Romanian Mission. REMM - Contemporary

In one paragraph

Peter Lacoccio, a missionary with the Romanian Evangelical Medical Mission, brought the message this Sunday. He traced the pattern of ordinary, praying people sparking revival across Romania's history, connecting it to the disciples gathered in the upper room in Acts 1. The through-line was simple: when people have nowhere else to turn, they pray, and God moves. Peter opened by pointing to the...

Read together

1. Psalm 103:1 opened the service with praise to the Lord
2. 2 Corinthians 1:20 all God's promises fulfilled in Christ with a resounding yes, our amen ascends to God for his glory
3. Acts 1:12-14 read aloud before Peter's message, describing the disciples gathered in the upper room constantly in prayer
4. Acts 2 referenced to describe God-fearing Jews from all nations hearing wonderful things of God after the disciples prayed in the upper room

Talk about it

1. Peter described the disciples in the upper room as people who had already failed Jesus, falling asleep when He asked them to pray and running away when He was arrested. What does it mean to you that Jesus still said 'you will be my witnesses' to those same people?
2. Peter's grandfather was a prisoner of war who had no theological training, yet he and hundreds like him came home and planted nearly half of all the Baptist churches in Romania in just five years. What does that tell us about what God actually requires of someone He uses to spread the gospel?
3. Peter's grandfather faced his own father telling him it would have been better to die on the front line than to bring the shame of the gospel home. Has following Jesus ever cost you a relationship or a sense of belonging? How did you navigate that?
4. Through two world wars, a pro-Nazi regime, and forty-five years of communism, Peter described the Romanian evangelical church returning again and again to the same response: gathering in an 'upper room' to pray. What keeps prayer from being our first response rather than our last resort?
5. Peter's organization brought Christian doctors, opened orphanages, and invited policemen to experience the gospel, all growing out of that same posture of prayer. How does what he described challenge or shape how we think about the connection between prayer and practical mission here in our own community?