by Peter Ruck | Sep 20, 2015 | Blog, News
April 13, 2016 Update
The container is filling up! We still need some desks,chairs and bookcases for the mission school. Yesterday I was so blessed by a retired minister who is going to deliver some of his Theological books. This is Peter’s and George’s passion to equip and turn this container into a school. We would like to provide it with a wipe board and maybe a projector. We can still receive donations via www.gift.net/project/Liberia. Or www.give.net/20116408. George – Lumina Ministries & Peter – Zeal Outreach Ministries. 01277 376222 currently the container is in Brentwood, we look to ship at the end of April. please share this post on Your Facebook and believe and pray for the desks etc.
As you will see from this poster, we are sending some aid to Liberia, rather than visiting the country ourselves now we are going to be packing 40ft of books, computers, children’s equipment, Bibles,bikes and much more. If you can help do be in touch. peter@zealoutreachministries.co.uk
We are hoping buy the container so that it is possible to leave as a mission school. This is extra to our budget £1500 donations can be made via gift aid.
by Peter Ruck | Sep 7, 2015 | Blog
It was farewell time as Peter Ruck and Tim Grant left the Tent 100 team in Shabla. It was another 500 mile drive ahead to the capital city Sofia.
It was time for Peter and Tim to say farewell on Saturday morning. Tim was flying home to England to prepare for a UK mission in Liverpool the following week.
Peter was looking forward to his extended stay Saturday evening he was having dinner and meeting with Pastor Annie Totev friends for fifteen years and Pastor Dimitar Bouliev from England they talked about outreach in Sofia in 2016. Peter had spent the day praying for the Holy Spirit to lead him with a message to share. He felt God speaking the words “Hide and Seek”
Peter was staying on in Bankya to preach in two churches in Sofia at the House of Joy Church, Sunday morning & Emmanuel Totev in the city Sunday afternoon.
Salt and Light – God’s Word from Matthew 5:13-16
verse 13 – You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavour? Can you make it Salty again? It will be thrown and trampled underfoot and worthless.
verse 14 : You are the light of the world – like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden.
verse 15: No ones lights can be put under a basket. Instead a lamp is placed on a stand, where is gives light to everyone in the house.
verse 16: In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise you heavenly Father.
NOW – WHY should we “Hide” keeping our good qualities and abilities secret from other people? Jesus didn’t – Luke 19-10 Tells us “For the Son of Man didn’t he came to seek and save the lost”
Peter had planned to share his own passion “Why” he has such passion to share God’s love with everyone he meets. He was going to present the church with “five motivaton points” – why we should talk to our friends about Jesus.
It was Sunday morning at the House of Joy Church, Pastors Annie & Emmanuel Totev had collected Peter for the service. It wonderful to see many familar faces although Pastors Valdo and Borislava were on holiday the church was quite full.
Pastor Emmanual was hosting and leading the worship. It was a really spirit-filled time of praise, naturally it was sung in Bulgarian. Peter felt a tremendous sense of God’s presence and began to get words of knowledge. Pastor Emmanuel invited Peter to speak. Peter felt God was ready to touch people there and then.
Peter shared the Words of knowledge and told the church there was a healer in the house and His name is Jesus!
Peter began to share the message God had insprired him to preach we are called to be “Salt and Light” and then the “five motivtion points” to inspire the church to share God’s love with friends and family. Peter shared the Gospel and invited people to respond. He also invited those who received God’s word of knowledge for healing.
One lady immediately came forward to give testimony how she had been healed during the service. She came to the front fell to her knees and began to prohecy as I understand from Pastor Annie Totev, because what she shared was in Bulgarian. It was a wonderful time of ministry as God touched so many people as we heard them testify. This lady so visibly touched she use to come the church in Milco Totev era. This dear lady came out of the Church to speak to Peter again, giving praise to God asking Peter to come back she had remembered us touring Bulgaria all those years ago. It was such privilege to serve you don’t always have to speak the language the joy and smiles say so much, such a blessed morning.
It was time for lunch and a trip across the city with Pastor Emmanuel and his wife Silvana they took Peter out with Annie Totev. It was wonderful time of fellowship. Emmanuel told Peter he was happy for his church members to hear a similar message to the morning service. Peter added the importance of everyones personal testimony and gave his own as an illustration. He also spoke about the importance of prayer as you reach out in preparation this was because many of his members reach out through business connections. Silvana told Annie over lunch that she had been healed during the morning service of neck and shoulder problems during the preaching. Glory to God.
