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 Vitalie Rotaru, a student of Eastern European Bible College in Oradea, Romania, was born in Moldova. He was rebellious as a young person, drinking and getting into fights. At fifteen years of age, a cousin shared the Gospel with him and encouraged him to read the Bible which he did from cover to cover.
God touched his heart through the reading of the Bible and Vitalie
became a Christian in 2000. He told God he wanted to be like his
Christian cousin, and God started to change his life. His family were very glad to see this change. But when his father asked him to buy wine, cigarettes, and even to steal but he refused, his father started to persecute him.
One night in the middle of winter, his father woke him, asking if he was an evangelical Christian. When Vitalie answered yes, his father beat him, cursed him, and put him out of the house in just his night clothes. Many such things happened to him, but God solved his problems, encouraged and strengthened him.
At 18, God called him into the ministry. When he told his father that he was going for training, he became very angry. His father finally agreed to let him go, but said he would disown him as his child. Sometime later when he returned home for a visit, his relationship with his parents was restored. When he was 20, he heard about the Bible School in Oradea where he could prepare for the ministry. Amazingly, his father took the last of the money in the house and gave it to Vitalie so he could go study.
God started to change his father, and others in his family. One of his sisters has now become a Christian, and Vitalie is praying daily for his family, rejoicing at how God is working in them. When he graduates in June 2007, he plans to return to Moldova and will work together with his cousin in evangelism.
From Ian and Sheila Hall Newsletter
AGWM Personnel in Romania
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