by Brant Holladay, Editor/European Director

What a trip we had! I just returned from the Republic of Georgia along with a BIMI missionary. His Russian language skills are excellent. If you were to ask, "Where’s Georgia?" I would answer that it is on the far side of Turkey, and borders Turkey, Armenia, Russia, and Azerbaijan.

The distribution of Georgian New Testaments with the Psalms, including Ford Porter’s tract, God’s Simple Plan of Salvation was the object of this trip. At least two adults we know about were saved and hundreds of Testaments were given freely.

The Georgian language looks like spaghetti or Arabic. We delivered these Books to orphanages and schools in areas where very few Christians can be found. Over one-track roads we were driven very near to the Turkish border. Many who gladly received God’s Word were Muslims but they were peaceful and grateful to receive us and the only Book God ever wrote for the salvation of these good people.

There are no established missionaries in Republic of Georgia. Pastor Gary is a true independent Baptist pastor who is Georgian and doctrinally right down the line where we stand. He was thrilled to have us reach into these remote, mountainous areas where he had never been. Pastor Gary plans to follow up with other evangelistic efforts in the future.

I knew you would enjoy reading this brief account of the trip because many of you have a prayerful interest in this ongoing ministry of soul-winning and evangelism. BIMI intends to print more Testaments in the Georgian language as the funds become available. Muslims in Georgia are willing to receive and read God’s Word. Pastor Gary will spearhead this project as well as provide a Testament to every prisoner in every prison in that Country. This is his goal and we want to be part of this effort with the help of God.

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by Marc Patton, missionary to Hungary

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Gal. 6.9

One of the blessings of spending eleven years in the same ministry is the opportunity to enjoy the "delayed harvest." So often we plant seeds and see no immediate fruit. But as the years pass, we often have the joy of seeing fruit spring up in places that we had long abandoned. I would like to share a few of these blessings with you.

Pulyu and Ildiko: Our first contact with Ildiko was in 2001. We were holding services in Dorog, and she visited a few times. We tried to follow up with her and maintain contact, but eventually the contact was lost. Our next contact came four years later when her mother-in-law passed away. Ildiko showed up at our door and asked me to do the funeral. Again we hoped to see them come to church but were disappointed. About six months later they began to have serious marital problems. Just at that time Charin happened to run into Pulyu at the market. He asked me to visit him and began attending church. Soon he made a profession of faith. Then Ildiko began attending and also made a profession of faith. Their marriage was salvaged, and they are both attending church regularly now with their son Patrick. Occasionally, Ildiko’s mother has attended, and they have brought various friends and acquaintances to church also. It is a blessing to see these new converts sharing the Lord with others.



Katalin Varga: Katalin lives in the town of Sarisap, about fifteen miles from our church. Her first contact with our church was a flyer stuffed in her mailbox in 2001. She read the flyer and set it aside. In August of 2002 her daughter was handed a New Testament by one of our members. Katalin again considered visiting our church but set the New Testament aside. The next year she saw a newspaper advertisement for our church. My phone number was on the advertisement. She called me and asked for an appointment. We talked, and she began attending our church. Soon she was saved and in 2004 she was baptized. She is now a faithful member of our church.

Kata Paldi: Kata lives in Esztergom just a few blocks from our church. Her first contact with our church was in August of 2002 when we distributed 10,000 New Testaments in the city. She looked it over, saw our church information and then set it aside. Four years later she was walking across the market when someone handed her a tract from our church. Again she read it but set it aside. Just a couple weeks later she saw a newspaper ad for our summer English camp. She signed her grandson up for the camp and came every day to drop him off and pick him up at the church. She began asking questions, and then visited our services. She soon was saved, and I baptized her last November.

These stories are an encouragement to me. The seeds we are planting today will bear fruit in the future. We are also thankful to BIMI supporters for making the New Testament distribution a possibility. We can already trace two converts to that distribution. I wonder how many more of the New Testament seeds will one day bring a harvest. No doubt we will never know for certain until we are in Heaven.

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Georgia is a land of veiled opportunity. At first glance it seems like a difficult place, but after a longer look some very interesting opportunities for ministry reveal themselves.

