LIVES ARE BEING CHANGED AROUND EUROPE

Compiled by Maylou Holladay

CZECH REPUBLIC - Samuel Barth Family. A local Baptist pastor invited me to assist in their annual English camp. I taught English for three hours each morning to university students and helped with the Bible studies on the book of Mark each evening. At least six of the fifteen campers were not saved. Please pray for these students.

ENGLAND - Mark Bell Family. Rudy Ruiter followed the Lord in believer’s baptism. After the baptism, he and his wife Fiona became members of the church.

Reta Burns. For three weeks, we held VBS in our Upper Room in the town centre of Market Harborough. Two eleven-year-old girls and one nine-year-old boy, Thomas, from my Sunday School class were saved.

John Jones Family. We had the privilege of baptizing Mr. Shenton who had been attending our church for two years. He was christened and confirmed in the Church of England but has recently accepted Christ as his Savior. At his baptismal service he gave testimony of his faith in Christ.

Ferrell Kearney Family. In 1982-1983, I pastored Lighthouse Baptist Church in Birmingham for the furloughing missionary. At present, Barbara and I are back in England taking care of the ministry of the church. Many of the folks are still faithful after all these years.

Marcia Kittleson. We continue to put leaflets and John/Romans through the doors. We have helped to give out 1200 flyers. Most of our visitors have come because of our leaflets.

Jack Moorman Family. Recently John A. went to be with the Lord. His funeral service was a triumph of one who dies in Christ. The Gospel went out to the many unsaved family present. Please pray for John’s 30-year-old daughter Mandy.

Glenn Palmer Family. We celebrated the 22nd anniversary of Calvary Baptist Church in Spalding with a good attendance of forty-six with several visitors. It was encouraging to hear our teens share the blessing of learning God’s Word.

Glenn Pizor Family. The Lord even used our move to a different home to give us an opportunity to witness. We were able to give a gospel leaflet to our real estate agent. He later asked for more to pass on to colleagues and Family. Please pray for him.

Mickey Schrimshire Family. We have just completed our 24th year in the UK as missionaries. Again this summer, we had a team of 25 adults and teens from around Britain who helped in our beach mission in Llandudno, North Wales. Our puppet team was blessed to spend two weeks in America giving performances in five churches and two public schools.

ESTONIA*** a new field is open for BIMI - Andrew Bunnell Family (formerly in Russia). We are on the ground in Estonia. We are now working to establish our residence in the country. (Pray for Andrew and Sarah and baby Joey as they begin their ministry in a new country.)

FRANCE - Carey Abbett Family. Susan and I just worked in the second camp we have had this year. We know of at least fifteen children who publicly acknowledged receiving Christ as their Savior during this camp.

Danny Flowers Family. Robert is a retiree who is suffering from cancer. Our first visit into his home was in December 2005. He was uninterested at that time, but has recently accepted Christ as his Savior. He is coming to church and has begun discipleship studies.

Bob Huffman Family. We had our official inauguration of our church building. Among the 250 present was the vice-mayor of our town, who spoke briefly of the need for groups like ours. We also rejoice that a man and his wife followed the Lord in believer’s baptism.

GERMANY - Dan Dubbe Family. At youth camp, one of our preacher boys led a set of twins from our church to the Lord. Five of our church young people were active in the teaching, music, activities and planning of this year’s camp. It is exciting to see an enthusiastic faith in the young people taking action!

Walter Hornung Family. I am encouraged that three men of our church are able to preach good sermons. Also, that a 74-year-old woman and two Jung men followed the Lord in baptism and proclaimed their faith.

Rodney Kidd Family. The daughter church in the north of Mannheim is doing well and is now one year old. We are teaching a basic course in what it means to be a Christian to a group of people who have been visiting the church. We pray they will soon become believers.

HUNGARY - Marc Patton Family. Our new church plant in Nyergesujfalu will hold their first baptismal service and also officially form the church membership. A total of ten people are becoming charter members. We had about 90 people present for our annual family camp. Many made important decisions.

LATVIA - Jonathan Thompson Family. Please pray for a new meeting place for our church services.

NORTHERN IRELAND - Ed Bissett Family. Hugh, 92, and his wife, 80, attended a luncheon we had at our church. Afterwards, Hugh wanted to speak with me. That evening, he and his wife trusted in Christ for forgiveness of their sins. Now most Sunday nights they are in our services.

POLAND - Darrell Johnson Family. On August 12, it was a great joy to see four Polish believers take a big step of faith by becoming the charter members of the “Chrzescijanski Zbor Wolnych Baptystow” – Christian Independent Baptist Church. It was a day we had planned and waited to take place for the past 14 years.

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND - Dan Canavan Family. After a 24-hour Prayer Marathon at our church, God brought two Irish teenage girls to the church. These 17-year-old twin sisters felt impressed to stop in to ask about doing a Bible study. They shared that they had made a profession of faith at a camp run by Scripture Union. Please pray for Alaine and Gilliane.

Stephen Finley Family. (Recently moved to Athlone to begin a new church plant). Please pray for Dave and Patrick who have been attending our services. We are praying that they will soon realize their need for salvation. Two churches have helped us to put out 2,500 copies of the Midlands Bible Tribune.

Don Thatcher Family. In these early days of the Anchor Baptist Church in the southeastern corner of Ireland, we are encouraged to have a new lady named Janet visiting our services. I also have at least one man who comes out to knock on doors with me.