Valdo & Borislava met us in the centre of Sofia for dinner it was wonderful to meet them it was quite a gathering. Great to be with this family of God. The next day Borislava would take me to the airport. It was a long day with delays, heavy rain and a bumpy flight home.
Time to Let our lights shine!
This was truly an awesome 10 day mission. Wonderful to hear from Sofi Pranzck this week that people continued to be saved and healed on final two days of the tent mission. Praise God or “Slava na Boga”
by Peter Ruck | Sep 5, 2015 | Blog
Sofia Pranzk hosted and planned this Tent 100 mission here in Shabla. Tim Grant was the main speaker on the opening night.It was planned for Tim and Peter Ruck to rotate between speaking in the tent and village outreach events.
So the second night was Peter in the tent and Tim went off to speak in the village. Peter shared his testimony on a very wet evening more typical English weather. Several others in the team shared their stories like Waldemar, Sofi husband, and others on the team. The worship was led by Villy & Mimi and Racheto sung some typical Bulgarian songs wearing her traditional dress. It was good to see a number responding to the Gospel message and the signs and wonders that followed as people received healing. Peter waited for Tim to return from the villages to hear he an Georgi had a good night to an audience of mainly Muslim’s which was a bit of a surprise for them.
We continue reaching out during the day for the evening events. We always had good conversation and managed to inspire so to come to the tent events in the afternoon for children and the main evening event.
The next evening we rotated again Tim was ministering in the Tent. It was good to hear that the numbers were increasing the “Good News” of the previous evenings was encouraging people to bring family and friends along. The very first night a local police detective had responded to the call for salvation, he was one of the people who had responded to Tim’s word of knowledge to a problem with his hand, apparently his daughter was astounded gasped to see her father hand fully mobile. Lives were being transformed each night body, soul and spirit in the tent.
Meanwhile Waldemar & Sofi took Peter out to a remote village that they had being door to door evangelsim. It must have been quite near the Romanian border because Peter phone was inviting him to except that network. The evening was different for Peter, it had been set up with speaker the idea being people could hear the music and message from within their houses. Racheto sung some traditional Bulgarian songs, before Mimi sung Gospel songs. Sofi and Waldermar each spoke before Peter shared a message of Jesus said, “I am the light of the world”. Peter made an appeal for salvation, invited people to come and collect some free christian literature. Peter said it seemed like he was speaking on the radio, he was surprised in the next ten minutes when two or three cars arrived to collect the material.
The next day Peter would be back in the tent with Tim out at a village with a team. Peter had been asked to speak at the Children’s ministry in the afternoon. He had his old friend “Joe Crow” the gloove puppet to minister to the youngsters. His aim was teach the children to have a personal relationship with God through prayer using the “hand tracts” Peter’s next message was the story of the Lost Sheep. Telling the youngster how special each one of them are to God. It was wonderful to see them respond and pray for God to come into their lives. Mimi & Villy continued teaching them action songs and drawing and colouring christian images. Mimi asked them a really thought provoking question and ask them how they see God and draw a picture!
This was our last night in Shabla Peter was speaking in the tent and Tim was out in a village sharing to group in cafe style environment.
Peter decided to preach a very similar message to the afternoon with the story of the Lost Sheep. The youngster who responded in the afternoon had brought their friends. It was typical of tent mission it was building up each evening new people came along following the previous night when Tim preached. We had a movie clip and testimony time it was good to hear Mimi share you tell she had attended the mission when we were in Blageovgrad. We had another time of traditional songs with Racheto before the gospel message. The response was good for salvation and many responded to the words of knowledge for healing, arms, hand legs, knees shoulders backs, young and old were being touched. It was wonderful to see the Holy Spirit at work. What a wonderful team we were working with such servant hearts it was real pleasure to be part of this mission. It is always hard to say goodbye to everyone. The tent mission would carry on two more nights we were leaving for Sofia in the morning with another eight hour drive ahead the next day.
by Peter Ruck | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog
What a privilege to see God’s Plan at work. Two years ago Peter Ruck with Tim Grant were invited from the UK to serve in the mission school in Bankya, near Sofia. Sofia Pranczk organised the mission school for students who were mainly from Bulgaria others came from other Eastern European countries. It was well supported by students and exprienced missionary/evangelist from Estonia, Belarus, Russia Bulgaria, UK all working in the Tent 100 network.