The key to ministry in Georgia is the work of Pastor Gary. It is without a doubt the most impressive national ministry that I have ever seen in the former Soviet Union. Pastor Gary is unashamedly Baptist. His doctrine is correct, and his preaching is firm and Biblical. Above all, his ministry resonates with joy. This is most unusual in the old USSR. Virtually all Baptists are either stilted or legalistic in their worship, or have gravitated toward the Charismatic style.

Grace Baptist Church of Tbilisi and Pastor Gary are living, vibrant proof that a happy and thriving congregation of aggressively evangelistic members can be built in the old USSR. They are radicals. Preaching to the poor, going to the most remote of villages, taking back the schools, finding their way to the sick, in other words, doing what Jesus said to do is their methodology. Because of their faithfulness, some very influential people have joined the church. It is a mix of rich, poor, influential, and unknown. It is a people that are tied together by a common love of Jesus Christ, and by a Pastor with a burning desire to reach his nation for the Savior.

On our trip we went to Muslim villages located as high as 12,000 feet in remote areas of the smaller Caucasus. We distributed Bibles and gifts to people, young and old. They accepted us because they love America. Georgia is arguably the most pro-American nation in the world. The major thoroughfare to Tbilisi’s international airport is named President George Bush Highway. Right now, Americans have a wide-open door to virtually any place in Georgia. Schools, hospitals, prisons, government offices, businesses are open to Americans.

At first glance, Georgia looks like another typical area of the old USSR. Scratch the surface; spend a little time, and you will find a golden harvest field.

The Republic of Georgia is the size of Switzerland and is called the crossroads of Europe and Asia. With the fall of the Soviet Union, and the non-violent, democratic Rose Revolution in November 2003, Georgia is open for travelers to enjoy its beauty.

The magnificent Caucasus Mountains, the highest mountains in Europe, extend from the Black to the Caspian Seas. Its landscape is dotted with stone Caucasian watch-towers, which many families built by their own homes, most dating back to the 12th century. Their vineyards boast over 500 original varieties of grapes. One can find subtropical marshes, semi-deserts, lofty alpine zones and snowy peaks all within a hundred miles of each other when exploring the Republic of Georgia.

Georgian is one of the oldest living languages in the world and boasts its own distinctive alphabet. (See the Coca-Cola sign in the photo.) Its currency is the Lari. One Lari is roughly sixty cents.

The music of Georgia is unique with its three part harmony. It can be heard not only in the churches but around the dinner tables in the evening. Georgia is often called the artist colony of the former Soviet Union. Virtually every Georgian is an artist either in music or painting.

The Republic of Georgia spent almost 200 years as part of the Russian empire. Today Georgia is free; therefore, there is an open door to send missionaries to proclaim the Gospel of Christ.

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by Gail Huffman, France

Several years ago, I met our next door neighbor on the sidewalk in front of our house in Argenteuil, France.  We talked a few minutes, and the next time we met, she invited me to come to her home.

Mademoiselle Charlotte was a single woman in her early 70's, a retired clerk for a notary.  She loved to tell about her work and her trips around Europe and the world. I learned much later that she was born Jewish and that her parents were deported and killed in Germany. She had escaped at age 25 because a neighbor called her at work when they took her parents away and she didn't return home that evening.  Their apartment was confiscated, so a friend from work took her in until she could get re-established.

For her birthday, I took her a gift - a book telling about the Jewish feast days, thinking it would please her to learn about her Jewish heritage. It didn't.  She returned the book saying she couldn't understand it, and that her parents never celebrated any Jewish holidays and only her father went occasionally to the synagogue.

As a child she had gone to the Catholic church like other French children, but because of what the Germans did to her parents, she had rejected God. Many times I left tracts in her home when I visited, thinking that the Lord would soften her heart.  Once when she had to be hospitalized and couldn't walk, I drove her and left her some tracts to read while there.  She angrily let me know that she would have nothing to do with God or spiritual things.

