Word of Life Germany and Austria will be working together as they host the Ski Camps at our property in Austria. Please pray for many who attend. Herwig and Claudia Lamb
BULGARIA
We are so thankful for the response of our Bible Club youth. We have two young adults at our Bible Institute in Ukraine, preparing to join our staff as missionaries. Please pray for our first winter camp this year in Bulgaria. Our great need is for a center in the Varna area where we can meet with our youth. Sergie and Tania Tyschenko
BALTIC COUNTRIES
We are so thankful for the friends who we are getting to know, who are assisting us in getting settled in Lithuania. We now have our visa's for the first two years, have found an apartment that we now call home and finally have a vehicle. Our first Bible Club has begun in September in a church in Vinius, where we have been working among the youth for this last year. Pray for us as we are still in Language study and already have so many opportunities. Mihai and Ana Laura Bucur
CZECH REPUBLIC
Wow! It is hard to believe we just had our fourth Wed. night camp fire. 21 accepted Christ in this camp. 76 have already been saved and 50 dedicated their lives to serve the Lord. Many more got saved during this summer, but our greatest experience was our first camp in Slovakia. 50 youth attended and 14 accepted Christ. Please pray for the follow up of these new converts. Many come from homes of unbelieving families and there are so few good churches to do the follow up that is needed. Rich and Alissa Hood
FRANCE
This summer during our 5 weeks of camp 252 teenagers attended the Word of Life France. 30 received Christ and many made life changing decisions in their walk with the Lord. Every year, more of our teens are heading to Word of Life Bible Institutes around the world and soon will be joining us in the work here in France. We had our largest ever Bible Club meeting in the Paris area with 140 teens from that area attending. What a great time of blessing we experienced. At the present time we are working hard to finish the renovations of our new Paris Youth Center, and hope to be open by next summer. Three large Word of Life Christmas concerts are scheduled in the Paris area with our sing team, just in time for the release of our first CD! In February we still hold our second winter Youth Bible Conference off-site, because it is already to large for our facilities! God is opening amazing doors. We appreciate so much your prayers for this growing work. Kris and Debbie Stout
GERMANY
This summer was a special summer for our team in Germany as the young third generation team was given the reigns in leading the youth camps. There were from 20-30 decisions made for Christ in every youth camp. What a joy it was to see a young Muslim teenager totally turn his life around, or a young gangster who had been involved in all kinds of criminal activities, as well as two young teenage girls who came from an orphanage. All of these going home with a totally new life in Christ. There were many young youth from Christian homes and good backgrounds who found Christ as well. One young lady who was witnessing at our Munich street meeting (one day is spent in street evangelism with every camp group) led a teenage girl to the Lord right on the street. 6010 people were blessed at one of our camp properties during the course of this year. This fall is very busy again with the Children's shows and Brass Christmas tour as well as the Winter camps in both Starnberg and The Manner in Kaernten Austria. Both centers are filling up quickly. Matt Hurja reports that the DTC program this year is going very well. Our goal is to stay focused on solid Biblical discipleship and growth in our lives of our students. Thanks for your prayers. The first summer of camps at Lade Koeris were great. Andy and Esther Wenzel
HUNGARY
Our camps last summer were filled to capacity with many decisions for Christ here in Hungary as well as Siberia. Our 15th year of Bible school opened with a special conference September 12-14. During these years 400 students from 27 countries have graduated and are now serving the Lord in all of those different countries. Right now, we have students from 12 countries at our Bible Institute. From Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Germany, the Netherlands, Uganda, Brazil, Canada, and USA. 170 leaders attended our annual Youth Leaders conference Sept. 26-28. The European missionary candidate school was held on our property in Oct. New missionaries were accepted for Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Uganda, and Serbia. We hosted our fall "Soccer Marathon" on October 6th with a record enrollment of teams for this event and many decisions for Christ. Our "Born Again Team, Children's Ministry, Sports Team, Bible Clubs, Music Teams, and Open Air Ministries" are all going strong this fall. Pray for many decisions for Christ. Also pray with us for the $9000 needed for a new van. Alex and Pam Konya
ITALY
This year has been packed with activities. May and June were filled with meetings, conferences, musicals, and open air evangelism. In July, the big event was our annual family day with 210 people in attendance. Then came the children's camp with 50 campers. 4 received Christ and 22 dedicated themselves to serve the Lord. There were 104 campers at the youth camp. Again, 3 received Christ and 61 dedications. Thank you for your prayers for my health. I am still struggling, but God is giving me strength to continue the work. Mario and Norma Portillo
KENYA
When we look back on the terrible events of last January, we can clearly see the hand of God in the things that happened to us. Phil. 1:12. This past August, we had day camps in the slums of Nairobi, because we could not use our property, duet safety concerns. We had 1080 kids and more than 100 decisions for Christ. One of the highlights was a Muslim girl who got saved and begged us to come back in December for the next camps. We have more request than we can handle for camps outside of our camp grounds. Please pray for wisdom as we talk to neighbors about returning to our property and for finances needed for our December camps. Chris and Theresa Mwalw'a
