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Sunday, September 05, 2010
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MMT Update 6/1/2008
Dr. McCauley ...
Published: 5/20/2008
June 1, 2008
Dear Friends:
We began the third week of our ministry in and around Waldsassen, Germany, where we have worked with national church planter Thomas Bernreuter for several years. The church he pastors began three summers ago, and the Lord is blessing this small group of believers. As usual, we held a service arranged by Thomas at the Mutter Teresa nursing home at Mitterteich. Then in the evening Thomas once again secured the large meeting hall in a Waldsassen shopping mall for an evangelistic service. The Lord really blessed the church’s planning and advertising efforts and brought out a good crowd that included many unbelievers as well as several youth groups from the region. A number of productive conversations ensued. Please pray with us that soon the seeds planted in Waldsassen will produce fruit.
Our next stop was Kirchberg, where we held an afternoon evangelistic service at the Brethren church with our friend Dieter Weidensdorfer. Very surprisingly on the evening of the Catholic Corpus Christi feast in Germany—May 22—some 90 people not affiliated with the host church at Rempesgrun attended our evangelistic concert there. It was an amazing event and one that came about because of the prayers of the Lord’s people in Saxony Land.
Then we spent the weekend with the Mutzke and Davis families at the Free Christian Church and School in Heidelberg. There we held another nursing home service, two concerts on Sunday, and a seminar on Christian music with three messages and a concert at the school. We had a wonderful time of fellowship with the Heidelberg missionaries, which in addition to Heather Davis’s family include two former MMT members, Juanita Hall and Annette Mutzke. These dear friends are faithfully working to hold the standard high for Christian music. It was a blessing to hear the students rehearse a chorus from Mendelssohn’s “Elijah.”
Beginning on Sunday evening, we ministered with a number of large German churches begun around 1990 by immigrants who fled religious persecution in the former Soviet Union. After escaping the clutches of communism, these believers worked diligently to finance and build beautiful church buildings to the glory of God. They tell us that these houses of prayer are a gift to the Lord’s work that will also serve their own families well for generations to come. We had the joy of seeing their love for the Lord’s work in five different cities: Rohrbach, Kaiserslautern, Albisheim, Swabisch Gmunde and Swabisch Hall.
Friday morning we travelled to another church built by hundreds of believers who fled from Kazikstan to Neuvied, Germany. Our ministry with these friends will center around fellowship with the church’s large youth group.
We want to pass along a prayer request from some 75,000 Baptist believers still in Kazakstan. The state is trying to pass a law that defines all religions except Orthodoxy and Islam as cults. If it is passed, believers will be regarded as outlaws. They will lose the right to meet and function as a church. The law must be ratified by December 1, 2008, or it will become a dead proposal.
Thank you for your prayers for our ministry and for individual team members. In three weeks we’ve seen the Lord graciously mold this group with their many fine, diverse gifts into a unified team with a genuine desire to grow, learn and reach the lost with the Gospel of Christ.
Faithfully yours,
Janie McCauley
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