I didn't give up, however, and told her more than once about what Christ did for her and how I would like to see her in Heaven.  She began listening to me, but she never asked questions or softened.  Because she enjoyed my company, she accepted my testifying of Christ.  When she had to be temporarily put in a rest home after surgery, a friend asked us to help her clean the apartment while she was gone. Some of our youth and I washed walls, cabinets, floors, threw out lots of old and broken stuff and bought new, and she was able to come home to a clean and orderly place.  She told us that she appreciated it.

After we moved away, I didn't get by to see her as often. Two years ago she was placed in a nursing home.  I went to see her there, and again shared the love of God with her. Last week her friend called me to say she had passed away at age 94 and asked if I would go to the funeral with her. Mademoiselle Charlotte was cremated and had asked to have no religious ceremony. Since she had no family left, there were only four lady friends present at her funeral. As far as I know, Mademoiselle Charlotte never made a profession of faith and I don't have much hope of seeing her in heaven. But I may be surprised!  The Lord may have touched her heart and she may have repented and turned to Christ.

Why am I sharing this sad story?  Because she is only one of several people that we have witnessed to and prayed for over the years, who have died and gone on without making it publicly known that they turned to Christ.  To us it is heartbreaking because these are folks we have loved and shared with, worked with and had in our home.  The only comfort we have is that we were faithful to share the Gospel with them before they passed on.

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by Beth Canavan, Ireland

Have you ever wondered what the wife of a missionary does? I would like to give you a sample of what life is like here in Ireland from my viewpoint. My first responsibility is to be a wife to Dan and a mother to Andrew, Becca and Caleb. This includes the normal housewife duties as well as homeschooling.

Our day begins with the buzzing of the alarm clock at 6:00 AM. It is time for showers, devotions, and breakfast. Then at 7:30, school begins. I praise the Lord for the privilege to teach my children. School is finished by 1:00 PM. My children still have homework, piano practice and chores before bedtime. On Monday and Thursday evenings, they have running club; on Friday afternoon and evening, they have piano lessons and karate. Yes, Mom's taxi gets involved here.

Andrew, Caleb, Dan, Beth and Becca Canavan with Yang

On a weekly basis in the ministry, I teach the children's Sunday School Class, trying to keep the lessons interesting and relevant to children aged 4 to 12. I also play the piano for the Sunday services. Andrew, Becca and Caleb now help play the piano for Sunday School and Wednesday Prayer Meeting. Sunday evening before the service, I help the various groups and our choir with their practice for special music. Saturday morning, we all bundle up to go door-to-door soul winning. This is exciting for there are three people of the church that go with us. It is no longer just us. God is good!

On a monthly basis, I help with planning the music program in the church, oversee the staffing of the nursery, organize children's outings and every sixth week hold a Ladies Bible Study. I also help plan and prepare for the special events on the church calendar.

God has allowed me to lead some ladies to Him. What a joy to see someone receive Christ as their Savior! I enjoy working with these new Christians and watching them grow through discipleship Bible studies.

One such lady was Yang. She was here in Ireland with her husband finishing up her degree in accounting. Because of the high cost of living, they sent their daughter, Shannon, back to China to be raised by her grandparents. This was hard on Yang, but even harder was her husband's return to China due to the lack of acceptance by the Irish into their society. God used this hard time to soften Yang's heart to the Gospel. Each time that she came to church, she heard the Gospel in the preaching, through one-on-one conversation and through tracts given to her.

One Sunday morning, Yang was there for Sunday School. I asked her to come back to a classroom with me that I might talk with her about Jesus. As I talked with her, she thought that she was already saved because she believes. I asked her, "What do you believe?" She replied, "That there is a God." For her, this was a big step, but not salvation. From the Bible, she saw for herself exactly what salvation is and made the decision to accept Christ as her Savior.

Though Yang's English is fairly good, she still struggles with it. So when she heard of a "Christian" church that had a Chinese service, she began attending there. Eventually, Yang returned to our services when she saw the difference between us and a liberal church. As Yang attended regularly, she began to grow. Part of her growth made her realize that her place is with her family even if it means a lower income and standard of living. Yang came to church one last time on March 11. She flew home to China the next day. I praise the Lord for allowing me to be a part of Yang hearing the Gospel and getting saved!

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By Danny Flowers, BIMI Missionary to France

Everyone believes something: even atheists. Sadly, what they believe is a lie. In France, there are countless individuals who fall into this category.

