AMBC Missionary News

The Young's News Letter: October 2008

Dobrý den (hello) from the Czech Republic,

     The month of October marks a year and a half that we have lived in Czech Republic. We are humbled as we think of how God has provided for us and how He has used us to do His work here. As we approach the Christmas season, I’m sure you will hear a lot about the Lottie Moon Christmas offering.

The simple truth is that we couldn’t be here without your gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas offering.

     Those gifts are the means by which we devote ourselves to full-time ministry, providing us with a place to call home, food, medical care — even home school supplies for our children. We want to thank you  for faithfully supporting us and other Southern Baptist missionaries all around the world with your generous gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas offering.

     This month, our family has been sick ALL month. Praise God we are all starting to feel better! Please pray for all of us to have good health and renewed energy.

     It has been a wonderful experience for Mike to start teaching English at the seminary in Pehlrimov this  month. Each week, he has the opportunity to teach Czech men who have made many sacrifices to commit  their lives to spreading the gospel and starting new churches here in Czech Republic. We praise God for each of these men and, as some of them graduate at the end of this school year, we look forward to helping them with their ministries. In addition, the seminary is offering English lessons to the public  in Pehlrimov. Mike has enjoyed teaching these classes as well.

     You may be wondering why we are teaching English? It is very important for Czech people to learn  English in order to get a good paying job. So, we have found that this is a good way to get to know people and form friendships. It is almost impossible to share religious beliefs with Czech people until you

have first established a trusting relationship. English is one way that we can break through the cold, untrusting walls that people have built around themselves.

     Next month, we will be working with the seminary to offer free Czech Bibles and the Bible on CD for  Christmas to each person in Pehlrimov. We will be mailing out 6,700 fliers. Anyone who responds to  the flier will receive a Bible and CD before Christmas. The Bibles will be personally delivered to their

apartments during the month of December. Please pray for this ministry that many people will respond  and that as the Bibles are delivered, many people will have the opportunity to hear about Jesus. Pray  that these people will accept Christ as their savior and that they will truly have a reason to celebrate this Christmas.

 mikeyoung394@yahoo.com

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Week Of Prayer For Lottie Moon Christmas Offering:  Nov. 30 - Dec. 7th 2008

Where Does The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering Go Once It Leaves Your Church.  100% used to support missionaries. 90% used for direct expenses like: Missionaries Salaries, housing, food, children’s education, and benefits.

Do you realize what a Cup Of Coffee Will Do?

If the coffee aisle at the supermarket beckons you every week, you needn’t explain it to Forrest and Becky Bohlen. They’re missionaries living among Venezuela’s Andes Mountains where coffee is king. Gradually, the Bohlens are introducing coffee growers to the King of kings by giving them copies of the New Testament. The books cost about $1 each and are paid for by the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. 

      Forrest isn’t exactly a coffeeholic, but he’s willing to drink it to build friendships with the people he and Becky meet. They’re mostly hard-working farmers who say they’re Roman Catholic. The truth is that they’ve heard only bits and pieces of the Gospel.

    While a full-out Gospel push would be strongly resisted, the people do warm up to it through coffee breaks with them. That, and FUNDASEM, a nonprofit organization started by the Bohlens to help locals improve their farming techniques. The Ag Team designed a special agricultural-looking cover for the New Testaments handed out; more than 10,000 copies were so readily received that the team ordered another 10,000.The classes, the copies and the coffee are drawing people to the Lord. But the Bohlens believe that prayer and Venezuelan nationals trained to grow their own disciples will yield the bigger harvest.