PRAYER UPDATE - June
14, 2010 Siegen, Germany
Shalom Chaverim (= Peace Friends),
President Bill Clinton spoke at the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin
and said “Shalom Chaver” (= Good Bye Friend). While I am yet
living and you are as well I needed to write another prayer
letter! The equation has never been the more trips I make to
East Europe the easier they get. With age and two strokes I
find it very difficult to organize and accomplish my plans.
Your continued prayers and financial gifts have got me back on
the road to East Europe. Driving is a challenge.
While in the USA I returned a 4th time to Casper
Koning to get more Bible signs with magnetic ones for the car.
They were distributed before I left on April 28. Jerome Lund
will move to Norway as his wife got a job there teaching. She
is Norwegian. I visited Tabernacle Baptist Church in
Brooksville, FL. They have called David Clevenger as pastor. I
also spoke at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Morrilton, AR. Tom
Allen can no more pastor so the church seeks a new pastor. A
brother from LA is being considered. Floyd Stell lives in
Morrilton, AR and his son Steve died in a truck accident. Floyd
was in Tenn. Temple Schools (TTS) with me in the 60’s. Dwight
Scott is a Baptist pastor living in Morrilton. I spoke in his
church and he asks for prayer. While in CA I visited a cousin &
an aunt. My aunt Trudy 93 has since had a stroke. I was camped
in the mountains not too far from San Francisco and there a
couple parked next to my camping site. The wife is Jewish and I
was able to witness to both of them. The Jewish woman was born
in 1940 and her father escaped Lithuania before the Nazis came.
Once back in France I had 5 weeks to prepare for my summer
East European tour. I enjoyed giving out French, Portugese,
Turkish, and Arabic tracts. I was able to get back into putting
up posters and took a trip to Switzerland to get literauture. I
preached in two churches in France which support my ministry.
As best I recall I have only missed 2 summers since 1988
visiting East Europe. My first trip into East Europe was in
1972. The saved need to be encouraged, their children need to
build a strong foundation in Christ and even the grand children
are now reaching camp age. I visited Tom & Lila Cosmades in
Siegen, Germany (D). Tom is 86 and his Turkish NT has been
revised and is being reprinted in Turkey & D. I have handed out
some of his Turkish tracts in Germany. I called Walter Hornig
in Ingelheim, D and he has come through colon treatment. He is
now helaing. His wife also has colon trouble. He continues to
pastor. We were students together in the Bible School TTS in
the 60’s. Bob Huffman who was in TTS in the 60’s came to France
in 1969. Bob has pancreas cancer and his wife Gail has MS.
There is a French pastor in the church Bob founded. In a
restaurant in Bavaria D a waitress Barbara was very open to a
witness.
I will visit Austria & Hungary. I pray for Jewish outreach in
Budapest. I plan to come to RO June 22 beginning at Beius with
Peter Beltechi of the Baptists and to Brasov with John Poenar
June 29 & 30. Then go to Ukraine. In UA I will visit Pastor
Vladimir Iokumetz in Vinitza July 6-7, in Rovno Pastor Vasile
Olenic. July 8-11. Then the family of Lazar Weremchuk in
Costopol. Lazar passed away though his sister Domka still lives
in Hupalo, UA July 12-15. Then to Odessa to see Valentine
Mirosnichenko. I want to visit the Independent Bapt. in
Odessa. Next to Kishinev, Moldova where I will visit two
Baptist works among the Jews: Pastor George & Nina Burlacu &
Loreen Ittermann July 19-20. I hope to be back in RO July 21.
I have a camp with Costica Mararu July 26-31 then Meuveni camp
Aug 1-7. I will continue teaching the book of Isaiah and show
slides of Israel. In the Mararu camp we will start Isaiah. I
had a camp with Br. Mararu in 1988. Then I will make a short
trip to Bucharest where I want to see Daniel Sandu and Pastor
Ioan Tone. Then back to France, probably visiting Budapest
where I trust to have a Jewish outreach then to Zagreb in Crotia,
Ljubljana in Slovenia and Trieste in Italy. I must then go
through Austria and Czech to get to East Germany to see Gerhard
Goetzl who is an optician and he will give me new glasses. And
back to France hopefully stopping in Stroudsburg for Jewish
outreach.
I have bought a plane ticket to Israel for Oct 5 to Jan 3,
2011.
I preached in Wolfratshausen, D on Isaiah 6. The 2 seraphims
prepared Isaih for the call of God. Isaiah had seen the glory
of God and therefore confessed his sins. Then God spoke “Whom
shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Isaiah’s response was
“Here am I, send me.” I trust we are ready for His call? His
call for our life and His daily calls. To the glory of God the
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Wanting Christ’s will,
Michael David Bentley
FRANCE:
22 Rue Etienne Lebeau
91200 ATHIS-MONS, FRANCE
phone : +33169385104
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