Due to political turmoil, our family had to evacuate from Ivory Coast in November 2004. Soon after, God directed us to a new ministry here in northern France. In virtually every city and small village, a large Catholic church can be found. However, religion has left these people without hope and without the truth.

On March 13, 2007, Robert Vandrechie, an atheist and a Communist, died of a heart attack. For eight years, he lived next door to our church. Throughout those years, he rejected numerous invitations to hear the Gospel. Every Sunday he watched French believers enter our church to worship God. He could see the excitement on their faces. Yet he refused to come and hear what the preacher had to say. He chose to reject God. How sad to know that Monsieur Vandrechie died so close to the truth.

At 63, Danielle Desmet was a lifelong atheist. For eight years, she had passed by a little sign for the Bible Baptist Church, started by missionary Don Williams in Hierges, France, She had always wondered what a Baptist church was; one day her curiosity got the better of her! On a Saturday in September 2005, she determined to stop in at the church, but ONLY IF the traffic light near the entrance of the church turned immediately green. The light did turn green and Danielle obtained information on the services from the missionary's wife. From the beginning, it was evident that the Word of God was working in her unbelieving heart. After more than a month of regular church attendance, she trusted Christ as her Savior, and was discipled and baptized.

Months after her conversion, her husband Jean Paul began attending our Sunday morning services. He was skeptical of any church. After World War II, he was raised by Jesuit priests, but he turned his back on the Catholic religion during adulthood. Every Sunday morning for seven months he was next to Danielle. He listened intently and asked many questions. One day he told his wife that it was time for him to have a nice Bible. She was shocked! They purchased a Bible for him, and that very day, Danielle led her own husband to Christ. She was thrilled!

Our church began praying in earnest for the salvation of Danielle's 90-year-old mother. Danielle made it a habit of reading Scripture to her and talking with her about the Lord. In September 2006, I received a call from Danielle asking if we could talk with her mother. As Bro. Williams and I explained the Gospel, Madame Colas listened closely, then bowed her head and got saved. What a miracle to see how God not only transformed a confirmed atheist, but then how He also used her to win her family to Christ!

ROBERT FULLER

(Our BIMI Deaf Missionary Working with Bob and Judy Van Sant in Ukraine)

Even though I grew up in a church, I did not understand anything going on in the church. There was no interpreter. When I became a teenager, I began to explore about spiritual things. I asked my pastor several questions. One day I picked up a tract and read the Gospel for the first time. I realized that I am a sinner and my need of Christ. I got saved on May 20, 1984, when I was fifteen years old. For the first time I felt the peace in my heart.

Ten years later after graduating from Gallaudet University, I attended a deaf camp. I responded to the call to missions after the preaching. I had a burden to reach deaf people in Russia.

After attending BIMI Deaf Bible College (AKA Harvest Deaf Bible College), I joined BIMI in l997. I served four years in St. Petersburg, Russia. There I helped start a deaf ministry and establish a Bible study for deaf students from the Technicum. Then God led me to Ukraine to do church planting in Feodosia, Crimea. The new ministry started last September. Since then, nine deaf have been saved.

Please pray for Robert Fuller as he serves the Lord in Ukraine.

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By Lea Devers, Our new BIMI missionary to Scotland

Even though I have sung the old hymn "Blessed Assurance" my whole life, it has only been recently that I really concentrated on the chorus:

"This is my story,
This is my song,
Praising my Savior
All the day long."

The story the Lord has written for me over the past three years of deputation is an absolutely incredible one. I want to share with you some of the highlights.

I have not had a home since June 2004. Other then the nights when I had to drive all night to reach my next meeting, the Lord has provided a place for me to stay.

The vehicle I began deputation with had many problems. I counted fourteen times when the car could go no further without assistance. I never had to call AAA. There was always someone there to help me.

I drove 79,000 miles through 16 states without a relief driver. The only accident I had was with the deer that decided to run in front of my car.

In August 2005, I was diagnosed with cancer. The next nine months were filled with four surgeries, thirty-one radiation treatments and four chemo treatments. I had the best possible doctors, my medical bills were paid and I am cancer free.

