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BUILDING KINGDOM
COMMUNITIES Church Planting in Macedonia
2015 Summer Camp Reports primeras aventuras Reaching Children in Spain January – February Prayer Diary
Refugee Update Thank you so much for your generous response of £5,740* to our recent refugee crisis appeal. Your support is being put to great use, thanks to the tireless efforts of our partners, primarily in Serbia and Macedonia, working in very challenging conditions.
Dragan Manev recently sent us this update on the efforts to provide vital needs for thousands of displaced people pouring through Southern Macedonia: “3,000 refugees are passing through each day, sometimes up to 7,000. Many are very ill. We are packing food supplies for them and collecting second-hand clothing. We are praying for them and sharing Christian literature with them. Also where there is opportunity we’re testifying to them about Jesus.” Pastor Dragan’s team is working alongside many other evangelical churches packing and distributing food packages which include sardines, peanuts, bread, dates and water. Please pray for Pastor Dragan’s church and other local churches in this area at this challenging time as they seek to bring Christ’s compassion and hope to these refugees.
Harvest and Essential Gifts Response On behalf of TEN, our partners and those they are working with, thank you for such a brilliant response to our Harvest 2015 Appeal! We have raised an amazing £25,476*.
Harvest funds are passed to our partners for food parcels to provide for families who have very little and sometimes have to choose between food and heat; receiving a TEN food parcel can often make the difference between getting through extremely cold winters or not, and opens up a door for the local church to share God’s love in a practical way. Slavko Hadzic sums it up: “My rough estimation is that with [the] money which you [sent] we will be able to buy and pack 190 food parcels, which means that next year we can have 15 families in our humanitarian project, help them monthly, evangelize them, pray for them and hopefully see some of them saved.” Orders from TEN’s Essential Gifts catalogue are also progressing well with £6,260 raised*. Thank you for your continued support and generosity! * Financial records as of November 2015
Welcome
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appy New Year from all of us at TEN. Our prayer for you all, for 2016, is that you receive God’s richest blessings, experience his overwhelming love and grace, and that you prosper in this New Year. Thank you so much for your faithful support last year; your commitment has been such an encouragement to us and also to our amazing partners across Europe. Together, we praise God for His faithfulness, provisions and blessings throughout 2015 and look forward with anticipation, excitement and expectation to what He has in store for this year. When God takes us on a journey it is always full of surprises and excitement. Let’s trust him for this New Year. In 2016 we will be intentional in helping build transformational Kingdom Communities across Europe. Key to this will be church planting and evangelism as the vehicle for social action. We will be talking more about this in the coming editions. Europe has experienced a number of crises during 2015, some of these and others will be with us during 2016. As we pray for our continent and all its challenges, let us remember the words of the Psalmist: ‘I look toward the hills. From where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord the Creator of heaven and earth’ (Psalms 121). This is ‘a song of increasing degrees.’ It has several steps in advance of its predecessor. It tells of the peace of God’s house and the guardian care of the Lord our God and Father. Also, Jer. 29 v 11 clearly states God has plans for you, plans for your good. So, let us step into this New Year with faith and expectancy, with the knowledge of His promise to give you a hope and a future. As we do this let’s keep the peoples of Europe, and our wonderful partners on the frontline, at the forefront of our thoughts and prayers. Help us help them to excel in all they do. May God richly bless you all in 2016.
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Church Planting in Macedonia
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You and Europe
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Prayer diary
January – February 2016
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Team Updates
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2015 Summer Camp Reports
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Ten Teams
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What’s going on in... Spain
TEN Conference 2016
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Transforming Europe – One Life at a time
First in a series of articles on TEN’s priorities for building kingdom communities
Church Planting in
Macedonia In the midst of serious illness, Blagoj promised God that if he was healed he would make his building available to be used for a church to gather right on his door step in Veles, a city of 60,000, 40 minutes drive south of Skopje in Macedonia.
