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Volume 20, #2

ALBANIA - Mike McCombie Family. Two new people recently came to our church and they are saved and musicians! One of them played and the church had a great time of singing.

CZECH REPUBLIC - Samuel Barth Family. (They arrived in Prague - a city of 2 million people - in April.) I was able to give a Russian lady in my language class a Russian Bible. Please pray for Mirik, a single man in his late twenties, who is coming to our English Bible Study.

ENGLAND - Ford Baker Family. Praise the Lord, we are back in England. We are beginning to lay the foundation for a new church plant near Corby.

Mark Bell Family. As a result of our latest ministry - Tea and Coffee Morning - Margaret has been attending our church. For two hours, we open the doors of our church to anyone who wants to come in for tea, coffee and biscuits (cookies). Then we give them a tract and an invitation to our services.

Don Hughes Family. The mother of one of our Christian Iranian ladies was visiting from Iran. At the end of the service, she asked (through her daughter interpreting), "Can I be saved this morning?" She had heard the gospel on a Christian broadcast in Iran. She trusted Christ!

John Jones Family. Our church recently celebrated our third birthday. For ten weeks we have had at least one first time visitor at our Sunday services.

Ferrell Kearney Family. Barbara and I are serving in Nuneaton at the Bible Baptist Church. I also will be teaching a modular on the Minor Prophets, four hours each night of the week, at the Baptist Bible College near Cannock Chase.

Glenn Palmer Family. We celebrated the 20th anniversary of Calvary Baptist church. This was a wonderful service with testimonies from those who had come to know the Lord over the years here. There were sixty-seven in attendance.

Glenn Pizor Family. Mark Bridges (26 years old), the son of one of our members, has lived a life of drugs and crime. God saved Mark in January and he is showing good evidences of a regenerated life.

Jim Reynolds Family. Our church recently celebrated our second anniversary here in London. We have seen six souls saved and have seven going on soul winning from our church.

Mickey Schrimshire Family. Preaching on the street in Edinburgh during the annual festival with so many nationalities represented was a very special time. Many were hostile, but thank the Lord some were open and willing to talk and take literature.

Ben Wharton Family. On Friend Day we had a record of 60 for morning worship. We have given out flyers and tracts to over 600 Bicester homes. Three people have responded by attending our church.

FRANCE - Gailen Abbett Family. Thirty-five years ago Margie and I first arrived in France. We have completed our twenty-one days camp and have begun teaching in the Bible Institute.

Carey Abbett Family. Please pray that we will find a building that will be suitable for our ministry and our Family.

Bob Huffman Family. God has blessed our church in the past few months with eleven following the Lord in believer's baptism. We have also had three professions of faith.

GERMANY - Dan Dubbe Family. As we went on door-to-door visitation, Mrs. Fink responded to the gospel and trusted Christ. Our daughter Renate and two ladies followed the Lord in baptism.

Michael Fields Family. In my language class, I have been able to pass out Bibles and tracts to my classmates. I was even able to give Turkish Gospel tracts to the Turkish students.

Walter Hornung Family. We had a special Sunday emphasizing the second coming of our Lord. In the morning service, we had about 50 people present and a 26-year-old man received Christ as his Savior.

Rodney Kidd Family. Some recent highlights of our ministry: We had 70 ladies present for our "Ladies' Dinner" and over half of them were guests. Our children's musical was a powerful presentation and the church was filled with standing room only.

HUNGARY - Marc Patton Family. Both Noemi and Melinda (new Christians) have given testimonies of their accepting Christ. We were thrilled to have three families visit our Sunday service as a direct result of our VBS program. The dedication of our new building was held September 25 with 210 present.

LATVIA - Paul LaGant Family. After a recent service, we found out that a ten-year-old boy wanted to trust Christ. After I took God's Word and showed him how Jesus wanted to save him, he asked Christ to come into his heart.

Jonathan Thompson Family. For several months, Ilze has come to our Bible study and asked many questions. After one message, with tears in her eyes, she asked Jesus to save her soul. What a great reward after hours of distributing flyers!

NORTHERN IRELAND - Tom Fittis Family. During our 5th Annual Missions Conference, we had missionaries from South Africa and England. Our Faith Promise went up again almost $1500 a month. To date, our small church has given over $82,000 to worldwide missions.

Ed and Joan Bissett recently received their 25 year pins from BIMI.

POLAND - Darrell Johnson Family. We are thrilled to report that we are having at least 10-12 Poles visiting our morning services every week. Also, during the past year we have had a small Bible Institute with other fundamental Baptists in Poland.

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND - Dan Canavan Family. A young college couple from Nepal came to our services through the faithful witness of Kathy, one of our members. Keshav and Sabina eagerly called upon Jesus Christ to save them from the penalty of sin.

Don Thatcher Family. Mary announced after giving her testimony in church one Sunday that she wanted to be baptized. It also opened the door for her two older children that had trusted Christ over a year ago to be baptized as well.

Bob Zemeski Family. Kathi and I have been serving the Lord in Ireland for twenty-six years. God has been so gracious to us. We recently had over 20 Indian friends come to church for the baby dedication of Kiron and Sharon Potluri. Most likely, it was the first time all of them heard the gospel.

