LIVES ARE BEING CHANGED AROUND EUROPE
By Maylou Holladay

CZECH REPUBLIC - Samuel Barth Family. In our English class we teach, I am using the Bible as a textbook each week with Blanka. Recently, she offered to help me with my Czech. We are using a doctrines book written in the Czech language. As I am practicing Czech, Blanka is learning Bible doctrine!

ENGLAND - Ford Baker Family. We have stood on the same corner for a year now and have given out over 52,000 tracts and John/Romans to our town.

Mark Bell Family. Since our Pirate’s Day activity for the children in the community, we have seen an increase in our Sunday School program. We have also seen a good increase in the number of new visitors at church.

Reta Burns. We are thankful for new people attending the services. A recently saved lady has come for three Sundays now, and last week she brought her unsaved husband, Steve.

John Jones Family. Congleton Baptist church is almost five years old. The church has developed steadily and has grown. Our goal for this second term is to secure a permanent home for the church. Please pray for us.

Ferrell Kearney Family. We spent ten months in Great Britain working in two different ministries, filling in for missionaries in the States on furlough. We had numerous opportunities to share the gospel.

Marcia Kittleson. Reta and I purchased some hand bells and began a children’s hand bell choir. The children performed at a late night shopping night in Market Harborough.

Jack Moorman Family. Twenty-thousand more Scripture tracts were printed in recent weeks. Three new couples have begun attending – from India, Romania and South Africa.

Glenn Palmer Family. The Lord has provided finances of $12,000 for Bibles for Armenia, hymnals for use in England, a hymn player for open-air work, and study materials for training people for their service to the Lord.

Glenn Pizor Family. We have four additional adults coming into our membership. Please pray as we seek a new permanent facility.

Mickey Schrimshire Family. We had our annual Easter concert by our North Staffordshire Christian Choir just before Easter. Our puppet team is called “ReachOut,” and we had three ministry opportunities around the Easter season.

Ben Wharton Family. Bicester Baptist Church recently called their first national pastor, Brother Ken Punter. Pastor Punter was trained under the ministry of another BIMI missionary, Arvin Devers, in Scotland. We will soon be starting our new ministry in South Wales.

FRANCE - Gailen Abbett Family. After nearly 37 years of serving the Lord in missions in France, God has opened another door of service for us. We will be representing BIMI in mission conferences, camps, schools, retreats…to encourage people to do more for missions.

Carey Abbett Family. We are still giving out Bibles and making visits to the people who have specifically asked for them during an evangelistic outreach from a church in Rouen. Many have received us and listened to what we had to say.

Danny Flowers Family. “I am Catholic and I am too old to make a change now.” That is what Madame Colas said after her children witnessed to her. What a miracle to see her bow her head and trust the Lord!

Bob Huffman Family. We have recently baptized six of our young Christians. The day was very special with a fellowship dinner before the baptism and communion afterwards.

GERMANY - Dan Dubbe Family. We have had visitors in every Sunday service since we started meeting in our new building. Our people have completed the major part of the renovation of a former train station in the town of Bischofsheim.

Walter Hornung Family. At our last baptism there were four that followed the Lord. This is a great victory. We have four more to be baptized in the near future.

Rodney Kidd Family. In the daughter church we have had the blessing of seeing two families who were formerly active in the main church come back to the Lord and to the church through the new, smaller ministry. That has been very encouraging to the entire church-planting team.

HUNGARY - Marc Patton Family. Our attendance in our Esztergom church has been between 110 and 120 the last few Sundays. The new church plant in Nyergesuijfalu is experiencing visitors. Over 1100 children and 100 teachers heard the gospel at our puppet shows in area public schools.

LATVIA - Jonathan Thompson Family. We would like to thank all of you who have given us coloring books for the Latvian children in the hospital. This ministry has been a real joy to us. The children’s smiles let us know that we are making an impact in their young lives.

NORTHERN IRELAND. Ed Bissett Family. One ministry we have had in the past few months involved producing a music CD with a five-minute gospel message in the middle of the music. We were allowed to go into two of the main shopping centers in West Belfast, and we were able to give away 400 CDs each day.

POLAND - Darrell Johnson Family. Krzysiek gave his life to Christ. His salvation is the result of a very long process, but we praise God that he has finally seen his need for salvation. Two years ago he came to church very drunk. Praise God for his salvation.

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND - Dan Canavan Family. We recently had our first Faith Promise Missions Conference. We were able to start supporting an English missionary going to Honduras and a Portuguese pastor taking a small work in Portugal.

Stephen Finley Family. At the birth of our son, Sean Benjamin, we had an opportunity to share the gospel with a midwife named Gwen. She saw us reading the Scriptures and asked what our religion was all about.

Don Thatcher Family. We have been working with the River Valley Baptist Church near Dublin for almost three years. Recently God has opened another door of service for us. We will be serving the Anchor Baptist Church in the southeastern corner of Ireland. Please pray for us in this new ministry.

Bob Zemeski Family. Our mailing project covering Lixlip and Lucan is complete and resulted in two salvation decisions. Kathi and I visited Aoife MacCourt in her home and showed her how to be saved.

ROMANIA - Tom Gentry Family. I am sitting in my office writing this letter with the joyful sound of a bulldozer working in the background. We are breaking ground for cabins at our camp. I have carried this in my hearts for fifteen years. We continue to get good reports from our school graduates as they serve the Lord.

