Reaching Romania is not a large
organization. It is a small group, interested in meeting the
needs of folk in Romania and the surrounding areas of
Eastern Europe.
Ron Kuhns, the founder of
Reaching Romania had been interested in revival in America
for many years. Brother Ron had heard of the fervor of the
Romanian churches, so when the Romanian revolution took
place in the winter of '90, he made plans to go there and
see the churches firsthand. Brother Ron and another man from
our church went to Romania in May of 1990. He came and told
us of Christians who loved the Lord fervently and were
willing to "put their lives on the line" for what
they believed in!
Well that interested us! Within
a month the Lord had provided the money for the Whitely's to
visit Romania. Brother Ron had told us that most people in
Romania did not have a Bible, so I began to search for some
place to buy Romanian Scriptures. I found a Mennonite group
in Ephrata, Pennsylvania who had Romanian New Testaments
for two dollars each. When folks at our church found out
what we were doing, they wanted to help. We ended up with
225 hardbound New Testaments packed in a large duffel bag.
What a blessing to take these gifts from our church to
searching souls in Romania!
When we arrived in Braila,
Romania we worked with Romanian Christians on their
little village church building. At the end of the first day,
we cleaned ourselves up and began to hand out our New
Testaments. We handed them all out in less than five
minutes! What a heart-stirring experience! It was then and
there that the Lord burdened us to ship a larger supply of
Scriptures to Romania.
That November our first 40-foot
container was shipped from Chattanooga, Tennessee loaded
with 15,000 New Testaments! Since that first trailer, we
have shipped a total of fifteen 40-foot trailers to Romania
containing 135,000 New Testaments, 130,000 John/Romans and
3-million gospel tracts. We have made 8 trips and taken 140
Americans with us to hand out the literature. Praise the
Lord for many hundreds of souls that have been saved since
that first trip!
As you can see from our
introduction, the Lord has given us five goals to fulfill:
Evangelizing through literature distribution
Encouraging Romanians to do the same
Identifying and helping Romanian pastors who have a heart
to build God's kingdom and not their own
Shipping with, and for, other fundamental organizations
Stirring churches in America to become world conscious
Will you help us in our mission?
Will you pray; will you go; will you give? We are faced with
a tremendous opportunity that the Lord has provided! But
this door of opportunity will not remain open forever. We
must be busy about our Father's work, while we can. "…the
night cometh, when no man can work" (John 9:4).