What was so special seeing these first three people responded to the Gospel was being able to take them to see Julia & Chaftra who would be able to disciple them as new converts. It was so evident this couple had a passion for the people of Shabla as others received Jesus during the tent mission. Immediately they were available to make a relationship with the local people.
This couple have moved right across from one side of the country to the other given up jobs to take up their calling with little or no support. If you feel you would like to support them you can email me at info@zealoutreachministries.co.ok. So encouraging to see God’s plan being revealed. Can you spot them on the front row of the classroom?
by Peter Ruck | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog
It began with 3am start from Brentwood Peter meeting his missionary/evangelist colleague Tim Grant at Gatwick Airport. Peter encountered fog as he left home, lane closures at the crossing on the M25. What was even more unexpected was traffic congestion just after 4am approaching the airport immediately he left M23. Tim was calling Peter to find out why he was delayed. They had to rush to the gate just as it was about to close bound for Sofia.
On arrival they collected Tim’s car and made our way to his house just outside Plovidiv. They returned back to Plovdiv itself for an evening with a Church that Tim had been visiting on his regular trips. Tim asked Peter to share with him during a seminar on Evangelism. It was good to see the people’s enthusiasm as we spoke. It was a good evening finishing around 10pm as they headed back to Tim’s house to find our beds to end a very long day.
The next morning we calculate our destination to Shabla on the coastline of North Bulgaria on the Black Sea was around eight hours. We had coffee and a pastry while we filled up with fuel. We decided to stop for lunch after four hours and have a break for a couple hours meeting up with a English missionary Rob Johnson and his wife. Tim has worked with them over a number of years. We enjoyed a great time of fellowship over our favourite plates of Shopska Salad!
We then set off again for our next destination Shabla to join the Tent 100 team led by Sofia Pranczk. It was good to meet up with the team many of them we’ve worked with over the last few years. Then to our final destination to our apartment in Kavarna another 25 miles way were we would stay and travel to the tent each day.
Our first two days were outreach days Tim & I led these days with inspiration talks and prayers with the teams. Stanvea Georgi organised the programme, he immediately separated us to work in different areas. Tim worked with the talented Villy who interpreted for him, he went with a team to a village, were Tim was going to speak in a few days in the open air.
Georgi wanted me to work with him with Mimi as my interpreter, she has amazing talents playing the guitar and singing too. His plan was visit the houses in the roads opposite the tent.
Shouting the Gospel in the streets
This is how we began “ Hello I am Peter from England, I have Good News. can I tell you?” Dear Mimi would shout what Peter said in Bulgaria. We got the signal to come in with a wave. Simple shared the love of Jesus with the first man sitting on the step. We invited him to the tent, he replied I can’t stand or walk. Peter began to put his hands on his knees when he prayed. The man said, my knees have become hot as he stood, Mimi played her guitar and sung to him bringing a big smile to his face. Georgi repeated the invitation to come to the tent.
We walked down the road further using the same pattern. We came to a house with a long garden, the same shout first in English then in Bulgarian. Our team of five were invited to come down the garden. What an amazing welcome we received to sit down around the garden table. Mimi began to play and sing. The lady of the house disappeared bring us a big plate of sliced water melon, then off again to get bread and homemade goats cheese and cups of water.
We sat with them telling quite simply that Jesus loved and cared for them. Then Peter invited Georgi to share his testimony how God had turned his life around. Peter then used the paper tear revealing the cross as Peter shared his testimony. It was so evident that the Holy Spirit was at work, as the the husband, wife and mother made a commitment to follow Jesus. It was so wonderful to see that love, joy and peace come into there whole being they became radiant. We celebrated with them as Mimi sang “Amazing Grace.”
Peter was so excited he wanted to have his picture taken with them, they kept asking can you come back again. This was when Peter got a big surprise when Peter saw the man had only got one leg. Especially as the man kept saying I can really feel God’s love. We wanted to invite them to the tent however the Mum and Wife were going away for a few days.
We promised them we would return and bring a couple who served as missionaries here in Shabla. That lunch time back at the tent it was wonderful to hear the testimonies from Tim and his team and Peter & Georgi’s team of the three people making a commit to follow Jesus. Two ladies in the team had made a pot food for everyone with bread this would be the pattern each day.
The next days we would be in the town square with the team this Tim and I would work together.
Opening night Mimi & Villy led the worship followed by testimonies from members of the Bulgarian team. Tim Grant was the main speaker it was good to see the first people respond to the gospel and one or two get a healing touch on the first night.
