by Brant Holladay,
Editor/European Director

"The happiest people are those who have invested their time in others."

Lately I have been reading about investments of time and money. Someone has rightly said, "The happiest people are those who have invested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy." I think missionaries must be some of the happiest people anywhere.

Maylou and I returned recently from visiting BIMI missionaries in Switzerland, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, and the Czech. Republic. We enjoyed being with them in their homes; we laughed a lot, had fun with their kids, went to their churches, and took a few photos which are included in this magazine. Anyway, as I was saying, in spite of many inconveniences and difficulties, we found the level of spiritual commitment, dedication, and sacrifice from missionaries to be very impressive. We came back to the States humbled by their examples of Christ-likeness. These Christ-like examples impact their worlds for Christ. Maylou and I came back asking how our lives are impacting those around us.

Remaining in Christ is essential to usefulness and happiness of all God’s people. The essence of happiness and holiness is not rigid adherence to a certain code of standards and rules. It is the believer’s living union with Christ, a mutual abiding made possible through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit. In other words, it is our personal relationship with Christ that will produce true holiness and happiness.

I came back from Europe asking these questions: Can I improve my investments of time and money in the work God has given me to do? How can I improve my relationship with Jesus Christ? Meeting with our missionaries has greatly challenged me to go on for the Lord. May I ask about your relationship with Christ? Is He your Savior? Does He matter most?

Brant Holladay is available for mission conferences, one day, and mission emphasis weekends.
You may contact him at BIMI, PO Box 9215, Chattanooga, TN 37412
Tel. (423) 344-5050
Email Brant

The key to maintaining this kind of life is found in the words of Jesus: "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." (John 15:4, 5)

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BY GLENN PALMER


Glenn and Charlotte Palmer are church planters in England.)

What a blessing to serve the Lord on the mission field! Besides planting a church here in Spalding, England, and teaching in the School of Evangelism in Corby, we have seen the Lord broaden our ministry in the last ten years. We have an Armenian family, Ivan and Sona Pambakian, attending our church. Our church is allowed to use their small farm for youth and camp ministries. It was through contact with them that we became aware of the plight of the people of Armenia in 1994. I have travelled to Armenia three times. My heart was touched as I observed the difficulties of the people and their bare existence.

Therefore as the Lord gives opportunity to help, Charlotte and I along with Ian, Andrew, Elizabeth, Christine, Malwyn and Mary go the farm to sort and pack clothes, label and weigh the boxes, and inventory the goods for shipping that come from all over Great Britain.

For the last ten years we have been averaging three to four forty-foot containers per year, each containing 1200 boxes of goods packed in 40 pound apples boxes. About 42,000 boxes of humanitarian and Christian material have been sent. "Little is much when God is in it." All of this work has been donated in everyone’s spare time. It does not end here as the containers are received in Armenia by the Pambakians, who travel there to distribute every item to the needy. Thankfully a wealthy American Armenian pays all the transportation costs.


Packing boxes for Armenia

The Lord has Mrs. Sona Pambakian and several Armenian believers who are linguists translating the Bible into the Eastern Armenian language. The New Testament was complete in 2005, and the Trinitarian Bible Society of London has printed 20,000 which arrived in Armenia just before Christmas 2005. Ten thousand copies of the booklet "Firm Foundation" was translated by Mrs. Pambakian and printed in Ireland. These materials have been distributed to a good number of churches in Armenia for teaching aids. The translation of the Armenian Bible should be completed in this next year.

The Lord is great and greatly to be praised. Please pray for this work and especially the church planting ministry of the Palmers here in England.

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BY DON HUGHES

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Don & Helen Hughes Missionaries to England

In June of 1991, my wife, Helen, and I were looking for a place to celebrate our anniversary together. We drove up to the Lake District in the north of England, one of the most beautiful places in all of Great Britain.

The June days were long, so on our first night we were able to take a boat ride around the lake at nine in the evening while it was still daylight. The lakes are circled by several beautiful mountain ranges.

As we were walking down to the lake we noticed to our right a gate that allowed us to enter a series of sheep pastures across some beautiful rolling hills, a favorite walking place of many of the tourists.

As it drew near night we decided to take a walk through the pastures. Apparently, because of the presence of tourists in the pasture, the sheep never lie down. Helen had tried to pet one of the lambs but he ran away.