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ot long after crying out to God, Blagoj met TEN partner Dragan Manev, who was looking for a building located in the best possible place in town that would attract new people for them to reach out to. Little did Blagoj realise when he agreed to rent his building to Dragan’s church that he would experience a series of miracles in his family. Not only was Blagoj completely healed but his wife was also delivered from depression. Now his family testifies to everyone in their community how they know God’s joy in their life. Dragan says the church now has the opportunity to purchase this building, which would enable them to see many more lives transformed: “Please pray for us to buy this building for our church, because almost all money from our offerings is going for the rent of the church building. If that building is ours 4
we will have finance for evangelism and helping the people in need. The owner of the house will be very happy to sell his house to us.” Dragan’s church-planting ministry is having a significant impact into the Roma communities. To overcome the sometimes challenging barriers into these hard-toreach people group Dragan provides practical help to the Roma families including providing clothing and after schools’ clubs. They teach the children to read and learn about God at the same time by using Christian literature. Puppet ministry teams enable them to creatively communicate the Gospel message, thanks to the help of a puppet team from the UK who TEN sent on a mission trip to Macedonia last year. Dragan’s vision is to expand their outreach into the Roma communities: “We have planted the first Evangelical Roma Church in our town Veles. Our vision is to start two more. Recently four Roma
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women accepted the Lord Jesus as their Saviour.” Dragan says the seeds were planted in his life to go into ministry nearly 15 years ago: “Somebody invested in me. Even when I was a young believer I was part of the evangelism team for planting new churches in Macedonia. Our team was combined of believers of Evangelical churches from a few nearby towns.” Evangelical believers only make up 1% of the population in Macedonia, so in 2009 after completing 2½ years of theology training and being official ordained, Dragan became the first ever Evangelical pastor in his home town of Veles, where he lives with his wife and two young children. “Along with my wife Biljana we started to lead and disciple the Macedonian people in this new church. We are so excited about this mission and we are working two days a week for planting new churches in the eastern part of Macedonia.” Pastor Dragan concluded by saying that one of the most vital aspects of their ministry is mobilizing future leaders: “After planting new churches we are working on discipleship and investing time in new leaders who will continue the work of God.”
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Little did Blagoj realize when he agreed to rent his building to Dragan’s church that he would experience a series of miracles in his family.
Top to bottom: Dragan and Biljana outside church; Puppet Ministry; Dragan selfie at children’s work.
Please pray for this vital kingdom-building ministry. Also, if you can help Dragan buy their church building in Veles please contact the TEN office:
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After 50 years ten is still responding
– will you help? – 50 years ago Christians in the UK heard about the plight of believers and their neighbours in Europe. They decided to do something about it and since then the organisation, now known as Transform Europe Now (TEN), has responded to many crises across Europe through the support of those who desire to see lives transformed.
– £50 for 50 years – The current crisis of refugees and human trafficking presents a huge opportunity for our partners in Europe to respond with the love of Christ. Stand with us to help transform lives by giving to our £50 For 50 Years appeal. This support will go to where it is most needed so our partners can reach out to those desparately in need of God’s love. If not £50 then please give what you can. Donations can be made at www.transformeuropenow.org/give or by using the form below. Thank you for your support.
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You and Europe
Transform Europe Now works across 15 European countries with around 70 projects, so if you or your church wishes to make a difference in Europe you don’t have to go it alone. Church partnerships, short-term teams, special church services, volunteering, targeted prayer and financial support—there’s something for everyone! Countries we operate in include:
Our prayer for Europe: Heavenly Father, We are amazed You chose us and blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. Our hearts overflow with gratitude at Your extravagant love and grace towards us. Help us this New Year to be demonstrative in expressing Your extravagance and compassion to those in need across our continent. In Jesus’ precious name, Amen
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Dragan & Biljana Savka & Jovica Macedonia
Montenegro
Galina
Compassion Ministry, Russia
Josip & Biljana Macedonia
Erion & family Albania
Bera
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Marino & Vesna
Slavko & Sanja
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Prayer Diary
January – February 2016 January 2016 1 / Happy New Year! Pray for our partners to be strengthened in their faith and for many opportunities to share the good news about Jesus in the coming year. 2 / Dragan Manev, Macedonia: “In December and January we are giving out 300 children’s shoeboxes. We plan to invite the children and their parents to church. Pray for them to respond as we do evangelism with the puppet show.” 3 / “Pray for new people to receive Christ. People are open during the Christmas holiday period. Pray for the puppet show team who will go to many towns in Macedonia.” 4 / “Pray for our work with the refugees. Our team from church in Veles picks up the rubbish left behind. Pray for us to share God’s love with the refugees.” 5 / Jovica Bacvanski, Montenegro: Jovica’s mother passed away in October. Pray for Jovica, Savka and the family to know God’s comfort. 6 / Please pray for the new law on religious freedom in
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Montenegro which is in process, but has not been finalised. Pray it will not hinder the work of the Evangelical churches. 7 / Happy Christmas to all our partners in Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia and Serbia. The Orthodox church celebrates Christmas today. Pray for the message of salvation through Jesus to be made widely known in these countries. 8 / Galina Dzhuzenova, The Compassion Ministry, Russia: “We will continue our Christmas programme till the middle of January. Please pray for our group to have free access to the institutions that we usually visit.”
