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Monday, September 06, 2010
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MMT Update 6/16/2008
Dr. McCauley ...
Published: 6/16/2008
June 16, 2008
Dear Friends,
After leaving the Dobel conference center last Monday, we spent three days with members of the church in Tubingen. We’ve worked with this assembly since 1991. Planted by GFA missionaries Jurgen and Joanie Matthia, it now stands alone as a national church.
We had concerts with evangelistic messages on two nights. During the daytime we sang on the streets of this beautiful medieval university town and passed out invitations to the concerts. Nearby several men from the church ran a Christian book table. We also passed out tracts. Many people came to the church for the first time because of this street work. Christian families from other nearby assemblies also came. All in all, the time in Tubingen was very productive for the team, both because of the ministry we engaged in and the opportunity we had to learn from these German believers.
We made the transition from western to eastern Europe by spending two nights in Prague, Czech Republic, on our way to Slovakia. Prague is a spiritually needy city of the sort that most team members had never before visited. There we took in the sights as well as a few musical events and caught up on correspondence and communication. We were also able to put our international tract packs to good use. Over the years the team has received several tracts with salvation testimonies as a result of our literature distribution there. Last summer a 71-year-old Polish woman wrote that she had accepted Christ after receiving a tract in Prague.
Our next stop was in Kezmarok, Slovakia, where we work with missionaries Don and Leigh Ann Waite and Michael and Sarah Stephens. The Waites minister at the Baptist church, and the Stephenses are missionaries to Gypsies in the region. Last summer we had our first opportunity to hold a village service just for Slovakian Gypsies. A few months later the two missionary couples combined their efforts by establishing a regular weekly Sunday afternoon service for Gypsies at the Baptist church. Praise the Lord that in our meeting yesterday afternoon, five Gypsy men responded to the Gospel invitation, and four were saved.
In addition to the Gypsy ministry we held services in the Baptist church and a historic Protestant church called the Wooden Church. Long ago only Catholics were allowed to build stone churches in this land. Yet the Wooden Church has stood for centuries, and the Gospel is still preached there. Today it is surrounded by a large, imposing stone Catholic cathedral on one side and a new, ornate stone Orthodox cathedral on the other.
This is a busy week, one full of travel for us. We’ll minister in Slovakia, Austria and Italy. Thank you for your continued prayers for the team’s ministry and for each team member’s growth in the Lord, especially in the ministry of missions.
Faithfully yours,
Janie McCauley
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