everyone the school welcome back i'm so excited to be here today i have my brother emanuel on the set with me emmanuel and myself and my my dad we usually go on the christmas project every year to romania and we're back and we're very just excited about everything that just happened over there and somehow i convinced my brother to be on the set with us and just thrilled to have him here because it's good to have another voice to explain what we see because he actually sees through a camera so he captures these moments for everyone to see through a camera and i'm curious you know many times when this is what goes on in his head when he goes in these homes or when he sees his kid sees specially because he's a father now too has two kids and you know i mean i don't have any kids but i can only imagine because i treat his kids like almost like my own and i can only imagine what goes through his mind comparing the lifestyle that we live here in america compared to romania  like i said many things that we do here john the term ministries is not reach at christmas we like to expand that later down the road to many other things that we want to do here but the outreach at christmas has to do with with the children in the in the secluded areas of her mania where they're very poor where they don't have much all they have is their family or just a mom a home or just a data home and they just live their lives every day life with hardly anything in their homes we i have the opportunity go once again in the northern romania area and we revisited nine new new villages in that area near the area and we also revisited one other area in the same area before that we went two years it is and how much it's grown since the soviet union fell down i believe i could say the proposal of the us through my eyes is like a least five to ten years behind for a mania so they're very it compared to remain and they're very very poor and the lord open these trips because it's a reality check every time i go to think you know what we have here in america even though we grew up going to remain almost every year every year but no i have a family and to see those kids because it's not just happening i mean it's happening everywhere around the world and so now we we go into the schools right you know how to explain the situation in the schools you know you like france is one the schools i have a picture on my phone where they don't have a go a few miles down and in the big city it's nice it's nice different country but it's the same same same country and people even there have no idea how poor their own people because we bring some people from why you know he builds a palace right next to his neighbor's shack i don't understand why people don't help each other out i mean even here in america when we see somebody like even danny with his restaurant we we we we work together our everyone's for themselves you know and when they see us to give food and especially when we went to republican over there at the border you know they're you know they're saying well you're bringing food and supplies doors so far to get in there and bring the supplies because it's tough to go over the border and it's a very public mode of also is there's two parties there you have the russians that want to ukrainian russians i want to come and take over and then you have the remain inside gone on her christmas break and was sure her that we wanted to come in to donate these little baggies that we put together she get she comes and she goes no you can't donate and she comes and from her break she was off for christmas break she comes back to the school and says no and somehow the lord made america and we we were in touch one of with one of the ministers of education there that helped us open the door and go in with carols christmas carols and then with a little message about christmas and then donate to the bags there so but ok so how do we start really we started this time is quite different because many times we have a lot of snow ice this time we had no each year and that's our goal to do more and more and more people to be involved and it worked out very well with the weather cooperated very very quick it was such a quick trip that within a week we would even have time  before and know that the church we visited during the holidays here in america many of you probably hear about this column of christmas project or we're all here go the mill taras again with this christmas trying to talk about but it's not just a christmas project you know we're a b t n to we we see an opportunity where we can we can go in and break the ice with some gifts with a postcard that we have in there with that with the floor with the salvation prayer on one side on the other side it says merry christmas and their language and where we were able to go into the schools non christian kids donate these bags with you know different items we had chocolate we had two precious combs candy a little teddy bear and some in half of the packages we had nothing was and we had a thousand you never know the mom and dad they can they can pick up the bible and what is this you know and break that you know it's an open opportunity for the kids to minister to their parents you know look in the parents you know it's where do you get the stuff you know did you steal it or some know somebody came from america to give it to us and look look what they gave us you know and that's how the church started last year two years ago two years ago where you know kids went home told their parents what happened and gave me this and they said wow i mean i want to serve  schools we all to donate to the poorest family in each village a box or food of items of pantry items that they can have for the holidays and this year together with the church in english type germany we partnered up again with them and  we came up with the idea of actually putting the box together instead of just buying and giving them a handful of sugar or flour and rice we put together they could together a box of items and each box we put some rice in there we put some sugar and there some flour for them to have for the holidays we all we all which is i mean this world to them is like gold in their hands pasta have besides all that we also margarine like last year i mentioned to you here in america we take this for granted to have butter on our tables and for them to even have margarine on their tables it's  something you know very very something very nice to have on their own for their family and besides all this we also put in some goodies for the kids there's some cookies chocolate  candy and also some juice for them to have you know just little things that even our kids in america we