I was born in a Christian family that took me to church since I was a small child and that was a great blessing for me. Also my extended family has a long tradition in the Cristian faith and was always very involved in church since my great grandfather was one of the first Christians in Transylvania after he came to Christ in USA and he returned back to Romania to bring the faith into this lands too. I was always used to church ministry, mission work since a lot of my relatives were involved in it.
My first contact with CERT was in 2004 when I was driving the church van for the missionaries that came with CERT. And over the next years I started to drive the medical teams in the morning and then the pastors to the churches in the evening. Then one night I drove Ken Daugherty to a church and when he found out I was speaking English I started to translate for him first at the clinics and then I was translating his sermons. In 2008 when CERT first brought VBS ministry teams I was part of the translators for that team and so I was getting closer and closer to CERT and thru them God was growing my faith and shaping me for my future life.
I still remember that every time after a week or 2 with CERT I was staying home and clearly hearing God calling me into full ministry but I knew too well from my family what that meant and I didn’t want that for me. To somehow fill that urge for service I started to get involved more in church and in different camps and mission ministries that members from my families were involved. But at the same time I was getting really involved in studying and after I got my bachelor in Management I started my masters in Communication and Construction management and after I finished my master I got an MBA in Portugal that I also finished and I was on my way toward my PhD when God said that’s enough, it’s time for you to get into ministry. This was in autumn of 2011, after 2 weeks with a CERT team I felt God’s calling like I never did before and I just could not say no anymore and I just got on my knees and prayed and told God that whoever calls my first there is where I will go and I didn’t finish praying before the phone rang and it was a cousin missionary in the south that asked me to go and help. And I did just that. In the autumn of 2011 I moved to the south of Romania, the least evangelized place in Europe, and since then I serve the Lord as a full time missionary.
Since then my relationship with CERT grew and I became the one that organizes their mission trip to Romania, then we moved to Moldova also and now we go to Ukraine together also. I’m also responsible for the Romania pastor program that CERT so faithfully has had for many years in Romania and that impacts a lot of Churches and people in Romania. Now I work in church planting in the south of Romania where I have a church that is growing constantly almost to the point where we are now ready to plant other churches around our village. And of course because CERT impacted my life so much I had to take something that I learned from them and I started to apply the way CERT is doing missions in Romania and in other countries. Taking teams of doctors to the poorest in Romania and to Ukraine, Moldova and last year we were able to even go to Uzbekistan which is a Muslim country were Christianity is forbidden. And while the doctors take care of the body we have a team that talks and pray with the people that are waiting and for us this is one of the best way to proclaim the Gospel to the unreached.