What an incredible story!! I am looking forward to seeing what the next chapters contain as the Lord allows me to serve Him in Scotland.



Lea telling the story of Helen Cadbury, of Cadbury chocolates, who started the Pocket Testament League

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Even though Reta Burns is from Canada and Marcia Kittleson is from America, they have immersed themselves totally into the English culture. Reta has been a missionary for nearly 32 years, seven of those years in Holland before coming to England. Marcia has served the Lord in England for 25 years.

After meeting at a youth retreat over twenty-five years ago in the USA and becoming fast friends, they began to talk and haven’t stopped! God is using their gifts in assisting missionary families in planting local churches in the UK. For the past two years they have been assisting a local church in Market Harborough.



Reta and Marcia with the Hand Bell Choir

They are often asked, "What do single missionaries actually do?" "Everything but preach" is the answer. Their ministry has included holding children and youth clubs, ladies meetings, Bible studies, camps, youth retreats; going on door-to-door witnessing, setting up facilities for services, housing young people, leading hand bell choirs, holding teacher-training seminars, and in Reta’s words: "We practice hospitality as an outreach to friends and neighbors with many cups of tea."

Their greatest desire is to see people come to know Christ as their personal Savior. Please pray for the vital ministry of Reta and Marcia as they continue to use their talents of encouragement and teaching in local churches in England.



Marcia's Bible Club

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By Maylou Holladay

CZECH REPUBLIC - Samuel Barth Family. In our English class we teach, I am using the Bible as a textbook each week with Blanka. Recently, she offered to help me with my Czech. We are using a doctrines book written in the Czech language. As I am practicing Czech, Blanka is learning Bible doctrine!

ENGLAND - Ford Baker Family. We have stood on the same corner for a year now and have given out over 52,000 tracts and John/Romans to our town.

Mark Bell Family. Since our Pirate’s Day activity for the children in the community, we have seen an increase in our Sunday School program. We have also seen a good increase in the number of new visitors at church.

Reta Burns. We are thankful for new people attending the services. A recently saved lady has come for three Sundays now, and last week she brought her unsaved husband, Steve.

John Jones Family. Congleton Baptist church is almost five years old. The church has developed steadily and has grown. Our goal for this second term is to secure a permanent home for the church. Please pray for us.

Ferrell Kearney Family. We spent ten months in Great Britain working in two different ministries, filling in for missionaries in the States on furlough. We had numerous opportunities to share the Gospel.

Marcia Kittleson. Reta and I purchased some hand bells and began a children’s hand bell choir. The children performed at a late night shopping night in Market Harborough.

Jack Moorman Family. Twenty-thousand more Scripture tracts were printed in recent weeks. Three new couples have begun attending – from India, Romania and South Africa.

Glenn Palmer Family. The Lord has provided finances of $12,000 for Bibles for Armenia, hymnals for use in England, a hymn player for open-air work, and study materials for training people for their service to the Lord.

Glenn Pizor Family. We have four additional adults coming into our membership. Please pray as we seek a new permanent facility.

Mickey Schrimshire Family. We had our annual Easter concert by our North Staffordshire Christian Choir just before Easter. Our puppet team is called "ReachOut," and we had three ministry opportunities around the Easter season.

Ben Wharton Family. Bicester Baptist Church recently called their first national pastor, Brother Ken Punter. Pastor Punter was trained under the ministry of another BIMI missionary, Arvin Devers, in Scotland. We will soon be starting our new ministry in South Wales.

FRANCE - Gailen Abbett Family. After nearly 37 years of serving the Lord in missions in France, God has opened another door of service for us. We will be representing BIMI in mission conferences, camps, schools, retreats…to encourage people to do more for missions.

Carey Abbett Family. We are still giving out Bibles and making visits to the people who have specifically asked for them during an evangelistic outreach from a church in Rouen. Many have received us and listened to what we had to say.

Danny Flowers Family. "I am Catholic and I am too old to make a change now." That is what Madame Colas said after her children witnessed to her. What a miracle to see her bow her head and trust the Lord!

Bob Huffman Family. We have recently baptized six of our young Christians. The day was very special with a fellowship dinner before the baptism and communion afterwards.