The sheep also seemed frightened by the constant lapping of the lake water. We noticed they would only drink from a small artesian spring coming from the ground.

Over the next few days we took several walks to the edge of the lake and we watched the sheep. We never saw them lie down; they seem to be always afraid. On the last day of our vacation, we wanted to take one more walk in the pasture before we had to leave. A man arrived in a jeep and stopped at the gate. He got out of the jeep and opened the back door to allow a beautiful black and white sheep dog to jump out. Then he reached into the back seat and pulled out a long staff. It seemed as he opened the gate and entered the pasture that some unseen director stood and raised his hands. Every sheep in that pasture suddenly turned toward the shepherd, moving in his direction. When they gathered around him, we saw them lie down for the first time. The shepherd then left them and walked over a hill and was gone for 15 or 20 minutes. I later asked him where he had gone.

He told me that he had to go to another pasture to see about another flock of sheep. The amazing thing was that while he was gone to the other pasture and even though tourists were still walking in the pasture, those sheep remained as if they were not afraid any longer. You see, the shepherd was in the pasture. They may not have been able to see him, but they knew he was coming back for them.

Sometimes we are unsettled and afraid here on the mission field, but we are reminded that the Shepherd is in the pasture, even when we cannot see Him. We know that He is coming back for us and that He has promised never to leave us.


And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

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Puppets in Hungary

(Charin, her husband Marc and children are BIMI missionaries in Hungary)

We have really enjoyed doing the puppet shows in the schools. There is a wide open door to the public schools that amazes me. They are more than happy to have a group from a church come and present a good quality, entertaining program to the kids. People here in Hungary still have a respect for religious holidays that we have been able use to our advantage.

Our first time we used the puppet ministry was Christmas, 2004, in five schools and a home for the mentally disabled. We were a bit hesitant at first as to how the administrations would receive us, but we were very pleasantly surprised at their enthusiasm. They all allowed us to come back at Easter. This past Christmas we were able to be in seven schools, and I am praying the Lord will allow us to increase that number this year.


The puppet team and Charin Patton (center)

It is so exciting to return to a school and have the kids all come out with shining faces, greeting us like long lost friends. Most of these kids would never be allowed to come to church, and yet right there in the school we are able to tell them of Jesus and his love.

One of the songs we taught last year at Easter was "My God is So Great, So Strong and So Mighty." At one point I was overcome with emotion watching hundreds of children singing God's praises! I do not know how many have accepted Christ (we do not give an open invitation), but I am trusting God that the many little seeds we have planted will someday bear fruit to His glory.

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(Kelley Bell, her husband Mark, and their two sons serve the Lord as church planters in Peterborough, England. As the result of a sledding accident when she was a small child, Kelley has lived with braces, crutches and pain. Through it all, she has been a constant encouragement to her family and all who meet her. Here is an exciting sequel to her story we printed in EUROPE 2003.)

When we came back to America in 2005, we thought it would be for a very short medical furlough. Little did we know that it would result in my having spinal fusion surgery on November 3, 2005.

For the past 28 years, I have worn a built-up shoe on my left foot. This is a result of my physical handicap that I have had since being a child. My build-up was 1 ½ inches. Before the surgery, I asked my surgeon, Dr. Suh, if the surgery would make a difference in my leg lengths. He said that he didn’t think so.

When I was discharged after the surgery, I was instructed to "walk! walk! walk!" That is exactly what I did. As Mark began to go walking with me, he noticed that I couldn’t walk a straight line. He jokingly said that I was walking like a drunk woman.

Upon closer examination, we discovered that my legs appeared to be even. On my post-op appointment, Dr. Suh examined me and told me that I was "dead even." He told me that I no longer needed a built-up shoe. I could hardly contain my joy.

Psalm 1201 says, "In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and He heard me." I know that the Lord heard my cry and has wonderfully answered my prayer! Not only did He get me out of the terrible pain, but He did exceedingly abundantly above all that I could ask or think by giving me two perfectly even legs after 28 long years.

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The Carnicle Family

Tim and Brant Holladay in Konstanz, Germany, where Jon Huss died for his faith.

As Tim and Barbara Carnicle work towards starting a church in their village of Kummertshausen, Switzerland, their four children are serving as effective missionaries alongside their parents.

