Dear Friends,
We serve the True and Living God. He is active, involved…engaged. Notice how God reaches out His hand and touches our mouths and our lives; how
He sends us, and commands us to speak what He asks us to say.
BIG NEWS!
Today, Jen and I are excited to make an announcement. Almost two years ago, the
founding pastor of our home church here in Lancaster stated that he felt it was time to
move on (oddly enough, the day we became members!). It has been a mutual blessing
to serve in a part-time interm capacity, both satisfying their need, and fulfilling a desire
to serve locally with my gifts. Fund raising, as you know, has been quite difficult in light
of the current economic situation. Over time, it has become apparent that this is a new
open door in our lives, and I will soon be installed as the lead pastor of Community
Fellowship Church. We have prayed about this for a long time and sense God’s call to
continue impacting the world based out of our home church.
What about Austria?
Our church desires for me to maintain my relationship with Austria, and in fact
established a partnership with the ministry there over 2 years ago. We’ve already had
an Austrian intern couple serve for 3 months with us here, and have brought 3 teams
over from our local church to serve with nationals there. Our elders desire that we
continue that relationship, and go over 2 times a year as needs arise. Our relationship
and communication with Austrians has expanded thanks to our local church body!
What about funding nationals?
Our Fund for Austrian nationals will carry on. We are asking you to continue
sponsoring missions in Austria. We will no longer be using the support for our income,
but we plan to use it to directly sponsor nationals. We desire to provide funding to
nationals in order to encourage and jump-start them into ministry positions. People like
Robert Wascher, Andi Heusser, Marco Ebner and Mathias Ottacher are all nationals who
have committed their lives to serve Christ in their own country (knowing language
and culture). They are already working, but they need funding and encouragement
in order to free them up to minister more effectively. This is a great opportunity to get
the most effectiveness out of our ministry support- to SPONSOR NATIONALS!
What about correspondence?
As some of you may know, my brother Brent is with Titus International. Brent has
agreed to work with you and help in an administrative role. He will be collecting and
relaying information to you on a quarterly basis. On the ground in Austria, our
national Titus missionary, Daniel Kistenich, will continue to be involved in our work with
nationals. I will be in touch with Brent in order to give him updates when I travel to
Austria. The relationship will continue; the growth will continue, and God, who started a
work there, will complete it!
What about the funding process?
Please continue to make checks out to Titus International. The memo will be for the
“Austria Fund”. My brother Brent will be your main contact person for any questions you
may have: bparschauer@yahoo.com
Born to Burn
Coming up in May, I will be the speaker at Austria’s
national youth convention! Once again, we will take a
team from our home church, this time our worship team, to
serve throughout the conference. The topic, Born to Burn
will be a challenge for young people to be vessels, available
for God’s use in His Kingdom. Chris and Tine Urch, the young couple that did an
internship at our church, are taking on a key role in putting together the event.
Please pray that God will give them strength and guidance. Please also pray for me to
discern and speak the words that God puts in my mouth (Jeremiah 1).
God has given us many
years of growth and
relationship both with
you, and with the
Austrians we have such
a heart for. It’s been a
real privilege to share in
all that He has done and
will continue to do there
through both the “goers”
and the “givers”. Please
persist in prayer for
life change in Austria!
Wishing you God’s best for 2010
Bobby, Jen and Kids Parschauer
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