Thanks for praying. We had a great week and were able to distribute 10,500 pieces of Gospel literature!
That breaks down to 1,500 children's magazines, 1,500 CEF tracts and 7,500 grown-up tracts. Here is a summary of what we did:
- Saturday - We were present in Liestal (15 minutes from Kilchzimmer) at one of Switzerland's biggest 'Public Viewing' venues for the opening game. Almost everyone who entered the arena received a tract. We also did a lot of door to door distribution with the help of the local CEF worker.
- Sunday - Afternoon distribution on the 'Fan Mile'.
- Monday - Mixed with French and Romanian fans on the Zürich 'Fan mile'.
- Tuesday - Outing to Interlaken, Beatenberg and Niederhorn.
- Wednesday - Mixed with Swiss and Turkish fans and on the 'Fan Mile' in Basel and distributed a large number of tracts.
- Thursday - work day at Kilchzimmer
- Friday - the team traveled back to Ireland
Pray that the seed sown will bring forth fruit. The children's tracts gave opportunity for joining the mailbox club correspondence course and the grown-up tracts had a coupon to request a free New Testament, booklet or a gospel message on CD or cassette (this will be kindly followed up by the Swiss Tract Society).
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We had an excellent week in the Black Forest with over 40 teenagers. Great food, great weather and a really good atmosphere among the leaders and the young people. One of the evenings after I spoke, one of the teenage girls prayed with her leader and asked the Lord to save her. We praise God for blessing in this way.
It was great to have mum and dad visit us recently. The boys especially enjoyed it and it was a special time for us all. Just before they left I caught tonsillitis and was off sick for the past week. Today I preached in our church in Germany and the Lord really helped. Afterwards we had lunch outside the church - it was another beautiful day. Tonight after a cycle in the vineyards I cooled off in the pool.
Above: A visit last week from missionary friends of ours who studied with us in the same year at Bible College. They are soon going back to serve in the Ukraine.
This morning David has his tonsils and adenoids removed. He is doing really well! From tomorrow he will be getting lots of ice cream ☺ Claudia is staying with him and I have Joel. They should get home sometime over the weekend.
We were delighted to welcome Pastor Clifford and Margaret Morrison (from our sending church - Portadown Baptist) to our home this past week. They came to visit us and to speak at our annual Kilchzimmer workers retreat. Pastor Morrison's ministry was greatly appreciated and the fellowship was second to none.
On Saturday I traveled up to Breidenbach to attend the CEF Germany Annual General Meeting. During the proceedings, Claudia and I were officially accepted as CEF Germany missionaries. This was meant to take place last year but we postponed it because we were in the middle of moving home.
Thanks for praying. We had a great week and were able to distribute 10,500 pieces of Gospel literature!
