Christian Moldova

What motivated you to move to Moldova?

This is a long story that began in 1996. Since I repented I had a big heart for children who are vulnerable and lonely and I remember that I often prayed during that time that the Lord would give me those that nobody wants.
Also I knew that I would be missionary one day and so I asked the Lord one morning in 1998 when I woke up: “Lord, what country will I go?” To this question He immediately answered me by a voice in my heart: “Moldova” This was surprisingly too and this confirmed me that it was God who spoke to me, because then I did not know what or where Moldova was. Over the next 8 years He prepared me for Moldova, during that time I graduated my pedagogy studies, I worked in various orphanages from Germany and I went on a year mission trip in London, when the Lord again spoke to me clearly: “I send you to the forgotten children from Moldova” So I arrived in Moldova in 2006 for this mission.

What activity do you have in Moldova?

After a year working with poor child sponsorship program in Moldova in 2008 I started going on different projects with children as: boarding school no. 2 from Chisinau, auxiliary boarding school from Straseni, “Esther’s House” daily center from in Valcinet, “Bunvolentia” orphanage from Cojusna and Sunday School of the Baptist Church from Cojusna, where I tell children about Jesus. The main point for me is to sing with children. All children love to sing, because it opens their hearts to Jesus. The songs that they learn they will remember for all their life and they will remind them about Jesus when they will be ready to follow Him in their lives.

Only during the summer holidays, besides visiting projects we organized ”festivals for children” together with Christians from Switzerland who wanted to tell children about Jesus. We went with a car of evangelism through different villages of Moldova and for two days we were playing with children, singing, telling Bible stories, etc. and telling them about Jesus. From the Swiss we got a car of evangelism for permanent use in Moldova, and therefore every Saturday and during holidays we can organize such festivals, which are now called “Kids Express”. For this service we need permanent volunteers, who wish to serve the forgotten children from Moldova.

What do you want to accomplish in Moldova?

My goal for Moldova is to tell all children about God, who loves everyone, the poorest and the youngest, so that these children will be blessed with His love, through His Word and Holy Spirit. By this they can get a new vision of the world and through Jesus they will have courage and strength to rise from their poverty and to change the country.

Translated by Felicia Rotaru

Question:

I want to know if a woman is allowed to depilate, or if this is sin in God’s eyes?

Epilation or depilation refer to the same action of hair removal from the skin. Women resort to this procedure for cosmetic reasons.

I do not know any reference in the Bible to such practice or to be placed in the category of the forbidden or sinful things.

Translated by Felicia Rotaru

Question:

I am 22 years old and he is 45. We know and we like each other for a long time. We met in the church. Even if he is older he is a young man in his soul. We are in a friendship relation, but the age difference worries me and I think all cases should be dealt wisely. The most important for me are his spiritual qualities, but I can not ignore our physical relationship in the future. I think, how will it be when he reaches the age of 70 years and I will be 47? What is your opinion on this subject?

Physical union is a duty

In the first Epistle to the Corinthians, the Apostle Paul wrote:

The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. (1 Corinthians 7:3-5)(NASB)

Any man who enters into a covenant marriage must be aware that he has to fulfill his wife’s sexual needs and the same duty has any married woman to her husband. Thus, when you marry, it is important to think of this as not to get into a painful reality that you can not change and that you expose the other one to the temptations of Satan.

About male power of Abraham

It is well known that age affects men’s sexual power and capacity. But, God gives some people health and strength even at an older age. God gave Abraham the Patriarch the strength to be able to conceive a child at the age of 100 years and, of course, it was a miracle. When the angel announced Sarah, the wife of Abraham, that she would be pregnant …

Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” (Genesis 18:12)(NASB)

The book of Genesis says that after the death of Sarah, his first wife …

Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. She bore to him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. (Genesis 25:1-2)(NASB)

It is a sign of male power of Abraham who was already past 100 years. But the age of Keturah is not indicated.

The case of king David

King David died at the age of 70 years.

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years (2 Samuel 5:4)(NASB)

The Bible tells us the following events of the last period of the life of David.

Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm. So his servants said to him, “Let them seek a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her attend the king and become his nurse; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.” So they searched for a beautiful girl throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The girl was very beautiful; and she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king did not cohabit with her. (1 Kings 1:1-4)(NASB)

So, even if he was a brave and powerful warrior in Israel at the age of 70 years, David did not have the qualities we saw in Abraham who was over 100 years.

If you do not have all the freedom …

It is not good to enter a covenant marriage if you have some doubts or fears. Be aware that it is a COVENANT that is watched by God.

Translated by Felicia Rotaru

Question:

I read this on a web site: “Isn’t it really painful to see that some pastors no longer care about the flock today, but they “have been feeding themselves?” What will be the reward of the pastors who shepherd for sordid gain?
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Question:

I would like very much for you to post, with explanations, something about the engagements made in the Lord and then broken off, because there are more young people whom I see practicing it. What does the Bible say across this subject and what should the church’s attitude be towards these young people?
In the article What is engagement? I presented the following definition:

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Some common searches that lead readers to Moldova Crestina site are: masturbation, how to be released from masturbation, the sin of masturbation, freedom from masturbation, effects of masturbation, etc. Because I have previously written three articles on this issue and I am not sure if interested readers find and read all of them, I decided to put here a list:

About the sin of masturbation
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Question:

Is it good to pray to God for deceitful people?
Yes, we should pray and here it is what God teaches us in the Holy Scripture regarding the prayer for those working with deceit.
Ask delivery from the deceitful men
King David many times faced with this kind of people and prayed about them like this:

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the [...] Continue Reading…

It seems that this question has roused much discussion over the centuries and today people also insist to know the answer and turn to philosophical reasonings. If we want answers about the nature of God, we must turn to His Word, that is written in the Bible and where God does not tell us more, let us not get over what is written.

Is God really acorporal?

We do not find this expression in the Bible. [...] Continue Reading…

Question:

I have recently learned something about the “secrets of Fatima”. What do you think about them? Are they a divine revelation?
What are “The secrets of Fatima”?
Those Three Secrets of Fatima are a series of visions and prophecies claimed to be revealed by the Virgin Mary to three young Portuguese shepherds: Lucia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto. They have announced that on the 13th of July 1917, [...] Continue Reading…