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| Bob is Captain of the Central European LEAD Team - Planting churches from France to Ukraine |
The week after we returned from the US, we had a full week of meetings in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was the Annual Convention Meeting of our European Agency, the IBC. Part of that week was a meeting of the Church Planting Ministry Team, in which Bob is the leader of the Central European LEAD Team – focused on church planting in Europe from France to Ukraine. It was a very encouraging meeting, as we discussed new church plants in Paris and Strasbourg, France; Munich, Kaiserslautern, Frankfurt and Mannheim, Germany. We will be conducting Feasibility Studies in 3 cities in the Spring of 2016, and the Darmstadt church will be especially involved in the planting of a new church in Mannheim/Heidelberg as God leads.
We are very excited to be welcoming a University Ministries Associate, Blake Nobles, in January. The plan is for Blake to spend 2016 building a sustainable student ministry in the city. There are at least three German-language campus ministries at work on the campuses, but no English-language ministry for the thousands of International Students who are here. We hope to work with the German groups to change that! Our church will pay about 30% of the cost of his ministry, and he is raising support for the rest. Pray for Blake as he raises his support and transitions to Darmstadt!
We continue to seek ways to minister to the Refugees who have made their way to the Darmstadt area. So far, the opportunities have been scarce. They are being kept in a segregated area, where we have no access to them, and they cannot freely get out. Pray that God will open doors for us to reach out to them with the love of Christ!
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