GERMANY - Dan Dubbe Family. We have had visitors in every Sunday service since we started meeting in our new building. Our people have completed the major part of the renovation of a former train station in the town of Bischofsheim.

Walter Hornung Family. At our last baptism there were four that followed the Lord. This is a great victory. We have four more to be baptized in the near future.

Rodney Kidd Family. In the daughter church we have had the blessing of seeing two families who were formerly active in the main church come back to the Lord and to the church through the new, smaller ministry. That has been very encouraging to the entire church-planting team.

HUNGARY - Marc Patton Family. Our attendance in our Esztergom church has been between 110 and 120 the last few Sundays. The new church plant in Nyergesuijfalu is experiencing visitors. Over 1100 children and 100 teachers heard the Gospel at our puppet shows in area public schools.

LATVIA - Jonathan Thompson Family. We would like to thank all of you who have given us coloring books for the Latvian children in the hospital. This ministry has been a real joy to us. The children’s smiles let us know that we are making an impact in their young lives.

NORTHERN IRELAND. Ed Bissett Family. One ministry we have had in the past few months involved producing a music CD with a five-minute Gospel message in the middle of the music. We were allowed to go into two of the main shopping centers in West Belfast, and we were able to give away 400 CDs each day.

POLAND - Darrell Johnson Family. Krzysiek gave his life to Christ. His salvation is the result of a very long process, but we praise God that he has finally seen his need for salvation. Two years ago he came to church very drunk. Praise God for his salvation.

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND - Dan Canavan Family. We recently had our first Faith Promise Missions Conference. We were able to start supporting an English missionary going to Honduras and a Portuguese pastor taking a small work in Portugal.

Stephen Finley Family. At the birth of our son, Sean Benjamin, we had an opportunity to share the Gospel with a midwife named Gwen. She saw us reading the Scriptures and asked what our religion was all about.

Don Thatcher Family. We have been working with the River Valley Baptist Church near Dublin for almost three years. Recently God has opened another door of service for us. We will be serving the Anchor Baptist Church in the southeastern corner of Ireland. Please pray for us in this new ministry.

Bob Zemeski Family. Our mailing project covering Lixlip and Lucan is complete and resulted in two salvation decisions. Kathi and I visited Aoife MacCourt in her home and showed her how to be saved.

ROMANIA - Tom Gentry Family. I am sitting in my office writing this letter with the joyful sound of a bulldozer working in the background. We are breaking ground for cabins at our camp. I have carried this in my hearts for fifteen years. We continue to get good reports from our school graduates as they serve the Lord.

Ed Hembree Family. We have had the greatest single increase in our faith-promise missions giving since we began it six years ago. This year when we counted the commitment, we had a 45% increase. Our monthly giving will be right at $300.

Keith Herndon Family. The Bible Institute started with 23 students and has now grown to 31. People are coming from as far as two hours away.

Brian Nibbe Family. The church has seen visitors from the soul-winning activities and people have been saved. Recently 25 people met to pass out Bibles, John/Romans, tracts and invitations.

Tim Tyler Family. We have had five adults join our church, four by baptism. We have seen an increase in attendance with a high of 49. In the middle of our mid-week service, I was able to lead Petru to the Lord. Please pray for him.

Duane Hearron Family. Praise the Lord; we have opened our new church apartment doors. Already we have had two visitors who received our paper invitations on the street.

Don Ossewaarde Family. After attending our Bible study for a long time, Irina asked if she could talk with me. She told me that she had trusted Christ in her home. "Cowboy Alex," an unsaved truck driver, saw our poster we had placed near a bus stop. He started coming to our Bible study and has accepted Christ has his Savior.

David Sterling Family. One Sunday morning, Albert and Natasha were the only ones who came to the adult morning service. Albert said he realized he needed to be saved, but there was something hindering him. The next morning, Natasha came running to our home to say Albert wanted to talk to me later. That evening we knelt by our couch and Albert accepted Christ.

Ron Winkler Family. Please pray for a young teen girl named Sveta who made a decision to receive Christ as her Savior. She is the first young person to accept Christ since we began meeting in this village about a year ago.