anniversary.” Pray for Galina and the team as they put on a concert. 12 / Josip Pastor, Macedonia: Pray for the “Christmas packages and children’s booklets to reach the hearts of the children and their parents; for many seeds to be planted, to grow and in due season for the harvest to be reaped.” 13 / Pray for “God’s leading in deciding about a place to start a fellowship in the near-by town of Resen.” 14 / “That the church members will use this special time of year in the best way for His glory; for new people to be drawn to Him, and for the church to be united together.”
9 / “Now the Orthodox church has more influence among the Russian people, any other Christian denominations are not welcome in state hospitals, children’s homes, etc.” Pray for the team to be allowed to continue visiting.
15 / Erion Cuni, Albania: Pray “that we can harvest the fruits of the Christmas activities; for the people we visited with children’s gifts to come back and build relationship with us, that they may get to know Christ!”
10 / “Praise the Lord we are very welcomed to public groups of disabled people, large families and the socially vulnerable.” Pray for the team as they visit these groups.
16 / Pray that “the people we met during visits in the villages will come to Christ and we can start a Bible study and get to know the Word of God more deeply.”
11 / “In February we will visit a group of deaf and dumb people, the group is celebrating their 23rd
17 / Pray “for the church in my home town, Polican, which was closed for a lack of leadership; that
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Tefik & Anita Macedonia
Vance & Tanja Macedonia
Maca
Serbia
Nesa & Vesna Serbia
Elena & Traian Romania
Daniel
Montenegro
Vladimir & Marljana
Metin
Turkey
Montenegro
the small group of believers will continue to gather and pray.”
to follow Christ and dedicate their lives.”
18 / Mission Possible Albania (MPA): “Pray for the poor families in the Bathore area, that God’s love may warm their hearts and families during the cold winter months; for the literacy course to bless those learning to read and write their mother tongue.”
24 / “Pray for my wife’s health, she has a sleeping disorder. We need God’s touch to deal with it once and for all.”
19 / “Pray for our children’s Bible Club (Miracle Clubs) that the kids develop physically as well as spiritually; for the MPA Team to grow through each new challenge, and for God’s blessing on all the programs and projects.” 20 / Dusan Beredi (Bera), Serbia: “Pray for the Youth Alpha that begins in January.” They are renting a well-known cafe in Novi Sad. “Pray for the young people to come in large numbers and to respond to the message of salvation.” 21 / Pray for the Rainbow Rehab Centre working with addicts. “We currently have 20 men and 6 women. Pray they will accept Christ because it is the basis of their change.” 22 / “Pray for the 12-step programme which will begin in the church to help those not willing to enter the centre who are alcoholics, drug addicts, etc.” 23 / Marino Mojtic, Macedonia: “In January we will be finishing an Alpha course in the Skopje church. Pray for those attending to decide
25 / Mark McCormick, Moldova: Mark is a mentor to TEN’s Moldovan church planters. During the outreach in October and November many people heard the gospel and some responded. Pray for our partners as they disciple the new believers. 26 / Pray for N, who publicly acknowledged Christ. The next day the local mafia produced false documents and tried to steal his legitimate rabbit business from him. 27 / Pray for G, age 76, who heard the gospel for the first time. Pray that he will read the New Testament he was given and for G, and others like him, to make a genuine commitment to Christ. 28 / Pray for the Trustees as they meet today, that they may have safe travel to and from the office, and God’s wisdom to make the right decisions. 29 / Slavko Hadzic, Bosnia: “Pray for those who participated in the Alpha course that God will continue to work in their lives. Pray for all those who came to the Christmas Puppet shows and concerts, that they’ll stay in touch with the church.”