Since home-schooling their children is illegal in their country, the Carnicle family has turned their attendance in the public schools into a mission opportunity. All four of their children are outstanding students in their schools and active in community outreach. They are fluent in German as well as their native English. George and James are also fluent in conversation with French; Esther and Samuel are presently taking the French language in school.

When God calls a couple to the mission field, He also can use the children in the family as very effective emissaries for Him in the community.

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Swiss European Youth Parliament Delegation

By James Carnicle

The teacher responsible for the Swiss European Youth Parliament delegation asked me if I would help him by using my English and French language capabilities as ambassador to the conference in Paris, France. As ambassador, I would be required to give a speech and act as main representative for the delegation. After praying with my parents about it, I agreed to go.

On Friday the 24th of March, our delegation flew from Zurich to Paris where we met a few of the 31 delegations from all over Europe. All participants had chosen a topic concerning Europe and the European Union to discuss at the conference. We ambassadors gave our speeches during the Opening Ceremony on Monday. Committees put together by the present delegates began discussing their topics Monday afternoon and concluded on Wednesday by writing a resolution. This resolution contained the various decisions made by the committee.

Beginning on Friday we defended our resolutions in front of the other committees, discussed and voted on them. Several representatives of the European Parliament and other government associations sat in on the General Assembly discussions with the goal of presenting our resolutions to the European Union Parliament.

At the closing ceremony, we all received diplomas stating we had participated in the 51st European Youth Parliament session of 2006. I am grateful for having been asked to attend because I was able to polish my language skills and to meet people who came from all corners of Europe, such as Norway, Greece, Spain or France. Most importantly, I was able to witness to several of the delegates who were quite interested in hearing about Christ, Heaven, and salvation.

In conclusion I would like to state that having acted as ambassador, there is no doubt in my mind that being an ambassador for Christ is a much greater honor than representing a mere country.

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Open Doors in Switzerland

By George Carnicle

On Wednesdays in my high school here in Switzerland I have two lessons of religion. My teacher (who is the pastor of the Reformed Church in Romanshorn) had asked me if I would be willing to tell my class what Baptists are. He gave me ten minutes to say what I wanted about Baptists. So I did!

What better way is there to tell them what we are, than by telling them what we believe? What I ended up doing was basically reading Bible verses to my class. I didn’t tell them the Romans road, but, as you know, that isn't the only way to led someone to Christ. All my classmates, my teacher and a young woman who was there, who wants to study Catholic theology in Luzern, listened as I told them how to get to Heaven.

After my presentation, some of my classmates had some questions for me. One girl asked me "what repenting of your sin is and how to do that." So I told her it was asking Jesus to forgive her of her sin. She accepted that answer. I am sure I gave my listeners something to think about and I hope that someday someone will get saved as a result of what I was able to say in class.


Barbara and Samuel even play pieces by Handel
Esther, an accomplished artist at 14.



George and James

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The Johnson Family

For almost thirteen years, Darrell and Glenda Johnson have faithfully served God, learning the Polish language well and loving the Polish people to the Lord. They are establishing a church in Krakow, Poland, a city of great historical significance.

Considered the cultural capital of Poland, Krakow is a city of 770,000. One cannot visit Krakow without learning of her history. During the German invasion in World War II, incredibly brave Poles tried to defend their homeland as well as the Jewish people who lived there.

Krakow is home to the Nazi camps Auschwitz and Birkenau. They are symbols of terror, genocide, the Holocaust and the terrible depravity of man. Hearing the names of the camps still causes one to shudder, considering the horrible atrocities enacted there from 1940-1945.

The number of people murdered there reaches between 1.1 to 1.5 million. The majority of prisoners were deported Jewish people. But many Polish prisoners died there (many a part of the Polish Resistance who defended the Jews), as well as prisoners from other occupied countries.

Today the people of Krakow work diligently to maintain a memorial at Auschwitz and Birkenau to honor those who died.. It has been determined: "This camp-museum shall be preserved for eternity as a place of remembrance, tribute and warning."




Photos:
1. L-R: Hannah, Darrell and Glenda Johnson
2. Inside the main gate of Auschwitz - "Work Makes One Free"
3. A photo at the entrance of Birkenau
4. The wall at Auschwitz where many were shot to death
5. The dreaded train tracks entering Birkenau Concentration Camp
6. The electric fence around Auschwitz

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The Thompson Family in Latvia

For almost thirteen years, Darrell and Glenda Johnson have faithfully served God, learning the Polish language well and loving the Polish people to the Lord. They are establishing a church in Krakow, Poland, a city of great historical significance.


