ALBANIA - Mike McCombie Family. Zenepe got saved! It was crucial that she make a salvation decision when she did, as she was scheduled to move to Italy to live with her husband who is working there.
ENGLAND - Mark Bell Family. Janice is attending our church now because of our new ministry - our newsletter called "The Calvary Chronicle." Frank, our neighbor, and Sarah, a university student, were recently baptized.
Don Hughes Family(helping John Reynolds). Someone from our church presented Christ's love and forgiveness to Roya, a Muslim, and she received Christ. She is translating my message about Baptist beliefs into her language for her 21-year-old son in Iran.
John Jones Family. Adele, the daughter of our faithful member Anne, testified that she has received Christ as her Savior. Other outreach opportunities God has given us is to take our choir to one of the largest women's prisons in this region.
Ferrell Kearney Family (helping Ford Baker). We are in England while the missionary is on furlough. Recently we passed out 140 Gospel of John and Romans on visitation.
Glenn Palmer Family. The Lord has blessed our visitation program with two new Sunday School girls, Lucy and Lorna. We also helped load two forty-foot containers with clothing to be shipped to Armenia.
Glenn Pizor Family. Thousands of Filipinos have moved to England mostly to work in the health care system. Over 300 people came out to celebrate Filipino Day. Our church set up a booth and distributed tracts. Since we have two Filipino ladies in our church, it was a great opportunity for outreach.
Ben Wharton Family. Here at Bicester Baptist Church we have had a record month averaging 50 in our Sunday morning services. Also, we have seen a young woman, Louise, trust Christ as her Savior.
FRANCE - Carey Abbett Family. The theme of our camp was "faithfulness." I had eleven young men in my care; almost all have made decisions for the Lord.
Gailen Abbett Family. After 34 years serving the Lord in France, we know there is a good side to everything. Our plumbing problem presented an opportunity to get to know our plumber quite well. He graciously accepted a Bible from us and Gospel literature. Pray for his salvation.
Bob Huffman Family. A man who has been coming to our church invited us to lunch. I was able to share Christ with his wife and three of their children. All four of them made professions of faith. The family is coming faithfully now.
GERMANY - Dan Dubbe Family. One of our ladies brought her sister-in-law to church and she trusted Christ after the service. At our annual church family camp, I had the opportunity to lead Ida Zahn to saving faith in Christ. Ida is in her 50's and has a wayward son for whom we are praying.
Michael Fields Family. In our language class, our teacher asked us to tell why we wanted to learn the German language. She gave me about 15 minutes to share about Jesus Christ and the Bible.
Walter Hornung Family. Farry, a saved Iranian man in our church, witnessed to his two friends in Iran for two years by telephone. On their way to jobs in Sweden, they stopped in Germany so they could come to our service and receive Christ. They flew to Sweden rejoicing with Christ in their hearts and the Word of God in their mother tongue in their hands.
Rodney Kidd Family. Four more young people or children have been saved in our monthly evangelistic service for young people on the last Sunday night of the month. A team of nine from our church assisted a church in northern France with some work on their building.
HUNGARY - Marc Patton Family. We had 99 present for our annual Harvest Sunday. Recently a young mother from Slovakia gave a testimony of her salvation and desire to be baptized. She would be our first member from Slovakia.
LATVIA - Paul LaGant Family. At our four-day camp, Christops received salvation. Four others have recently received Christ as their savior.
Jonathan Thompson Family. During the invitation, Rihards looked at me while others had their eyes closed. One Sunday, he lifted his hand for salvation. Although he has had a problem with stealing, he didn't think he was a sinner. After showing him the story of the two thieves who died with Jesus, he called upon the Lord to save his soul.
NORTHERN IRELAND - Ed Bissett Family. A young Catholic girl, aged fourteen, has trusted the Lord as her Savior. Our daughter Heather has invited Claire to our church, to youth fellowship and to Word of Life. There she trusted Christ.
Tom Fittis Family. Please pray for Ruth Kyle and Liz Hill who attend but are unsaved. Liz had brought her friend Jackie to church and we witnessed to her. Jackie intended to come back the next Sunday but tragically died that next Saturday night. Please pray for Liz.
POLAND - Darrell Johnson Family. Danuta has entered the gates of Heaven. Danuta was the first Pole to attend our services 10 years ago, the first saved and baptized, and now the first to enter Glory! A man Piotr has been saved and the priest told Piotr's wife: "We must pray he will return to the Catholic church." But she replied, "Yes, we must pray but it is better to wait until after he dies, because he is a better man and husband now than he was when he was a Catholic."
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND - Don Thatcher Family. (New BIMI missionaries) God provided a house and van for us within the first two weeks. We took possession on July 1 and our container arrived on July 6!
Bob Zemeski Family. We have been witnessing to Karl Grouse for seven years. Karl has been coming to church for 2 months and has given a clear testimony of his coming to Christ.
ROMANIA - Tom Gentry Family. Our electrician, who has been working on our Bible Institute, and his wife have received Christ as their Savior! One by one these guys who come to work on the building are getting saved.
Ed Hembree Family. This year's graduates brought our total to 77 men trained in this four-year institution. This year finishes ten years of uninterrupted ministry in the Institute.
