Mission Bulgaria 2009

At the New Church in Drajhevo

During our travels for the ministry we visit all sorts of churches. Sometimes, we minister at the finest buildings, accompanied by skillful worship teams in the comfort of nice air-conditioned and well-lighted environment. Other times, we go and minister to small village congregations gathering in old garages where we have to go dressed with layers in order not to freeze during preaching. But the Spirit is always the same. The church where we ministered this past Sunday is located in the village of Drajhevo, just a few kilometers east from the main road connecting the towns of Yambol and Sliven ...

Bulgarian Church of God Congregations in the Capital Sofia

During our ministry in Bulgaria we often travel to the capital Sofia as the obligations of our ministry position necessitates that we minister there several times a month. Sofia has grown tremendously since we began ministering there in the early 90s. As a modern European capital it has drawn both investors and work force from many foreign countries and most of Bulgaria’s towns as well. The result is some 3 million people population, which account for about half of the Bulgarian nation, living and working in the capital Sofia. Currently, the Bulgarian Church of God has three Bulgarian congregations active in ...

Sunday Services in the Snow

Traveling during winter conditions in Bulgaria has never been easy. But it’s getting worse every year as temperatures drop lower and lower with record negative recordings. But ministry must continue regardless of the weather conditions. And there is a story in pictures of our ministry this past Sunday in blizzard conditions through the covered with snow Bulgaria: 7:30 AM: Early departure by dawn, defrosting the engine and heading out of town. 7:45 AM: A few minutes later still trying to leave Yambol, Bulgaria on our way to Sliven (25 miles north) to reach the Tricia Interstate. We stop to ...

Mobile Bible School in Bulgaria Implements Three New Courses

In the past six months in which we have implemented the mobile Bible school into the Bulgarian context of ministry, our team has added three more courses which will be included in our 2010 class program. They are: 1. Systematic Theology. This is a course that we developed back in 2001 to respond to the need for Bulgarian contextualized studies in systematic theology from a Pentecostal perspective. After teaching the course at the Pentecostal Department of the Bulgarian Evangelical Theological Institute, we published a small Sunday school series on the subject, which have since then ...

Ministering at the Fire Church of God in Sofia

Returning to minster at the Fire Church of God in Sofia was a special event for our team. Many of the members there, as well as the pastor’s family, have been friends of ours and pastors in the ministry for a long time now. We have worked with Church of God Sofia regional overseer, Daniel Kirov and his team since 2002 when he first moved to Sofia with a vision to plant a church. Since then, his vision has become a reality in the capital as the Fire Church of God is one of the few active Church of God ...

Bible School and Services at the Mission Church in Sofia

We are just returning from a powerful weekend of teaching in Sofia. With temperatures below zero and snow covering the larger part of Bulgaria, we travelled to the capital city to minister at the Mission Church there. The church is only a couple of years old, but we have worked with the pastor and the leadership team for over a decade now as part of our Church of God ministry and the Bulgarian Chaplaincy Association as well. Since April, 2009 the Mission Church has had services in the heart of the Sofia metropolitan of some 2.5 million people living in it. ...