Working Missionaries and Rookies Working Hand in Hand together in ... Romania and Ukraine
ROMANIA:
Thoughts from: The TIM TYLER FAMILY Our new missionaries in Romania
Hours of.... DEPUTATION.... ANTICIPATION... THEN REALIZATION!
With excitement and anticipation, we boarded our departing flight towards our desired destination...ROMANIA. So much preparation had gone into that moment; it was hard to believe it had finally arrived.
How can one describe the feeling of being at home in a place ...
- where you have never lived before?
- where there is a house with none of your belongings?
- where neighbors greet you with words you cannot understand
And yet...
It all feels so familiar - so right! Only the Lord can make that happen. We also praise the Lord for good missionary friends like Ed and Carole Hembree who spent numerous hours helping us find things we needed. Apart from a battle with fleas and spiders, insane road traffic and a more humid climate, we are all doing great and the kids love it!
Ed and Carole Hembree have been BIMI missionaries since 1991. God has used them greatly in planting churches, establishing Bible institutes and a college, and in providing a home for orphan children. Now God is using them to help our new missionaries to get established in the country of Romania.
AND IN UKRAINE...
"IS THIS TAG-TEAM EVANGELISM OR WHAT?"
by Tony Hess
(Tony and Dawn Hess are new missionaries in Ukraine)
Seriosha and I were out to play tennis here in Simferopol. I gave a tract to a man named Andre who was watching us play. He began to read and hardly looked up until he finished. I wanted to talk to him about it but it is difficult with only a limited vocabulary. Seriosha came over and began explaining the gospel to him and shortly after, glory to the Lord, this young man bowed his head and asked Christ to be His Savior. For the next week, he came to our church with Seriosha. He lives in a town further north where we know a good missionary and church. We prayed that he would remain faithful when he returned home. In a few days, we received word that Andre attended church that next Sunday, gave a testimony of his faith in the Lord Jesus and was baptized the following Sunday. Is that tag-team evangelism? The Bible says that one sows the seed, another waters the seed but the Lord gives theincrease.
Simferopol, Ukraine, has not been the same since Bob and Judy VanSant became BIMI missionaries in 1994. They are church planters with the hearing and the deaf. The impact of their church is felt in various ministries with conducting Bible institutes, ladies' meetings, teen choirs and helping newmissionaries like the Hess family.
