ministering to the children.

Among many different aspects we share with the children, we also share with them how to use the different bricks they have in their lives, in order to build a strong fence to keep Satan, God’s enemy, out. Bricks like truth, kindness, love, holiness, good works, fellowship and many others. These working together in faith can form a protective fence around them.

The importance of prayer!

It was not easy to build the fence. Both knowledge and the appropriate tools were needed. We tell the children that they need to have the right knowledge about their Creator, which they can find it in God’s Word. We emphasize that they need to read the Bible regularly, to meditate on what they have read, in order to develop the habit of using this tool right. A child from a GNC told us: I like this book, (the Bible). So far I found the answers to all my questions related to how I should live my life.

Often the bricks had to be broken in order to fit in the space. We teach the children that sometimes God uses more difficult situations in order to strengthen our faith, in order to make us more like Him, more humble and more faithful. Troubles and hardships are part of the fence. We teach the children how to deal with these situations when they come.

While building I was aware that my fence will not dry out straight away. We encourage the children to invest time in their fellowship with God, in order to develop good habits that last in time.

A fence is built faster and easier when more handy people work together. Building our fence also implied financial costs. In the same way, our weekly ministry to the children involves finances.

Would you like to help us continue to go to the children and to teach them how to build a fence around them in order to keep out everything that is bad?

We estimate that for the ministry we plan to do in the following months up to Christmas, including the Christmas Clubs, the cost would be 650 Euros. For more details please write to us at (amectimis@gmail.com). Let us build the fence together. You could pray, donate or take part in the ministry along with us.

Jesus Christ is the one who made possible the building of fences, through His sacrifice, and this is the message we take to the children, so that they would gain bricks for their own fence.

Building together, for His glory,

Ionut and Madalina Mateescu

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