Dear Family and Friends,
We are
seeing some breakthrough in Bastogne, Belgium. Well, the last three weeks have
been very busy. Firstly, our Wednesday door to door outreach has been going
pretty well. One person has shown up to one event drunk, others have texted us wanting
to meet, and one other wants to meet for a Bible study specifically on
comparing the Koran and the Bible. It might look small but we are making
headway.
Secondly, please keep us in prayer because our
soccer outreach for the past two weeks has been semi disastrous. Although we
have had good numbers for turn out, we also have had two broken arms, a pulled
calf, and dislocated ribs in the past two weeks. The first arm break was from a
goalie soccer ball mishap and the second break from falling in the rain. We
want to enjoy and play soccer but not for people to always get hurt in the
process. However, the soccer ministry itself is still going strong. If you
could pray for fast recovery on the injured soccer players, that would be
great. In addition, one of the soccer players, who previously was a Muslim and
has accepted the Lord, mother is very ill. Please pray for him although he says
he has accepted Jesus there is not evident changes yet. Pray for his family
because from what we have understood they are all Islamic. Pray that God moves
on his heart to tell his mother the
truth he has heard.
Aline, Justine, Esther and I
( some of my very dear friends in Bastogne!)
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| Local Belgian friend(not a Christian yet), Justine, and I. |
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| My first day of being 24! |
Albert(local Belgian who recently got saved and
gave me 21 roses at my surprise party!)
Our Sunday church services have been weird for the
last three weeks to say the least. One week we only had a drunk agnostic show up.
The next week we had about 14 people show up besides us four (Kerby, Sheila,
Justine, and I) so 18 people in all. That was a really great turn out. It was a
mixture between unsaved and Christians who are looking for a home church. That
week our slide show for our worship acted up so we had to change our whole song
selection from what we practiced to simple choruses because we were unable to
use the projector. Then the next week we had twelve people show up besides us
and seven of the twelve were not Christian. To be precise we had four young
adult men who brought a keg of beer with them(two play soccer with us every
Saturday), one drug addict with her giant dog(literally), one Catholic(who has
no idea what salvation is, he has shown up to other meetings), and one
Jehovah’s witness. The other five people (one almost two year old, two young
adults and two older Christians in their forties) are strong Christians
interested in helping us with ministry and possibly making us their home church
(we are praying that will happen)! Basically, as Luc(one of the strong
Christian men) was leading out the sinners prayers at the end of service one of
the young men interrupted him and started trying to argue with him about God.
Then the woman who is a drug addict left crying (however she said she would be
back next week). Although she accepted the Lord a few weeks ago and was
baptized she has turned back to her old life. We haven’t seen her in
meetings for the past few weeks so for her to show up was really great! The Jehovah’s
Witness left offended at the end of service and we are still not sure why. And
then the three boys who were drinking and the blatantly argumentative drunk
left together with the keg of beer. However, the catholic man stayed for
prayer. Many Catholics here really don’t understand about salvation they think
if you are a good person and have been baptized you will make it to heaven. You
don’t even have to acknowledge Jesus. So Kerby and Luc prayed for him.
Although it sounds like the past three weeks have
been a mishap or setback, we have been praying specifically for sinners to come. We have been
having an amazing turn out! Please pray as people are coming and Satan wants to
distract that God moves in a mighty way. We are seeing God's hand and favor on
our ministry here. Please pray for a continuation of people who need Jesus and
we can talk to them.
In addition, on May 9, I turned 24. I had such an
awesome Birthday. I have had 21 roses, 2 potted flower plants, two tiramisu
cakes, lots of chocolate, earrings, and a bracelet given to me from local
Belgians. This was not including what my fellow American missionary friends
have given to me. I feel so blessed and loved. What was so funny was Mrs.
Sheila made me a cake on Friday (my real Birthday) and we ate it at the concert
that night. The next day after soccer outreach Mrs. Sheila invited us over for
dinner. When I got to their house they had surprise party for me! I felt so
touched how many people had shown up and all the gifts I was given. I feel so
blessed to be here. It was so sweet that Justine (roommate and close friend)
and Esther (another great friend) planned it.
Well, that was about it for the past three weeks. If
you could pray for:
1.) Favor
with the locals.(God will prepare their hearts)
2.) My
French
3.) Wisdom
on creative ways to outreach.
4.) Workers
for Bastogne on a local level
5.) A
spiritual awakening in Belgium
Love and miss you guys and I can’t wait to see you
again.
Much Love and Many Blessings,
Cami Lynn