Near Riga, Latvia, Jonathan and Mary Thompson and their daughters are working to establish a church in the village of Lielvarde. Meighan, who plays the violin, and Emily, who plays the flute, have been able to use their musical training as an outreach to their teachers.

Besides their church-planting responsibilities, the Thompson family minister to a children’s hospital that serves a large area of Latvia. God has opened this great door of opportunity to go into farm homes and villages they otherwise would not be able to reach.

The area where they are serving is rich with history. Near Riga we saw this memorial to Jews who were slain during the war.


The etching on the memorial states:

Here in the forest of Rumbula, on November 30 and December 8 of 1941, the Nazis and their local collaborators shot dead more than 25,000 Jews – the prisoners of the Riga Ghetto – children, women, old people, as well as around 1000 Jews deported from Germany. In the summer of 1994, hundreds of Jewish men from the concentration camp "Riga-Kaiserwald" were killed here.

The snow-filled woods outside of Riga contain a memorial that gripped our hearts as we read the inscription.

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Czech Republic - The Barth Family

Samuel and Carla Barth and their son Jadon have just celebrated their first year in the Czech Republic.

They are diligently working to learn the language and use every opportunity to reach out to their community for the Lord.

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Slovakia - The Johnston Family

Ellis and Sheena Johnston and their children are serving the Lord in the country of Slovakia. They are working towards establishing a church there.

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Duane Hearron, our missionary in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, writes:

"A group from our church canvassed with tracts the Russian Siberian village of Shela, located 55 miles north of Krasnoyarsk. We had 27 people from the village who attended our first meeting. Each received a free New Testament. At another meeting we had 17 young people attend with the added surprise of the village mayor coming to check out our activities. Each person attending is presented with a free New Testament provided for and shipped to us by BIMI. These kids have shown an interests to learn about the Bible and of our Savior Jesus Christ. Already a small handful have begun to memorize and recite Bible verses."

We still need your help to provide God’s Word to those who do not have it.

Please send your love gift to:
European Bible Fund
Account 656
BIMI
PO Box 9215
Chattanooga, TN 37412

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ALBANIA - Mike and Wilda McCombie. After ten years of faithful service in Albania, Mike and Wilda have been asked to serve as BIMI representatives in our Western States Office in Lancaster, California. Pray that God will use them in this new venture.

CZECH REPUBLIC - Samuel Barth Family. Continue to pray for us as we study the Czech language. We praise the Lord that we have been able to put 3,500 tracts into 3,500 mailboxes. Here in the Czech Republic, it is illegal to go door-to-door, but we can go mailbox-to-mailbox.

ENGLAND - Ford Baker Family. We are making contacts in the Uppingham and Oakham area with plans on opening a church in early summer of 2006. I have been teaching at the School of Evangelism every other Saturday.

Reta Burns. A group of twelve young people entered the foyer at our rented hall wanting to know what we were doing. Three stayed that night, and now a group of eight or nine attends Sunday mornings regularly.

Don Hughes Family. We are currently serving in Peterborough while Mark and Kelley Bell are on furlough.

John Jones Family. Mary Anne has just completed a discipleship course with our most recent female convert. Five people have signed up to attend our discipleship program. We will also have a soul-winning training program for our church members.

Ferrell Kearney Family. We have just completed fill-in service for the Bible Baptist church in Nuneaton. Since our arrival, we have begun an adult Sunday morning Bible class and a midweek Bible study and prayer meeting.

Glenn Palmer Family. A young man, his wife, and baby boy, have been staying with us. He is searching, reading the Bible, and studying with us to find what true belief in God is. He was brought up by a Sikh. Pray for Happy.

Glenn Pizor Family. In recent months, we have averaged 40 in attendance and we have gained thirteen adults and children. Two men of our church have started a local soccer team for children as an evangelistic outreach.

Jim Reynolds Family. We have had seven new visitors, and I was able to lead a Muslim man to the Lord. We have a faithful group of people who are beginning to show growth.

Mickey Schrimshire Family. In the past few months, we have had seven evangelistic choir concerts, four puppet performances, one Sunday school play, and several preaching opportunities. Also, Leek Baptist Church has two new members.