ROMANIA - Tom Gentry Family. We are entering our 14th year in Eastern Europe. Probably our biggest news for Camp 2005 was how God provided. Three weeks before Gypsy Camp, I was notified that we would not be receiving support for the Gypsies' transportation to camp. This broke my heart because it has taken years to build up a trust with the Gypsies. BUT I received word that the mayor of a large Gypsy village was donating a bus to use for our camp week. Praise the Lord!

Ed Hembree Family. Our discipleship classes are going well, with an increase in faithfulness in the services by those attending the training. I have completely finished the Greek syllabus (first and second year) for the college.

Keith Herndon Family. We took our teens on an evangelization with Gypsies in Satu Mare. The meeting was as much for the teens as for the Gypsies. Moni, one of our teens, accepted Christ.

Brian Nibbe Family. Eleven people have been saved in the last few weeks. About 100 came to a wedding of a young woman and her fiancee, who had been saved from a Jehovah's Witness background. Many people heard the gospel for the first time.

RUSSIA - Andrew Bunnell Family. An elderly woman visiting from Estonia brought her granddaughter to our weekly VBS. I was thrilled to lead her to accept Christ. It was a joy to see the light of the gospel of salvation break into Grandmother Nadezhda's soul.

Kyle Charters Family. Edison, a first year medical student at the Indian Bible Study, received Christ as his Savior after one of our meetings.

Duane Hearron Family. One year ago, Sergey Gailyeovich, a homeless Christian, was given our church tract. He visited our church and has not stopped coming. Upon his confession of faith in Christ, I baptized Sergey - who is developing into an articulate preacher of the gospel.

Don Ossewaarde Family. Hundreds of people gathered in the park for "pancake day," a holiday here in Russia. We were there giving away New Testaments - 720 of them! We have given away a total of 16,000.

David Sterling Family. We unloaded another container of New Testaments from BIMI. Every Saturday for the past two months, several of the teens meet at the church to pass out tracts and Bibles. Every person we have the opportunity to talk with receives a New Testament.

Ron Winkler Family. We have been able to pass out tracts and New Testaments in the outdoor markets to people from China, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia and many other countries. In our services, we have had seven first-time visitors. I have also had the opportunity preach twice without the aid of an interpreter.

Adam Young Family. We praise the Lord that since arriving in our new city, Samara, we have seen our first soul saved - a 32-year-old man named Aleksei. Also, through BIMI, 5,000 Bibles are on the way to us to help us as we start our new ministry here.

SCOTLAND - Doug Cameron Family. After being chased by a dog, cutting my hand in the mail slot and getting five stitches, I thought, "Is it worth it all?" One Friday a gentleman from Dondonald called to thank me for the church information. I was the first person to invite him to church.

Arvin Devers Family. We have had an unusual ministry at the local "fete," or festival, here in Dunfermline. Our church was able to book a stall and give out much literature. Please pray that God's Word in print will bear fruit.

Graham Forbes Family. Irvin McArthur who is a father of four children, a lady named Morag and an 89-year-old grandmother named Rena Scott have all recently received Christ. Please pray for these new converts in Scotland.

Dennis Snelson Family. We received a special blessing at midnight when the phone rang and a young man named Peter responded. He had received our tract "Are You Certain?" and wanted us to know that he had prayed the prayer that was on the tract. Please pray for Peter.

SLOVAKIA - Ellis Johnston Family. We have secured a very nice room at the Culture House in our city. Olga, a widow, after seeing our ad in the paper about our Berean Bible Series, has been coming faithfully.

SPAIN - Clayton Livengood Family. "Publish the Good News" was the theme of our missions conference. We had a Faith Promise of nearly 9,000 Euros.

SWITZERLAND - Tim Carnicle Family. It is hard to believe that we have been here almost seven years. Switzerland has the highest suicide rate in Europe. We are sharing God's Word with people and we know God is working.

UKRAINE - Tony Hess Family. We had a great week of Baseball Camp where I had the privilege to lead 20 boys to Christ. We will follow up by letters, pictures and tracts in their homes, as well as a weekly baseball day.

Matthew Hudson Family. We recently had a record attendance of 80 people in church. At our baptismal service, seven people waded out into the river in the rain and were baptized.

Dan Irvin Family. When we came to the lake for our baptism, we asked the Lord to stop the drizzle if that would be His will. To our delight and His glory, the rain stopped and two more of our people followed the Lord in baptism.

John Magas Family. My son Jonathan and I were out soul winning door to door, and we were able to lead Luba, a 40-year-old lady, to the Lord. She was ready to receive Christ!

John Spillman Family. During our kids' club, we were able to give out children's Bibles and good lessons to take home to their parents. We have seen several visitors in Sunday School because of the clubs.

Bob Van Sant Family. When a missionary goes to a foreign field, his goal is to win souls and train nationals to carry on the work. Our church ordained Slava Kratko as pastor of Simferopol Baptist Deaf Church. The deaf church is now completely self-supporting.

WALES - Robb, Barbara and nine-year-old Tell Redlin arrived in South Wales, September 10, as our new missionaries there. Praise the Lord!