buy them little juice boxes and you know how it is kids love this stuff and and then also we put in some chef who for them so received items like this and gifts from us and this only cost twelve or thirteen euro switch converts over to fifteen dollars which is nothing you know nothing pretty one to put together and we're hoping for next project we can do more than this more than  boxes this is a just an idea of what we did and we pray that god you know god brings in more support and more volunteers to help us out for the following year thank the lord open more doors in that area  and we don't know what the lord has for this new company or mean we have a lot of ideas in our heads here at john alterman histories and i have a lot of ideas or even share that much with them here because i'm his way in the sea of the lord want that's his will to do or not but we were very excited that this year we've i think this is a new goal for this was a new record two thousand packages to put together and we put this package together for hours by hand and we were able to donate them within three days to all the families besides the packages we also were able to work with our one of our churches that we partnered up every year in germany we worked we worked with them many years and again once again they have the heart to work with us again but this time they came with the idea to put together a box of pants or items and i believe we had approximately seventy boxes or eighty boxes eighty eighty box yes eighty boxes and  we we didn't donate to exactly any families some of the families are bigger we gave these two or three boxes but half of them we were able to go to houses and donate them and and we were very excited that we actually changed our area  live in more with the donation of food because we were able to put more in the box and hopefully this year we can have more opportunities like that to do the same thing again coming up you know it's i think everyone you know behind the scenes like me you know we were all a part bears and we're starting to talk to different local churches and different people that want to help us so it starts early you know it starts here in america with my mom and my mind my sister in law and us here trying to put them together to send them out there and then my dad trying to connect different you know churches here and there and so it is just an ongoing project that continues over and over and over but you know it can get tiring but to us you know we're in the end the  the the project when we see what happens in the end it's more rewarding than to think about how tiring everything is so thank you again everyone and i'm so happy that we had another opportunity to share with you that the twenty fifteen christmas project that we did this year so i'm so excited that it was the best and hopefully he'll be with me many more other times have a good day and believe god a little touch right now and take a deep breath like this when you take that deeper you do take the holy spirit inside and allow it everything to come out right now she sustained and many of you been healed right healed from pain and and many things what you went through last year i believe will be a year of success this year two thousand and sixteen not only because we are here about number eight eight six two two five seven eight eight or new mail us at john tyro at yahoo dot com you will be up to date on our mission one hour of television ministry and a work to blast and encourage you in from last week when mirra chair when our from the police station he stopped at the park he quit on the walk anymore because his feet was and fire of pain so much pain so much so it you left the police station you went to the park to get a shortcut going home what happened then ok here thank you for accepting me be part of your program again i just entered into the park as a cold in the previous program and then i sit down a little while and after a while i tried to stand up and to walk again on my feet but that was no more possible my feet were swollen and so i decided to crawl on my my feet on my little yes and your knees on my crowing i went home that my home my parents home was not far away from that bridge and about three three thirty in the morning i got back home to cuba two hours  was no beaten and and so much sorrow so i told them what happened and asked them not to tell my father who was a sleeping because a i asked them to do that in order to avoid having some troubles my father himself to the next morning i asked by phone my boss you call your job you know i called him and i asked my boss in the factory to let me be free from the office for a few days because i have some problems to solve and i realize he understood that there were some situations with the police and he accepted this about nine o'clock in the morning i was sitting with my family with my wife and my children at the table for breakfast and my father who was at home came from the courtyard and told me that three officers came in the they looked for me and i asked him to invite them in in the meantime one of them entered inside of our room and he was very angry with me my father asked me what happen in us that guy what happened i want to tell you that that morning that today was the day when my father decided to read nonce to the communism he decided that communism was not what he believed all his life and the reason he did it was because he asked the officer what happened and the answer of the officer was your son doesn't deserve to breed the error of romania because he is against the country again the communism against the president and i looked to my father and they told him daddy is not right this is a lie i never you the only reason i was yesterday peterson was because i preached the gospel of jesus christ and i am a believer and they didn't accept to be the informer and the officer was even more stripes blue on my body or your back yes which made him be very shocked and in that very moment i was pushed out of my home by the officer and the other one was at the door and they pushed me out and they took me by car to the same inquest room at the police station i don't know everything every detail but finally my father told me what happened and what he want to cooperate and to be the informer he asked me all kind of questions telling me like a mouse and the rest of the church and garbage and intellectually with the kind of smell repeatedly saying i will crush your head i take out the brain and put it on the was so that then you might understand that in this country there is no art to gut but the communist secret police in the mean time my father went to the mayor to the city hall to the city hall and like