Bob Zemeski Family. This month was our second anniversary of River Valley Baptist Church. We have been encouraged to have Norah and Paul to come Sunday and Wednesday evenings. Please pray for Paul’s salvation.

ROMANIA - Tom Gentry Family. In one week of our camp, over 200 young folks between the ages of 12 and 15 have responded to the call of salvation. Another 75 have come forward to dedicate their lives and pray for those being saved.

Ed Hembree Family. We are beginning our 5th year of our Independent Baptist College of Romania. This summer our 8-day choir tour took us to several different churches throughout Romania.

Keith Herndon Family. We took our camp to a Gypsy village that is two hours away. Each evening service averaged about 120 people in attendance. There were over 100 who came to Christ.

Brian Nibbe Family. More than 150 different children came to our VBS. On the last two nights 39 children responded for salvation and 10 came for assurance of salvation.

Tim Tyler Family. Ioan Dundi is a 45-year-old man who had received our material in his apartment mailbox, came to our services and was saved last month. He just became the seventh person to be baptized this year.

RUSSIA - Duane Hearron Family. Teaching at the high school called “Memory of 13 Fighters” has opened many doors. It has enabled me to break into the culture of this village and remove some of the many obstacles that an outsider would normally face.

Konstantin Kamilchu Family. ***New BIMI missionaries in St. Petersburg, Russia. Please pray for Konstantin, Nadia and their children, as they settle into their new ministry.

Don Ossewaarde Family. Soon after Alex was saved in January, he was reading his Bible and noticed that saved people get baptized. I was going to speak to him about baptism, but he asked me first! Alex was our first baptism in Russia. The following Thursday his wife Pollina accepted Christ and then was baptized.

David Sterling Family. Our local House of Culture has allowed us to hold our VBS clubs there. The director of the local school allowed my wife Dee to invite the children from the school to the club. We have had as many as sixty young people attend, including some Muslim children.

Ron Winkler Family. Over the last several months, I have preached almost exclusively about salvation. Our two most faithful young people, Tanya and Natasha, recently gave testimony of having prayed to accept Christ on their own. I have already started discipleship with them.

Adam Young Family. We are the only Independent Baptist missionaries in the entire Volga Region of 32 million souls. We have had some great times soul-winning this month with two professions of faith, and three new people meeting with us for Bible study. Inna, a young married mother, found one of our tracts on a bench in the park, called us, and has committed to a weekly Bible study with us.

SCOTLAND - Doug Cameron Family. Please pray for a building for our church. Attendance has been good, but we need a permanent meeting place.

Arvin Devers Family. Recently we were out doing door-to-door work. Among those we met at the door, one was a Muslim, one a Sikh, one a Roman Catholic, and two went to the local Church of Scotland Church. Please pray as we try to reach the diverse population of Scotland for Christ.

Lea Devers. We are grateful that two girls were saved during the Bible Club. Please pray that these girls will grow up to serve the Lord.

Graham Forbes Family. For 40 years Jack suffered from alcoholism until he came to Christ. When he was baptized, many of his family came and heard the message that was preached. His wife, who was saved as a young person, rededicated her life to Christ and joined the church the Sunday Jack was baptized.

Dennis Snelson Family. Over the last two months we have seen three ladies make professions of faith; two have begun their discipleship training. Our school ministry continues where we speak to primary six and seven classes twice a year.

SLOVAKIA - Doug Cook Family. On a train trip to Bratislava, I asked the Lord to give me the opportunity to share Christ. A man named Sylvester asked the important question, “Why are you here?” Over the next 30 minutes I had the privilege of sharing Christ with Sylvester. He has committed to come to hear me preach.

SPAIN - Clayton Livengood Family. We had a special baptismal service for 11-year-old Daniel. Our missions’ conference was a blessing and we are able to continue supporting all of our missionaries.

UKRAINE – Robert Fuller. We had three deaf men and seven hearing taking separate classes for our first Bible College. I thank the Lord for helping me teach Bible Doctrines.

Tony Hess Family. This year our Bible College got started. I taught the first section of Bible Doctrines class, teaching on Theology.

Matthew Hudson Family. This year our family celebrates our 10th anniversary on the mission field. While distributing Russian New Testaments and gospel tracts throughout our village, we have been able to share the gospel with many people.

Daniel Irvin Family. In spite of not being able to read or write, Sister Raisa (who was saved and baptized last year) has brought more people to the services than anyone else. She listens to her Ukrainian New Testament on tape.

John Magas Family. Please pray for Lecia to accept Christ; we have had Bible studies with her in her home, but she hasn’t yet made a decision for Christ.

John Spillman Family. Our church member Svetlana Pavlovna died, leaving her unsaved husband. We have witnessed to him many times. Please pray for his salvation.

Bob Van Sant Family. At our “Bread of Life Sunday,” each person who attended received a loaf of bread. Every visitor who came also received a copy of the Word of God. After church, we took the excess loaves to the orphanage. God also blessed at our teen camp. There were youth from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Moldova…the biggest year ever.

WALES – Robb Redlin Family. Our church in Beddau celebrated its first anniversary with 44 in attendance. Mary, who brings her daughter to Kidz Klub, asked to speak to Robb after Sunday night service and she accepted Christ as her personal Savior.

Ben Wharton Family. We helped start a Kidz Klub this summer. The Lord has blessed this ministry and we are averaging between ten and fourteen children every Sunday. Please pray for Rachel who has been coming to Kidz Klub with us. Her father is an agnostic but her mother has shown some interest.