What’s happening in Bulgaria?

1st Lt Mladen Bochukov
Bulgarian Leader

• It is a great joy for us to share with you the celebration of the 10th Anniversary MilMin Conference in Bulgaria. This happened on 6-8 June in Varna. There were about 90 people from Bulgaria and guests from USA, UK and Romania. The speakers were Rev. Paul Pettijohn (USA), Pastor Tsonko Atanasov (Bulgaria) and Col. Chaplain Bernie Windmiller (USA). Everybody remembered the last 10 years and we thanked God for His guidance during these past years. We encouraged each other by sharing testimonies and that was all for God’s glory.

• Here are some of the comments:

• It filled me with enthusiasm, new strength and hope.
• The conference was a great encouragement for me, I learned a lot from our guests’ experience.
• It was an incredible experience for me!
• The Holy Spirit does the work, we get the joy and God gets the glory!
• All of you, who couldn’t attend the conference, are also part of the Military Ministry in Bulgaria, because you kept spending time, finances and prayers for sharing the Good news to everybody in our country. Thank you.
• God made it possible for speaking publicly to the media about the conference and about Christianity in the Army.

• After the conference, the team of MilMin together with Col. Chaplain Bernie Windmiller, US Army (Ret.), spent several days in Sofia. We had amazing opportunities for claiming the Christian values and our faith among the militaries, the main topic was the role of the Chaplain in the Army.  God even made it possible for us to enter the National Assembly for a meeting with a deputy, a chairman of the committee on internal security and public order.

• There was a meeting with the commanders from Air Base Bezmer near Yambol.

 Please pray:

• for our team
• for our family
• for the forthcoming family seminar we are going to organize in the beginning of autumn.
• for the Macedonian Christian militaries. The Bulgarian Military Ministry is planning to send a missionary team to Macedonia.