Adam Young Family. As I was walking towards a gas station recently, three apartments exploded across the street from me. I turned around to see two large plumes of smoke, people getting up off the street, and windows broken everywhere. Two trees were missing half of all their branches on the very spot I would have been within two minutes. We praise the Lord for keeping us safe.

SCOTLAND - Doug Cameron Family. Three new members joined our church. Also, Judy started a weekly ladies’ Bible study. One dear lady, Ruby, got saved as a result of the Bible study.

Arvin Devers Family. We have started a children’s Bible Club on Sunday nights and seven children are attending. Also, we have distributed 500 copies of our new church leaflet door-to-door.

Lea Devers. Our new missionary to Scotland, who is assisting her parents with the children’s ministry.

Graham Forbes Family. We believe that God is pointing us to an outreach to people with addictions. Whether it is an addiction to drugs, alcohol, pornography or credit cards the person is struggling with, we pray God will use us in this new ministry.

Dennis Snelson Family. During one of many hospital visits, Dennis met a young man named Peter. After speaking a few minutes, Peter told Dennis about the tract that was given to him three years ago. This was the man who had called us late at night indicating he had prayed the prayer on that tract.

SLOVAKIA - Doug Cook Family. Since we arrived, we have been busy with language studies and English clubs in the public school. A tract that I have written is translated and in the final stage before printing. SPAIN - Clayton Livengood Family. We will soon be celebrating our annual missions’ conference. This will be our tenth year using faith promise. Thanks to the giving of our church members, we are supporting eleven missionaries for about $65.00 per month.

SWITZERLAND - Tim Carnicle Family. At the end of the Bible lesson Barbara was teaching, she asked one of the three girls if she had ever asked Jesus to save her. The young lady said, "No." When Barbara asked her if she wanted to be saved, she said, "Yes." They prayed and the young lady asked Jesus to be her Savior.

UKRAINE – Robert Fuller. Recently I went to Warsaw to renew my visa. The blessing of my trip was to meet two Polish deaf. Even though we had different sign languages, we managed to communicate in gestures and some English words. I had the great privilege to share the Gospel with them. They knew nothing about the plan of salvation.

Tony Hess Family. I invited George to church. He is a Nigerian, who attends Russian language school where I do. He brought his friend John; the week after he brought two more! The next week they came in a group of six. Pray for us as we minister to these Nigerian students.

Matthew Hudson Family. We have prayed for a new meeting place. The Regional School Superintendent had told me that we could not use the local village schoolhouse. But Luda, the unsaved daughter of one of our members, went on her own to the school principal. He said YES - we can rent the school for $30 US! Please pray for Luda’s salvation.

John Magas Family. Brother Moux is a 76-year-old Baptist deacon from a nearby village. Every time he is with us, I give him about twenty minutes to preach from his little black leather Bible. When I asked him how long he had used his old little black Bible, he explained that he got it in 1956, when it was brought into the Soviet Union through Poland!

John Spillman Family. Vanya is a man with whom Vadim went to veterinarian school. Vadim has spent a great deal of time witnessing to him, and it is evident that the Lord is working in him. He is even coming occasionally to church. Pray for his salvation.

Bob Van Sant Family. Yesterday eleven people came to help in evangelism…passing out about 1,500 tracts in one hour. Today in church one young boy was saved; his name is Alosha. Eighty-five ladies were at our tenth annual Ladies Day Banquet. One deaf young lady accepted Christ in her heart.

WALES – Robb Redlin Family. The start of Beddau Baptist church has gone so much better than we could have ever expected. We saw one man come to know the Lord, and there are twelve people who are coming faithfully to almost every service.

Ben Wharton Family. Recently moved from England to Wales to begin a new church plant in Mid-Glamorgan.

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Republic of Georgia

We still need your help to provide God's Word to those who do not have it. Please send your love gifts to: Europe Bible Fund Account 656 - BIMI PO Box 9215 Chattanooga, TN 37412



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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Scot C & Katie Daku -  AMERICAN SAMOA
Paul J & Wendy Daku Jr -  FIJI ISLANDS
James & Dawn Daley -  INDONESIA