Ed Hembree Family. We have had the greatest single increase in our faith-promise missions giving since we began it six years ago. This year when we counted the commitment, we had a 45% increase. Our monthly giving will be right at $300.

Keith Herndon Family. The Bible Institute started with 23 students and has now grown to 31. People are coming from as far as two hours away.

Brian Nibbe Family. The church has seen visitors from the soul-winning activities and people have been saved. Recently 25 people met to pass out Bibles, John/Romans, tracts and invitations.

Tim Tyler Family. We have had five adults join our church, four by baptism. We have seen an increase in attendance with a high of 49. In the middle of our mid-week service, I was able to lead Petru to the Lord. Please pray for him.

RUSSIA - Andrew Bunnell Family. Over two dozen Muslims have been converted to Christianity since we began working with two Afghans, Amman and Arif. Recently, they have experienced persecution when someone identified their connection with the newspaper. Please pray for them.

Duane Hearron Family. Praise the Lord; we have opened our new church apartment doors. Already we have had two visitors who received our paper invitations on the street.

Don Ossewaarde Family. After attending our Bible study for a long time, Irina asked if she could talk with me. She told me that she had trusted Christ in her home. “Cowboy Alex,” an unsaved truck driver, saw our poster we had placed near a bus stop. He started coming to our Bible study and has accepted Christ has his Savior.

David Sterling Family. One Sunday morning, Albert and Natasha were the only ones who came to the adult morning service. Albert said he realized he needed to be saved, but there was something hindering him. The next morning, Natasha came running to our home to say Albert wanted to talk to me later. That evening we knelt by our couch and Albert accepted Christ.

Ron Winkler Family. Please pray for a young teen girl named Sveta who made a decision to receive Christ as her Savior. She is the first young person to accept Christ since we began meeting in this village about a year ago.

Adam Young Family. As I was walking towards a gas station recently, three apartments exploded across the street from me. I turned around to see two large plumes of smoke, people getting up off the street, and windows broken everywhere. Two trees were missing half of all their branches on the very spot I would have been within two minutes. We praise the Lord for keeping us safe.

SCOTLAND - Doug Cameron Family. Three new members joined our church. Also, Judy started a weekly ladies’ Bible study. One dear lady, Ruby, got saved as a result of the Bible study.

Arvin Devers Family. We have started a children’s Bible Club on Sunday nights and seven children are attending. Also, we have distributed 500 copies of our new church leaflet door-to-door.

Lea Devers. Our new missionary to Scotland, who is assisting her parents with the children’s ministry.

Graham Forbes Family. We believe that God is pointing us to an outreach to people with addictions. Whether it is an addiction to drugs, alcohol, pornography or credit cards the person is struggling with, we pray God will use us in this new ministry.

Dennis Snelson Family. During one of many hospital visits, Dennis met a young man named Peter. After speaking a few minutes, Peter told Dennis about the tract that was given to him three years ago. This was the man who had called us late at night indicating he had prayed the prayer on that tract.

SLOVAKIA - Doug Cook Family. Since we arrived, we have been busy with language studies and English clubs in the public school. A tract that I have written is translated and in the final stage before printing.

SPAIN - Clayton Livengood Family. We will soon be celebrating our annual missions’ conference. This will be our tenth year using faith promise. Thanks to the giving of our church members, we are supporting eleven missionaries for about $65.00 per month.

SWITZERLAND - Tim Carnicle Family. At the end of the Bible lesson Barbara was teaching, she asked one of the three girls if she had ever asked Jesus to save her. The young lady said, “No.” When Barbara asked her if she wanted to be saved, she said, “Yes.” They prayed and the young lady asked Jesus to be her Savior.

UKRAINE – Robert Fuller. Recently I went to Warsaw to renew my visa. The blessing of my trip was to meet two Polish deaf. Even though we had different sign languages, we managed to communicate in gestures and some English words. I had the great privilege to share the gospel with them. They knew nothing about the plan of salvation.

Tony Hess Family. I invited George to church. He is a Nigerian, who attends Russian language school where I do. He brought his friend John; the week after he brought two more! The next week they came in a group of six. Pray for us as we minister to these Nigerian students.

Matthew Hudson Family. We have prayed for a new meeting place. The Regional School Superintendent had told me that we could not use the local village schoolhouse. But Luda, the unsaved daughter of one of our members, went on her own to the school principal. He said YES - we can rent the school for $30 US! Please pray for Luda’s salvation.

John Magas Family. Brother Moux is a 76-year-old Baptist deacon from a nearby village. Every time he is with us, I give him about twenty minutes to preach from his little black leather Bible. When I asked him how long he had used his old little black Bible, he explained that he got it in 1956, when it was brought into the Soviet Union through Poland!

John Spillman Family. Vanya is a man with whom Vadim went to veterinarian school. Vadim has spent a great deal of time witnessing to him, and it is evident that the Lord is working in him. He is even coming occasionally to church. Pray for his salvation.

Bob Van Sant Family. Yesterday eleven people came to help in evangelism…passing out about 1,500 tracts in one hour. Today in church one young boy was saved; his name is Alosha. Eighty-five ladies were at our tenth annual Ladies Day Banquet. One deaf young lady accepted Christ in her heart.

WALES – Robb Redlin Family. The start of Beddau Baptist church has gone so much better than we could have ever expected. We saw one man come to know the Lord, and there are twelve people who are coming faithfully to almost every service.

Ben Wharton Family. Recently moved from England to Wales to begin a new church plant in Mid-Glamorgan.