Im also traveling with 20 other pastors and lay leaders on this Moldovan Vision Trip. Two other people, Gerald Marney and Dick Pressler from our church are also with me. Below is a guest post from Gerald. Enjoy! 

Today we are going to Balti, which is a region north in Moldova. Today we’re listening to how we can look for ways to help churches disciple others that we are going to. We are looking for what their plan is to expand their church and what or how they are doing this. The drive today is a long one. We prayed before we left for John McIntyre’s kids and Derik’s uncle who has stage four cancer. The driver is driving so fast! The first place we went to meet 20 pastors who were sharing their vision with us and what they are doing. We had lunch there and the second place we went to was a large 500 member baptist church. They are building a place where families can bury their dead and not have to leave them out for three days. They then took us to see a summer camp for kids. It seemed really neat there. They had a cafeteria, bath house, climbing wall, game room and a place to sleep. The camp has about 18 staff and it is located on the river. We then went to the retirement home which is very large and they showed us around there. They have bed rooms and there is also a kitchen there. We also went to a church next to the retirement home, as it was getting late, and briefly stayed there. That church has about 150 members in it. The church got started 90 years ago and they have had three pastors there so far. We went back to the place we had lunch and ate dinner there. It then took us three hours to get home! The part of the north we visited has six cities and about 100 villages.