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.