Dear friends of Liv-n-LetLiv,
Greetings to all of you in this Campaign of Grace. In this, our
first update for 2005, we want to let you know what is happening here
in Romania. We'd love to hear what you are doing to bring love and
peace to the world.

Valea Iasului Hospital
Wednesday, Aurelia started working with a boy named Mitica. He is 5
years old and she taught him two colors today, one of them being
green. She said her day was the funniest she has had in a long
time. She wants to put the boy on the Romanian TV show, Children say
the funniest things. This is part of their conversation.

Aurelia: What is your name?

Dincumatei: Dincumatei.

A: That's a long name, do you have any shorter first name?

D: No, Dincumatei.

A: Matei is your first name and Dincu is your family, right?

D: Can't you hear me, it's Dincumatei.

A: Do you have any brothers and sisters?

D: Yes, two. But they are really small. Do you want to meet them?
Next time I'll bring them to you in a bag.

A: In a bag? Are they human babies?

D: Yes.

A: You don't carry babies in a bag!

D: Yes, we do. We do it all the time!

A: Do they have eyes, a nose and hair long hair like mine?

D: When their hair grows it will be big like yours.

A: Where do they sleep? with you?


Alexandru with his fingers ablur.
(They would be if this weren't a digital photo.)


D: No, they sleep outside in their cages.

A: Those are puppies!

D: Yes, puppies!

A: Well, they aren't your brother and sister. Do you know what a
brother and sister are? They have the same mother as you do.

D: Well, my brother and sister came from a dog.


In computer news, Alexandru Filip became the 6th member of Club 100
by typing 100 characters per minute. Georgeta is trying to become
the first girl on the list and has hit 97 while staying below the 10%
error cutoff. Alexandru is very happy.

On the Internet this month visitors to our sites have doubled from
the low 100's /day to last week having the first week to average over
200/day. 300 actually is within reach! A Romanian has volunteered
to help proofread the HIV site and a newspaper publisher has asked me
to write articles for their religious section that reaches Romanians
in 11 countries! Another amazing statistic: According to Nielson
Ratings, the average American spends 53 seconds reading a page, while
our sites average quadruple that: 219 seconds/page! People
obviously love our content.

After our drop last month, we have recovered our position as the #1
Romanian abstinence site. Next month, I hope to launch a program
where people will hold each other accountable to healthy Christian
living--no extramarital sex, no drugs, and no drunkenness. Each
month they are on their honor to report how they have done on their
vows and encourage others. We think this is important in a country
with the highest adolescent AIDS population in Europe and where 3 of
5 babies conceived are aborted.

One thing that amazes me is that although there are full-time
Christian radio stations, newspapers, and TV stations, all my surfing
turned up no ministry that is developing the Internet for Christ. I
was just reading in Fortune magazine that marketing agencies are slow
on the uptake of this new communication medium, but it seems that
Christians are even further behind. Fortune points out that people
spend more time on the net and less at the TV these days. This
results in poor quality and poor visibility for Jesus and little
content that is true, wholesome, and loving on the Internet. We
should not wonder why Satan has permeated the net with filthy, false
and spiteful sites. If we were to start a ministry of our own as
some have suggested, this would be the place to do it. We already
have a team started, but I'm not sure that Christian donors have
caught the vision for claiming the net for Christ.

We have come to realize that with our support level being only enough
for part-time work, and with the financial instability inherent in
this type of ministry, we have begun looking for a way to make the
rest of our time productive. Initial results from our survey have
shown that our team understands and accepts tent-making.

We thank you for your patience and for those who contributed this
month to us directly. We got word that a Chinese lady we know from
Italy has pledged enough that she would have been our 3rd largest
donor for 2004. We praise God for more help especially during this
time and especially because it is from Italy where we have begun to
see God working.

Praises:

The fruitfulness of all our work.
That some people have still been able to chip in and all the rest
seem to be patiently awaiting the chance to repay us for our
investment out of our own pocket in this period. God is gracious.
Prayers:

Guidance at this crossroad in our life. Chances are, we will have to
abandon some or all of what we are doing to fit into a new
organization. This would be heartbraking to leave what we have been
doing and all the friends and partners we have in the work.
Finances. That we may find a way to meet our budget.
Peace. Most people get anxious when they are hindered from earning
enough money to live on. I am no exception. Aurelia has been a
great encouragement, and fortunately the markets are going the way I
was prepared for. So, this is a testimony that when some claiming to
follow God aren't faithful, He still is.

Serving Him,
---Aurelia and me



Laurent J. and Aurelia LaBrie
Post Restant
115300 Curtea de Arges, Romania

Phone number:
4 (0) 248.7224.24
Mobile: 4 (0) 722.889.267
Y!messenger ID: laurent_labrie
"He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord."
Proverbs 19:17

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