August 8, 2003
Tom Langley, missionary in Oradea, Romania, conducted another WEI campaign in Oradea this summer. In his August newsletter, Tom wrote the following:
“On Friday, August 8th, we rejoiced in the first fruit of our WEI summer campaign. Leventes [Levi] Peres, a 23year-old WEI student of Madalina Kiss and Buck Dukes, was immersed in the waters of baptism and put on Christ. Levi’s kind nature and seeking spirit had already endeared many of us to him. It was a wonderful evening of singing and giving thanks to God for our new brother in Christ.
“Like most WEI students, Levi originally came to us interested only in improving his English skills. He confessed that in his teenage years, he was involved in a street gang and was generally an angry young man. Being a very good athlete, Levi’s involvement in sports was the only thing that kept him from serious trouble. He finally made the decision to change his life for the better, and some time later he discovered our WEI ad in the paper.
As he read and studied the Bible with Mady and Mr. Buck, he began to discover a peace in his life he had never known. He realized that his deeper knowledge of God and Jesus was the source of this peace. He said that his decision to be baptized was simply a natural step toward a fuller peace and a deeper commitment to God.
“He never misses a meeting of the church, and he even brought his mother last Sunday.
Another WEI student has expressed the desire to commit her life to God and be baptized. Her name is Magdalina Luchici. She is a very intelligent 14 year old WEI student of Cara Waiswalos. She cannot stop smiling and keeps telling us how happy she is. She told me this morning that she wants to be baptized on Sunday September 21. I told her, “When you are ready, we will be here.”
“Every time the church meets, we see the faces of several students who studied in the summer campaign. The seed has been sown, we will continue to water and ask God to give the increase.”
