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In 2019, at the end of March, the
In October 2010 brother
church organized its biggest conferen-
CURTIS AND SISTER JA- ce and in June is celebrating its 10th
NET PUGH anniversary. It is a double celebration,
the other reason being the reaching
Moved back to the United States, due our first million publications printed
to health issues. They left because they and distributed through our literature
did not want to be a burden for the work project.
here. Their hearts remained in Roma-
nia, but they took with them our love The main activities of the
and gratitude for coming to this part of church are centered around
the world, for sacrificing so much to the carrying on of the Great
remain here as long as possible, and Commission.
much beyond what was humanly possi-
ble, until we were on our feet as a The first step is to go preach the
church, able to carry on the work that Gospel to the lost. Starting with our
was started. own communities, we tried to make
sure that all the people come in con-
In 2011, Bro. Raul made his first tact with the Gospel. We go out on the
trip to the USA, visiting among the streets and from door to door, handing
churches, the second trip taking place out Gospel booklets and sharing the
in 2017. Just before bro. Raul’s Good News with those that listen. All
reunion in the States with bro. Curtis church members are involved in one
and sis. Janet, the Lord called her ho- way or another in the spreading of the
me. Gospel. Aurel Munteanu, helped by
In 2013, the church set apart Aurel other church members, covered 116
Munteanu and Aurel Miclea to be communities door to door. And the
evangelists, spreading the Gospel and work still goes on. Not only in our
teaching the Bible in their respective own communities, but throughout Ro-
areas. mania and among Romanian speaking
In 2016, the church started two ot- communities throughout Europe.
her mission points, one in Timisoara We know that the reason why the
and the other in Bucharest. In the Great Commission is called Great is
same year, Bro. Raul made his first because of its spectrum, to the utter-
visit to Peru, South America. He ma- most part of the world. This is why,
de a second visit in 2018. even small in number and financial

IN FEBRUARY 2018, THE abilities, our church always keeps in
LORD CALLED BRO. CUR- view the great task of reaching the
Gospel far and wide, further and furt-
TIS HOME. His last words to Bro. her from our communities. We made
Raul were a question regarding the mission trips in many countries, star-
work, wanting to make sure that we ting with Romania’s neighbors,
are all set and can continue the work Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Russia
freely, after he will be gone. and going further to Austria, Ger-
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