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The Beginning
In the year of 2000, while in the village of Rosha, God spoke to the heart of Dan Janes through a little girl by the name of Bianca. In the middle of a snow storm this little girl asked for money to buy bread because she had no bread at home, which also meant there was no food for the family to eat. Bro. Janes gave her money and she went immediately to the store and bought two large four pound loaves of bread. He went and saw where this little girl lived along with two other children and her parents. The room was about twelve feet by twelve feet. Through her God spoke to Bro. Jane’s heart and said “feed the people”. Two times he told the Lord, “I don’t have the resources and can’t do it”. The third time the Lord reminded him of the scripture of the little boy with the five loaves of bread and two fish. It was Jesus who fed them and not the little boy. Then he told God, ”I will be the channel and you are the source”.
That first winter Bro. Janes set a budget of twenty-five thousand dollars to feed the people. At the time it seemed overwhelming, however, in five months God provided twenty-six thousand dollars. God provided a thousand more than he budgeted for. This was the beginning of the feeding ministry.
Since Rosha had a Bible believing church it was decided to visit another village to work in where the Gospel had not been preached, and this was the beginning of God’s great work among the villages of Romania.
Tichindeal
While visiting the village of Tichindeal in the summer of 2001, an eighty year old man by the name of Arron Meholitz asked Bro. Janes to come to his village and teach them about Jesus. God moved on Bro. Jane’s heart to start a church, and so a building was purchased and then renovated and the first church was established. Today this church has an attendance of around fifty plus.
Fofeldia
After the church in the village of Tichindeal was started, Bro. Janes was asked to come to the village of Fofeldia the next summer. Some of the people from this village of Fofeldia started coming by horse and wagon to the church at Tichindeal. (which you will see these pictures in our presentation). The church started meeting in the school because the director agreed to rent it for a small fee. The second service had about forty people in attendance. During the meeting an Orthodox priest along with a monk walked in and tried to disrupt the service. The priest told pastor Christy Talpa that his church did not have to come to the village to teach the people about Jesus because the priest and monk had their ”bones from dead holy men and their other icons to perform miracles”. In the face of this persecution, twenty people were saved that night. The church outgrew their first building, and today sits a new church in this village that will seat a hundred and fifty people.(see the new church under building a church)
Nocrich
Nocrich was the third church started in a village seven miles from Tichindeal. There were two families that wanted to go to church so they walked seven miles to and from the church on Sunday in the hot summer heat. One young man and his wife with a very small baby made this trip several Sundays. Bro. Janes had taken a group of people to Romania with Touching Lives for Jesus Ministry (TLJ) in the month of July, and they met this family in church. Because the team members of TLJ were using a van, these families asked for a ride to Nocrich. That day these families asked TLJ to come to Nocrich and build a church. The next day the Lord provided two large rooms to be used for a church. The rent was fifteen dollars a month, which included cleaning and electricity. The very next Sunday was the first service and over fifty people were in attendance. It was in this service that a young wife came forward and accepted Christ. She said God had spoken to her in a dream the night before and told her to come to this service. TLJ returned one month later and baptized ten new converts in the river, where over two hundred and fifty turned out for this service. Today Nocrich has it’s own building with a congregation of two hundred. ( see the pictures under building a church )
Hosman
The last church to be planted was the village of Hosman.We began meeting in a small two room house in this village. The church grew rapidly and many were saved and baptized. Today a new building in this village has been completed that will seat around one hundred and fifty.
Ocna Sibiuli
Ocna Sibiuli is located about ten miles outside of the city of Sibiu Romania. This is the location that a fifth church has been planted and will begin construction on April 1, 2008. Ocna has a population of about eleven thousand people. The existing church with an attendance of about forty men, women and children were meeting in the building you will see pictured under building a church tab. Half of the roof caved in and no electricity. Due to the condition of the building the city had to tell them the building had to be vacated and the electricity turned off.
On the night of February the 5th I had the privilege to visit and preach in this building. Electricity brought in with an extension cord and one dim light bulb. Today they are meeting in a rented facility. By the last of this year 2008 they will have a new sanctuary fifty-five feet by thirty feet that will seat around two hundred people. It will have a half basement with bathrooms and a room for youth and children. Thanks to the response of many partners and churches this will be made possible. To learn more about this church go to ”the beginning tab”, then click on ”building churches tab” and look under Ocna Sibiuli.
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