Ben Wharton Family. Our revival at Bicester Baptist Church averaged 41 in attendance over four services. We continue to have visitors from our tract and flyer distribution. So far we have covered between 2500-3000 homes.

FRANCE - Gailen Abbett Family. In our first work at Sens, in the 1970’s, we saw a young lady saved and attend Bible School. We had not heard from her in many years. She recently wrote saying she thanked God for the part we had played in her life.

Carey Abbett Family. We are glad to see the Bible Club started. The encouraging part is that it was a couple from our contacts who asked us to do this club. They asked if we would mind teaching the Bible to their children.

Danny Flowers Family. Veteran missionaries who have transferred from French-speaking Africa to serve in France. Christiane and her son-in-law Gabriel began visiting our church. Brother Williams and I went to their home for a Bible study. Before we left, they both trusted Christ.

Bob Huffman Family. One of our young ladies met a fellow on the train and invited him to our services. Two weeks later he asked to see me…he made a profession of faith in Christ.

GERMANY - Dan Dubbe Family. One of our deacons conducts an outreach ministry in a housing area nearby and several visitors have come out to church as a result. Pray for Alexander, a 41-year-old man who has come several times to church but is not yet saved.

Walter Hornung Family. At our last monthly evangelistic Sunday, Thomas, 12, and Francine, 14, accepted Christ as their Savior At the present there are at least 21 people that need to be baptized; for many that is a big and difficult step.

Rodney Kidd Family. We have a rental facility for the new church planting work in the northern part of Mannheim. Pray as we prepare the way for two churches to function well, with a future goal of them becoming indigenous without the missionary!

HUNGARY - Marc Patton Family. We have kicked off our new church plant in Nyergesujfalu, Hungary. Calix Furus and his team of 6-8 helpers have been holding services each Sunday morning. Most mornings they have 6-10 people besides the helpers.

LATVIA - Jonathan Thompson Family. We had a Bible School for children in Lielvarde. By the end of the week, we had over 30 children there. The last day I finished "The Wordless Book" and invited the kids to make Jesus Christ their Lord and Savior. After prayer, 13 children raised their hands that they had been saved.

POLAND - Darrell Johnson Family. Our attendance is averaging 10-15 Polish people on Sunday mornings and 2-6 Poles in the evening service.

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND - Dan Canavan Family. Each Friday we have a Bible club in our living room. In the past few months three teen boys, Daryl, Ricky and Finn, have all accepted Christ.

Stephen Finley Family. New missionaries to Ireland arrived in April. Pray for Stephen and Katie as they settle in.

Don Thatcher Family. We have had about 10 call-backs for Bibles on our door-to-door visits. Our packets containing a John/Romans and other literature will be sent to 20,000 homes through the post.

Bob Zemeski Family. We have introduced our church to Faith Promise. Our mission support of 1,400 Euros has been coming from our general offering. During our conference, the total promised was over 5,200 Euros.

ROMANIA - Tom Gentry Family. Our sixteen graduates of the Hope for the Future School of Missions have all chosen to go into a country that is poorer than their own or to stay and serve their own people. They are the hope for the future of Romania.

Ed Hembree Family. We were thrilled to have another baptismal service. We had one couple and little Ana Mihaela from our Children’s Home. Many visitors came and heard the gospel.

Keith Herndon Family. Three people have been saved – a grandmother near 80, a man who is 30, and his 14-year-old brother. Luci, a faithful member, has begun a Saturday Bible study for children at her mom’s house.

Brian Nibbe Family. We have had more people in our church lead people to the Lord in the last year than at any other time. Up to 30 people per week are going soul winning.

Tim Tyler Family. I am excited that two teenagers have been saved, and we have had more than a dozen first-time visitors. There have been over 40 visitors over the past several weeks in our regular services as a result of our weekly door-knocking efforts.

RUSSIA - Andrew Bunnell Family. Seven years ago, in a remote town of Afghanistan, a kind-faced man scattered candy to children who were running behind him, crying, "Master! Master!" Osama bin Laden continued on to the mosque. For Amman and his family, devout Muslims, this scene was a weekly occurrence. Today Amman has been saved and is preparing for his ordination so he can begin a Baptist Church in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Kyle Charters Family. Several of our people have become active in soul winning. One young lady, Luba, was able to lead two people to Christ in one day.

Robert Fuller. I arrived in Simferopol, Ukraine, to visit the deaf ministry there. We joined 11 deaf for the afternoon service. Then we observed the Lord’s Supper.