POLAND
What a great summer we had in youth camps and mission camps. 79 youth attended our camp with 26 receiving Christ. During the missions Evangelistic camps we spoke to 600 people personally on the streets of two cities and had an average of 150 people in attendance every night with evangelistic films and a salvation message. At the present time, we are doing Bible Clubs in 15 churches and are experiencing great results in many of these clubs. We have developed a new game called "Friends Feud" and this is attracting many new youth to the clubs. Just last week, one club with 11 youth invited their friends to this program and 35 of their friends came. We have just accepted 3 single people and once couple onto our staff this year to work with us in expanding our Bible club program. Pray for these new workers that we will be able to get the needed support for them. Something else that is new for us is the Skype discipleship program that we are doing. Twice a week we join each other for a Bible study over the Internet. This is really taking off. We would appreciate your prayers for this program. Tim and Ginny Good
PORTUGAL
Praise the Lord with us for the dozens of salvation and dedications at our camps this summer. We are now in the process of producing our Bible Club material for this year and are in need of another $4000 to complete this project. Our businessmen/leadership banquet was a fantastic event with 120 people present. Six of these men accepted Christ. A church fro Woodstock sent a crew of 20 men along with 2 full containers to build the addition in our auditorium. What a joy to see God's protection and provision during this time. Dave and Pat West
ROMANIA
What a wonderful camp season we experienced this past summer. 99 received Christ, among them 12 boys and 7 girls of Turkish origin. Over 80 attended a five day Word of Life camp in Greece with several decisions for Christ. As a result of this camp, the Lord paved the way for expansion of our Bible clubs in Greece. 35 young men and women, many Muslims, attended our first Word of Life camp in Turkey. Again, several accepted Christ and many of them asked to be taught how to have a daily quiet time. Our Bible Club in Istanbul opened again in October this year. We are so thankful for the groups that have come over from America to help us with the building of our new property in Romania. What a joy, after many years of building and raising funds, to be able to welcome our first class of students at our "Word of Life Romanian Discipleship Training Center." Please pray with us for the needed funds for three students who still need help. $3900 is needed by May next year. Juan and Kim Siles
UKRAINE
What a great summer we experienced in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. Hundreds of youth, boys and girls accepted Christ and again we have young men and women from all of these countries and many others at our Bible Institute. We thank God for the 95 students now in attendance and pray for the Lord's working in their lives. Students from Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Turkey, Serbia, Bosnia, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Poland, and Uzbekistan. All told in Word of Life BI in Hungary and Ukraine we have 17 countries represented. What a joy to see these students develop and prepare for future service. Pray for our "Born Again to a Living Hope" teams that are again in many High schools and Universities. We have just experienced a terrible fire and Jon Mark's as well as our house (a duplex) both burned to the ground. We would be so thankful for any help, financial or otherwise, to rebuild these homes. Please call Nehemiah Network (518-494-6270) and speak to Butch Jarrel if you can help. To send funds, write check to Word of Life, for: Ukraine Fire Project. Jorge and Laura Radziwiluk
UNITED KINGDOM
Here is an update on what has been happening during the last few months in the UK. School Assemblies and Classroom visits continue in Northern Ireland and Scotland. At our "Splash down" in Scotland, we had two who trusted Christ. Our Northern summer camp in Sunderland as well as our Southern camp in Devon were well attended with many decisions for Christ. This past summer we also had evangelistic weeks in Central Scotland, in Milton Keynes, Sunderland, in Somerset, an din another town in Scotland at the end of August. Again, many responded for salvation. One of our associate leaders, Laura Momis, developed a new event geared towards girls, called "Refresh." It confronts young women with God's perspective of beauty and personal values. This had become a great avenue for evangelism. 30 young associate staff members attended staff conference just recently. Because of this group, we are able to carry out so many activities with such a small full time staff. Thank you for your prayers for our work in this needy land. Dave and Cheri Kelso
SPECIAL PRAYER REQUESTS
- Winter camp in Bulgaria
- Mihai and Ana Laura Bucur in language study in Lithuania
- For follow up program for new converts in Czech Republic
- For three large Christmas concerts to be held in Paris this month
- For the Bible Institute students and our winter camps in three areas this year in Germany
- For the new team in Serbia, Turkey, and Greece
- For the needed funds for a new van in Hungary
- For wisdom as we speak with the neighbors in Nairobi Kenya
- For support for new staff in Poland
- For needed funds for BI students in Romania
- For needed support for the Tarasiuk family
- For the rebuilding of the duplex in Ukraine
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