30 / Pray for Slavko as he has a medical check-up with the oncologist this month. “Pray for clear results and for good health.”
February 2016 1 / “Pray for the evangelistic outreach ‘Circle of Women’ this month. Pray that non-Christian ladies will come and that they will allow God to work in them.” 2 / Pray for Slavko as he speaks at four University Mission Weeks in the UK in February. “Pray for safe travel, good attendance, a clear presentation of the gospel and for many to come to Christ.” 3 / Tefik Musoski, Macedonia: “Pray for the evangelistic event in January and February in Krusevo where we want to start a new church.” 4 / Pray for the “puppet show for children in the school and kindergarten for children with special needs.” 5 / Vance Golomeov, Macedonia: Pray for wisdom for the church workers in Stip as they give Christmas gifts to the children of fathers who have problems with drugs. 6 / Pray for the new people at the church in Sveti Nikole (15 km from Stip) who heard the gospel last year, for them to consider the person of Jesus, and respond positively.
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7 / Pray for wisdom and strength for Vance, wife Tanya, and their three children, and for salvation for his mother, as they continue to live in one room together. 8 / Maca Turner, Serbia: “For people to want to come to the services and follow Christ; for my ministry in the church and for my focus on Jesus.” 9 / Pray “for Maca’s son and husband to return to God.” 10 / Pray for Maca as she visits local people with food parcels from the church. 11 / Nesa Radeka, Serbia: “We opened a maternity home in a flat a few months ago for moms who have chosen to keep their babies but have no family support. The first woman had a baby in September. Pray for wisdom, courage and God’s provision!” 12 / Pray for “‘B’, an ex-prostitute who became a believer and attends our church regularly. She is talking about God and faith with her friends who are still in prostitution.” 13 / “Pray for New Women ministry to get our curriculum for prison workshops approved; to start the program soon; to have favour with all people involved in this from the Ministry of Justice to prison workers.” 14 / Traian and Elena Pascalau, Romania: There was a fire in the basement of the building where they hold their Sunday service. Pray for Good News Church that they can replace the projector, speakers and other equipment damaged by the smoke. 15 / “Please pray for Alpha in Romania—we have a small team and a very big task. Pray especially
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for the Orthodox priests that do Alpha in prisons and a few in their parishes; that more Orthodox parishes would try Alpha.” 16 / Pray “for Constanta 2022 Church Planting project—we need resources to train the people who are and will be involved in the project.” They plan to plant 50 new churches by 2022 in the Constanta district. 17 / Nikola Atanasov, Bulgaria: “Please pray for one man, his name is Angel. He was in Christ, strong in faith, but now he is far from God, very low and feels guilty.” Pray for Angel and all other prodigals to return to God. 18 / “Pray for the young people to be set free from gambling and the occult.” 19 / “Pray for myself and the church – we want more anointing and wisdom from God.” 20 / Daniel Stracinski, Montenegro: “Praise God for new people in the Sunday service— we now have 50–60 people and sometimes don’t have enough seats.” 21 / Some members in the church are involved in working with refugees on the Serbian border. Pray that God gives them many opportunities to share hope and the gospel with the refugees; many take Christian literature in their language. 22 / “This winter our church plans again to visit and help some poor singles and families with food and winter parcels. Pray for wisdom and enough help.” 23 / “From February we are starting to prepare large evangelistic events for the visit of Nick Vujicic to Montenegro.” Pray
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for the events to be well organised and for many to attend and respond to the good news of Jesus. 24 / Vladimir Cizmanski, Montenegro: “We are exploring the possibility to have our own building for church meetings. We are growing slowly and the premises we use are starting to be too small.” Pray for wisdom as they search for suitable premises. 25 / “We also have more and more teams that visit during the year and it would be good to have a centre where things are happening. It would be easier to reach locals with a recognised location. We think that God is leading us in this direction.” 26 / Metin Mintaz, Turkey: “We are praying for a new building that belongs to us. Istanbul is an expensive city, so buying a building is not easy, but we are looking to the Lord and believe that He will provide.” 27 / “Turkey’s political situation is not good. An election was held on 1 November and the same party won. People are dissatisfied because there has been no change. Please pray for Turkey. May the Lord touch the leaders and change their hearts and minds.” 28 / “We are working to start a new church in the city of Kahramanmaras, a city in the east of Turkey, and one the city’s districts. Pray the Lord blesses the services.” 29 / Alpha. The Alpha Office for the Western Balkans was registered in the Novi Sad Christian Fellowship several years ago. Pray for the leadership and the future of Alpha in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro.