Keith Herndon Family. We averaged around 300 children each week in camp. As part of their practical, each Bible Institute student is required to serve four weeks at our camp. Here they get experience being group leaders, teaching Bible lessons, working in the kitchen and cleaning outhouses. What a blessing they are to us!
Brian Nibbe Family. In our soul-winning class we have had two "unusual" people attending. Adrian, an atheist who was curious about salvation, has been saved, baptized and joined the choir. Mihai, a Jehovah's Witness, who attended the class for over two years, has been saved and baptized.
Tim Tyler Family. A "first time" experience for our students in the Independent Baptist College of Romania was a choir tour to 9 different Baptist churches - traveling almost 1200 miles. There were several decisions and at least two saved.
RUSSIA - Andrew Bunnell Family. With great joy, I baptized Marina. Sixteen people accompanied us to the riverbank to watch the baptismal service. Sarah and I were invited to be honored guests at the Independence Day of Afghanistan Festival. I was the final speaker at the event which hundred of Afghanis attended. We sat at the head table with the chairman of the Afghan community, the chef Muslim cleric, the director of the local chapter of the UN relief group, and the editor of the Afghani newspaper. Please pray for us that we will have wisdom and discretion as God opens this door of opportunity.
Kyle Charters Family. We were able to see six follow the Lord in believer's baptism. Sasha and Anya, two of our most faithful teenagers, were very excited to receive baptism because it was illegal to baptize teenagers under 18 years of age during communist rule.
Robert Fuller (missionary to the deaf). Maksim was burdened for the deaf children at his alma mater. When he visited there, he showed our videotape of me telling the story of Jesus' birth. As a result, two deaf children invited Jesus into their hearts.
Duane Hearron Family. Saturday is Evangelization day. We praise God for the young people who come and help in this ministry.
Don Ossewaarde Family. My children and I went to a youth conference at the campground which belonged to the "young Pioneers" - the official Communist party youth organization. It is amazing to proclaim God's Word in such a place. Ten different people have visited our services in our home so far!
David Sterling Family. Dennis told us that during the preaching he was smitten with the fact that he had no hope but to trust in Christ. After the morning service Dennis accepted Christ as his Savior.
Ron Winkler Family. On our Siberian camping adventure, we and thirty campers braved bear, giant hornets, giant deer, horse flies, mosquitoes, Siberia's only poisonous snake, and two trips across the river all to preach the Gospel. As a result, four boys now have a home in Heaven.
Adam Young Family. While soulwinning in the park, I was able to lead Sergei to Christ. My wife and I invited Galina to our home for tea. When we shared the scriptures with her, she accepted Christ. Praise the Lord.
SCOTLAND - Doug Cameron Family. The leaders from the Bible Centre with five teens (including our son Doug) will be taking a missions trip to Bulgaria. They will be fixing and painting as well as teaching Bible stories and spending time with needy children.
Arvin Devers Family. Our goal is to plan a self-supporting, Bible-preaching, God-loving and sin-hating Independent Baptist Church. We are presently looking into a ministry in Fife.
Graham Forbes Family. God is still blessing and adding to our numbers with three people following the Lord in believer's baptism. Our church gives $900 per month to worldwide missions.
Mickey Schrimshire Family. I have started a men's mentoring fellowship in my home for possible future leaders in the church. I also have the privilege teaching discipleship lessons to a young man whom the Lord allowed me to lead to Him recently.
Dennis Snelson Family. We met Ken on visitation. I was able to meet with him later and he asked the Lord to save him. Also, our faith promise is over $3800!
SLOVAKIA - Ellis Johnston Family. We have distributed over 5,000 "Blessed Assurance" tracts in seven cities. Our bookmarks have been a help in meeting people one on one.
SPAIN - Clayton Livengood Family. We were privileged to have teen-agers Lydia and Seth Folkers from South Dakota helping us recently. What a blessing they were!
SWITZERLAND - Tim Carnicle Family. Because I had to have an MRI on my back, I was able to explain why I moved here to Switzerland. I shared my testimony and the gospel completely with one doctor, three nurses and the MRI technician and gave them each a gospel tract.
UKRAINE - Tony Hess Family. Our Neighborhood Bible Club's high attendance was 48. Eternity will tell the lasting effects of our gospel outreach in Pastor Bob Van Sant's driveway!
Matthew Hudson Family. Nikolay and I went to see his unsaved friend Anatoly. Anatoly's two sisters were visiting him from a city in eastern Ukraine. They allowed me to share with them from the Bible how to be saved. All three bowed their heads and trusted Christ as Savior.
Dan Irvin Famil. God allowed us to baptize seven including the mother and father of the young man we gave literature to over two years ago! He had stolen a New Testament years ago.After reading it, he asked the Lord to save him.
John Magas Family. The Lord had already blessed with the conversion of Sophia. Now her daughter Lecia will stay in the living room to hear what we have to share from the Word of God. Please pray that Lecia will come to Christ soon.
John Spillman Family. The Lord has marvelously answered prayer in saving Olga, who turned to Him for salvation. Praise the Lord!
Bob Van Sant Family. Alina is a 12-year-old girl who has been paralyzed from the waist down for two years. I shared the gospel with Alina, her aunt Ludmilla and her sister Tanya. All three were saved. Praise the Lord!