Duane Hearron Family. I talked with Sasha, the director of the village House of Culture 30 miles from Krasnoyarsk. He has agreed to allow us to hold weekly meetings there for the teaching of the Bible to the local villagers. We had 17 kids our second meeting!

Don Ossewaarde Family. We have given away 19,000 New Testaments since we moved to Oryol, Russia. I talked to the director of a large military academy who accepted a few hundred copies for the library. Also, we received the keys to our new building, cleaned and disinfected it from ceiling to floor, put up 25 chairs, and had our first service with nine people present and two first time visitors.

David Sterling Family. Igor, a member of the local Police Special Forces Unit in Krasnoyarsk, gave testimony how he and a senior officer (a Christian) stood in full "spetznaz" gear discussing salvation. Igor didn’t think it normal to accept Christ in full combat gear holding an automatic weapon. The next day he met the officer and accepted Christ in his "civilian clothes."

Ron Winkler Family. I have had the opportunity to preach twice without the aid of an interpreter. Also, we were able to see the first fruits of our tract ministry. A 17-year-old man, Stas, returned a tract indicating he had received Christ.

Adam Young Family. I met Anar, a Muslim, while I was out soul winning. He asked me to go to his home. The Lord worked it out so that I witnessed to Anar’s entire family that night.

SCOTLAND - Doug Cameron Family. On Mondays and Wednesdays, Judy and Linda McNeill will be holding after-school Bible clubs. Each club has 10-15 children. On Monday evening we will be teaching a class of young teens; Wednesday I have an adult Bible Study, with ten in my class.

Arvin Devers Family. At a recent program and buffet dinner, we had 16 in attendance. The gospel was clearly presented and we had folk who asked us for the gospel literature we had available.

Graham Forbes Family. Glenburn Baptist Church is going strong; the people remain faithful and committed. We have a New Testament Survey class each Sunday night. We also have begun a Bible School for anyone interested in deeper study.

Dennis Snelson Family. Over the past year 17,000 tracts/leaflets have been put into the hands of the people in our area. One soul has been saved and is going on to serve the Lord. Some of the children of Cochrane Castle School where Dennis is chaplain have shown a change in their thinking to believe that God is real.

SLOVAKIA - Ellis Johnston Family. Our daughter Anna (4 years old) and I were knocking doors and met Robert. He came to our Bible Series and brought a friend, Ivan. Since then, Ivan has been four or five times to the study.

Doug Cook Family. New missionaries just arrived in Slovakia. Please pray for Doug, Michelle and family as they settle in their new ministry.

SPAIN - Clayton Livengood Family. The work of the first writing of the constitution and by-laws for the Fuengirola Baptist Church is finished and given to the members.

SWITZERLAND - Tim Carnicle Family. Margrit and Annalisa meet with Barbara for a Ladies Bible study. Margrit’s seven-year-old son, Ralf, wanted to be saved one night before he went to bed. Margrit had written down what Barbara had shared with her on how to lead someone to Christ. She then led Ralf in a sinner’s prayer and he was saved that night!

UKRAINE - Tony Hess Family. We started a new Sunday School Class called the NEW LIFE CLASS for young adults from ages 20-35. We recently had 14 in attendance.

Matthew Hudson Family. I recently had the incredible opportunity to go on a short trip to Kazakhstan with another missionary. The Lord opened many doors for us to give out the Gospel. In our orphanage ministry, five more young people have been saved.

Dan Irvin Family. We have been blessed to see two more professions of faith, Svetlana Trebko and Miroslav Duxh. Also, we were able to give 74 warm pairs of boots and wool socks to the orphans in our area.

John Magas Family. The other Sunday a man named Miroslav came forward when I gave the invitation and received assurance of his salvation.

Bob Van Sant Family. We had 129 in church today with five first-time visitors and two saved. Judy’s contest in her S. S. class ended today. Two weeks in a row, a visitor from that class has been saved between Sunday School and church!

WALES – Robb Redlin Family. We have seen thirteen young people come to know the Lord since the beginning of the year. Seven of them are coming to a Thursday night discipleship class in our home.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

KEITH & MARLA HERNDON -  MOLDOVA
ANTHONY R & DAWN HESS -  UKRAINE
KEVIN & MARY BETH HICKOK -  BRAZIL