Team Updates
Team updates Last year was certainly a year of change at the Bristol office…but praise God, we are almost back up to a full complement of staff. With great pleasure we are able to announce two new team members:
Ken Millwood
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Ken started on a temporary basis back in July while we were restructuring. In October he became our Operations Administrator and joined the permanent staff on 26th October. Ken made a great impression from his very first day, he has a servant heart and is keen to assist in all areas of TEN’s work. Ken spends some of his spare time leading the OAC Open Air Team preaching on the streets in Bristol and increasingly gets opportunities to lead services in some of the smaller churches in the Bristol area. Ken brings a great deal of administration expertise to TEN, previously working in the civil service in Bristol and a Christian ministry in Bath; his skills will help to facilitate the amazing work our partners do across Europe and keep us all on track in the office. He relaxes by watching films, reading and baking cakes. We have already been able to enjoy his excellent baking skills. Keep it coming Ken! To find out more about Ken, visit transformeuropenow.org/team/kenmillwood
We are equally delighted to announce Peter Wooding (known as Pete) as our new Communications Officer. Pete also started on the 26th October in this new post. We are already benefiting from his wealth of experience in communicating the message with features like ‘Throw-back Thursdays’ posting video clips on Facebook. Pete first got involved in overseas mission work when he joined YWAM in 1989. In 1997 he became news editor for UCB Radio. During his ten years there, he experienced several overseas reporting trips around the world including Africa, Asia and Europe. More recently he has worked as a freelance print, radio and video journalist for a number of Christian organisations including filming relief work in a number of disaster zones. Pete is married to Sharon and they have three lovely daughters. He enjoys travel and sport, especially running marathons and watching football. To find out more about Pete, visit transformeuropenow.org/team/peterwooding
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Transforming Europe – One at a time TeamLife updates
2015 Summer Camp All across Europe last summer our partners ran camps for children and young people, some for one week, others for longer. While there are too many to report individually these will give you a flavour of what happened.
Rachel Lee, CASA Grace Camp, Romania “The children all had an amazing time, many of them gave their lives to Jesus. It was such a privilege to share what Jesus had done for them, and see children and youths in tears as they realised, many for the first time, that they were loved by their Heavenly Father.”
Casa Grace Summer Camp Romania
Ruslan Telpiz, Gotesti, Moldova “We had 94 children aged between 8 and 14 years. But it went well, it was interesting, and we had fun. Everyone was happy, even the parents. What the parents like most is, as some said: ‘I don’t know what you do to them, but the children have changed a lot, they have a different attitude, they obey, are more disciplined, help more.’”
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Transforming Church Partnerships Europe – One – An life Life inside at a look time
Reports Beredi Dusan Novi Sad, Serbia “At our evangelistic English camp, one new follower of Jesus said to his mother and brother over the phone: ‘Don’t talk! Just be quiet and listen!’ He handed a Serbian-speaking team member his mobile phone and said, ‘Tell them what you told me about Jesus!’ This type of reaction brings a smile to our faces. It is a sign of someone who has truly chosen to follow Jesus! Seven out of 28 nonchurch students said they made firsttime commitments. We also saw many others make major steps toward Christ. One student showed up to camp claiming to be an atheist, and left camp saying he wanted to talk more about Jesus and believed he would soon choose to give his life to follow Him.”
