As we finish the last of our gospel trips which began in May and ended in mid-September, we are full of praise and thanksgiving to our Lord Jesus Christ, who prepared the French-speaking people to receive the seed of the gospel of the kingdom. We believe that in a number of cities they will become God’s farm, God’s building.
The Lord has done more than we could ask or think. How we praise Him! In the cities where we have labored continuously for fifty days, the Lord has gathered a small group of new believers who have entered into the church life with us. It is our real hope that these ones will be either the increase to existing churches or the nucleus of new churches. We have seen the benefit in these places of practicing the day-by-day and house-to-house church life. The local saints along with the visiting saints rejoiced at living together in such a church life. All have tasted having the church life as our living. The God-ordained way is being practiced not merely to gain new ones but as a normal living carried out in the Body of Christ. Now our eyes are turning to the urgent need before us. There must be a way to care for these ones whom we have contacted during our gospel trips. Of course, the Lord will thrust out workers through migration, and there will be a full-time team based in Paris. Nevertheless, neither of these will fill the immediate urgent need. In fellowshipping with several of the teams, some of these ones have the desire to return quickly and spend one to three months where they have labored during their gospel trip so that there would be a continuing presence in those places. We feel that this may be the Lord’s speaking on how this urgent need could be met. The co-workers in Europe have begun to consider how the retired ones and those serving full time might be able to quickly return so that the shepherding of these new ones could continue seamlessly. A letter has been out to some who participated in these gospel trips.
Pray that the ones, retired or full-time, who have participated in the gospel trips would be open to be burdened by the Lord to come for one to three months to meet the urgent need for the continued shepherding of these new ones that the Lord has put in our hand.
Pray that all those who have applied to serve full-time in France would have their visas approved in a timely manner. By mid-October these ones will join with the Lord for His shepherding care for all the ones saved and baptized since the beginning of the gospel trips.
Pray that those whom the Lord would call to migrate would have an open heart to hear and respond.
Please note: This report is a very brief conclusion to the many detailed reports covering four months of gospel trips. Therefore, we encourage you to go to https://view.flodesk.com/emails/66698cac3cb3150ba06a9644 to read the full text of each detailed report.