July 2014 | The Latest News from Daniel Byrd

Missionary to the Romany Gypsy People of Romania

Austin Reason

Byrd’s Eye View

From the Editor From the Editor...……Pg 1

New Work!..................Pg 2

Old McDaniel Had a

FARM……..…….……..Pg 3

Graduate Banquet…..Pg 3

Prayer Requests….…Pg 3

In this summer

issue...

Summertime is always busy and wonderful.

Summertime means graduations, camps, vacations,

longer days, and new rhythms for life. For Daniel, it

means graduating students, youth camps, visiting

teams, longer days and lots of new work. In this

Byrd’s Eye View, we’ll explore some new mission

points and catch a glimpse of some visiting teams.

Believe it or not, if you’re considering a mission

trip to work with Daniel, now is the time to start

planning for summer 2015!

Our newest village is

Mulgra Ilvri. We are going bi-

weekly to this village and have

had very little response. I was

called by a Romanian pastor,

Petrica, in hopes of reaching

the youth here. I have a team

coming next week to work

with them for a week. Please

pray for the many Roma who

are in this area. Pray for God

to show Himself in a mighty

way so they will join us in

heaven.

We began a new bible study in a small city

called Samarasu. We showed the Jesus film and

had over 150 people attend. The youth there have

been somewhat faithful to attend the Bible studies

taught by one of my disciples, Somi. He is teaching

them through the book of John and doing an excel-

lent job. I think that God is showing me that my

students are becoming leaders and this makes my

soul rejoice.

Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord always,

again I will say rejoice."

Doors are opening in the village of Mulgra Ilvri and the little city of Samarasu

New Work!

Old McDaniel had a FARM

We did our annual FARM project

this year for one week in Bulgaria

and Bacau, Romania. We helped our

missionary with some of her students

by sharing testimonies, preaching,

and singing. We were very blessed. I

took three of my disciples – Alex,

Tarzan, and Somi. Each week they

ask me when we can go back. They

share with me things they would like

to do to help the lost. We have

decided to go bi-monthly to help the

Graduate Banquet

Since its inception in 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)

has always had one mission—the Great

Commission (Matt. 28:19-20). To

fulfill its assigned part of this divine mandate, each SBC entity made special

offering appeals to the churches. This

method was referred to as the “societal” approach to missions and

resulted in severe financial deficits,

competition among entities, overlapping pledge campaigns, and

frequent emergency appeals which

greatly hampered the expanding

ministry opportunities God was giving Southern Baptists. Some entities took

out loans to cover operating costs until

pledges or special offerings were received.

In 1919, the leaders of the SBC

proposed the 75 Million Campaign, a five-year pledge campaign that, for the

first time, included everything—the

missions and ministries of all the state

conventions as well as that of the Southern Baptist Convention. Though

falling short of its goals, a God-given

partnership of missions support was conceived—The Cooperative Program.

Since its launch in 1925, the

effectiveness of the Cooperative

Program has been dependent upon individuals, churches, state

conventions, and SBC entities

cooperating, working toward a common goal of sharing the gospel

with every person on the planet.

What is the

Cooperative

Program?

finances to help them to go.

My youth and I served them

and had a Christian banquet

just for them where we had

some of their teachers, the

principal, and two American

guest speakers. Thank you,

Roger, Kevin, and Lisa. You

helped so much to encourage

them.

missionary in

Bacau, a

Romanian

pastor, to begin

a new work

with youth in

two of his

villages. He was

very pleased

and we are very

pleased he has the same

heart for the Roma as

we do. Rubin and I

have done many camps

together and although

his heart was for the

Romanians, God called

him to work with the

Roma. I am thankful he

is faithful to hear and

respond to the call of

our Lord.

The Lord put on my heart to

do a banquet for the youth

who had graduated this year.

Many of you have supported

my thoughts of educating the

Roma youth, as this would be

a clear way for them to have a

chance to better their lives.

We had nine Roma graduates,

which was a miracle to me. I

say this because

in the school

system they are

not encouraged

to continue and

often times stop

because of this.

I thank you all

w h o g a v e

clothes, school

supplies, and

Prayer Requests Please pray for... Our busy summer! Please pray as

we return bi-weekly to Bacau, our new city and villages, and for teams that are coming.

My faithfulness in the Word of God. Pray I find more time with Him, and less time with me.

Members of my family who are lost, especially Daniel who is struggling with drugs.

Lastly, I have a very urgent prayer request. God has called one of my young people to become a missionary. Alin knows this yet the

enemy has called him to enjoy lust for a season. Please pray for Alin to come back to Christ.

Continue earnestly in prayer...

… being vigilant in it with thanksgiving

~Colossians 4:2