Serbian English Camp
Have you ever considered sending a team to visit one of our partners? We have been sending teams for a number of years now and the feedback we get is always positive, both from the partners and from the teams. So, what does a typical team look like? In actual fact there is no typical team because of the wide variety of possibilities that we can offer. Over the last couple of years we have had teams involved in a number of outreach activities including gardening projects, summer camps for children and young people, puppet ministry, street evangelism, soup kitchens, Bible clubs and pampering for disadvantaged women. Most teams have 4–12 members although we have sent smaller and also larger teams. However, in all cases the key element is to have a leader who will take care of the organisation and who everyone will listen to! Normally a trip would last between 4–10 days depending on the project being worked on. Our partners can arrange local transport and accommodation so we can provide in country costs to enable a budget to be produced. We can also help to identify budget flights to ensure that the cost is kept to a reasonable level. Typically the cost per person is somewhere between £450–£500 as TEN doesn’t make any profit from teams which we run to benefit the people we care for. We have a lot of experience with planning for trips and will help in any way we can to ensure that your team is fully prepared for your trip. To this end we supply a trip pack, provide training before you go and hold a debrief after your return.
If you are interested in sending a TEN Team please contact the TEN office:
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What’s going on in...
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pain comprises the major part of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, as well as the Canary Islands off northwest Africa and the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the North African coast. The world’s mightiest economic power in the 16th Century, followed by three centuries of declines and economic stagnation until entry into the EU in 1986. The recession, which began in 2008 slowed economic growth significantly and Spain now has one of Europe’s highest unemployment rates. Christianity is the largest religion in the country, but only 1% claim to be Evangelical believers. However, Benjamin Martin’s ministry, Evangelismo En Accion (EEA), is working to reverse that trend, through a very holistic approach to reaching people of all ages from every aspect of society.
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After the last regional elections changed the political landscape Benjamin has been working hard to foster good relationships with the authorities of the various towns and cities where EEA is involved in evangelistic activities. This past summer EEA coordinated nine children’s festivals, which enabled them to reach more young people, as Benjamin explains: “We made many new contacts whom we now want to visit and show warm friendship, as well as to offer literature and other evangelistic materials.” EEA’s ministry is also impacting the older generation and recently saw two elderly people come to Christ through their discipleship course in Velez-Malaga. During their Christmas outreach Benjamin’s team distributed 1,200 calendars, which included daily evangelistic meditations, in cities
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where they have planted several churches. This is a good way of establishing new contacts and further personal relationships. Benjamin added: “We also hold special evangelistic events for children in our church in Torremolinos, Malaga called ‘Saturday Adventure,’ which often attract several Muslim families, who we warmly welcome.” The EEA team is deeply grateful for your support in prayer and practical contributions, helping them to meet the endless needs of their pioneering work and its consolidation in the extension of God’s Kingdom.
EAA Children’s Summer Camp: ‘First Adventures 2015’
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CONFEREN CE • 2016 • • 2016 • 13 – 15 MAY WOKEFIELD PARK, READING FEATURING: TEDDY & DIDI OPRENOV Sofia First Baptist Church, Bulgaria
SLAVKO & SANJA HADZIC Sarajevo Evangelical Church, Bosnia
MIRCEA & RONELA CRISTIAN Rock of Ages, Constanta, Romania
JOHN & PAM BLANCHARD Bible Teacher and former Chair of Trustees
ROB NEWEY Worship Leader
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Partners with TEN for over a decade, this dedicated couple have been ministering in Sofia and Bulgaria for over 20 years. They have been involved in ministry to all ages and serving the needy and neglected by society— Roma, orphans, homeless and most recently refugees. A highly esteemed leader and long-term partner of TEN, Slavko pastors a church alongside being national coordinator for Alpha; board member and teacher at a Bible School; denominational secretary and board member of national IFES. Mircea and Ronela started Rock of Ages 22 years ago and now co-ordinate an army of 180 volunteers from 25 different churches, currently visiting 27 prisons in Romania, and their work has recently also expanded into Moldova. Pam needs no introduction, having been a member and then Chair of Trustees for TEN for over 20 years. Dr. John Blanchard is an international preacher, teacher and author of over 30 books. We are pleased that John will bring his inspiring Bible teaching to this conference. Rob has been writing and performing songs as his main vocation for over 30 years now. He is a long-term friend and supporter of TEN. He will lead worship at the conference again this year.
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