Bob and Betts Parschauer - July 08

Dear Friends and Supporters,

My quite time passage last Saturday was from Philippians 4:14 – 23. Especially verses 15 – 17 struck me as I thought of all of you who are so faithfully supporting us with your prayers and finances. “Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only. For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities. Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.”

I just returned from Europe, last Wednesday, July 9^th. While I was there I saw much fruit in Poland, Czech Republic and Germany, that is “fruit that abounds to your account”. Thank you so much for giving us the privilege of serving these countries, because of your faithful financial and prayer support.

Voltaire Andrews, a young singer from our church traveled with me this time. It was such a joy to see the response of the campers and churches to his singing. We flew to Warsaw where we met with a number of people that we had led to Christ way back during the communist rule. What a joy to see them now as leaders. That was Saturday night. On Sunday morning we sang and spoke at a little church that has just recently been planted by one of these leaders. ”Fruit that abounds to your account”.

Before we got on the plane again we met and had lunch with another young man that I led to Christ when he was 13 years old. He is now working with a US based mission, encouraging and schooling local Pastors in Poland. “fruit that abounds to your account”.

On Sunday afternoon we flew on to Gedansk where we were met by one of the BI students from Poland who was in my Missions class at Word of Life Ukraine BI last December. What a great reunion! We drove two hours to the camp in Northern Poland where we just made it in time to sing and give testimony on the first night of the camp. The next five days were filled with activities. Each morning the workers met at 6:45 AM. I taught lessons from Ephesians during the morning Bible hours and gave the first evangelist message on Monday night. 16 young people responded for salvation. During this camp 26 youth received Christ into their hearts. On Thursday night as I gave the invitation, during the camp fire dedication meeting, 43 young people dedicated their lives to serve the Lord where ever He would lead them. PTL! “fruit that abounds to your account”.

One other experience that thrilled my heart was to meet two young men from Uganda, (presently Bible School students at our Word of Life BI in Hungary) who are helping Tim Good, our Polish director, with the camps in Poland this summer. After I got to know them they said, “Bob, we are products of your faithfulness over the years. Our Director Tom is from Word of Life Kenya and you are responsible for us being here today. We both came to Christ through Tom’s ministry”. Again I thought of the far reaching results of the ministries that God has entrusted to us over the years. “Fruit that abounds to your account”.

On Friday we drove to Berlin Germany to our new property on Klein Koriser Lake. It was great to meet with several of our staff from Starnberg as well as Matt Hurja and Joe Frick who are leaders of our BI in Germany. “Fruit that abounds to your account”. From there it was off to Czech Republic, first to Prag, where I was able to show Voltaire this beautiful old city. One of the only cities in Europe that was not bombed during the II world war. It never ceases to amaze me at the beauty and also the history of these old cities in Europe.

From there we drove another two hours out to the Word of Life Center in Cema Hora and were met by Rich Hood and his family and also visited with Julie and Marack, Rick & Vi Brook’s daughter and son in-law, who are helping with the camp program this summer.

On Sunday morning it was up to Pardubice to minister in the morning worship service. There we were met by Peter and Dana Kotasova whom we visited during the communist rule in 1986 with our German Brass Ensemble. Had a great meeting at that time in the city hall with many decisions for salvation. “Fruit that abounds to your account”. After lunch together, we headed back to the camp for the first meeting of the camp season in Czech Republic this summer. On Monday back to Berlin for another meeting and then back to Florida on Tuesday after 27 hours of not being in bed.

Tomorrow Betts and I leave for CT where we will meet both Bobby and Brent who will be ordained at Christian Fellowship Church in Scotland CT. This was one of many churches that their Grand Father started before they were born.

After that we will drive to OH to a Parschauer reunion at my sister’s farm near Cleveland and finally arrive back in Florida on July 31^st.

This sounds somewhat hectic, but really it will be a wonderful time of reunion with many of our supporters in that area. We are so thankful for all of you and want to remind you that there is “much fruit that abounds to your account”, not only in the three countries that we visited, but all over Europe. Please be in prayer for the Word of Life camps in almost 20 countries in Europe this summer.

Thank you again for your faithful support and prayers for us as a family. We love you and are praying for you.

Yours in His Service

Bob & Betts Parschauer