Ministry
We just finished our first year with the Gent Baptist Church and all I can say is praise the Lord. The church celebrated its one year anniversary on June 24th, 2018; where we had a very special service with about fifty people in attendance. Our church worked hard and prayed hard for this day, giving out
10,000 invitations to the service. In Our first year we were able to give out about 50,000 gospel tracts here in Belgium. We were also able to reach a new high attendance of 55 by having a combined service with Lighthouse Baptist Church of Almere, NL. We have kept our street preaching going and added a door knocking time on Thursday evenings. In our church, we were able to preach the gospel to people from 42 different countries and from every inhabited continent. Our student Bible study that we added on Tuesday nights has continued to do well, even having one to come to trust Christ through this. We have also purchased a van in order to help with bringing people to church and for some of the basic needs of our family. With this comes several added costs that we had not previously anticipated. Please pray God will provide in this cause as we used money that is needed elsewhere and are just trusting that God will supply the need. The van is a standard seven passenger van, but because of our location; this is far more practical for the foreseeable future.
I had an incredibly unique opportunity today that I ask you to pray for as well. One of the larger theaters here contacted me about preaching the gospel in a production they are doing in honor of the religious history of our city. This would mean getting to stand on their stage and preach the gospel multiple times to people who have probably never heard. This is something we have only begun discussing, but even today it gave me an opportunity to preach to the crew who are organizing this program.