Revival in Progress

When we wrote back in March and again last month, we could hardly imagine what God had in store for our area. After three full weeks of revival with the Ballplay (9/17-22), Friendship (9/25-30) and Conasauga (10/2-5) churches, three more revivals are on our schedule this month. Swept by the wave of the Spirit, several independent churches have joined in with parallel meetings, thus multiplying the expected attendance exponentially. Impressed to extend the revival through November, our next 20+ consecutive meetings will be in revival tents by the highway. Meanwhile all across the country of Bulgaria: Pandemic has grown to ...

Bulgaria builds permanent NATO base near Yambol

By 2025 the Ministry of Defense will build an entire small town, in which the soldiers of the NATO allies from the multinational battle group on the territory of Bulgaria will live. The estimated cost is at least 50 million euros but the final sum will become clear after the design is completed, Minister of Defense Todor Tagarev has told the MPs from the Defense Committee in Parliament. Military personnel of about 1,500 will reside in the town permanently, but it should be able to shelter up to 5,000 people. It has not yet been decided where the base would be located, ...

Bulgaria’s President set a Date for this year’s Elections

Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev signed a decree today scheduling the elections for mayors and municipal councilors for October 29. The head of state has determined the date after a working meeting with representatives of the leadership of the Central Election Commission (CEc). The conversation discussed the specifics of the local vote and the upcoming work on the organization of the election process. The CEC has informed the president of the technical and logistical features that the commission must comply with for the local elections and its readiness for their holding. Here you can read about the results of a study that determined for who will one-third of Sofia residents will vote as their future mayor.  

3 Decades Later: Evangelical Education in Bulgaria at Halt

With the new Bill on Religion in Bulgaria, the Muslim community has been given amnesty on some $4,500,000 of public debt, while granted another $3 million in annual government subsidies. As a result, the monthly salary of Muslim clergy (imams) has already increased with 20% and a new Islamic school is being opened in one of the historically oldest Christian places in Bulgaria, the city of Sliven. All while, the evangelical protestant communities are not receiving financial support under the new law and their schools remain without proper government legalization via the Bulgarian Ministry of Education.  Though this legal precedent follows ...

First Day of School in Bulgaria

Deadly floods hit Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria

A catastrophic flooding event is unfolding in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria amid an extreme weather pattern in Europe that is bringing exceptional heat over a swath of the continent after just spurring a deadly deluge in Spain. 7 deaths were reported in Turkey; five people died in a flash flood at campsite in northwestern Turkey and two died in Istanbul amid raging floodwaters. 3 deaths were reported in Greece in the port city of Volos and in Karditsa, to the west, and three people were reported missing. 4 deaths were report in Bulgaria. Heat dome parked over western Europe At the center ...

A Potter’s Fire brings The Potter’s Fire

By Kathryn Donev If I were to ask you if it would be okay for your child to hang out with a friend that actively practices witchcraft, I’m certain you would be appalled by the question and your very quick response would be a sharp, “No”. But when encompassed in a kid friendly fantasy world, a young boy named Harry who studies at a school of wizardry and possesses a simple stick that shoots cool fireballs seems harmless. I’m reminded of a story in Leviticus in which two boys thought it would be okay to play with strange fire. It’s a very simple ...