a storm he entered into the mayor's room office and he told him that he saw how i trial his father is right here with me in the office and he is a good communist please stop beating him and in the meantime that guy who beaten me on the on the top of my feet oh my my of head went out with his fist he went out and while me that he would come back and he would kill me and he would let me see what it means to be beaten by the communist secret police because what i have received yesterday was nothing nothing compared with what i was going to receive from himself so he went out and in the meantime for about half of an hour i stood i sit there and then a lot of said look you have only to declare that the in case you will hear someone doing activities against the country of romania you will as soon as possible tell that to someone in  informant in case that i will hear someone talking something that will obligate me to come to you i will as soon as possible leave the place because i don't want to be obligated by this paper to come to talk to you in officers who actually was a colleague of mine a few bounce earlier in the office in the same factory but he became an officer in the communist secret police in the meantime he asked the boss of the secret police may i drive him back home fort again i thought that everything is going was going to an end for my life and when they released me this guy drove me back home and from that moment every day of my life i lived with the consideration that could be my last day every time when i went to bed every time when i walked up i came to the lord and they told the lord maybe is my last time when i'm alive my last day when i'm alive lord i just want you to to provide for the needs for my family and i want to to meet them again in heaven and i'm sure that if you decided for me country was shaken by the revolution the broke out few weeks afterwards and soon after the revolution one of the friends of mine actually the man who was used me to have this possibility to make false accusations against me an engineer who was working in the same factory who really performed some notes against the communism he was the only son in the family and because mostly mostly when the weather was changing i felt the pains even down sometimes even now i feel sometimes a pain in my legs and what happened after that colleague of mine who was in prison in the most secure prison in bucharest the capital of the country he was released and the he became the leader of the city of tour with we lived and soon after he became a member of the romanian parliament and he when he realized what happened he decided to bring all those officers in front of me for the trial court which he did first came the three ones who arrested me the second day and with the fourth one who has beaten me on the bottom of my feet that was a little more difficult because he they decided to have a trial and to put him in prison but with activities against us in under false accusations and the lord will perish these people if they do not confess their scene and do not turn to the lord but they couldn't expect in such a short time because a communism was like a big east during those days but now it was a lawyer in the office it was also a man who was the chief of the human rights in the community was my father a lady and some other people who test about the fact that they have seen when i was beaten and arrested and so on and they are the guy who has the be to me with his pieced and the told that there is no other god in romania but only communist party secret police com the answer for the question please say what was the answer what is your answer and then he said you know mr that is xan your god is the real god and i told him you know if father all these people you testify that i know that you do that only from your lips you don't believe with your heart but this happening much more earlier that they could consider could be possible and then i was asked to go to the military lawyer inclusion that was the big conformity with the reality and the secretary was typing the correlation and finally we've got to the end of this declaration where i wrote i want to forgive all these people and i choose to forgive them i want them not to be punished before because of what they did against me only their i ask they never to be able to have a position where they might decide for the life of people because they do not they are not worthy they do not deserve it and now the lawyer said mr de shawn we need to change these you have to see only something like this i want these people to pay for what they did against me and i guarantee you this guy will go into prison for at least seven years i have no other possibility to to send him into prison but he deserve it he is a garbage character let me send him into prison and i looked to the lawyer and i told him i'm sorry i cannot do that you are afraid he said you don't need to be afraid of them the communism will never be again in romania so you don't have reasons to be afraid and i told him i'm not afraid is not this the reason tell me a reason he said why do you choose to forgive them and why don't you let me put him in prison and i said lawyer i have one reason i don't know if you agree with it but i will tell it to you and so i started telling him i preach the gospel of jesus christ in front of thousands of people hundreds of people and i preach the gospel of love and it i didn't but now you have to do it i don't want to be a hypocrite you know what i tell you the reality john in that very moment i saw one man in  and i said yes there has solved thousands of people i mean this country and his said man i couldn't believe that there is any reason to be accepted not to send this meant to prison i have such a high respect for for what you believe and then we talk a little bit about my fate and he was very kind and he invited me to visit him again because he was so moved inside of what i decided prison and he said he doesn't agree with this and he wants to forgive you and that guy the formal officer said i was ready to do that the not only that but i'm ready also to relate his brother and my brother was a sport church during those days i am ready to let him because he his brother is not a christian let him give me administrate to myself a bit in as he wants but just forgive me not send me to prison and  prison he chews the full gear are you willing to forgive jesus said if you don't forgive you can have a forgiven that's why i included you right now forgive and continue to watch this program because next week you'll hear more about what happened with this man which mere child let him go because that was also another powerful testimony